Back in 2021, an anonymous poster on a college football message board by the moniker of “Sliced Bread” claimed that Texas A&M had effectively “bought” the majority of the players in its top-ranked recruiting class with more than $30 million in NIL payments. But even after he was fired from the program last year, Jimbo Fisher passionately denies those claims.
During a recent interview on Pardon My Take, Jimbo Fisher called those claims “a lie,” saying that Texas A&M’s entire NIL budget for all sports across the whole athletic program was closer to $1 million, certainly not the $30 million that was claimed.
“College football changed on a lie. I am going to write a book on this one day. I am going to write a book,” Fisher said on the show according to AggiesWire. “When he wrote those numbers, I said, ‘My God, where is it at?’ I wish that would’ve happened. The amount of NIL deals at A&M at that time in all sports combined, he said our class was $35 million, there was right at a million dollars for all sports combined.”
Fisher was not happy with the media for allowing that narrative to circulate.
“That is why it upset me so much about it,” Fisher said. “You can insinuate all those things that have always been said. But you are insinuating that the families of – and I am telling you, that was as far from the truth as anything that was ever out there.
“And here is the big thing: all of the media went and ran with that story as truthful without ever checking it. And I am talking about the big dogs. I am talking about all of the people we regard as highly respected guys.
“College football changed on a lie. I am going to write a book about it one day!”
