Texas A&M’s 2025 football season is getting closer by the day, as the Aggies will kick off the new campaign against UTSA in Kyle Field on Saturday, August 31. This offseason, second-year head coach Mike Elko has made the media rounds, and is currently finishing out the annual Coach’s Night circuit, which continued on Wednesday night in Houston.
Expectations remain high for an Aggie roster filled with talent and experience at every level, and while half of the fan base is still skeptical of the team’s progress, Elko is supremely confident that his team is on the right track, as he continued to praise several offensive and defensive leaders, including starting quarterback Marcel Reed and junior linebacker Taurean York.
Littered with locker room leadership, it’s the play on the field that matters most, so it’s fair for the skeptics to continue shouting internally, or externally that offseason quotes are “meaningless” despite Elko’s authenticity and honesty compared to former head coach Jimbo Fisher.
As the countdown to the 2025 season continues to tick down, here is everything Mike Elko had to say during Wednesday’s Houston Coach’s Night.
Mike Elko on Texas A&M’s improvement on defense before taking over as the defensive play-caller.
“Everybody keeps asking me that – yes, we will be better on defense.”
Mike Elko compared Texas A&M’s 2025 O-line to the memorable 2020 offensive line.
“I think that is what we have this year.”
Mike Elko on how freshman DE Marco Jones will balance playing football and baseball.
“down-the-road conversation,” but Jones participated in some of the baseball scrimmages before the season and will be “pretty much exclusively football” this fall.
Mike Elko briefly reflects on his first season with the program
When I look back on everything that has been done in our first year at Texas A&M, it was a…
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