With Leach I see 6 with a fighting chance at 8. If we'd kept Shitshow Joe, I'd see 4 with a fighting chance at 6.
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With Leach I see 6 with a fighting chance at 8. If we'd kept Shitshow Joe, I'd see 4 with a fighting chance at 6.
College football's best commodity is hope. Hope to get back to being. #1. That was such a high and we've proven we are capable. Just gotta work hard to do it right this time.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
LOL ... you back in your groove now. Surprised it's gonna take you till beginning of season to actually make the 11-1 prediction **Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
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Originally Posted by dantheman4248
Btw, I do hope you end up being right. That would be awesome.
Let?s re visit this after spring game however. We add Castello and out floor is 7 and out ceiling is 9
Some of y?all are under selling the defense and WR.
Don't expect State to look like gangbusters in the spring game if we go good on good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgfan77
2 weeks of practice ain't a whole lot.
If we do look good offensively good on good. Then I'll change my satisfaction with 6 wins next year.
Spring is only the beginning. The Fall is when things start shaping out where more questions get answered.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spiderman
Bump the gif for awesomenessQuote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
Leach wins. He consistently has more wins than the he should per talent gap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
WSU 4 year average Recruiting Ranking is 61.
Based on that as a measure of roster talent, WSU should have been 4-8. They were 6-6. Leach was good for +2 wins. Leach with "his QB" is +4 to +6
MSU's 4 year ranking is 21.
MSU, on the same metric, should out talent 6 teams, lose to 4, and 2 are the same "talent" as us (Ole Miss and Arkansas).
Our floor is 7. Ceiling is 10.
Unless you think Leach is 18 years of smoke and mirrors and is not really a good coach....
Just not sure Leach is going to make that big of a difference in year one. If he sprinkles his magic fairy dust on a DC, and we find out our WRs were really held back by coaching, we will be really good on offense. I don't know that that's a reasonable expectation. I think Leach performs with mediocre talent in part because he is good at recognizing potential and then helping players realize that potential, not because he can turn any piece of shit into a good QB or WR. I think we will have enough options between players on the roster and potential transfers that he will figure out something at QB. Just not sure that he is going to be able to make the current crop of WRs good. I certainly think he could take players that looked like our WRs in highschool and turn t hem into a solid WR corps, I just don't think he can necessarily do that without picking those WRsQuote:
Originally Posted by SheltonChoked
Yeah too bad Leach never had to transition from a run first team to his air raid ever in his career. He won't have any idea what to do****Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnson85
Or our WR's were having to overthink a complicated system, and get used to playing with 2-3 different QB's, plus split reps in practice with the equally complicated Running game.Quote:
To prepare his receivers' ankles and knees for the unusual punishment of his nonstop-running offense, Leach has installed a 40-yard-long sand pit on his practice field; slogging through the sand, he says, strengthens the receivers' joints. And when they finish sprinting, they move to Leach's tennis-ball bazookas. A year of catching tiny fuzzy balls fired at their chests at 60 m.p.h. has turned many young men who got to Texas Tech with hands of stone into glue-fingered receivers.
Now they they will be catching Tennis balls for practice and getting all of the reps in practice...
Leach didn't pick Couch, or Kingsberry, They all did pretty well in their first year in the system. OU Passed for under 110 yards a game in 1998. Tech threw for less than 175 per game. Kingberry was recruited into a Run first system.
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In Leach's first year, his quarterback, Tim Couch, threw for 3,884 yards; the year after that, Couch, who lasted for only a few disappointing years in the N.F.L., threw for 4,275 yards. After Kentucky, Leach moved to Oklahoma for a single season, 1999. That year Oklahoma went from 101st to 8th in the country in offensive scoring. Its quarterback, Josh Heupel, passed for 3,850 yards that season, which was 1,700 more than any quarterback in Oklahoma football history had thrown for in a season.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/m...very-deep.htmlQuote:
"There's two ways to make it more complex for the defense," Leach says. "One is to have a whole bunch of different plays, but that's no good because then the offense experiences as much complexity as the defense. Another is a small number of plays and run it out of lots of different formations." Leach prefers new formations. "That way, you don't have to teach a guy a new thing to do," he says. "You just have to teach him new places to stand."
Is it guaranteed his system will work? It has for 18 years, with less talent.