Defection from A&M's 2025 recruiting class disturbs smooth waters

The seas were almost too smooth, weren't they?

Up to this week, Mike Elko and his staff had — for all intents and purposes — kept the waters calm on their 2025 recruiting class. Sure, they've had to ward off advances for their crop of commits from various power programs across the country (they still are), but there was hardly an autumnal public threat to one of their top prospects.