TALLAHASSEE, FL - OCTOBER 29: Head Coach Jimbo Fisher of the Florida State Seminoles disagree with officials on a call during the game against the Clemson Tigers at Doak Campbell Stadium on Bobby Bowden Field on October 29, 2016 in Tallahassee, Florida. Clemson defeated Florida State 37 to 34. (Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty Images)
Ten more players are added by Texas A&M via the transfer portal.
COLLEGE STATION: Just a hundred miles away from NRG Stadium, the venue of Monday night’s College Football Playoff game between Michigan and Washington this season, Texas A&M’s new coach Mike Elko worked feverishly over the weekend to put together a team that will lead the Aggies to a championship in Atlanta or Miami in the years to come.
offensive lineman Defensive lineman Rodas Johnson of Wisconsin, defensive lineman Scooby Williams of Florida, cornerback Jaydon Hill of Florida, receiver Jabre Barber of Troy, cornerback Donovan Saunders of Cal-Poly, safety Derrick Graham of Troy, running back E.J. Smith of Stanford, offensive lineman Ar’maj Reed-Adams of Kansas, and cornerback BJ Mayes of Alabama-Birmingham San Diego State’s Marcus Ratcliffe is
Among the recent transfers declaring A&M as their university of choice.
Elko now has 19 transfers who have pledged to attend A&M. Elko was brought in from Duke by the Aggies in late November to take Jimbo Fisher’s place.
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Along with offensive coordinator Collin Klein, defensive coordinator Jay Bateman, associate head coach and running backs coach Trooper Taylor, receivers coach Holmon Wiggins, defensive backs coaches Ish Aristide and Wes McGriff, offensive line coach Adam Cushing, defensive line coaches Sean Spencer and Tony Jerod-Eddie, special teams coach Patrick Dougherty, and strength coach Tommy Moffitt, Elko has completed his initial coaching staff at A&M.
In the early signing window that ended before Christmas, the Aggies signed 14 players, and they plan to sign a few more.
more in the first part of February, such as Timpson’s Terry Bussey, a five-star defensive back.
January 8, 2024
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Written by Brent Zwerneman
Brent Zwerneman covers Texas A&M athletics as a staff writer for the Houston Chronicle. At brent.zwerneman@houstonchronicle.com, you can get in touch with him. He played baseball at Sam Houston State University and Oak Ridge High School, both of which he graduated from.
Three of Brent’s four books about Texas A&M that have been published have to do with the school’s athletics. Five times, he has been recognized as an APSE National Top 10 writer for the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. In 2021, he broke the college football world’s biggest story of the year, which was that Texas and Oklahoma were secretly preparing to join the SEC.
He finished in second place nationally in the APSE for
exposing the Dennis Franchione “secret newsletter” affair in 2007 and earning third place nationally in 2012 for his reporting on Texas A&M’s transition from the Big 12 to the SEC.
Brent is most proud of his 1988 Dayton Invitational Basketball Tournament MVP title, which he won as the first-ever Texan to win national beat writer of the year from the Football Writers Association of America.
Before an A&M-Texas Tech football game in 2002, Brent met his wife, Crystal Galny, a news anchor for KBTX-TV. The couple has three kids, Will, Zoe, and Brady.
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