Jimbo Fisher is an offensive minded head coach, and his focus will be developing players on that side of the ball for Texas A&M football. That doesn’t mean he will ignore the defense, and his targets for a defensive coordinator made that abundantly clear.
He first went after LSU’s Dave Aranda, one of college football’s young and respected defensive minds. Aranda chose to remain in Baton Rouge and turned Fisher’s interest into an offer that made him the highest paid assistant coach in all of college football.
Mike Elko was the next target. Elko had been successful in three years at Wake Forest, which made him familiar to Fisher, and turned around Notre Dame’s defense in the one season he spent there.