Elijah Robinson is expected to take the defensive coordinator role on Fran Brown's first Syracuse staff, sources told FootballScoop on Sunday. Billy Liucci of TexAgs first reported the news.
Robinson has spent the past five seasons on Jimbo Fisher's Texas A&M staff, rising to become assistant head coach, run game coordinator and defensive line coach. Following Fisher's Nov. 12 firing, the 38-year-old has spent the past three weeks as the Aggies' interim head coach.
Brown and Robinson both hail from Camden, N.J., and attended Camden High together for a time. Brown played at Western Carolina and Robinson at Penn State, but their paths crossed again in 2014, when Robinson joined Matt Rhule's Temple staff, where Brown was already in place. They coached together for the next four seasons at Temple and Baylor -- Robinson coached the D-line, Brown the secondary -- before Robinson joined Fisher's initial A&M staff.
New Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko offered to make Robinson the highest-paid non-coordinator in college football according to Liucci, but Robinson plans to take the coordinator role under his friend and colleague.
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