The addition of Bobby Petrino to Jimbo Fisher's staff in College Station was surely one of the most intriguing hires of the off season.
Petrino, who spent the past three seasons leading FCS Missouri State to an 18-15 mark, had briefly joined the UNLV staff as offensive coordinator before teaming up on Fisher's staff.
The two seem like an a promising duo pairing up with resources and talent at a place that has been primed for a breakout since Fisher's arrival. Both are decorated offensive play callers, as Fisher is about a decade out from the best offensive season he's had while leading the Seminoles to a national title, and Petrino caught lighting in a bottle with 2016 Heisman winner Lamar Jackson for two seasons before a 2-8 finish led to his departure at Louisville.
Ever since Petrino's arrival at Texas A&M, the question has been how will the play-caller relationship work on game day between the two offensive minded coaches, at a place where Fisher had taken the lead in regards to play calling the last several seasons.
Each time a question has been asked about those game day dynamics, there seems to be more questions than answers at the end of the presser to go along with a whole lot of frustrated media members looking for straight answers.
That didn't change at SEC Media Days.
Asked if he will continue to call the plays following their disappointing 5-7 finish to last season, Fisher again opted for the cloak of vagueness that has become his go-to response on the topic.
"I'm not going to get into what we're doing from a schematic viewpoint," he explained, going on to add that his process has always been "a collective thing" on offense.
"I'm not going to get into that. Bobby was hired for a reason. Tremendous guy. Tremendous football mind. Hopefully he'll call the game and have suggestions."
That last sentence: "Hopefully he'll call the game and have suggestions," is a strange one coming from the head coach with the richest guaranteed deal in college football history who literally single-handedly makes the call on who is dialing up the plays.
At this point (and Fisher kind of alludes to this in his response above) it seems like Fisher's propensity to not answer the question is to make it as hard as humanely possible for defenses to plan for the Aggies heading into this fall.
Conventional logic would say that the offense will be a mix of what Petrino has done in the past, combined with what the Fisher and the Aggies roster of players are already familiar with.
What the media is looking for is a nice and clean, "We'll be 70% of my stuff and 30% of what Bobby brings in," and while that type of response would really provide no valuable insight on what cutups opposing defensive support staffs would put together, who is calling the offense continues to clearly be something Fisher wants to not tip his hand on and people (and their opponents) will come to conclusions after the first game or two.
Having an intimate understanding of why coaches choose to keep those kinds of things close to the vest, I wouldn't expect that to change before the season arrives.
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