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Texas A&M baseball salutes Fisher before Alabama game
The most important story in SEC soccer this month has made it to the convention’s baseball match in Hoover Metropolitan Stadium.
Texas A&M’s baseball workforce taped a photograph of Aggies soccer coach Jimbo Fisher to its dugout wall for Friday evening’s recreation in opposition to Alabama, in line with a photograph of the dugout wall posted to Twitter by SEC Community announcer Tom Hart.
Written throughout the picture of Fisher is “Our Coach! Gig ‘Em!”
Mentioned Aggies baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle after the sport: “It’s simply one thing humorous. Guys had been laughing at it. Meant no disrespect to Alabama or Coach Saban in anyway. Respect them tremendously. That was simply one thing enjoyable to do.”
Fisher texted Schlossnagle after the Aggies’ 12-8 win over Alabama.
“That’s superior,” the Aggies’ first-year baseball coach mentioned of receiving the textual content. “He mentioned, ‘Congratulations. Gritty win. Enjoyable workforce to look at.’
“For me, coming to this convention, that’s the attraction, is whether or not it’s mean-hearted or not, I’ll let these guys determine. However for us, that’s a part of being on this league, man, is the rivalries. It’s thrilling. I’m not saying that doesn’t occur in different conferences, it simply doesn’t occur as a lot, proper? So we threw it up there for our guys. It’s actually simply to maintain guys free. If we’d like motivation to win the SEC match, then there’s one thing unsuitable.”
Aggies infielder Kole Kaler joked after the sport that Texas A&M ought to “stick with it there” for Saturday night’s semifinal recreation in opposition to the winner of Saturday morning’s elimination recreation between Alabama and Florida.
Responding to feedback from Alabama soccer coach Nick Saban about how Saban believed the Aggies “purchased” its whole top-ranked 2022 recruiting class, Fisher final week responded with an explosive, 10-minute information convention through which he lit into Saban and defended Texas A&M.
The feud has poured gasoline on an rising Alabama-Texas A&M rivalry that was stoked by the Aggies’ victory over the then-No. 1 Tide in Faculty Station final October.
Mike Rodak is an Alabama beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Observe him on Twitter @mikerodak.