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Jimbo Fisher addresses ‘narrative’ surrounding Texas A&M football ahead of SEC West bout
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Jimbo Fisher is not concerned about the narrative surrounding Texas A&M’s football program.
He is staying locked in and focused on the task ahead, and making sure his players are doing the same.
“The narrative is what you want people to perceive of your program,” Fisher said during the SEC coaches teleconference on Wednesday. “I can’t care what other people think or don’t know. I haven’t asked anybody else.”
Fisher is ensuring that his team has confidence in themselves and believes they can win every game, despite what outsiders might be saying.
“When you change the narrative, you change what you — I’m worried about ourselves, from within,” Fisher said. “The confidence you have within yourself and belief you have in yourself, and what you’re doing and what you’re standing for. The outside narrative doesn’t concern me and I don’t think about it.”
Being a college athlete is a lot of pressure, and Fisher has seen players get too focused on what the narrative is and what people are saying about them.
“Sometimes guys don’t see the narrative of themselves and who they want and what they want people to think of them and it’s a hard work to be a good person, be a good player, represent the right way and that’s what I’m talking about,” Fisher said.
Texas A&M has a big one this week, so it will be important for Fisher to keep his team focused all week. The Aggies take on Alabama at home on Saturday, with a chance to get a signature win and continue carving a path towards the SEC Championship.
