LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Jimbo Fisher is practically glowing as he talks about a recent trip to southern Colorado, the beauty of the outdoors and how relaxing it was to lay in bed on a Monday night in the middle of the college football season.
The avid hunter shows a reporter a photo from his latest excursion and his latest kill: a giant elk he took down with three shots from a.300 Winchester Magnum rifle from a distance of 280 yards. “Never moved over 5 yards, then went down,” he says, scanning the iPhone screen with his eyes, reliving the moment tucked far away in the mountains and fields of the Colorado countryside.
“I didn’t care who got a first down, who was on the injury report,” Fisher said earlier during an appearance in front of several hundred football fans at the Little Rock Touchdown Club in Arkansas. “I was thinking I could be in practice right now. We would have just finished corrections from the week before, so I would have been mad. I would have been worrying who was working, who was doing what or I could be skinning this (elk). I like where I’m at. It wasn’t bad, at least for one fall anyway.”
Fisher is itching to get back into coaching, but he’s not pushing the issue right now as his first year outside of the sport since he was a player in 1988 inches toward October. “For one year I want to see my family, do nothing, hunt a little bit and take time,” Fisher told CBS Sports. “I’ll do some radio at home, and then decide what I want to do after that.”
Fisher was fired in November 2023, six seasons into his stay at Texas A&M, and is set for life with a $76 million buyout, the highest in the sport’s history. He underwhelmed fans and bosses at the school, where he was expected to deliver a national championship just as he did at…
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Author : Brandon Marcello
Publish date : 2024-09-24 20:39:46
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