Texas A&M hires Duke's Mike Elko | Mississippi State hires Jeff Lebby | Mark Stoops' wild weekend

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to Andy Staples on three. It is Sunday. It is a Sunday after the last regular season games. And that means there is a ton of news. There are hirings. There are firings. There are so many different things to talk about. There are quarterbacks entering the transfer portal. There are games to be played.
0:23.5	There are coaches coming back from suspension. All of that is happening right now. But the biggest
0:31.6	news of the day, Texas A&M has a coach. Texas A&M set to hire Mike Elko from Duke, former Texas A&M defensive coordinator,
0:40.8	as its new head coach. Now, this comes after quite a bit of drama on Saturday night involving
0:46.7	Kentucky coach Mark Stoops. Remember, Stoops in Kentucky beat Louisville on Saturday. It was a big upset.
0:53.4	They got the Governor's Cup. And then news started coming. Stoops and talks with Texas A&M. And that news stretched into the night. But then shortly after midnight on the East Coast, word came. Nope, not happening. So based on people I've talked to, the Board of Regents
1:16.0	to Texas A&M was not keen on the idea of a Mark Stoop's contract, which probably would have
1:22.0	looked pretty similar to the one that they just bought Jimbo Fisher out of. Mark Stoops,
1:26.9	meanwhile, wasn't going to get a massive
1:29.9	raise to go to Texas A&M because he's already making $9 million year at Kentucky, but he was going
1:34.8	to have a huge jump in pressure and in expectations. And so the sides did not come together.
1:43.3	You had Mark Stoops saying that he's staying after midnight
1:48.5	on a Sunday and then Texas A&M moving on with the search and they move on to Mike Elko.
1:54.4	Who was a name that was out there when Jimbo Fisher got fired? Mike Elko has done an incredible job
2:00.7	at Duke.
2:01.0	Got there won nine games the first year. They've been very good this year,
2:05.4	despite dealing with some quarterback injuries. I think this is a very good hire for Texas A&M.
2:10.9	I like Mike Elko. As far as him versus Mark Stoops, I think the floor is generally the same. You know, we've seen 11 years
2:20.2	of Mark Stoops at Kentucky. We know what kind of talent he can bring in. He would be able to bring in
2:24.8	top shelf talent at Texas A&M. Would he be able to coach it past Alabama, Georgia, Texas,
2:32.8	Oklahoma, LSU? I don't know. Because we've also seen him for 11 years at Kentucky.
2:37.9	And while the degree of difficulty is higher, there's that staff that follows him around where he's
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