‘He’s going to become a star at A&M,’ CBS Sports host is ‘bullish’ about Aggies coach Elko

When you look at the list of head coaches most likely to breakout this season, Mike Elko is near the top entering his first year at the helm of Texas A&M .

CBS Sports college football commentator Josh Pate echoed those sentiments in a recent conversation with TexAgs .

“When you get feedback about how organized, how attention to detail oriented the process is there, how thorough the evaluation is in going and acquiring talent. It had to be that way at Duke so it’s just that way now with a ton more resources. When you get all that, how are you not bullish on it? I don’t care that maybe Mike Elko’s name didn’t dominate the headlines,” Pate said. “Because when DeBoer came into ‘Bama , that was like a fish’s tail muddying up the water, no one was going to notice them hiring anything less than a superstar head coach.

“They may have hired a superstar head coach, it’s just he’s going to become a star at A&M instead of having already been one, which is the inverse of the way that they went last time. Jimbo is announcing he’s a national championship winning head coach while Mike Elko’s resume is still yet to be written in College Station. If you know what you’re looking at in this game, I’m not sure how you’re not bullish.”

Elko will speak at SEC media days in Dallas on Thursday at 11:05 a.m.

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