All you Leach fans, he put a "fat, dumb, happy and entitled" team on the field in a loss to Utah yesterday

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ShoalCreekVol said:
it's definitely about time for him to do another interview talking about the Tennessee job as he reminisces about what could have been. On an Arkansas board last night they were pining for Mike Leach. Even now.
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Let it be stated that I believe given time the guy can be successful anywhere to an extent. I'd love to see Bama have to play his offense each year. But until Coach Leech stops singing his own praises his approach will ultimately turn folks off.
 
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vols40 said:
Let it be stated that I believe given time the guy can be successful anywhere to an extent. I'd love to see Bama have to play his offense each year. But until Coach Leech stops singing his own praises his approach will ultimately turn folks off.
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Yes that makes sense. He has certainly reached the same level of success in his last two stops. And if that's the level of success where you top out in the Big 12 and the PAC-12, we certainly know it will be scaled downward in the SEC. Remember his offense has already been tried in the SEC once and it didn't reach any higher success level than he's had in his stops. Absolutely no reason to believe it would be better this time around.
 
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ShoalCreekVol said:
Yes that makes sense. He has certainly reached the same level of success in his last two stops. And if that's the level of success where you top out in the Big 12 and the PAC-12, we certainly know it will be scaled downward in the SEC. Remember his offense has already been tried in the SEC once and it didn't reach any higher success level than he's had in his stops. Absolutely no reason to believe it would be better this time around.
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Definitely would not hate him at Arkansas. Giving sabes the business
 
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vols40 said:
Definitely would not hate him at Arkansas. Giving sabes the business
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Taking off my orange hat, I'll say it might be interesting to see him at Vanderbilt. He's already shown that he can get a lot out of lower-rated athletes. And his gimmick offense might help compensate for some of their deficiencies.

But there are only a very small handful of places in the SEC that would tolerate his inconsistency.
 
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ShoalCreekVol said:
Taking off my orange hat, I'll say it might be interesting to see him at Vanderbilt. He's already shown that he can get a lot out of lower-rated athletes. And his gimmick offense might help compensate for some of their deficiencies.

But there are only a very small handful of places in the SEC that would tolerate his inconsistency.
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Lol talk about being out of place...
 
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vols40 said:
Bump for 3rd loss in a row for the genius pirate. Has his schtick ran it's course for the cougars and their 30 k fans?
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Loss by 4 on the road to a Top 20 team. Right now the UCLA loss is the only bad loss. Other 2 are to what will this week be Top 15 teams on the road.

If I were a Cougars fan I wouldn't consider his schtick to have run its course.
 
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volinbham said:
Loss by 4 on the road to a Top 20 team. Right now the UCLA loss is the only bad loss. Other 2 are to what will this week be Top 15 teams on the road.

If I were a Cougars fan I wouldn't consider his schtick to have run its course.
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Keep thinking that. While he keeps calling people fat and losing.
 
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UTK said:
Mike Leach is an excellent coach. Anyone that thinks otherwise is a bit delusional. Same people that hated on Dan Mullen for never going undefeated at MSU. Lmao
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Honestly think Pruitt would be just as successful as Mullen is if he were the Gators head coach. I also believe Mullen wouldn’t have us playing better then we are currently either. We got the right guy. Also have the right supporting staff around him, just give it time. I’m seeing improvement every game. It was hard for others to see because JG put a cloud over it. Now that it’s BM is playing others are starting to notice the improvements elsewhere on the team. D is playing twice as better actually getting some sort of break. Get behind Pruitt and support him and our team! Dogging them and always wanting to change ain’t gonna change a damn thing Aight
 
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ShoalCreekVol said:
Taking off my orange hat, I'll say it might be interesting to see him at Vanderbilt. He's already shown that he can get a lot out of lower-rated athletes. And his gimmick offense might help compensate for some of their deficiencies.

But there are only a very small handful of places in the SEC that would tolerate his inconsistency.
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I'm not sure I'd call the Air Raid a gimmick offense - concepts of it have even been picked up in the NFL now.

But your overall point is dead on. There are very few places in the SEC that would tolerate him for an extended period of time. I think he'd have some really exciting, upset victories followed by losing games he had no business losing, and in his press conferences after the loss he'd talk about pirates and debate who has the tougher tiger, Auburn or LSU.

The thing he has going for him at Wash St and also had going for him at Texas Tech is that at those places, the football coach at the end of the day is a football coach. He isn't the quasi-politician-type figure he is at big football schools. As long as he fields decent teams, people will be satisfied; they don't ask for the moon there. It's OK if you never win at the highest levels; just don't field embarrassing teams. I think he thrives at those types of places because of his personality. If you put him in a buttoned up, high expectation environment, I think you're just asking for personality clashes between him and the admin/boosters.
 
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I dont think Vandy would put up with his sound bites. they are prudes. and UT had plenty of blue hairs that wouldn't tolerate him for being weird.
 
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For Leach's promoters, how do you feel about his throwing kids he recruited, coached, and put on the field under the proverbial bus with his quote about them after a loss that they were "fat, dumb, happy and entitled?"
 
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Remy said:
For Leach's promoters, how do you feel about his throwing kids he recruited, coached, and put on the field under the proverbial bus with his quote about them after a loss that they were "fat, dumb, happy and entitled?"
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doesn't bother me a bit. There was a time when coaches routinely criticized the efforts of their players - not sure why now it's considered taboo. I'm betting the players get what he's saying.
 
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LouderVol said:
No we were going back to leech's second year.
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That's an interesting comparison - OSU was a bowl team that year in a P5 conference and coming off a 9-4 season the year prior. Ga State doesn't really compare to OSU

Leach also beat USC, Cal, Arizona and Utah that year. The 2 somewhat close to Ga State teams they played (Idaho and S. Utah) they crushed. Losses were to Auburn (BCS champ game year), Stanford (#5), Arizona St (#25), Oregon (#2), Washington and OSU (regular season). Lost to Colorado St in bowl. I'd say that WSU team would do just fine against our current team.

Leach's 3rd season at WSU is the one that's hard to explain.
 
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volinbham said:
doesn't bother me a bit. There was a time when coaches routinely criticized the efforts of their players - not sure why now it's considered taboo. I'm betting the players get what he's saying.
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3 game skid says haven't quite gotten it 💯 yet
 
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vols40 said:
3 game skid says haven't quite gotten it 💯 yet
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true but after he said it they went on the road and lost late to the #17 team by 4 points. much better effort from the team than for the Utah game so technically it's only been a 1 game skid since he said it.
 
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