{"id":56166,"date":"2023-11-14T20:04:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56166"},"modified":"2023-11-14T20:04:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:04:33","slug":"what-a-way-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56166","title":{"rendered":"What a way to go!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Someone has to explain this one to me, because my sometimes-pointy head can’t quite grasp certain realities.<\/p>\n

OK, Texas A&M University fired head football coach Jimbo Fisher over the weekend after the Aggies blew out Mississippi State by 40 points or so. That means that Fisher — for whatever reason — wasn’t doing the job the Aggies expected of him.<\/p>\n

So, does the coach clear out his office and skulk away into the night like a scorned hound dog? Oh, no.<\/p>\n

Dude gets tens of millions of dollars! The university is going to pay Fisher $75 million over the course of several years. The money, according to the Texas Tribune, will come from “donor dollars from the school\u2019s 12th Man Foundation and athletic department funds.”<\/p>\n

“The decision to part ways with Coach Fisher is the result of a thorough evaluation of the football program’s performance, and what’s in the best interest of the overall program and Texas A&M University,” the school said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“The best interest of the overall program” obviously didn’t include Coach Fisher. Which meant he wasn’t doing the job!<\/em><\/p>\n

What in the world am I missing here?<\/p>\n\n

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Someone has to explain this one to me, because my sometimes-pointy head can’t quite grasp certain realities. OK, Texas A&M University fired head football coach Jimbo Fisher over the weekend after the Aggies blew out Mississippi State by 40 points or so. That means that Fisher — for whatever reason — wasn’t doing the job … Continue reading What a way to go!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[175,3240,4576],"class_list":["post-56166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","category-state-news","tag-aggies","tag-ncaa","tag-texas-am"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56167,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56166\/revisions\/56167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}