If I can unjerk for a second...
I think Elko might actually be a good hire for them. He won't get them where they want to be, but he can probably limit the damage that Jimbo was doing. All this bread they're recruiting won't win them a lot of games, but those guys will probably appreciate the opportunity to play at an SEC school and at least show up to practice. And maybe, just maybe, they won't smoke weed in the locker room. College Station and A&M as a school just isn't a good place for blue chip recruits. There's nothing to do, the people are weird and boring, and they can misbehave with impunity. It's probably the same for coaches who are accustomed to coaching at a normal school for normal people - they get to BCS and see all these weirdos and think fuck it, I'm just here for the money anyway.
They genuinely have "little brother" in the DNA of their program, and I don't mean that as a snide insult like many of you do. It's more that I'm observing a law of nature. Like gravity or water finding its level. When they try to hire real coaches and buy blue chip recruits, those types of people will hate the program and the place. College Station and apex football personnel are fundamentally incompatible. That is why it's much better for their program to recruit bread and hire guys like Elko - those types of players and coaches will think College Station is good enough for them and not resent the place for being what it is.
And that will be the way they achieve the most success that they can as a program. Second rate coaching and third rate players will only take them so far, but at least they won't be a profligate embarrassment like the Jimbo era was. That's A&M's ceiling as a program, and Elko is the kind of coach that will get them there.