Saturday's Maroon & White Game will conclude 2025's spring slate

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Some people just cannot be made happy.

Texas A&M football coach Mike Elko is one of them. Well, at least he will be on Saturday.

Elko admitted that he’ll be in a snit after the annual Maroon & White spring football game.

The game is on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. CT at Kyle Field.

“I guarantee you I will come out of the spring game unsatisfied,” Elko said earlier this week. “That’s probably now 18 years running that I have been unhappy coming out of spring ball.”

Captains Taurean York (Maroon) and Trey Zuhn III (White) “drafted” teams on Tuesday. The game will be played with traditional rules.

Team Maroon may be stronger at the “skill” positions with quarterback Marcel Reed and new receivers KC Concepcion and Mario Craver.

However, Team White could be stronger defensively with projected starting tackles DJ Hicks and Albert Regis, linebacker Scooby Williams, safeties Bryce Anderson and Dalton Brooks and All-SEC cornerback Will Lee III.

Guard Ar’maj Reed-Adams, a team captain who is on the Maroon roster, said to expect strong play from both offensive lines.

“One thing that I want is when you turn on the Aggie offensive line tape is to see us being physical, working together and being sharp,” Reed-Adams said. “Even though we’re split up — we won’t have a solid first offensive line running out there — but I feel like those young guys can step in and just hold the standard.”

That would mean holding off A&M’s linebackers. York said they’re eager for the challenge.

“Let’s just go get the ball,” York said. “Do our job. Play downhill. Play vertical. Play on that side of the line of scrimmage.”

How should Elko react to each play? Does he celebrate a long touchdown pass or worry about coverages? Does he praise the offensive line for effective blocking or chastise the defensive line for getting blocked?

Is the glass half full? Or is it half empty?

Elko doesn’t seem to care as long as it’s clean.

“As the head coach, you want it to look clean,” he said. “That’s the biggest thing. We talk about the concept of good football.

“What you don’t want to go out there and see is a lot of big plays because of busted coverages, a lot of interceptions because the quarterback is making the wrong read or the wide-out ran the wrong route.

“I think that’s where we’ve shown tremendous steps. I think we’ve taken really big steps in playing clean football on both sides of the ball. That’s what you hope to see on Saturday.”

That would make Elko happy.