Jimbo Fisher will wake up 1 morning over the next 60 days, and there will be a line item deposit from Texas A&M University in his bank account.

For $19.2 million.

At some point over each of the ensuing 8 years, there will be a deposit of $7.2 million.

For not doing a damn thing.

Welcome, everyone, to the official end of “you can’t fire him” because he makes too much money. Welcome Billy Napier and James Franklin and Chip Kelly and Mario Cristobal — and any other coach who believes their bottom line guaranteed contract is job security.

Texas A&M just blew that theory right out of the drink.

Billy Liucci of TexAgs is reporting that the Aggies have already decided to fire coach Jimbo Fisher — it couldn’t happen as soon as Sunday — and eat the $76.8 million in guaranteed contract money.

In easy installments, of course.

But we have to stop looking at this particular contract — and every other guaranteed monstrosity throughout the coaching fraternity — through the lens of “you can’t” and money owed. That’s not how programs are built to sustain success.

Coaches, by nature, abhor the “you can’t” excuse from assistant coaches, players and anyone involved in their program — from the university president, to the athletic director and all the way down to those washing the practice jerseys.

And now that Texas A&M has ripped off the Fisher Band-aid, they’ll all live it firsthand from this point forward. Because “you can’t” shouldn’t be married to buyouts, it should walk hand in hand with performance.

You can’t have 1 season of significance in 6, despite having the greatest monetary support — for coaching and support staff, and NIL collectives — in all of college football.

You can’t lose 25 games over 6 seasons, and 12 of your last 19 vs. Power 5 teams.

You can’t take elite recruiting classes built with all that collective money, and be winless in your last 9 road games.

You can’t lose — and this is particularly galling to those deep-pocket Aggie boosters who pony up to pay off — 6 of your last 7 to the Mississippi schools in the SEC.

You can’t lose like Fisher lost, and be defiant in the face of it, and wait until now or never to give up control of the offense — and then hire a mercenary like Bobby Petrino to make it all right.

You can’t drop bimonthly deposits of $416,666 in Fisher’s bank account for surviving week to week, or month to month, or hoping against hope that Fisher will turn it around.

Hope isn’t a plan, everyone.

It’s not a plan at Texas A&M, it’s not a plan at Florida, or Miami or Penn State or Ohio State or anywhere else coaches are paid an exorbitant amount of guaranteed money to win a championship.

They know the business, they know they’re hired to be fired. The only difference now is Texas A&M just officially made the leash shorter for all involved.

If you’re a university president or athletic director and you’ve reached the point of beginning each declarative statement about your struggling program with, “You can’t fire him because of what you’ll owe him, but …” — it’s time to get out from under it.

Because the damage is never inescapable. Let me say that again.

The damage is never inescapable.

College football is built now for the quick fix, the 1-year turnaround from “how did they lose that game” to “they might win the whole thing” an accepted reality. NIL contracts and free player movement have greased the wheels that before 2021 were nearly frozen shut.

TCU won 5 games in 2021, and was at the end of the line with legendary coach Gary Patterson. So the administration fired him, hired Sonny Dykes, and in 2022, the Horned Frogs played for the national championship.

USC won 4 games under Clay Helton in 2021, fired him and hired Lincoln Riley — and was a Pac-12 Championship Game win away from reaching the Playoff in 2022.

LSU won 6 games in Ed Orgeron’s last season of 2021 — 2 years removed from winning the national title — and a year later played for the SEC Championship in Year 1 under Brian Kelly.

“You can’t” is so prevalent in the conversation of hiring and firing football coaches because — hold on to your 10-gallon hat, Tex — football coaches have fueled that very narrative for decades.

“You can’t” expect us to win immediately, or “you can’t” expect a quick flip, or “you can’t” think we can win right away in this meatgrinder conference.

OK, fine. Then as presidents and athletic directors, sit and choke down the reality playing out on the field and hope for the best.

Hope your football team — a glorified Forbes 500 businesses — won’t continue to be an organizational mess 23 games into a coaching tenure, and fret about change because it’s going to cost $32 million to tell a coach it’s not working.

Hope your football team will, at some point, figure out how to play physical, real defense and stop someone — as you head into the Big Ten, where physical defense isn’t optional — or be stubborn about all that cash you paid to buy out your coach and bring him aboard.

Hope your football team will finally figure out how to beat the 2 best teams in your conference, or figure out how to kneel and win a game, or figure how to recapture glory of a decades past — or, for the love of all things pigskin, just beat 1 of the Mississippi schools.

At least Fisher and Texas A&M have that for their years of hope. The Aggies finally beat Mississippi State on Saturday night for the first time since 2020 — and Fisher got $76.8 million for it.

And Texas A&M, with the right coaching hire and al loaded roster, may just make a Playoff run in 2024.

You can’t imagine that feeling.