Ahead of the Texas A&M football team’s SEC opener on Saturday afternoon at Florida, head coach Mike Elko appeared on The Paul Finebaum Show and explained how the Aggies are preparing for their first road game.
“Honestly what we do, and this is probably a little bit of a new-age coach, I promised the kids that I would never do the actual crowd noise stuff because as an assistant, that used to drive me crazy and would feel like fingers on a chalkboard. The kids always want music, that’s what they all want at practice, so when we’re all simulated, we put the speakers right behind the offense and we turn the music up about as high as we can get it. The speakers literally portably move right behind the offense, so it’s pretty deafening, but it’s the music that the kids wanted at practice so it kind of goes both ways,” Elko said. “The kids have the access to our operations staff and we let them kind of figure out what they want. I just tell them how bad it is every time I listen to it.
“I’m probably a little bit different than what you think too, there is a lot of hip hop on the Mike Elko Spotify but it’s just from a different genre and different age, old school.”
Kickoff at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville is scheduled for Saturday at 2:30 p.m. on ABC.
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