After racking up five disappointing losses this season, Texas A&M fired head coach Kevin Sumlin. It was the end of an era. Not necessarily a great one for the university—Sumlin’s 11-2 record and Cotton Bowl win (along with quarterback Johnny Manziel’s Heisman Trophy) in his first year was the high of his career at A&M, and everything after 2012 was a disappointment to fans hoping that the program had turned a corner. Sumlin’s tenure at A&M coincided with the team’s entrance into college football’s formidable SEC, and under his tutelage, it remained largely an afterthought. His teams were competitive enough to go to Bowl games, but hadn’t been good enough in several years to win one, and leading the team to a seven-win season in…The post Texas A&M Football Makes a Splashy Hire With Jimbo Fisher appeared first on Texas Monthly.