Mike Elko - Defensive Coordinator

[Luckylucci]

Is Elko coaching in Wake's bowl game? I'm in a bowl pick em and this is a very important piece on whether I have them upsetting Temple.

I've read that he's coaching the game.

 

[woolybug25]

I've read that he's coaching the game.

Thanks. If Elko coaches his last game, I'm hoping that his guys play their hearts out for them. No Rhule on the Temple sideline either. I'll take that 13.5 line all day.

 

[Sherm Sticky]

Is Elko coaching in Wake's bowl game? I'm in a bowl pick em and this is a very important piece on whether I have them upsetting Temple.

Woooooooooly!

So what's your opinion on the higher?

Welcome back! And Merry Christmas! Your first as a father!


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[woolybug25]

Woooooooooly!

So what's your opinion on the higher?

Welcome back! And Merry Christmas! Your first as a father!


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Thanks homie. Good to be back. Merry Christmas to you and yours as well.

I love the hire. He's been successful his entire career, his scheme fits our personnel and I'll take a guy who put up a top 15 defense with crappy Wake talent while their game plans were being given to their opponents. Ha.

 

[ThePiombino]

Thanks homie. Good to be back. Merry Christmas to you and yours as well.

I love the hire. He's been successful his entire career, his scheme fits our personnel and I'll take a guy who put up a top 15 defense with crappy Wake talent while their game plans were being given to their opponents. Ha.

This simply cannot be overstated. Homerun hire, absolutely the best we could have done this year.

 

[phgreek]

Welcome Coach Elko.

Here's my open letter to the new DC.

CME,

Since Job #1 is finishing off the 2017 class and plugging some holes I've prepared a cheat sheet which will no doubt be copy/pasted by someone inside the Gug. No prob, you have my permission, this is my welcoming gift to you.

Step #1. Double back on all of or Tier 1 offers and take their pulse. That's obvious.

Step #2. Offer Colin Schooler OLB/SS from Mission Viejo (CA) HS. He was born to play your system. No one offered his brother until after NSD. He started at safety for Oregon as a true freshman. Colin is better. He's Drue Tranquil with Tier 1 wheels.

Step #3. Start combing through the wanna-be ND program's (Duke, Vandy, NW, WF) commits:

Wake Forest:

- Bring DE Michael Allen with you. Who cares what the early feedback is. Kid deserves an ND education and to experience lake effect snow dammit.

- Troy Simon 3star CB. He has an ND offer. Played way above R&R's at The Opening Regional.

- DJ Taylor 3star OLB. Probably my favorite player on this entire list not named Drew Jordan Way under valued. Very similar to Antjuan Simmons (RB/OLB) only you got him to commit once already.

- Avery Showell 3star S Played for undefeated GA state champs. Had 42 rec ... 762 yds ... 16 TD ... 1 Def TD in 13 G. Used as a rush OLB and SS. Actually a very impressive tape. Several passing plays where he runs away from everyone.

Northwestern:

- Earnest Brown - US Army AA DE. NW does not deserve him! Offer & Sign.

- Trevor Kent - 3star DE. Same position as Brown. ND kicked his tires. Offer both, get at least one.

- JR Pace 3star S from Georgia. Really a 4star. Too good for NW. If Fields doesn't work out.

- Berkeley Holman - 3star WR. (Please give this to Coach Denbrock for me )If Calvin doesn't pop offer him. 1300 yd at St John Bosco. PLAYER. Maybe the best guy IE members have never heard of. Former teammate of DJ Morgan.

Duke:

- Drew Jordan 4star WDE. - OK, this is obviously the best guy on the list. Why is he going to Duke? Cuz no one loved him enough to make him see the light. ND never offered. PLEASE change that coach.

- The Safety Triplets = Marquise Waters, Damani Neal, Lummie Young. They only need two. You recruited them all. I really like Waters. Neal is a player but vertically challenged.

- Ben Frye 3star WDE. I know little about him besides WF recruited him and he's from Ohio. White boys from Ohio love ND, especially when OSU doesn't love them. It's like a rule or something. If you still like him, it's up to you.

Vandy:

- Dimitri Moore - 3star OLB. Avery Davis' under valued teammate at Cedar Hill. Deserves better than nasty, muggy, dirty, hillbilly-hollywood Nashville. Same class as Simmons and Taylor

- Nico Bolden - 3star FS. Long athletic FS. Much like Isaiah Robertson. From Minnesota - not afraid of the occasional Arctic cold front.

I'll send the the 2018 Hit List soon. You've got some catching up to do.

NDC



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I just circled back around to this thread.

Ok...who are you..REALLY! You don't sound at all like a typical fan who spends too much time on recruiting services.

 

[phgreek]

Totally whiffed on Avery Showell in my prospect-us.

He's decommiting. He's a 3star S 6-2. 195 Played for undefeated GA state champs. Had 42 rec ... 762 yds ... 16 TD ... 1 Def TD in 13 G. Used as a rush OLB and SS. Actually a very impressive tape. Several passing plays where he runs away from everyone.

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fun tape...reminds me of Golden Tate a little...he doesn't look like he is going to be that fast...but there he goes.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Elko got a multi-year deal, separate from Kelly right? I also love the hire, and don't think we could have done any better, but I hope his success at ND isn't yoked to Kelly's. I can't think of any other HC who came so close to getting fired yet still managed achieve the level of success we expect here.

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Wow. Look at this thread. Elko hasn't even coached a game at ND, yet has already pumped enough estrogen into this forum to open up even the most stuck labial adhesion. This guy is a legend!

 

[BeauBenken]

Guys. It's almost Chrismas Eve. Don't have petty fights like this.

 

[Irish8248]

Guys. It's almost Chrismas Eve. Don't have petty fights like this.

But it is Festevus!

 

[woolybug25]

Wow. Look at this thread. Elko hasn't even coached a game at ND, yet has already pumped enough estrogen into this forum to open up even the most stuck labial adhesion. This guy is a legend!

There is literally no posts that are fanboy-ish or making crazy claims in this thread. I have no idea what prompted this post. Ha

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

There was a little skirmish between people that dislike Nashville and a guy that lived in Nashville.

 

[connor_in]

There is literally no posts that are fanboy-ish or making crazy claims in this thread. I have no idea what prompted this post. Ha

He wants to point to this post in mid-January to say see I knew a month ago

 

[BobbyMac]

All this Diaco talk, people wanting him to rejoin the staff as an analyst... Elko doesn't need the old guy who was successful and who's tight with his new boss looking over his shoulder. Bad work dynamic. Don't need someone spitting in your soup.

He should have no prob getting a job somewhere if he needs the money which he shouldn't.

 

[dublinirish]

All this Diaco talk, people wanting him to rejoin the staff as an analyst... Elko doesn't need the old guy who was successful and who's tight with his new boss looking over his shoulder. Bad work dynamic. Don't need someone spitting in your soup.

He should have no prob getting a job somewhere if he needs the money which he shouldn't.

BK did it last year with Quinn and Biaggi

 

[BobbyMac]

BK did it last year with Quinn and Biaggi

...and Hudson and...

How did that work out?

Hierarchy of position is crucial in building a management team

 

[OCIrish]

BK did it last year with Quinn and Biaggi

I get the idea of having more brains helping out, however, too many cocks in the henhouse can also lead to problems.

 

[Domina Nostra]

I get the idea of having more brains helping out, however, too many cocks in the henhouse can also lead to problems.

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[dublinirish]

I get the idea of having more brains helping out, however, too many cocks in the henhouse can also lead to problems.

not a problem at UM or Bama where they have armies of coaches working as analysts. Some even more experienced than the on-field coaches they support.

 

[Luckylucci]

I get the idea of having more brains helping out, however, too many cocks in the henhouse can also lead to problems.

I agree, and I really don't see BK bringing back Diaco. I think he wants to have a DC, like he found in Elko, where he can give him the reigns to the defense, and get his focus back on offense. He has some quality analysts already.

 

[BobbyMac]

not a problem at UM or Bama where they have armies of coaches working as analysts. Some even more experienced than the on-field coaches they support.

How would you feel if you had just been hired away from Northwestern to be the new DC at Bama then a week later Kirby smart gets fired and Saban hires him as an analyst?

 

[dublinirish]

How would you feel if you had just been hired away from Northwestern to be the new DC at Bama then a week later Kirby smart gets fired and Saban hires him as an analyst?

winning programs have no room for sentimentality. if you weren't determined to prove you are the better coach then go somewhere else.

 

[GrangerIrish24]

How would you feel if you had just been hired away from Northwestern to be the new DC at Bama then a week later Kirby smart gets fired and Saban hires him as an analyst?

I would say thank you King Saban, what else would you like to do.

 

[BobbyMac]

winning programs have no room for sentimentality. if you weren't determined to prove you are the better coach then go somewhere else.

OK. I know you think it makes sense but it's a HORRIBLE idea. Not just football but in any situation where you are building a executive level management team.

 

[koonja]

Clark Lea is probably coming with Elko, so keep an eye on the LBs play too.

 

[OCIrish]

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[stlnd01]

Bringing Diaco back right after we hired Elko just seems like a really bad idea. No knock on either of them, but it would seem to create an extremely strange dynamic, in a year when off-field coaching drama needs kept to an absolute minimum.
Bob will get a better job than analyst anyway. Some P5 program will hire him as a DC. They should anyway. He's very good at it.

 

[koonja]

Lol, hot start for Elko. Temple scores on first play from the 50.

 

[irishff1014]

Lol, hot start for Elko. Temple scores on first play from the 50.

That a great throw by the QB. The CB just got beat.