Mike Elko's family has stayed in North Carolina during the Texas A&M coach's first couple of years in College Station, but Michelle Elko knows it comes with...
Mike’s wife, Michelle, and their three children have stayed in North Carolina to fulfill a promise made by the Aggie coach.Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko poses for a family photo with his son Andrew ; daughter, Kaitlyn; wife, Michelle; and son Michael. Kaitlyn is holding the family's dog, Cocoa.
Head coaches at colleges like Texas A&M are well compensated — in 47-year-old Mike’s case a $7 million base salary — but that doesn’t mean it’s easy, logistically and emotionally, when you have kids in school and want to stabilize their environment as much as possible.during a wide-ranging interview in his Bright-Slocum Center office. “It’s not an easy lifestyle. It’s not what you sign up for all the time, to be in this game, which is so intense and requires so much of me.
Even though they haven’t yet physically moved from North Carolina, Michelle says she considers College Station to be home. That’s because of the Elkos’ four previous years there — which allowed Michael to attend high school — and their gratitude that Texas A&M wanted Mike back.This isn’t the first transition the Elkos have had to make. When Mike took the Duke job, the rest of the family initially remained in Texas.
“This is hard, not living with my husband for over a year. When he went to Duke we were only six months apart, and that was really hard.”
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