Man, those guys are good. To think we probably beat them if Turay doesn't go offsides on 4th down.
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Or if Jacobs intercepts the pass on WSU's 30yd line, instead the ball goes through his hands and into the receiver's hands.
Now there is a team that seems to have continued to get better as the year went on. We play them next week its a blow out!
We would not beat them now however. As once again we have gotten worse as coaching has kicked in on their teams and our lack of it has caused us to go backwards
And to think there were Mike Leach naysayers on this board. The guy recognizes talent, coaches them up, has a signature style, and wins more than his share against teams with better talent. Leach has warts and is the type of coach that many here would say he's a bad fit here. If we were so lucky ...
Maybe Leach could have locked the former defensive backfield in a shed and kept them out of trouble?!
Seriously I would have loved to see him here....I wonder if Maryland is kicking themselves for not hiring him and taking Edsal instead. I remember that Leach supposedly interviewed there.
Seriously I would have loved to see him here....I wonder if Maryland is kicking themselves for not hiring him and taking Edsal instead. I remember that Leach supposedly interviewed there.
Or if Jacobs caught that interception on their last drive.
WSU should have beaten Stanford, too, but their kicker missed a very makeable FG as time expired.
He took over a program that was 9-40 in the 4 seasons before him and in his 4th year has them at 7 wins with wins over Oregon, a ranked UCLA team, and a 2 point loss to Stanford. He (unlike Flood) has his team moving in the right direction.
That loss to Stanford is 100% on him though. Leach doesn't believe in a 4 minute offense and gave Stanford the ball back with plenty of time to win the game in the last few seconds. Most other coaches would have ensured that Stanford wouldn't have had a chance to get the ball back in the final minute.
The point of Leach having warts as a coach is spot on. If Leach was at Rutgers instead of WSU, no doubt that Rutgers would be winning more than we are now. But also no doubt that those Rutgers fans that still have hair would have torn most of it out.
It's not so impressive if you know Mike Leach churns out these kind of qbs all the time. It's his system more than anything.
I think WSU is an perfect spot for him just like Lubbock was in Texas. Out of the way, nondescript location seems perfect for his personality.
The out-of-the-way place Miami has been mentioned as a possible destination for Leach, who happens to have a place in the Keys. Jimmy Johnson is a great friend and an admirer of Leach. Would be interesting to see a superbly athletic team play using his system.
We don't get the biggest win in school history if Louisville doesn't go offsides... Looking at the ifs will drive you crazy
Haha, yea very out of the way. I've said I think a spread would be great for Miami with all the speed and talent available in Florida and have mentioned names like RichRod or Holgorsen (even) as possibilities. Golden did switch to it in 2013 but he's no expert and the OC he chose didn't deliver. Still need defense but again Miami is able to stock both sides of the ball with Florida talent so it would be interesting like you say.
Then why aren't we running that system? It takes a Rutgers QB 3-4 years to develop.
Don't ask me I've been wanting to run some sort of spread (read option/air raid) for quite some time now. Don't just look at Leach. Look at Baylor too with Briles. From RG3, to Nick Florence, to Bryce Petty, to Seth Russell and now a little drop off with an in season change due to injury to Jarett Stidham. How about Meyer/Herman using 3 QBs on the way to the national championship. Brian Kelly 3 QBs at Cincy in one year and still won the BE. This year at ND also 2 QBs and 2RBs and still doing well.
Now mind you part of this is coaching acumen, no doubt about it. But I also think part of it is ease in learning the system which makes it a little more plug and play friendly.
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If we played Wazzou, yesterday, they'd beat us by 30. No question in my mind.
Interesting tidbit- Mike Leach never played football. He became a lawyer. Then changed his mind.
He learned the Spread under Hal Mumme. Now Kliff Klingsbury and Dana Holgerson, his assistants at Texas Tech learning under Leach, spreading the Spread.
Almost every Texas HS now runs the Spread.
He learned the Spread under Hal Mumme. Now Kliff Klingsbury and Dana Holgerson, his assistants at Texas Tech learning under Leach, spreading the Spread.
Almost every Texas HS now runs the Spread.
Leach took a lot of heat running off talent who violated his rules. and insisted on building team chemistry. Many in the press and fans were critical of his actions, it's his way or the highway. Do something wrong.....gone, not perform on the field ......sit
This team now embodies that, they are a very tight team and Falk has shown himself to be one cool, tough son of a gun under pressure. This team is very young and now has his recruits.
This team now embodies that, they are a very tight team and Falk has shown himself to be one cool, tough son of a gun under pressure. This team is very young and now has his recruits.
they got better, RU got worse. It was a very winnable game. At least our fans are not using them being good as a reason to excuse the team losing anymore.
I don't think Leach ever "became a lawyer." He earned a J.D. degree from Pepperdine. I read his book, and I don't recall him taking the bar exam in any state. Instead his first few years in coaching:
1987 Cal Poly-SLO (OL)
1988 College of the Desert (LB)
1989 Pori Bears
1989–1991 Iowa Wesleyan (OC/OL)
I recall he lived in a trailer or some decrepit apartment. He met up with Hal Mumme, the mastermind of the Air Raid offense at Iowa Wesleyan, and Mumme hired him at Kentucky in 1997.
Wazzou cracked the Top 25 in both polls that came out yesterday, basically replacing UCLA in those polls. And the SEC is now down to just 4 teams in each Top 25, with Ole Miss and Mississippi State dividing the #25 slot between the two polls. Meanwhile, the B1G has 6 teams ranked for the second straight week, the most of any conference. The ACC has just 3, the fewest among the P5 conferences.
And his mentor, Hal Mumme, is now coaching the 0-5 Belhaven Blazers. Maybe the idea has its limits.
