Not a surprise. Moo State and Mike Leach might just be a really good match.
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Not a surprise. Moo State and Mike Leach might just be a really good match.
I agree. I like Leach because his style of play allows a less-resourced school in a remote environment to win more games than they probably should. It worked at TX Tech and WSU. And it will work at Miss St. He may never win the SEC championship, but his team's will be competitive, and sneak up on a lot of better resourced programs. This should be a good hire for MSU.Originally Posted by tenacious_dog
I still do not believe MS ST was ever interested in Holtz. There was a gap between him and the level of folks we know they talked to. 6 bowl wins does not mean much when over half the FBS gets to go bowling every year. We have a couple of descent bowl games but 4 of them were nothing to brag about. We won 10 games but none against a top 50 and got beat by two teams in the cellar. I believe any interest was on his side only.
I just thought it was embarrassing when Holtz started campaigning for the job.
It’s more embarrassing to be stuck with the lazy f er
There’s no evidence he did. A “journalist” tweeted something with no corroboration that he disclosed. Didn’t actually attribute the info to anyone, he just stated it as a fact.
We will have Skip as long as we want to have Skip -
It's becoming pretty obvious that the power brokers in CFB don't seem to be enthralled with what he is doing here and thinking it will work at an A-5 school...
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
I would much prefer this in my coach, IN ANY SPORT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6br...&feature=share
Skip much like Konkol and pretty much all our other coaches are not going anywhere.
Our hires are safe.
?? Those comments are just over the top!
We'll never know who they actually talked to or considered (or who would have been interested or actually expressed an interest) but I'm pretty sure I saw Mark Hudspeth's name. If there is a gap between their head coaching records, it'd be the other direction, right?
Judge and Leach obviously for beginners. Holtz is not a pimple on Leaches ass with that conservative crap he rolls out there. Hudspeth was probably just mentioned due to his prior employment.
Assistants continue to get hired away......not Skip
I think Skip has done a tremendous job of building the Louisiana Tech program. But.....
Most power programs conduct coaching searches using consultants. Some make that public, while others keep that fact private.
All of those consultants pay former coaches or other analysts to pour over tape and/or attend games to strictly watch a head coach and his staff. Texas and LSU both used consultants who obtained sideline passes to watch Tom Herman during games in 2016.
Unfortunately for Skip his win ugly approach the past couple of seasons has certainly hurt him if he's seriously looking for a P5 job. The "play-not-to-lose" problems we had late in games from 2014 to 2017 can't help either. Could a program like Baylor overlook that approach? Perhaps.
Just to give a few examples. This past season in the Bowling Green game 15 or our first 17 run plays were the zone read give. The numbers were similar in the win at FAU in 2018. We tried that approach against Southern Miss in 2018. We didn't turn the football over but still lost the game. Skip calls his own plays and at times he looks like he's calling plays in a game coached by Bo or Woody during the 10-year war.
Couple that with the late game problems we had against P5 opponents like Kansas State, Arkansas, and South Carolina (we had 4th quarter leads in all three).
Can a consultant sell that to an athletic director? Could an AD sell that to his biggest boosters? Maybe someday but it hasn't happened yet.
Next year's Egg Bowl is now Lane Kiffin vs. Mike Leach. Just got a little more interesting than it has been. The press conferences should be interesting for sure!
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