🚨 Texas A&M reportedly set to hire Duke's Mike Elko to replace Jimbo Fisher (11/26) 🚨
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 26 November 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew reacts to the breaking news that Texas A&M is targeting Duke's Mike Elko. Chip Patterson and Bud Elliott discuss what to expect from Elko as the former Aggie defensive coordinator returns to College Station (1:00), what's next for Duke as it looks to maintain the program's recent success (21:55) and some assorted coaching carousel thoughts from Sunday including Mississippi State finishing the deal with Oklahoma offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby as the Bulldogs' next head coach.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny |
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| 0:45.1 | and you see those sirens in your feed, |
| 0:47.3 | you know exactly what that means. |
| 0:50.6 | But we've got the final stages of the Texas A&M head coaching search, a search that we thought was going to be decided on Saturday night. |
| 1:00.0 | And we'll get to a quick refresh of how we got here with Mark Stoops and then not with |
| 1:06.4 | Mark Stoops as more reporting has illuminated us as to what exactly happened behind the scenes. |
| 1:12.7 | But currently multiple reports, you know, |
| 1:15.1 | Houston Chronicle, Yahoo Sports. |
| 1:17.5 | The indication is that Texas A&M has picked Dukes Mike Elko, the former Texas A&M defensive coordinator with two very good years at Duke to be the next head coach. |
| 1:31.0 | There is, you know, what happens to Elijah Robinson as he was a candidate for the job as well. They're in the in the final stages and what does the staff look like? What happens at Duke? Lots to get to as we unpack this, but for a Texas A&M job that we've been discussing a lot, what do you think the future looks like with Mike Elko? |
| 1:51.0 | I to quote Tom Fernelli, that's a great hire, I have no idea if it will work out. |
| 1:55.6 | Right? I do think we're kind of uniquely qualified to discuss this among some of the national |
| 2:01.4 | guys because we're both AC |
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