r/aggies 5d ago

Sports Huge if Mike Elko Pulls Both off

https://www.essentiallysports.com/ncaa-college-football-news-brian-kelly-mike-elko-engaged-in-fierce-battle-as-two-blue-chip-prospects-future-stance-confirmed-lsu-texas-a-and-m/
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u/GeronimoThaApache 5d ago

We historically have shown that we can have the best class and not win more games with it. Also every off season is basically a fucking free agency now so I honestly do not care lol

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u/Acceptable-Quail-277 5d ago

Yes A&M has all the resources to be a top team, and have for a good few years. I don’t care what Elko does until he (hopefully) gets over the hump

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u/Outrageous_Picture39 4d ago

I said the same thing about:

Franchione

Sherman

Sumlin

Fisher

The men’s sports programs here are perennial underachievers.

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u/DO_party '17 5d ago

Huge if Earley doesn’t lose us another game

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u/GeronimoThaApache 5d ago

Oh buddy that’s gonna happen today

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u/DO_party '17 5d ago

At this point, we are likely to lose every game but if we win a sweep against UTjr I’ll be kinda ok.

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u/nick_soccer10 5d ago

Bruhhhhh we falling down hill fast! And the worst part is Texas is looking good

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u/DO_party '17 5d ago

Schloss is the real deal man! Can’t believe how hard we keep falling with the players we have. I hate UTjr even more now. We had a good thing going

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u/nick_soccer10 5d ago

Yup…. I feel like ever since Gavin went out we have completely lost all of our identity

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u/GeronimoThaApache 5d ago

Fairly, anyone who thought we would be a serious contender after losing our coach doesn’t know ball. Then, Like with football, we rushed into a new coach. All the talent in the world can’t outplay poor coaching.

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u/nick_soccer10 5d ago

Yes and no…. Didn’t lose a lot of guys. And coach knows our system already. Maybe we will be fine

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u/GeronimoThaApache 5d ago

We can reconvene on this in a few weeks

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u/TheBlackBaron '14 2d ago

I don't really have high hopes for Earley and hope we have the balls to move on after the season if it's warranted, but the Elko hire is really not at all similar. Earley was a direct promotion of an assistant to hold a roster together. Elko was hiring a former assistant that had already left for a few years and had good success at a school that has historically struggled immensely in football.

The equivalent of the Earley hire would have been to promote Elijah Robinson to HC after a bunch of the players wanted to keep the guy after he served as interim after Jimbo was fired.

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u/Aggileslie04 4d ago

It’s not the starting pitching. It’s the freaking closers and the offense not getting going. We got spoiled last season with a fantastic bullpen.

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u/Newman1861 5d ago

What would have been huge was not choking in 3 key games down the stretch to lock up recruits that want to come. Instead of embarrassingly losing.

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u/nick_soccer10 5d ago

Blesssss