Brett McMurphy’s weekly tweets comparing Kevin Sumlin to Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M show that the Aggies need a change

There is what people think is true and then there is what is actually true.

Kevin Sumlin was better for Texas A&M's football program than Jimbo Fisher was.

The guy who broke the story that led to the end of Urban Meyer's career at Ohio State is the College Football Insider on the Action Network. There is a side-by-side of the two teams through 58 games.

Their annual salary is shown in the bottom line of the chart. It gets funnier when you know that A&M gave Fisher a raise and four-year extension in 2021. This was on top of his initial contract which was a 10 year deal. I think A&M was enamored with the national championship that Fisher won at Florida State in 2013), instead of realizing that he was a poor coach in his last season. During his time in College Station, two nine-win seasons is the best he has ever done, but it doesn't compare to the 11-2 season that he gave the A&M in his first season.

The A&M team started the season in the top six. They are going to become just the seventh preseason AP top 6 team in the past 50 years to finish with a losing record. The Aggies haven't won in a long time and will play on Saturday. The Aggies have lost six games in a row while the Minutemen have lost seven in a row. Someone has to prevail.

All this means something?

One thing and another thing.

Colleges like to overpay for coaches who aren't worth their money. Colleges will fire Black coaches in a way that they don't usually do with white ones.

The numbers show that Sumlin was better for Texas A&M than Fisher, but he didn't get enough money or the chance to right the ship. It is similar to what happened with Charlie Weis and the Notre Dame football team. One guy got more money and chances than the other. Willingham is a better coach than Sumlin. Willingham had a 76-88-1 collegiate record, while Sumlin was 95-63 on Saturdays.

There isn't a magic rule when it comes to choosing a coach to lead a Power 5 football program, but when you see the numbers that McMurphy puts together each week showing what's happened at Texas A&M, it's a flaming example of the inequalities that Black coaches Kevin Sumlin was the first Black coach at Houston, Texas A&M, and Arizona and he was asked about it three times.