It's rare that it works very true. Bill Snyder and Chris Ault both were successful in their second terms at HC at KSU and Nevada but I can't think of any others
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Hard to tell yet. All of his recruits are Sophs & Frosh. Almost none are playing yet. The players he's playing with now are all Moorhead recruits (excepting NIL players and I'll count Will too since Leach recruited him at WSU). Leach probably won't get to coach his players when they're Seniors since everyone wants him gone after this year.
11 players on the 2 deep on that 2009 defense made nfl rosters. Johnathan Banks, Jamar Chaney, KJ Wright, Chris White, Kyle Love, Josh Boyd, Pernell McPhee, Fletcher Cox, Charles Mitchell, Corey Broomfield, Cameron Lawrence. That 2 deep was loaded with talent. Banks, Broomfield, Chaney, Wright, White, Boyd, Love, McPhee, Mitchell were all starters. 9 starters made nfl rosters and most played for years.
Our"AD" is an in-house promoted, ex-baseball coach, who has been in over his head since day one, although he did sit in on a few meetings to interview coaching candidates before his promotion and he did "stay at a Holiday Inn a few nights" therefore making him the smartest person in all rooms in his non-humble opinion. Our coaching hires and the so called Game Day Experience have been jokes during his time in this very important position. I rank him right down there with Larry.
We should acknowledge that Dan Mullen was an absolutely a net positive for MSU. Especially since he had to recruit against Freeze
in the anything goes era.
I may have reading comprehension issues, but I think y?all both just made the point about Mullen being a good coach. How you ask?
He took an offensive line that Croom brought in that was absolutely destroyed by most opponents in 2008, and these eyes witnessed in person that Oline getting run slap over in the 48-0 2008 Egg Bowl where State had negative rushing yards and less than 150 total yards of offense, and with the help of a pedestrian Oline Coach, turned them into NFL quality linemen in less than 2 years! They weren?t talented, but they became talented under Mullen.
I'm not going to pile on the current coach or praise a past coach. In just looking at this current team, we have some glaring issues. Our LB's are slow. Teams that utilize speed side to side will kill us. This is mostly why Ole Miss has been beating us. We have ZERO pass rush. Our mostly 3 star and occasional 4 star DL is not getting it done. Having an offense that does not utilize a mobile QB is bad. Two problems here. Our current starter is the slowest person I've ever seen and our coach will not utilize a mobile QB (if we had one). I don't have problem with the offense, but damn, if we had a QB that could keep it and run at least 5 times a game, things would open up more for the WR. And the WR's can't catch a damn cold. So many crucial drops.
1) Mobile QB with some occasional runs
2) Pressure the QB with better DL
3) Faster LB's
4) WR's who can catch a pass
We are a 6-6 team at best. If we had those above, we are a 10-2 team.