After just one season at Notre Dame, defensive coordinator Mike Elko will leave the Irish to accept the same position with Texas A&M.
“We appreciate [Elko’s] work and effort over the last year with our program and wish him the best moving forward,” Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly said in a statement shortly after the first reports of Elko’s decision. “Notre Dame simply attracts people at the top of their profession, and, with a young and talented football team coming back in 2018, we’ll certainly add our next great defensive coordinator in very short order.”
Elko was rumored to be in conversations with Aggies newly-hired head coach Jimbo Fisher, recently of Florida State, before the Citrus Bowl on Monday, but Kelly said he expected Elko to be with his staff next season, seemingly ending any concerns.