re: Why did Jimbo turn down more money from LSU to stay at A&M?

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Let's try not to be childish here, okay.

LSU is obviously one of the schools where it is possible to build a program that contends for national titles year in and year out. They have done it. A&M has not. And yet Jimbo obviously thinks it is happening at A&M, or he never would have refused a raise from LSU to stay at A&M.

I know most of this board prays to baby Jesus that he fails, all the more because he scorned your school twice, once to stay at FSU and once to stay at A&M. Others of you (non LSU fans) want him to fail because you hate to think that A&M might take a spot in the elite that you want your school to take. I get it.

You'll pretend. "He's terrible! So glad he said no! He's done nothing!" Some of you might even manage to convince yourselves of what you desperately want to believe. But deep down, you know better.

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My hunch is that Jimbo wants A&M to be his last stop. He's 56 and his contract guarantees he'll be rich enough to burn at wet mule walking at the end, whatever that end might be. No reason to jump around when you're going to make an insane amount of money no matter what, especially when you're older.