Mike Leach (Texas Tech)

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tvolsfan said:
What has he done? Create high scoring teams that don't play defense. There is other football than the SEC. They just play awful defense compared to the SEC. Why would you even mention Gruden, Cowher, and Leach in the same argument?
Are you surprised that coaches are saying good things about Leach when he is having a good year? That doesn't mean a lot.
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Okie St. has a pretty strong O, yet TT D stood up to them and a strong O from uT. Doing more with less is what I'm saying. Bring in the right DC on top of his O. I think you have a winner. That and not having to contend recruiting to Lubbock but to a national pro league funnel like UT, I'd say he'd have his pick of Tx recruites.
 
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tastycar said:
Jim Schwartz
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Schwartz had an N.F.L. coach's perspective on talent, and from his point of view, the players Leach was using to rack up points and yards were no talent at all. None of them had been identified by N.F.L. scouts or even college recruiters as first-rate material. Coming out of high school, most of them had only one or two offers from midrange schools. Sonny Cumbie hadn't even been offered a scholarship; he was just invited to show up for football practice at Texas Tech. Either the market for quarterbacks was screwy - that is, the schools with the recruiting edge, and N.F.L. scouts, were missing big talent - or (much more likely, in Schwartz's view) Leach was finding new and better ways to extract value from his players. "They weren't scoring all these touchdowns because they had the best players," Schwartz told me recently. "They were doing it because they were smarter. Leach had found a way to make it work."
 
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It'll be a tough trip for Tech. OU's 59-2 at home under Stoops. I feel Tech will more than hold their own though. OU's defense tends to be a little suspect at times.
 
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Only 10 days until all the Leach nonsense comes to screaching halt by the announcement of someone else as the new head football coach at UT.
 
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His first year coaching Division 1 college football was 1997, at the University of Kentucky. He arrived from Valdosta State with the head coach, Hal Mumme, and turned the Kentucky offense from joke into juggernaut. The year before he arrived, Kentucky's quarterback passed for 967 yards. In Leach's first year, his quarterback, Tim Couch, threw for 3,884 yards; the year after that, Couch, who lasted for only a few disappointing years in the N.F.L., threw for 4,275 yards. After Kentucky, Leach moved to Oklahoma for a single season, 1999. That year Oklahoma went from 101st to 8th in the country in offensive scoring. Its quarterback, Josh Heupel, passed for 3,850 yards that season, which was 1,700 more than any quarterback in Oklahoma football history had thrown for in a season. The next year, running Leach's offense, Oklahoma won the national championship - but by then Texas Tech had picked up the pattern and hired Leach
 
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tastycar said:
His first year coaching Division 1 college football was 1997, at the University of Kentucky. He arrived from Valdosta State with the head coach, Hal Mumme, and turned the Kentucky offense from joke into juggernaut. The year before he arrived, Kentucky's quarterback passed for 967 yards. In Leach's first year, his quarterback, Tim Couch, threw for 3,884 yards; the year after that, Couch, who lasted for only a few disappointing years in the N.F.L., threw for 4,275 yards. After Kentucky, Leach moved to Oklahoma for a single season, 1999. That year Oklahoma went from 101st to 8th in the country in offensive scoring. Its quarterback, Josh Heupel, passed for 3,850 yards that season, which was 1,700 more than any quarterback in Oklahoma football history had thrown for in a season. The next year, running Leach's offense, Oklahoma won the national championship - but by then Texas Tech had picked up the pattern and hired Leach
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The relevant stat... the number of championship games in which Leach has played in his 9 years at TTech is zero, zilch, nada, none, never, not going happen.
 
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