Hire Mike Leach!

[MIATL513]

If we were going to hire him, the time to do it was to replace Coker.

We should have hired Leach to be HC and given Shannon a raise and promotion to be AHC/DC.

I have no clue if that would have been better than the past decade, but I doubt it would have been worse.

 

[Canesfan1899]

If we were going to hire him, the time to do it was to replace Coker.

We should have hired Leach to be HC and given Shannon a raise and promotion to be AHC/DC.

I have no clue if that would have been better than the past decade, but I doubt it would have been worse.

Leach and Shannon are on 2 different intellectual planes. It would've been a nightmare.

 

[Gsugradcanefan]

If we were going to hire him, the time to do it was to replace Coker.

We should have hired Leach to be HC and given Shannon a raise and promotion to be AHC/DC.

I have no clue if that would have been better than the past decade, but I doubt it would have been worse.

Leach and Shannon are on 2 different intellectual planes. It would've been a nightmare.

THIS! Leach is a smart man. Dude has a law degree from Pepperdine Law. That's not a slouch school.

 

[UMFarArcher]

Defense wins.

Bring Back Butch.

 

[MIATL513]

Maybe ...

I don't know either of them, personally, so I can't refute your point.

But I do know that Shannon was highly thought of as a DC, at that time.

They could have run a system similar to what Chip Kelly did at Oregon ... Kelly let Aliotti do whatever he wanted, and Kelly focused on the O. With the rankings Shannon was getting for the D, I think that's exactly what would have happened if Leach were hired back then.

Oh well ...

If we were going to hire him, the time to do it was to replace Coker.

We should have hired Leach to be HC and given Shannon a raise and promotion to be AHC/DC.

I have no clue if that would have been better than the past decade, but I doubt it would have been worse.

Leach and Shannon are on 2 different intellectual planes. It would've been a nightmare.

 

[BWCD]

Well, to put it in perspective, the last coach Miami hired from Washington St. wound up doing pretty well here LOL.

...and his offensive philosophy was questioned ad nauseum as well.

I've always been in the Mike Leach camp as far as having him coach Miami AS LONG AS we give him a solid DC who can come up with a philosophy to play well enough defensively on the small amount of rest the D gets that the quick passing game in the Air Raid causes. It's a challenge, and whoever the DC is has to be ready to take that on.

If we can't find a guy we feel comfortable enough with to do that as the DC...then Leach would simply be a no-go. I also think Leach would (and probably has) rubbed the leadership at Miami the wrong way, and they'd never be OK with his personality. They'd rather have a limp dishrag like Chumley talk about his pillars and so on, and feel proud about having a highly moral leader, than they would having a guy who doesn't give a **** and will do what it takes to win titles even if it ****es people off.

 

[BWCD]

This pic was from before we hired Chumley. This dude wanted the job. I remembered Leach being on the College FB Playbook show on Sirius with Jack Arute, and I called in and told him I wanted him to come coach Miami. He was effusive in how much he loved Miami and S Florida in general, and how he would love the opportunity to coach the Canes.

Wasn't meant to be, though.

 

[cane since birth]

Defense wins.

Bring Back Butch.

Not anymore

 

[Gsugradcanefan]

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This pic was from before we hired Chumley. This dude wanted the job. I remembered Leach being on the College FB Playbook show on Sirius with Jack Arute, and I called in and told him I wanted him to come coach Miami. He was effusive in how much he loved Miami and S Florida in general, and how he would love the opportunity to coach the Canes.

Wasn't meant to be, though.

Wasn't there something about how he rubbed the staff/administration the wrong way during his interview? Came off kinda arrogant and that is why Donna and co. essentially said, F*ck no! to Leach. I thought I read about that somewhere.

 

[MIATL513]

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This pic was from before we hired Chumley. This dude wanted the job. I remembered Leach being on the College FB Playbook show on Sirius with Jack Arute, and I called in and told him I wanted him to come coach Miami. He was effusive in how much he loved Miami and S Florida in general, and how he would love the opportunity to coach the Canes.

Wasn't meant to be, though.

Wasn't there something about how he rubbed the staff/administration the wrong way during his interview? Came off kinda arrogant and that is why Donna and co. essentially said, F*ck no! to Leach. I thought I read about that somewhere.

I've heard/read the same comment was made about Dan Mullen before we hired the appropriately humble guy we thought was a better fit ... Coach Golden.

 

[BWCD]

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This pic was from before we hired Chumley. This dude wanted the job. I remembered Leach being on the College FB Playbook show on Sirius with Jack Arute, and I called in and told him I wanted him to come coach Miami. He was effusive in how much he loved Miami and S Florida in general, and how he would love the opportunity to coach the Canes.

Wasn't meant to be, though.

Wasn't there something about how he rubbed the staff/administration the wrong way during his interview? Came off kinda arrogant and that is why Donna and co. essentially said, F*ck no! to Leach. I thought I read about that somewhere.

I've heard/read the same comment was made about Dan Mullen before we hired the appropriately humble guy we thought was a better fit ... Coach Golden.

I heard the same things about both Leach/Mullen.

I don't know...I want a guy who's bordering on arrogant, but has more of an air of organization/confidence to him. I don't need a War & Peace binder full of pillars to tell me what your plan is...I want you to look me in the eye and tell me what your plan is, and have utmost confidence in it's execution.

 

[CaniacMike21]

LOL at UM for saying NO to coaching candidates because of their 'arrogance'. You know who the two most arrogant coaches are in CFB? Urban Meyer and Nick Saban.

 

[SouthpawX]

Well, to put it in perspective, the last coach Miami hired from Washington St. wound up doing pretty well here LOL.

and lo and behold Erickson ran an innovative offense before he got here. Just because Leach is the anti Neanderthal coach, that doesn't make him a bad coach, unless you listen to Craig James and his daughter, oops, son Adam.

 

[BWCD]

Well, to put it in perspective, the last coach Miami hired from Washington St. wound up doing pretty well here LOL.

and lo and behold Erickson ran an innovative offense before he got here. Just because Leach is the anti Neanderthal coach, that doesn't make him a bad coach, unless you listen to Craig James and his daughter, oops, son Adam.

When I was doing letter writing to Hocutt & others pushing for Leach to be the next HC after Shannon was fired, I got in touch with a bunch of Texas Tech fans who were pretty much unanimous in their support of Leach and their disdain for Craig/Adam James.

I remember one of them saying to me something to the extent of..."Texas Tech will always be what they are. Leach did as well as he could here, and we should still have him here. Texas A&M had Bear Bryant and the Junction Boys at one point, and they made a ******* movie in his honor...and that stuff was absolutely brutal. Adam James (if all the allegations were true) couldn't stand a closet for a few minutes...and that cost Leach his job. And that is why Texas Tech will never be any better than they were when Leach was here".

I'm paraphrasing, but that was the sentiment.

 

[DadeCountyFinest]

If we're swinging for the fence give me Rob Ryan.....Ground and pound and a nasty blitzing D

 

[Rellyrell]

no mike leach Miami should always be a pro style team south Florida has the players for it.

As much as I used to say this I just can't agree anymore.

The spread has moved into the NFL on a small scale and the weapons South Florida produces every year at the skill positions scream spread offense.

let me know how many college spread offensive players have translated into good NFL players. let me know the last time a spread offensive team have won a superbowl.

 

[kccanefan]

no mike leach Miami should always be a pro style team south Florida has the players for it.

As much as I used to say this I just can't agree anymore.

The spread has moved into the NFL on a small scale and the weapons South Florida produces every year at the skill positions scream spread offense.

let me know how many college spread offensive players have translated into good NFL players. let me know the last time a spread offensive team have won a superbowl.

New England runs a version of a spread offense. Won the SB last year

 

[Rellyrell]

no mike leach Miami should always be a pro style team south Florida has the players for it.

As much as I used to say this I just can't agree anymore.

The spread has moved into the NFL on a small scale and the weapons South Florida produces every year at the skill positions scream spread offense.

let me know how many college spread offensive players have translated into good NFL players. let me know the last time a spread offensive team have won a superbowl.

New England runs a version of a spread offense. Won the SB last year

NE run pro-style, empty set, WC offense with an occasional ineligible receiver who are lined up as eligible receivers. Now, if you would've said Seattle, you would've had a point.

 

[Cane Dynasty]

Leach is a 4 yard completion for a first down.

Butch is returning the opening kickoff for a TD then going Robert Bailey on the ensuing kickoff.

 

[kccanefan]

no mike leach Miami should always be a pro style team south Florida has the players for it.

As much as I used to say this I just can't agree anymore.

The spread has moved into the NFL on a small scale and the weapons South Florida produces every year at the skill positions scream spread offense.

let me know how many college spread offensive players have translated into good NFL players. let me know the last time a spread offensive team have won a superbowl.

New England runs a version of a spread offense. Won the SB last year

NE run pro-style, empty set, WC offense with an occasional ineligible receiver who are lined up as eligible receivers. Now, if you would've said Seattle, you would've had a point.

The west coast offense is a version of the spread. Empty backfield. Non-vertical passing game that implements short passing routes. Today's NFL is not the same as it was back in 90's and early 2000's. NFL is a passing league now.