Wash State HC Mike Leach to Miss State?
So what do you think of Mike Leach going to the SEC?
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jan/08/report-washington-state-c…
January 9th, 2020 at 1:34 PM ^
I think it is going to consistently entertain us from a better time zone.
Every time zone needs a Mike Leach.
January 9th, 2020 at 2:27 PM ^
Mike leach is great for college football and will be entertaining to watch him be a thorn in the side of SEC coaches
January 9th, 2020 at 4:59 PM ^
What I don't understand is why would Mississippi St. hire someone else. Don't they know that they aren't a perennial powerhouse. They should be happy with 6-9 wins a season. Why would you take a risk and hire a different coach?
January 9th, 2020 at 9:49 PM ^
Because programs aren't willing to settle for who they are. Glen Mason had a great thing going at Minnesota but it wasn't good enough so they hired...Tim Brewster. How did that go?
We laugh at Iowa, but Iowa knows what it is and has stuck with Ferentz. They're going to win 7-9 games a season and every so many years sneak up and win a conference title. That's what Iowa will always be, and good on them for basically recognizing and owning that.
January 10th, 2020 at 7:51 AM ^
And then somehow, Minnesota got PJ Fleck.
January 10th, 2020 at 11:58 AM ^
More Cowbell
January 9th, 2020 at 1:35 PM ^
The Egg Bowl every year is now Lane Kiffin vs Mike Leach? pic.twitter.com/rpyqy0plLJ
— CFB Home (@CFBHome) January 9, 2020
January 9th, 2020 at 1:44 PM ^
This is why college football is the greatest sport. I don't care what you think of either of these guys, but Mike Leach against Kiffin every year is totally awesome.
January 9th, 2020 at 2:12 PM ^
Lane kiffin is the personification of win at all costs fuck morality and ethics. The fact he keeps getting jobs is a stain on college football
January 9th, 2020 at 2:33 PM ^
Outside of leaving UT for his dream job (USC) after a season, how is he so much worse than anyone else? Because he accused Urban of cheating?
January 9th, 2020 at 3:15 PM ^
No because he hired Kendall Briles
January 9th, 2020 at 4:31 PM ^
With most of your posts, it is obvious you are a self proclaimed SJW. We get it and we don't give a flying fuuuk. Go protest something somewhere else ferfuksakes.
January 9th, 2020 at 11:15 PM ^
Yeah fuck me for having a problem with the guy who doesn’t think Baylor did anything wrong. You also think joe Paterno got a bad deal?
we get it from your posts your a selfish piece of shit asshole that doesn’t care about anything but what he wants.
January 9th, 2020 at 3:59 PM ^
I hate to tell ya but it ain’t just Lane Kiffin...
January 9th, 2020 at 11:18 PM ^
Yeah it’s a whole society thing and it’s depressing. Football is part of a culture where you are better off punching a woman than kneeling in protest during the anthem. That’s depressing
January 9th, 2020 at 9:54 PM ^
And all because a guy pretended to pee in an end zone. God bless college football.
January 10th, 2020 at 12:21 PM ^
Joey Freshwater vs Fat Little Girlfriends has the makings of a future 30-for-30.
January 9th, 2020 at 1:36 PM ^
I love it! SEC SEC SEC now with Leach and the Bulldogs will be good again
January 9th, 2020 at 1:58 PM ^
Idk about that. Leach feasted on a weaker Pac12 and never overcame Washington after his first year. He’s playing even stiffer comp now with barely any better recruiting.
January 9th, 2020 at 2:05 PM ^
The athletes he can pay to come to Starksville will be off the rails. I am intrigued about what course he will teach in that more conservative neck of the woods.
January 9th, 2020 at 3:16 PM ^
granted i haven't spoken to leach in a lot of years, but when i did know him and based on what i've seen in his coaching career, i'm not sure he's an automatic 'SEC coach who will pay $ to recruits". he might be, i won't say 'no way', but that's nothing i ever picked up on.
January 9th, 2020 at 6:07 PM ^
By way of comparison, do you know if TAMU for example plays the bagmen game? Is it possible for Leach to succeed there *not* playing that game
January 9th, 2020 at 3:17 PM ^
But will they play any defense?
January 9th, 2020 at 8:09 PM ^
Nope. And that's why he'll be a mediocre coach there too.
January 9th, 2020 at 2:07 PM ^
Fertile recruiting grounds in the South including Miss. He will get players and win and so will Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss.
January 9th, 2020 at 2:22 PM ^
Bama LSU Auburn TAMU and Ole Miss will take vast majority of said players. He will have better athletes but relatively speaking his competition is even more talented. Mullen was a miracle worker. Moorehead was more in line with their actual results.
Combine that with his offense that tends to have the RR problem when it comes to beating up on cupcakes and getting shut down by competent opponents, idk man.
January 9th, 2020 at 2:10 PM ^
Almost everyone has better recruiting that WSU. That school is in the middle of nowhere. Great place if you like heading over to Idaho to go snowmobiling, but that's about it.
January 9th, 2020 at 2:40 PM ^
The University of Arizona in Tucson would like to have a word with you ...
The desert takes some getting used to. For some kid out of Florida, or Alabama, or even southern California, Tucson will feel like a different world, with nothing much to do. Plus, it's a basketball school and nobody much cares about football.
January 9th, 2020 at 3:22 PM ^
Huh? Tucson is 1.5 hours away from the 11th largest metro area in the country, which has lots of good high school football players. It has a population of 1M. An int'l airport with 50 daily nonstop flights, including LA, SF, CHI and DEN.
Pullman, population of 30K or 30 times less than Tucson, and the Palouse, is 4.5 hours away from Seattle, and an airport with one destination--Seattle.
I've never been to Wazoo, but you can't compare its remoteness to Tucson.
January 9th, 2020 at 4:32 PM ^
I've flown into Pullman on a turboprop.
The airport 'terminal' is a one-building shack.
I can't think of a more remote, isolated P5 football program. Anyone who can consistently recruit and win there is an excellent coach, which is why Alabama had such high hopes for Mike Price.
The nicest thing I can say is that there is no comparison to Tucson in terms of remoteness.
I will also say that I liked Moscow, ID a lot better than Pullman, WA.
January 9th, 2020 at 9:48 PM ^
Ahem. Moscow is Ypsilanti to Pullman's Ann Arbor
January 9th, 2020 at 5:52 PM ^
Did I use the word "remote?" I was comparing the stark difference of environment.
There's a reason UofA can't recruit. Never has, never will.
January 9th, 2020 at 8:55 PM ^
Yeah, but have you seen the coeds there? Worth being in the middle of nowhere.
January 9th, 2020 at 1:36 PM ^
Egg Bowl - Mike Leach vs. Lane Kiffin. Every Year.
But....dammit....we don't deserve nice things!
January 9th, 2020 at 1:37 PM ^
every year? lets hope they get to meet next year.... Lane isn't known for tenure.
January 9th, 2020 at 1:39 PM ^
Every year, for like two years, four if we're lucky. Chances are one of these guys implodes (my money is on Kiffin).
January 9th, 2020 at 1:37 PM ^
The Egg Bowl is already one of the most ridiculous rivalry games. Mike Leach vs Lane Kiffin will make it even more insane.
This is proof that we live in a simulation, and somehow other-dimension Spencer Hall is in charge of SEC West coaches just for his own enjoyment.
January 9th, 2020 at 5:21 PM ^
It is a wild rivalry. I work at Mississippi State and have season tickets. The most recent game was strange even for these two teams. Let's see where it goes with Leach and Kiffin leading the teams.
January 9th, 2020 at 1:37 PM ^
In his media interview, he reminds me alot of Bobby Knight, in his frankness.
January 9th, 2020 at 1:51 PM ^
And his insanity.
January 9th, 2020 at 1:40 PM ^
Some might argue Ole Miss/Miss St. might have hired a better head coach than the NY Giants.
January 9th, 2020 at 2:01 PM ^
Giants fans.
January 9th, 2020 at 2:06 PM ^
+1 for obvious
January 9th, 2020 at 1:41 PM ^
He’s funny, is he that good of a coach though...
January 9th, 2020 at 1:48 PM ^
He wins everywhere he goes, though. Doesn't win big, but always has competitive teams that are fun to watch. So yeah, for programs like WSU, Miss St, and that ilk, he's a pretty good coach. He'll have them more competitive than Moorehead did, and probably on par with what Dan Mullen did there.
January 9th, 2020 at 1:57 PM ^
WSU's record the 3 years before he got there: 5-32.
Leach's record there the last 3 years: 28-11.
January 9th, 2020 at 2:04 PM ^
Pac 12 North with a down Oregon and down Stanford....plus he lost every Apple Cup
January 9th, 2020 at 2:44 PM ^
He won his first Apple Cup and lost the rest.
January 9th, 2020 at 3:02 PM ^
Stanford won their division in 2017 and Oregon was the Pac 12 champion this year.
January 9th, 2020 at 3:48 PM ^
Bingo! Im a WSU alum, he couldnt beat UW to save his life, nor did he care...and that will be a lot of his legacy.