Auburn football: Twitter has fun with Gus Malzahn to Texas A&M suggestion
Texas A&M messages boards are getting desperate following a 3-4 start to the 2022 season for the Aggies. It’s gotten to the point where they’d like to see Jimbo Fisher bought out for over $85 million to be replaced with former Auburn football head coach Gus Malzahn.
Of course, it’ll be the TAMU boosters taking on the Fisher tab, making it a far easier pill to swallow for the fanbase. Still, replacing a head coach who has won 66% of his games at Texas A&M and owns a national championship in the last decade with someone who was chased off the Plains is a wild development.
Malzahn had a successful first season with UCF, winning their bowl game against Florida and finishing with 9 wins, and has gotten off to a 5-2 start in 2022. With that said, the Knights still have 2 ranked teams on the remaining slate — that being Cincinnati on October 29 and Tulane in New Orleans on November 12 — and could slip up as a favorite to a high-powered Navy or Memphis on the road to finish with as many losses as last season.
Truthfully, if Texas A&M threw Malzahn a big bag of cash, he’d likely jump on the chance to return to the SEC. The Aggies football program will have to worry about a potential Fisher buyout first, and could also offer someone else (like a Deion Sanders type) that same blank check.
For that reason, Malzahn to TAMU is a far-fetched fantasy, but Twitter still had a fun time with the message board suggestion.
Twitter has fun with the idea of former Auburn football head coach Gus Malzahn becoming Texas A&M head coach
Gus Malzahn took a major narrative hit when the Auburn football program ousted him before having their head coach plan foiled by the feedback from the Tigers fanbase. He’ll likely need more success at UCF to be considered a top-flight coaching candidate.
Still, the idea of Malzahn coaching in his home state has been raised, and Twitter had itself a time reacting to it:
The joy it would bring me to watch him go 7-6 at A&M every year for the next decade would be unimaginable https://t.co/Xy4aY5Aj86
— 𝘽𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙧 (@BakeK82) October 27, 2022
PLEASE DO IT
— Austin McBarner (@austinmcbarner) October 27, 2022
Yes, do it A&M
— Eugene Asante fan account (@Jackblanton24) October 27, 2022
— Chad Tracy (@chadtracy22) October 27, 2022
Yeah, that’s who the need! 😂😂😂🤡🤡
— RizzleB (@rousebtAU) October 27, 2022
Expect Malzahn in Texas several times a season in 2023 and beyond, but it’ll be for road games at Texas Tech, Baylor, TCU, and fellow American Athletic Conference-to-Big 12 jumper Houston — not in the Texas A&M head coaching role.