Jimbo Fisher was asked Wednesday how the simple presence of an offensive mind like Bobby Petrino can help Texas A&M football.

Fisher has tackled this question before. But he went into further detail about how the presence of Petrino allows him to do so much more from a HC perspective Wednesday during the weekly SEC teleconference.

Here’s his full comment:

“A lot of things like personal relationships with players, just like Eli just said, you’re going to be in open free agency here in about 3 weeks,” Fisher said. “So what can your roster, you’ve seen people who think could leave, might leave, hopefully don’t want to leave, but all those different things. Administratively different things, relationships, recruiting, I always spent a lot of time on recruiting, but you’ve even got more time, you’re in the meeting rooms, offense, defense, special teams. You don’t have to spend as much time. So you’re allowed to diversify from recruiting, to administrative things to roster management. Even you’re recruiting 2 and 3 years down the road being able to really stay involved with those guys. And you’re also in your fundraising and things with your donor group.”

Fisher continued…

“You’re able between series a lot more to give your ideas and thoughts to that series and then be able to flip over to defense and listen to what’s going on there. Sometimes grabbing players in more personal conversations about what’s going on and correction because you’re not worried about future calls. Your awareness. You’re staying busy, just as busy, like I say, you don’t always have to worry about the next call and throw your ideas out there to Bobby of things you saw, we conversate on.”

Texas A&M has struggled to finish out close games this year, but the Aggies are in just about every game they play. And considering the Aggies lost starter Conner Weigman halfway through the year, it could be much worse.

Texas A&M draws Mississippi State this coming week.