On April 30, 2021, Leipold was hired at Kansas. He is on his fourth recruiting class. Never said is a bad coach, but is success at lower levels is not translating to the P5 so far.
OT: Leipold Has Gone Cold
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Maybe it's a one ( big) step backwards before moving forward again.
Lance has had success at the lower level and was great at Wisconsin–Whitewater (109-6)
His time at Buffalo made some feel he was great because he made a fairly bad Bull team into a winner
( but it wasn't terrible having went 8-5 two years before Lance was hired)
I feel Leipold is a better HC than this year's Jayhawk team makes look to be, but he's not the world beater that many thought he was when he was hired .
So.. you're saying.. Less Miles last class.. with Covid years are super Seniors and RS Seniors? For all we know.. the core of LL's winning Kansas teams were chock full of Les miles recruits while LL's recruits played supporting roles.
Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't. Kansas at least seems to be competitive. There are a lot of schools where there isn't much margin for error. Kansas is one of them. So is Rutgers.
All 6 of their losses are by 1 score. Odds are you’d get a couple of those but nope it hasn’t fallen their way this year. Key mistakes still being made too, Daniels had a fumble at midfield leading to KSU’s game winning FG. This year is down the drain so next year we’ll see as every year is different. Daniels might be addition by subtraction as he’s not the same this year and maybe they change OC again.
Just look at Deion. He’s got Colorado bowl eligible in year 2. 6-2/4-1 and in B12 title contention but I’ll be surprised if they win it. Improved over last year but still some flaws. B12 is a wide open conference. BYU was picked for near last and they’re at the top and vice versa Ok St and Utah. So there’s opportunity for Kansas and Leipold to turn things and we’ll see.
Just look at Deion. He’s got Colorado bowl eligible in year 2. 6-2/4-1 and in B12 title contention but I’ll be surprised if they win it. Improved over last year but still some flaws. B12 is a wide open conference. BYU was picked for near last and they’re at the top and vice versa Ok St and Utah. So there’s opportunity for Kansas and Leipold to turn things and we’ll see.
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Iowa State, now BYU. If Kanas finds a way to beat Colorado next Saturday, we can all finally agree that Lance Leipold can coach. We are lucky that Nebraska and Michigan and Michigan State did not hire him.
Wow, knocks off 9-0 #6 BYU in Provo at night. Kansas now 4-6 with 6 games lost by 1 score, could easily be talking about playoffs with them but for some bounces the other way.
He’s an excellent coach.
Any one who can win at Buffalo and Kansas can coach.
Any one who can win at Buffalo and Kansas can coach.
The B12 isn’t that good this year - including the top. Look at their top 4. Their signature non-conference win was a 20-19 win over Iowa. Colorado lost to Nebraska. By a lot more than we did. Our road win at VTech is probably as good as any B12 non-conference win - for perspective. Being 4-6 in that conference is not impressive.
Not necessarily you, but a segment of people on this board have a strange fetish in propping up questionable performances by other coaches and ready to deep six the coach of their own team during a skid. The song called Love the One You're With comes to mind.
Record this year is 4-6 and 3-4 in a questionable conference having a weird year where Oklahoma State is at the bottom of the conference. BYU's ranking was way too inflated when their only decent wins were K-State and SMU.
Beating Iowa State is not that big of a deal. They lost to a mediocre Texas Tech.
Just don't get the fascination with this guy.
BYU has the record but anyone who has watched them more than once knows they are terribly overrated.
I am citing Leipold as a good coach — he’s done a good to great job at all his stops on the career ladder. I have not taken shots at Coach Schiano.
No brake pumping.
Kansas was one of the worst if not the worst team in college football.
A team that produced Gale Sayers and John Riggins. Enigma if there ever was one.
He’s a great coach.
I’m not taking shots at Schiano either.
One who campaigned strongly on this board for his return. With all the injuries this might be his best coaching job ever. Great coach. Perfect for RU!
Yes, I acknowledged that. Greg is a good coach too. He coaches in a much stronger league with much stronger competition. Leipold coaching in the B12 is an apples and oranges comparison.
And if you took this record and assigned it to Greg, people would be screaming for Greg to be fired:
21–27 (0.439) Overall
12–22 (0.352) Conference
Actually, Greg is:
25-52 (0.439) Overall
12-31 (0.280) Conference
Taking into consideration he played the year end ranked (not mid or early Season) #2, #3, #6, #9, #3, #4, #7, #1 and #10 teams over the stretch of 4 years, while Leipold only faced #10, #7, #5, #2, #7, #5, #10 over 3 years and never notched a win, one could make the case that they are equally good coaches. But not some of our fans (and I am again excluding you).
