{"id":654077,"date":"2026-05-20T08:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654077\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:55:18","slug":"matthews-is-another-big-time-elko-era-recruiting-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654077\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthews is another big-time Elko Era recruiting win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whew boy, <a href=\"https:\/\/texags.com\/players\/23550\/mark-matthews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark freakin\u2019 Matthews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/texags.com\/s\/75742\/2027-fort-lauderdale-fl-st-thomas-aquinas-ol-mark-matthews-commits-to-am\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What a big-boy get for Mike Elko<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What a commitment ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>My goodness, if that ceremony did not give you a heart attack and then immediately fire you up, are you even alive and an Aggie fan?<\/p>\n<p>It was theatrical, with a WWE vibe, and let me tell you, if you are an Aggie fan, you have to love what Matthews is cooking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/texags.com\/s\/76245\/ol-commit-mark-matthews-has-found-new-home-in-aggieland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When I caught up with him for an interview<\/a> after his announcement, you could still hear the excitement in his voice.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading, you must be a TexAgs Premium subscriber.<\/p>\n<p>Trial only available to users who have never subscribed or participated in a previous trial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whew boy, Mark freakin\u2019 Matthews. What a big-boy get for Mike Elko. What a commitment ceremony. My goodness,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1466,2967,54639,128812,237762,282133,282128,399,133388,282135,152632,282132,247525,273413,282134,53061,273419,206451,273412,27121,273424,2821,282131,7085,398,396,397,282127,99,282130,120318,7084,241144,282129],"class_list":["post-654077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-1466","tag-2967","tag-54639","tag-128812","tag-adam-cushing","tag-brandon-arrington-football-recruiting","tag-dj-sanders-football-recruiting","tag-football","tag-football-recruiting","tag-helaman-casuga-football-recruiting","tag-holmon-wiggins","tag-husan-longstreet-football-recruiting","tag-jason-howell","tag-jayquan-snell-football-recruiting","tag-jerome-myles-football-recruiting","tag-jimbo-fisher","tag-kennedy-brown-football-recruiting","tag-kj-edwards-football-recruiting","tag-lamont-rogers-football-recruiting","tag-mario-cristobal","tag-mark-matthews-football-recruiting","tag-miami","tag-michael-fasusi-football-recruiting","tag-mike-elko","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-noah-mikhail-football-recruiting","tag-sports","tag-terry-bussey-football-recruiting","tag-texags","tag-texas-am","tag-trooper-taylor","tag-ty-haywood-football-recruiting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}