While the retired Nick Saban tells lawmakers in Washington D.C. how college football has changed for the worse, Mike Elko sees a balancing act to be successful
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M’s Mike Elko is just getting rolling as a head coach at the same time college football’s most iconic coach, Nick Saban, is getting out. The differences in their attitudes toward an open transfer portal and NIL — college athletes benefiting from their names, images and likenesses over the past three years — is marked.
“If you look and since I went to Notre Dame, I think we’ve had instant impact success every year that I’ve taken over,” said Elko, who spent 2017 as Notre Dame’s defensive coordinator and then four seasons as A&M’s defensive coordinator prior to heading to Duke. “That first year at Notre Dame there was an immediate defensive turnaround, and my first year at Texas A&M there was an immediate defensive turnaround, and my first year at Duke there was an immediate turnaround.
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