Maryland Buying out Friedgen; Leach Leading Candidate

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PoochPunt3rdDown said:
True dat. Just glad Tennessee didn't jump on that grenade. I wish The Leach Ness Monster the best of luck.
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I can't see anybody interviewing that cat and coming away with the idea that, "I really need to hire this guy to shape young athletes into winners."

Passing on Leach made me think not less of our administration.
 
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hatvol96 said:
They could've pursued Leach. I'm pretty sure a school that promotes its academic standards doesn't want a looney piece of trash like Leach representing them.
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This could be said about most people with a law degree.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
My opinion, it looks like Vandy bought a pig in a poke while Maryland is getting the one guy that Vandy could've hired who could've really fired up the sidewalk alumni in Nashville.
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I don't know about sidewalk alumni. I know that Leach would have mixed with the actual alumni like oil and fire.

They aren't real big on pseudo intellectual pirate kings or wrongful imprisonment charges.
 
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cotton said:
I don't know about sidewalk alumni. I know that Leach would have mixed with the actual alumni like oil and fire.

They aren't real big on pseudo intellectual pirate kings or wrongful imprisonment charges.
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I work and socialize with enough of thier alumni to know that they would've been happier with Leach than what they got. The faculty may have been embarassed by Leach, the athletic boosters that I know would've been overjoyed.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
I work and socialize with enough of thier alumni to know that they would've been happier with Leach than what they got. The faculty may have been embarassed by Leach, the athletic boosters that I know would've been overjoyed.
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The athletic boosters you know obviously didn't have enough clout to make it happen. Leach at Vandy would have been a really bad idea. The decision makers seem to have realized this.
 
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I can't for my life figure out why Leach gets so much praise from some people. It's like they think that Texas Tech was a 3 win team before Leach got there. Leach didn't do anything but bury crappy teams and pull an occasional upset. It's one thing if he has a huge turnaround in a a couple years, but he spent over a decade and never won anything. Some people wanted him to come here after 2008, but I'd gladly take Kiffin for a year and Dooley over Leach.
 
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cotton said:
The athletic boosters you know obviously didn't have enough clout to make it happen. Leach at Vandy would have been a really bad idea. The decision makers seem to have realized this.
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I think that there's only one athletic booster who had any real decision making power here. Vandy will probably be surpised at the number of long time season ticket holders and Commodore Club members who decline to renew/donate next time around. Unless John Ingram is underwriting the entire capital campaign, they're going to have to do something to make the mid and low level boosters feel good. Hiring Leach would've done the job because by Vandy standards that's like hiring Nick Saban. Now, they're going to have to count on Franklin to win. I doubt he can do it.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
I think that there's only one athletic booster who had any real decision making power here. Vandy will probably be surpised at the number of long time season ticket holders and Commodore Club members who decline to renew/donate next time around. Unless John Ingram is underwriting the entire capital campaign, they're going to have to do something to make the mid and low level boosters feel good. Hiring Leach would've done the job because by Vandy standards that's like hiring Nick Saban. Now, they're going to have to count on Franklin to win. I doubt he can do it.
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Vandy has had one winning season in almost 30 years. The long time season ticket holders and Commodore Club members supporting the program based on win-loss record were weeded out during the Watson Brown era.

The goal of the football program is to field a squad that isn't completely embarrassing to the rest of the university while giving the alumni and other assorted Belle Meade literati something to do on Saturdays in the fall. Leach doesn't qualify under the embarrassment clause.
 
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cotton, seeing as how was in high school when Watson Brown coached there, the long timers that I was referring to are more 30 and 40 somethings whose expectations have been raised just enough to care. The only people over 60 who will bail at this point will be doing so primarily because they cannot abide a black man coaching their football team.
 
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bam15 said:
Still not following your unwarranted disdain for the man. I'm cognizant of your well-known Oklahoma leanings, but he's not a flake. I know that he isn't the quintessential coach, but the animosity is puzzling nevertheless.
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Mike Leach is the definition of flake.
 
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cotton said:
Vandy has had one winning season in almost 30 years. The long time season ticket holders and Commodore Club members supporting the program based on win-loss record were weeded out during the Watson Brown era.

The goal of the football program is to field a squad that isn't completely embarrassing to the rest of the university while giving the alumni and other assorted Belle Meade literati something to do on Saturdays in the fall. Leach doesn't qualify under the embarrassment clause.
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If they had waited they could of hired Ralph.
 
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cd12 said:
If they had waited they could of hired Ralph.
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Nice. The thing that amuses me is that I heard numerous VU people last week stating that Franklin's readiness to be a head coach should be evident from being named hciw by Maryland. Obviously, granting that title was a farce. Vandy got punked and I'm loving it.
 
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#75
Isn't it ironic that Friedgen is a huge tub of lard and his name has the word "fried" in it? And our past tub of lard has both "fill" and "full" in it? Maybe its not what you eat after all, its what your parents name you.
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