Texas A&M fans were upset online following a report Saturday night the school was set to hire Mark Stoops as their next head coach. Stoops would be coming to College Station from another SEC school, Kentucky.
The Aggies have had several high names linked to their vacant job after they fired Jimbo Fisher earlier in the month. Instead of landing Ryan Day or Dabo Swinney, the Aggies settled for Fisher’s former defensive coordinator when the two coached together at Florida State.
Stoops left the defensive coordinator gig after the 2012 season to take the Kentucky head coaching job. Stoops had a 73-64 record during his time at Kentucky. He was 33-55 against SEC opponents.
Texas A&M fans are upset with their athletic director
Stoops’ record as a head coach didn’t seem sexy to most Aggies fans Saturday night. Many fans were calling for Ross Bjork, the Aggies athletic director, to be fired for giving Fisher an expensive $77 million buyout to hire Stoops.
Here are the best takes on the Aggies reacting to Stoops’ hire.
#TexasAM fans are excited at the thought of Mark Stoops becoming the new Head Coach. #GigEm pic.twitter.com/jlIa664UKB
— Message Board Geniuses (@BoardGeniuses) November 26, 2023
Here’s a pitch:
If the Stoops rumors are true, and he isn’t amazing, we fire Ross Bjork next.
Seems fair?
— Cain 🤯 (@CainCrossX) November 26, 2023
If Ross Bjork announces a hire of Mark Stoops, then Texas A&M fired the wrong person.
— Blake Toppmeyer (@btoppmeyer) November 26, 2023
Mark Stoops…… speechless. Back against the wall. Laser Beam pointed at Aggieland…… We go with Mark Stoops.
— connor (@connorchoate1) November 26, 2023
Me outside of Ross Bjork’s office pic.twitter.com/AFgEnSxekt
— Andrew Olson (@AOlson2020) November 26, 2023
Imagine paying Jimbo the GDP of Serbia to no longer be your coach, to then turn around and pay Mark Stoops at least $9mil a year. pic.twitter.com/Ru981hfcWh
— Gerald Goodridge (@ghgoodridge) November 26, 2023
I don’t know how you can rationalize paying a $78M buyout to a guy not to coach, then turn around and pay a $51M buyout to get Mark Stoops…like I almost feel bad
— Censored (@censoredhorn) November 26, 2023
Jimbo fisher bumping into mark stoops at the Texas A&M accounts payable office pic.twitter.com/idqIWC3ah9
— mateo (@raxraxrax00) November 26, 2023
Texas A&M fans hearing they’re hiring a new coach only to find out it’s Mark Stoops pic.twitter.com/4xQQFkiypU
— Gearis Herndon (@HerndonGearis) November 26, 2023
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