Quarterback Conner Weigman’s struggles in his return from a broken foot in the fourth game last year will be a point for Elko to revisit this week.
Of the six Texas A&M coaches to make their debut against a ranked team, R.C. Slocum owns the only win.
A&M’s upset hopes died when Conner Weigman’s fourth-and-2 pass was broken up and nearly became his third interception, setting up a field goal that put the game out of reach.will be a point for Elko to revisit this week. He’ll have to get that fixed fast. Of all the issues he figured to face, I’m thinking this wasn’t one of them.
Elko won the job over Kentucky’s Mark Stoops — a clumsy bit of business, at that — because he’d been Aggie-tested as a former defensive coordinator and came up the anti-Jimbo. He’s certainly likeable. Even his former Duke players couldn’t work up much of a mad against him when ESPN visited recently. The gist of the story was how Elko and Leonard, a former Duke coach and quarterback, would find themselves on the same field Saturday but different sidelines.
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