Jimbo Fisher Is Reportedly Pushing Hard To Return to Florida State and Is Already Calling Potential Assistants

Please let this happen. Not because it is in any way a good idea for anyone involved, but just because it would be incredibly funny and entertaining.

According to multiple reports, Jimbo Fisher has been lobbying heavily behind the scenes to return to his old stomping grounds in Tallahassee for months — well before Mike Norvell was ever even fired. He's apparently even calling potential assistant coaches to have a staff ready to go if Florida State really does come calling.

I don't think Fisher should be any school's first choice in 2026 and certainly not a school with the brand that FSU should still have in the minds of men of a certain age. But I must admit, I'm mildly intrigued at the idea of hiring a coach like Fisher whom you could get for presumably quite cheap and then allocate a ton of money to your roster. Would you rather have Fisher for $1 million a year and the No. 6 transfer portal class in his first season or Jake Dickert at $8 million a year and whatever players you can get afterwards? There's an argument to be made for either.

It's fascinating that there is a coach who won a national championship at Florida State within the lifetime of a current high school freshman and the thought of him wanting the open job at FSU again is considered kind of ridiculous. But it goes to show both how much the sport has changed in that short period of time and how awful FIsher's tenure at Texas A&M was.

The good news for Jimbo is that even if this doesn't work out, he's still got a few more annual installments of about $7 million coming in to not work. I wouldn't rush anything.