{"id":464522,"date":"2026-10-13T06:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/464522\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T06:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:54:13","slug":"texas-ams-mike-elko-apologizes-for-ripping-media-outlet-with-viral-cesspool-comment-after-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/464522\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&M’s Mike Elko Apologizes for Ripping Media Outlet with Viral ‘Cesspool’ Comment After Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko apologized Monday after referring to local media outlet TexAgs, which is co-owned by Billy Liucci, as a “cesspool” following Saturday’s 27-6 loss to Missouri.<\/p>\n

“I think everybody knows I have a tremendous relationship with Billy,” Elko told reporters<\/a>. “I appreciate Billy. I appreciate him being here today. There’s nothing about him and I that have ever been off since 2018. I think everybody knows I appreciate our fanbase and everything that they’re about and everything that they mean to Texas A&M. Outside of that, I’ll leave it alone.<\/p>\n

“I regret the way it was taken. I regret the way it came out. I regret the way it ran. That certainly was never my intention. And certainly, throughout the course of that interview, at no point ever did I lend any blame to anything other than myself. I am the reason why this team is struggling. I have owned that since this has started. I continue to own that. It’s my job to figure out how to get it better.”<\/p>\n

The initial comments included Elko saying, “There’s one group that I really don’t care much about. Billy’s cesspool can go be Billy’s cesspool. Our fanbase: Stay with us, be behind us, we’re going to build something that we told you we were going to build. We’re in a really bad spot right now, but we’ll work our way out of it.”<\/p>\n

That drew a critical response from Liucci:<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Max Olson<\/a> noted TexAgs was founded in 1997 and stands as the “largest entity” that covers the Aggies on a daily basis. The independent fan site features a message board but also partners with the school for NIL opportunities.<\/p>\n

To say there is frustration surrounding the Texas A&M football program at this point would be an understatement.<\/p>\n

The Aggies reached the College Football Playoff last season, which was Elko’s second as the head coach, and entered the 2026 campaign at No. 8 in the preseason Associated Press Top 25.<\/p>\n

Fans surely expected another run at the CFP, but the team has looked nothing like a realistic contender through six games.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s loss dropped Texas A&M to 3-3 overall and an ugly 1-3 in SEC play. It also lost to Kentucky and LSU with the latter defeat coming by 29 points. The Aggies failed to score a touchdown in the loss to LSU and the loss to Missouri.<\/p>\n

With upcoming games against Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Texas, things could get even uglier for Elko’s club this season, which will only lead to more criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko apologized Monday after referring to local media outlet TexAgs, which is co-owned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-464522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}