We start by having a conversation with the head football coach at Texas A&M.

He's entering his first season there.

He previously served as the head coach of Duke.

A couple of years there.

He was 16 and 9 overall.

Led Duke to a pair of bowl games.

He was the 2022 ACCC coach of the year.

The Aggies are ranked number 20 in the preseason AP poll.

They've got a big one. Huge game to open up the year. They goies are ranked number 20 in the preseason AP poll. They've got a big one.

Huge game to open up the year. They go up against number seven, Notre Dame, when they come to their house, August 31st. Of course, I'm talking about Mike Elko. Mike, it is great to get caught up with

you. How you doing, Mike?

I'm good, Jim. Thanks for having me on. It's good to have you on. So bring me up to date.

How are things in Aggie land and given that game and how big that game is,

what is the energy like? Because that is a highly anticipated game to start the year.

Yeah, I'm not sure you could put more into it than first game back.

You know, night crowd and

Kyle field it's going to be obviously 103,000 plus college game day Notre Dame I'm not sure

that you could throw a whole lot more into this one and so feelings around here obviously a lot

of excitement kids are fired up ready to get going fan base is excited and excited to get this new era of Texas State and football off the ground the right way.

Yeah, man, that's going to be fun.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

Mike Elkoe joining us.

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