Texas A&M HC Jimbo Fisher on National Signing Day
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Andy welcomes Texas A&M Heach Coach Jimbo Fisher to the show to discuss the #1 recruiting class in the country.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a special edition of the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:21.4 | We're wrapping up National Signing Day and what an action-pack day it was. |
| 0:25.6 | It was very, very busy for the guy we're going to talk to on this episode, and that is Texas A&M coach Jim Bo Fisher. |
| 0:31.8 | When Wednesday night ended, the Aggies had the number one class in the country in the 24-7 composite. |
| 0:39.5 | They had gotten signatures from Walter Nolan, the five-star defensive lineman, |
| 0:45.0 | who is the number two overall recruit in the country, number one in his position. |
| 0:48.7 | They got in quarterback Connor Wegman. |
| 0:50.7 | They had Eni White, an edge rusher from Philadelphia. |
| 0:54.4 | This sounds like a very diverse class geographically, and it is. |
| 0:58.4 | I mean, it's even got a tight-in from Sweden, for goodness sakes. |
| 1:01.2 | But that's how it goes these days. |
| 1:04.0 | You've got to go get the best players where they are because Texas A&M is in a division with Alabama, with LSU, the last two national champions, |
| 1:15.3 | by the way, with Auburn, with soon to be, well, we don't know how the divisions are going to |
| 1:21.3 | go, but soon, soon to be the same league with Oklahoma, with Texas, Georgia is on the other side |
| 1:27.2 | of the league now, and again, we don't know how divisions or |
| 1:30.9 | pods or whatever are going to work in the future. |
| 1:33.3 | So these are all places that A&M is going to have to recruit against Florida with Billy Napier. |
| 1:38.6 | That could potentially be a tough school to recruit against. |
| 1:42.1 | You saw Kentucky signing what looks like maybe a top 10 class. |
| 1:46.4 | The SEC is a nasty place to recruit, and Jimbo Fisher seems to have figured out how to get |
| 1:53.5 | some of the best players. |
| 1:55.1 | And this is kind of a move in echelons for Texas A&M because they had been steadily |
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