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Cane Dynasty said:
If he leaves Utah St. we wouldn't be able to afford him. He's a Aggie alumn and would only leave Logan for copious amounts of cash.

Wells is a beast though!
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I did hear him say in an interview that part of the reason he left Missouri was because of the pressure. He wanted to be a husband and family guy first, football coach second.

Maybe worst comes to worst he'd be down to join Mark's retirement country club.
 
FlaSportsFan88 said:
I did hear him say in an interview that part of the reason he left Missouri was because of the pressure. He wanted to be a husband and family guy first, football coach second.

Maybe worst comes to worst he'd be down to join Mark's retirement country club.
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We were talking about Wells the HC not Yost the OC on that point.
 
Cane Dynasty said:
If he leaves Utah St. we wouldn't be able to afford him. He's a Aggie alumn and would only leave Logan for copious amounts of cash.

Wells is a beast though!
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Guy is making $520k/year with a max out if all bonuses are met at $770k. Pretty sure he'd find a way to be ok with leaving his alma mater to come live in Miami and bring his offensive staff for $2-3M per. His buyout is only $800K. Totally doable. https://hkm.com/football/contracts/matt-wells/

David Yost is making $102K in base salary. https://247sports.com/Coach/David-Yost-362/

This really isn't all that complicated.
 
g8rh8rMD said:
Guy is making $520k/year with a max out if all bonuses are met at $770k. Pretty sure he'd find a way to be ok with leaving his alma mater to come live in Miami and bring his offensive staff for $2-3M per. His buyout is only $800K. Totally doable. https://hkm.com/football/contracts/matt-wells/

David Yost is making $102K in base salary. https://247sports.com/Coach/David-Yost-362/

This really isn't all that complicated.
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It doesn't matter what he's making now.

It doesn't matter what we are paying a HC now.

It only matter if we can out bid the powers that will be after him IF he ever decides to leave.

We can't out bid any SEC or B1G school.
 
g8rh8rMD said:
Guy is making $520k/year with a max out if all bonuses are met at $770k. Pretty sure he'd find a way to be ok with leaving his alma mater to come live in Miami and bring his offensive staff for $2-3M per. His buyout is only $800K. Totally doable. https://hkm.com/football/contracts/matt-wells/

David Yost is making $102K in base salary. https://247sports.com/Coach/David-Yost-362/

This really isn't all that complicated.
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If Yost doesn't want the pressure, so be it. I'll take Wells and give him a reasonable budget to go find the next David Yost.

We are so criminally overpaying right now that it's just not that hard to find amazing coaching values out there, if you merely make your criteria about bringing in a solid and innovative football mind.
 
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I agree with the sentiment of the post. And the perfect name here would be Kendal Briles even though he is not directly from the Leach tree. But the chances of him being hired at Miami range from 1% to none.

And here is why. Stoops and Patterson who hired from the leach tree are not offensive coaches and were not tied to an offensive system.

Mark is an offensive coach and has his philosophy and system. Hiring someone with a diametrically opposite system renders him useless as a coach. If change in scheme is what everyone wants, Mork has to go. Otherwise expect a Richt retread and/or loyalists.

BTW... My source, the same one that gives @Jaromir Jagr his inside scoop, says that Brad Johnson will be named the OC/Qb coach.
 
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Cane Dynasty said:
It doesn't matter what he's making now.

It doesn't matter what we are paying a HC now.

It only matter if we can out bid the powers that will be after him IF he ever decides to leave.

We can't out bid any SEC or B1G school.
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So, you're saying there's no hope...?

I mean, seriously, if we can't even steal a head coach from Utah St making less than $800k, what's the point of fielding a team?

Don't answer that.
 
Astcloud11 said:
If this is true, we should purge his staff. Fire Jon Richt / Stacey Searels.

Hire Mason Miller as OC/OL Coach:

Miller arrives in Pullman after serving one year as Nevada’s offensive line coach, under first-year coach Jay Norvell. No stranger to the Air Raid system, Miller has spent the majority of his career coaching in that style of offense, working with both Leach and Hal Mumme, two of the Air Raid’s architects.
Miller, who has coached at all three levels of the NCAA, has been a key part in establishing lethal offenses wherever he goes. As part of the coaching staff at Southeastern Louisiana, New Mexico State, McMurry and Tarleton State, Miller’s offenses have set numerous school records and have ranked in the top five in the nation in multiple offensive categories.
During his time at Tarleton State (2014-16), Miller constructed the team’s high powered offense into one of the most potent in the nation. For the 2014 season Tarleton State ranked third nationally in total offense, averaging 534 yards per game and put up 43 points per game. The same continued in 2015 with one of the most high powered offenses in the country, averaging nearly 40 points per game.

Prior to Tarleton State, Miller served as the head coach at McMurry for the 2013 season. While leading the War Hawks, the offense set school records in multiple categories including total yards (5,775), yards per game (523.1) and most points scored (424). Before his promotion to head coach, Miller was an assistant coach for the War Hawks for four seasons (2009-12). He had been an integral part of three consecutive winning seasons at McMurry, something that had happened just six other times in the university’s 87-year football history. In Miller’s four seasons as an assistant coach the War Hawks averaged 416 yards per game of total offense with better than 346 yards per game coming through the air. Miller began as the War Hawks’ assistant head coach and offensive line coach and was promoted to offensive coordinator after the departure of Matt Mumme following the 2010 season. Miller also served as McMurry’s recruiting coordinator.

The 2012 campaign, which was McMurry’s first as an NCAA Division II competitor, saw the War Hawk offense average more than 433 yards per game in total offense, 367 yards per game via the passing game. Then-quarterback Jake Mullin became just the 59th player in NCAA history - at any level - to pass for both 10,000 yards and 100 touchdowns in a career, leading the team to its first bowl appearance, and win, in 63 years.

In 2011, Miller’s first as offensive coordinator, he oversaw an offense that ranked 18th in the nation, and second in the American Southwest Conference, in scoring offense at 37.7 points per game. Eight of his 2011 players were named to the All-ASC team on offense. Additionally, McMurry broke the NCAA Division III single game total offense record with 863 yards versus Texas Lutheran. In 2010 Miller guided the offensive line, which paved the way for the No. 2 ranked passing offense in both the ASC and NCAA Division III.

Miller played running back at Valdosta State under offensvie coordinator Mike Leach for two seasons (1994-95) and was a member of the NCAA Division II team that made the national playoffs for the first time in school history. Miller stayed on at Valdosta State as a student assistant after suffering a career-ending knee injury. He was a part of the staff that led VSU to a 1996 Gulf South Conference Championship.

Following a two-year stint coaching Valwood High School in Valdosta, Ga., he returned to the collegiate ranks at Washington and Lee University, serving as the wide receivers coach. Miller then reunited with his old college football coach and helped Hal Mumme start the Southeastern Louisiana University football program from scratch. Miller coached the running backs in 2003 and moved to coach the offensive line in 2004 and helped SE Louisiana rank No. 1 in the nation in total offense.

Hal Mumme took Miller with him to New Mexico State in Las Cruces, N.M. from 2005-08 and worked with the Aggies’ offensive line all four years and an offense that ranked third in the nation in total offense. He coached four all-conference linemen at NMSU including Nick Cole, who played in the NFL for the Philadelphia Eagles. Miller was promoted to assistant head coach prior to the 2008 season with the Aggies.


He's been a HC and OC already (albeit at D-2/D-3). Coached some good OL as well.
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You literally just did our ADs job for him. This is the kind of thinking that will get us where we want to be. I'd be 1000% on board with this guy.
 
Donald Trump himself lobbied for Mike Leach to get the job. And Donna turned him down.

Does anyone have the picture of the newspaper that Trump personally sent to Donna with a note?
 
It's actually Hal Mumme's offense. Leach learned from him. The common thread among the Leach disciples that have had sustained success is that they don't really run his offense either. I mean, if you want to call every single spread team a "Mike Leach offense" then I guess you're sort of correct but I'd you watch Oklahoma, UCF, TCU and even Texas Tech now, you see a drastic difference to the offense at WSU. All those teams, with the exception of Tech lean heavily on the running game. Oklahoma had a Heisman winner at QB last year and still ran the ball more than they threw it. They also incorporate multiple tight ends. Leach doesn't use one. Last season, WSU ran the ball on average, 23 times per game for a total of 68 yards per game. Many of those rushing attempts were sacks too. Meanwhile in Norman, they ran the ball 40 times per game. These guys may have taken a course in passing concepts from Leach but they aren't running what he's still running.

In many ways, he's like Richt. Too stubborn to admit his offense isn't enough. He'd rather win 8 games throwing the ball 60 times a game with 2 star players than go undefeated while running the ball. There's a reason why no other big school is interested in hiring him.
 
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DTP said:
It's actually Hal Mumme's offense. Leach learned from him. The common thread among the Leach disciples that have had sustained success is that they don't really run his offense either. I mean, if you want to call every single spread team a "Mike Leach offense" then I guess you're sort of correct but I'd you watch Oklahoma, UCF, TCU and even Texas Tech now, you see a drastic difference to the offense at WSU. All those teams, with the exception of Tech lean heavily on the running game. Oklahoma had a Heisman winner at QB last year and still ran the ball more than they threw it. They also incorporate multiple tight ends. Leach doesn't use one. Last season, WSU ran the ball on average, 23 times per game for a total of 68 yards per game. Many of those rushing attempts were sacks too. Meanwhile in Norman, they ran the ball 40 times per game. These guys may have taken a course in passing concepts from Leach but they aren't running what he's still running.

In many ways, he's like Richt. Too stubborn to admit his offense isn't enough. He'd rather win 8 games throwing the ball 60 times a game with 2 star players than go undefeated while running the ball. There's a reason why no other big school is interested in hiring him.
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I think the passing concepts are what these guys take from Leach. Whether they run the ball more or less, or from different sets is one thing, but it’s the root philosophy that’s been so effective.
 
Then wait for the moment to be right.

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FlaSportsFan88 said:
I think the passing concepts are what these guys take from Leach. Whether they run the ball more or less, or from different sets is one thing, but it’s the root philosophy that’s been so effective.
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But what about player execution? Without that you can’t run an offense, per Richt
 
Cane6 said:
But what about player execution? Without that you can’t run an offense, per Richt
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You can't run an offense without player execution per any coach in the history of coaching.
 
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