Jimbo fires back at Saban: "Maybe someone should have slapped him"

Jimbo Fisher got personal reacting to Nick Saban.

Jimbo Fisher was enraged by comments made by Nick Saban, who claimed that Texas A&M "bought every player on their team" this year using the new NIL rules.

In a passionate rant, Fisher said that someone maybe should have "slapped" the Alabama football coach when he was younger to prevent him crying wolf.

“You can call me anything you want to call me,” Fisher said. 

“You ain’t call me a cheat. I don’t cheat and I don’t lie. I learned that when I was a kid, if you did that, your old man slapped you ‘side the head. Maybe somebody should have slapped him.”

Fisher has had to defend Texas A&M twice now after the school signed what analysts have called the greatest class in college football recruiting history.

“This is the second time we’ve had to do this when grown men don’t get their way and want to pout and throw a fit and act up,” Fisher said. 

“Just go ask all the people who worked for him. They know exactly what he’s about. I always said this, my dad always told me this, when people show you who they are, believe them. He’s showing you who he is.”

Among the blue-chip players A&M signed are defensive linemen Walter Nolen, Shemar Stewart, Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy, and Lebbeus Overton, wide receiver Evan Stewart, cornerback Denver Harris, wide receiver Chris Marshall, safety Jacoby Matthews, and quarterback Conner Weigman.

Five of those nine players are consensus 5-star prospects, according to all four major recruiting services.

Needless to say, whatever relationship existed between Fisher and Saban is up in flames not long before the SEC football spring coaches meetings.

And before Texas A&M and Alabama meet on the field in Tuscaloosa on Oct. 8.

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