Agreed! It would just be nice to have a coach that wins games and owns the media at the same time.
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Not sure what he has 'earned', but I wish I had a job where I made 5 million per year no matter what kind of team I put on the field. I really wish the bulk of all coaches' contracts could be incentive based. Heck, I wouldn't have a problem paying a coach 7 or 8 million a year if they actually won something on the field (say 8 or 9 games). But heck, we have to pay Leach 5 million even if we have another losing season under him. What motivation is there in that for a guy on the back end of his career anyway? At least with Mullen he was motivated because he had ambition wanting to move up in the coaching ranks.
Takent level is an excuse? So you do not believe in recruiting rankings?
I think we are comparable to the 2019 team that leach inherited. Probably a little better. Let's see how the season plays out.
I do think ark is better than when Pittman took over. But that is more due to Chad Morris was a dumpster fire. Pittman has ark about where they historically have been.
The two teams have almost the same talent profile and are very comparable to each other, yet Pittman is praised and Leach sucks. It's weird.
For Kiffin though OM was already built offensively to do what Kiffin wants to do. And I mean they still royally stink on defense. For us, what does it matter what your recruiting ranking has been if you have a bunch of road grader OL with WRs that block better than catch and guys in the backfield that aren't pass catchers if you are going to the Air Raid? Leach does what he does so obviously the transition from a traditional run first school to the Air Raid is much more difficult for us than OM bringing in Kiffin with a ready made roster for him and possibly the best QB in the country.
I actually agree with you. No doubt leach's transition was the most extreme. One could argue he could try to coach around that, but regardless he had the bigger overhaul scheme wise.
Pittman basically is being praised being decent and for not being Chad Morris.
There's also the fact that they have an AD in Yurachek who is out there plugging ALL his athletic programs and pushing the perception that they are growing and improving any chance he can get. We have Cohen who doesn't know that there's another season other than baseball season
Now the jury is still out on this season & he definitely has a chance to have a satisfactory season but through 17 games there's been plenty of concerns. The only thing that we've been is inconsistent. Through 17 games we've won back to back games once. Hard to build a lot of momentum & fan excitement when you can't consistently win & your offense have shown minimal improvement from season 1 to 2. Especially when that was the talking point coming into the season. Again he has half a season to change the narrative.