“Success is part of his DNA,” then-Texas A&M athletics director Scott Woodward said of Jimbo Fisher when introducing the new head coach in December 2017.
Texas A&M paid $75 million for that DNA in the form of a fully guaranteed 10-year contract to steal Fisher away from Florida State and other potential suitors.
Five years later, failure encompasses the entirety of Fisher's DNA as the Aggies plunge further into national irrelevance and current athletics director Ross Bjork might be on the verge of a coaching search. And despite a gigantic buyout, the fifth-year head coach might be on the college football hot seat.
Here are potential replacements for Fisher if he's fired after this season: