PurpleBlood87
Active Member
How could anyone other than Craig James hate Mike Leach?
Love him or hate him...
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Punter1
Full Member
I agree....I liked him at Tech. I think 99% of Tech people still love him. No clue where he thinks people hate him...
TxFrog1999
The Man Behind The Curtain
I'm not sure that number is as high as you think. There are some Tech fans and boosters that didn't really appreciate Leach's coaching style.
gohornedfrogs
Tier 1
No doubt. I bet a lot of them have changed their minds, though, knowing now what they had when he was there.
stbrab
Full Member
Biggest complaint I've heard is Leach wouldn't promote the University. Loved to coach, but wouldn't do the peripheral things...promote the other sports, smooze the boosters, etc.
Frogenstein
Full Member
I like him as well but I will take a shot at why people don’t like him:
He has an opinion on about everything so sooner or later he will take a position some don’t like. Some people can’t deal with opinions/thoughts that don’t align with their own.
If able he runs up the score. Still throwing deep up 30 lay in the 4th quarter. Lots of people don’t care for this at all.
He signed Craig James’s son. Therefor he willingly associates with (alleged) serial killers. God bless the 5.
That’s about all I got off the top of my head.
Hoosierfrog
Tier 1
Hoosierfrog
Tier 1
TxFrog1999
The Man Behind The Curtain
Try it now.
RollToad
Baylor is Trash.
I've suspected that paid members have the edit function and the rest do not. I could of course be completely wrong.
W
Way of the Frog
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Tech is a really interesting place when you talk about the passion some people have for that school and the program and the amount of success they have had since they have been in the SWC and Big 12.
School is so damn isolated from the bulk of the population of the State of Texas they really are their own "state" and comparable to a situation like Iowa or Arkansas where Tech is the focus come football season.
Funny thing is for all the passion, support and bluster they are a little above .500 in the history of the program and I believe they have won or shared 4 conference titles since the joined the SWC and Big 12.
Mike Leach is the winningest coach in the history of Texas Tech football with 84 wins in 10 seasons coaching in Lubbock. He also as many have pointed out is opinionated, quirky as hell, and the only thing he cares about is coaching football. He is not the guy to fund raise, shake hands, or listen to alums drone on and one about the old days in Lubbock. He also has a bit of an ego as does any successful coach and got into a pissing match with his boss. Despite all of that his biggest fault is simply he was not nor never could be Spike Dykes,
I have never talked to anyone who ever met Spike who did not have good things to say about. Spike was one of those rare individuals who made everyone who he talked to think Spike gave a [ Finebaum ] no matter how many times he had heard the story, no matter how banal, and most importantly he was one of them.
Spike's teams didn't play great defense, a few of his better players didn't go to class, his teams averaged between 5-6 wins a year and the only place around here I have ever seen embrace a coach close to how Spike is embraced in Lubbock is Barry Switzer in Norman where he is Oklahoma's version of Elvis.
Leach is in the perfect place for him at Wazzu, the college football equivalent of the witness protection program. He is just one of a group of quirky, offensive minded coaches who love to throw the ball who have coached the Cougs.
Serious history of throwing quarterbacks at Wazzu as well as wide open offenses. Eastern Washington is pretty darn sparse and nothing short of bleak come February, but they have an abundance of big kids to play in the offensive lines, the high schools have been throwing the ball for decades, and it is a short plane ride to California and their fertile high school and JUCO recruiting grounds.
School is so damn isolated from the bulk of the population of the State of Texas they really are their own "state" and comparable to a situation like Iowa or Arkansas where Tech is the focus come football season.
Funny thing is for all the passion, support and bluster they are a little above .500 in the history of the program and I believe they have won or shared 4 conference titles since the joined the SWC and Big 12.
Mike Leach is the winningest coach in the history of Texas Tech football with 84 wins in 10 seasons coaching in Lubbock. He also as many have pointed out is opinionated, quirky as hell, and the only thing he cares about is coaching football. He is not the guy to fund raise, shake hands, or listen to alums drone on and one about the old days in Lubbock. He also has a bit of an ego as does any successful coach and got into a pissing match with his boss. Despite all of that his biggest fault is simply he was not nor never could be Spike Dykes,
I have never talked to anyone who ever met Spike who did not have good things to say about. Spike was one of those rare individuals who made everyone who he talked to think Spike gave a [ Finebaum ] no matter how many times he had heard the story, no matter how banal, and most importantly he was one of them.
Spike's teams didn't play great defense, a few of his better players didn't go to class, his teams averaged between 5-6 wins a year and the only place around here I have ever seen embrace a coach close to how Spike is embraced in Lubbock is Barry Switzer in Norman where he is Oklahoma's version of Elvis.
Leach is in the perfect place for him at Wazzu, the college football equivalent of the witness protection program. He is just one of a group of quirky, offensive minded coaches who love to throw the ball who have coached the Cougs.
Serious history of throwing quarterbacks at Wazzu as well as wide open offenses. Eastern Washington is pretty darn sparse and nothing short of bleak come February, but they have an abundance of big kids to play in the offensive lines, the high schools have been throwing the ball for decades, and it is a short plane ride to California and their fertile high school and JUCO recruiting grounds.
Chongo94
Active Member
Gah isn't this the truth. I could handle Harbaugh until he went to the college ranks and went full on crazy whatever his schtick is these days. Can't stand that dude.
wes
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wes
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everyone should have the edit function
Could be a browser thing
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