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Texas A&M football adds another staffer to the Strength and Conditioning room

The Aggie football team will add more assistance to the strength and conditioning program with the addition of Blake McCall

Coach Mike Elko is not only still adding quality talent to the football team, but he is also continuing to add proven talent to his staff. New Director of Football Strength and Conditioning, Tommy Moffitt, will have some help with up-and-coming coach Blake McCall.

McCall confirmed to the Anniston Star that he would head to Aggieland as associate director of strength and conditioning along with Coach Moffitt.

He served as Rodriguez’s first head strength and conditioning coach when he was hired at Jacksonville State, joining the program from LSU. With LSU, he helped the Tigers’ football team to a perfect 15-0 record and a CFP national championship in 2019.

Join us in welcoming Blake McCall to the Aggie family as a hopefully successful tenure helping the Texas A&M football team reach championship levels under head coach Mike Elko comes to fruition.

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‘Prime Time’ goes out of line in SWAC media days

Was he out of line?

The former Florida State and NFL star Deion ‘Prime Time’ Sanders made some waves yesterday during the Southwestern Athletic Conference media days for a very interesting reason.

The current coach of Jacksonville State got extremely angry at a reporter by calling him by his first name, Deion, instead of coach. His rationale was that since Alabama’s current Hall-of-Fame coach Nick Saban wasn’t to be called by his first name than “coach Prime” should be either.

Not only was Sanders angry, but he literally walked out of his virtual press conference. See for yourself the interaction with a reporter from the Clarion Ledger. There’s no need to watch the video past the first 30 seconds.

It seems like Sanders, who owns a career 4-3 record, is looking for some respect. Is it warranted however? As a player, yes, undoubtedly, but as a coach, not so much.

He’s taking offense to a reporter calling him by his first name, without coach in front of it. Extremely out of line if you ask me. Nick Saban has earned the right to ask the media to call him coach, problem is, that hasn’t happened. This clip below shows that Saban has been called by his first name from media members plenty, without leaving a press conference.

Sanders responded again this morning to the negative media reaction with this statement.

A very interesting way to start his second season at JSU. If we know Sanders, and we all do, this won’t be the last time he makes waves as their head coach.