Mike Elko Leaving Head Coach Position At Duke? Returning To Texas A& M To Be Head Coach? Replacing Former Texas A&M Head Coach Jimbo Fisher? That Is The Case
Mike Elko leaving Head Coach position at Duke? Returning to Texas A &M to be Head Coach? Replacing former Texas A &M Head Coach Jimbo Fisher?
That is the case.
From 2018-2021 Mike Elko was the Defensive Coordinator for Texas A& M!
Since then he has been the Head Coach Of Duke where in 2022 Mike Elko finished with a record of 9-4 overall 5-3 in Atlantic Coast Conference won the Military Bowl 2022 by beating University Of Central Florida 30-13.
This week Jimbo Fisher who was the Head Coach of Texas A &M was fired. It was a move that resets the paradigm for coaching buyouts and opens up one of the country's most tantalizing jobs.
The move is expected to cost the school more than $76 million to buy out Fisher's deal, which is nearly triple the highest known coaching contract buyouts at a public school.
According to the terms of the contract, Texas A&M will owe Fisher $19.2 million within 60 days and then pay him $7.2 annually through 2031. There is no offset or mitigation on those payments, and the annual payments start 120 days after termination.
Following Jimbo Fisher being fired Texas A &M Director of Athletics Ross Bjork had this to say!
After very careful analysis of all the components related to Texas A&M football, I recommended to President [Mark] Welsh and then Chancellor [John] Sharp that a change in the leadership of the program was necessary in order for Aggie football to reach our full potential and they accepted my decision,We appreciate Coach Fisher's time here at Texas A&M and we wish him the best in his future endeavors."
According to Pete Thamel article on espn.com
Following Jimbo Fisher being fired as Head Coach of Texas A &M the media began speculating about who could replace Jimbo Fisher at Texas A &M! One of those names was current Duke Head Coach Mike Elko who from 2018-2021 was Texas A &M Defensive Coordinator.
Duke Head Coach Mike Elko shared his thoughts recently on Texas A &M Head Coaching vacancy by saying Everybody knows I’m very happy at this place. We’re doing a lot of special things at this place. My family is very happy here. We love Duke. We love everything this place is for. Again, I say this all the time, when you’re doing your job well, everybody thinks you’re leaving. When you’re doing your job bad, everyone thinks you’re leaving,"
"You try not to pay any attention to that stuff, and obviously I’m not oblivious to it. And we certainly have addressed it just because it needs to be addressed, but I don’t know where that stuff comes from,"
According to article on wralsportsfan.com
A week ago today Mike Elko said that his main concern at Duke as well as any school that employs him is having enough boosters to fund NIL deals needed to retain and attract players via recruiting and in the transfer portal.
That’s the world that we live in nowadays,”“We are probably about 13 days away from complete anarchy and the wild west. That probably started three weeks ago. You hear all these coaches talking about people reaching out to guys and recruiting guys. That’s just the world of college athletics.”
On Monday September 27, 2023 it was confirmed that Mike Elko is leaving Head Coach position at Duke returning to Texas A & M to be Head Coach.
With Duke playing in the postseason learning who they will be opposing this Sunday what bowl they will be playing Duke Director Of Athletics Nina King is going to have to hire a new Head Coach swiftly.
According to Stephen Wiseman article on newsobserver.com
Following Mike Elko leaving his position as Duke Head Coach following being named Head Coach of Texas A&M Duke Men’s Basketball Head Coach Jon Scheyer had this to say!
He’s a big-time coach, a great person. And I also know Duke is going to be great. What we’ve been able to build on the football side the last couple of years, whoever the new coach is I’ll be fully supportive.”
Following Mike Elko being named Head Coach of Texas A&M Stephen Wiseman who covers Duke Athletics for News & Observer was on Ovies & Giglio Podcast saying that he was happy at duke and they were comfortable what they were doing. Once Mark Stoops said he was staying at Kentucky Texas A &M turned to Elko (Mike) saying here is someone we know If the bag of money is put in front of you can be hard to say no and Texas A &M had the better offer and made a couple of predications as to who could be Duke’s next Head Coach in Charles Huff who currently Head Coach of Marshall.