Schiano, Fisher, and Neuhesal(sp) have them locked down. Kentucky is better than everyone thinks. Look at their recent records in the SEC, they are not that bad. Colorado is interesting. We shall see. Imagine him with the talent of Cody Hawkins.
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Schiano, Fisher, and Neuhesal(sp) have them locked down. Kentucky is better than everyone thinks. Look at their recent records in the SEC, they are not that bad. Colorado is interesting. We shall see. Imagine him with the talent of Cody Hawkins.
Brittany Murphy. She died. Attention *****.
I apologize. That is so insensitive that it's ridiculous.
I'm sorry, but did somebody on this site know Brittany Murphy? Then it's just kind of in poor taste.
One big difference...Leach was winning big at TT and was highly sought after by other schools...McCarney was neither of those things.
FYI: Lubbock is at altitude too. Not to the degree as boulder but technically (track speaking) is at altitude.
So true.
I thought I had heard that the booze policy changed--vote of the people I think. No more driving to 'Vegas' for beer and ladies.
When we were down there the last time ISU played, I got an awesome quote describing Lubbock/West Texas:
"Lubbock is so flat, you can head out there to the street, stand on a can of tuna, and see the back of your head."
As others have said, TT wasn't winning because they're in a recruiting hotbed - they were winning because the system is so sound that not even Nebraska's #3 rated defense couldn't even shut them down. Plus the AD has an even bigger problem to deal with now - he's shown that they're willing to fire the winningest, extremely popular coach who last year likely had TT's best season ever and this year wasn't so bad considering who all they lost, but not only that are using one relatively minor incident in the grand scheme of things as an excuse to fire with cause so they don't have to pay the guy. Look, I'm hardly saying Leach is innocent - he forced a guy with a concussion to stand in a storage shed for several hours. But considering this appears to be a lone incident as the piler-ons haven't come out of the woodwork yet - where's the cause? Does he deserve disciplining? Of course. But firing? And the implication that James appears to have always had the attitude that he knows better than the coaches (and considering who his father is and the fact he works for the Mothership), it's not hard for me to want to take Leach's side.
Look, nobody in this situation - Leach, James, or the administration - is right. Leach became an idiot in dealing with James. However, he'll likely land on his feet. James, well, is probably going to have a life that closely resembles Niedermayer's. But TT, unless they can hire a coach at least close in caliber to Leach (and why would any respectable coach want to go there after how the god named Leach was treated there), TT football may become irrelevant for a very long time.
Hitler has chimed in on Leach being fired now as well. Not happy...
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I agree those 3 won't be passed over for Leach. Calling Fisher the coach in waiting in hopes of keeping the pipeline of recruits full hasn't worked and the team is nothing special anymore. I don't feel that will change when Fisher is running his own program.
Neuhesal and Schiano are good coaches, but are they going to make them great. Not likely, I think Leach could in those programs.
Penn st or ND before they hired Kelly would have been the perfect place for him to land. He could have Penn st in the NC game talk in a couple years.
I'm pretty sure Cody Hawkins is already in "the" dark closet.
I feel like Leach runs a system that you run when you have less talent than the top teams. If he got to a place where he got great recruits I don't know that his offense get's a ton better. I mean how much better can you be than Harrell last year as a QB. He may be able to get better on D but that's not typically what his teams do. I think he will always be successful. The thing is if someone (Oklahoma) has a strategy he struggles against, they will lose. I think it will be very hard for him to win a title. I think no matter where he goes the key will be his D-Coord. If he can get somewhere that can get some defensive talent he could be a little more dangerous. That was the downfall at TT. They simply weren't a big enough name to get talent all over the field.
