I wanted and prayed for Leach to come here when Jackie left.
Templeton as usual, tries to be Bama and hires a Bama reject.
What could have been.
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I wanted and prayed for Leach to come here when Jackie left.
Templeton as usual, tries to be Bama and hires a Bama reject.
What could have been.
Well we got him now
Guys, Larry works for the SEC and he has our backs!
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His sorry ass had the attitude that we could only hire assistant coaches as head coaches. I think our success rate on that is 25%. And the 25% was Greg Byrne's hiring of Mullen.
I don't remember who he wanted, but I've heard it before and was very unimpressed with the name. But basically JWS was a Dr. Z hire. Dr. Z told LT that we were hiring The Kang and LT better get on board with it. The rest is history. JWS showed us what we could potentially do and taught us to believe, gave us a sense of self-confidence. We regressed some under Croom, who was a 100% LT hire. But Greg Byrne and Mullen came along, building on the foundation laid by JWS. Thanks to The Kang, Byrne and Mullen, we had the confidence to revolt and demand swift change when Moorhead took us back down the crapper. And now we have Leach. God Bless Dr. Z, his foresight and JWS for giving us a good foundation for the future.
I don?t think the older MSU fans could have handled Leach back in the early 2000s. The league was still pretty much a 3 yards and a cloud of dust league and most MSU fans wanted that. The Leach offense would have given many of our blue hairs a heart attack. We needed the ineptness of Croom to finally get many fans to understand that we couldn?t do it the traditional way. Even then we had many that took years to accept what Mullen was doing. Hell we still have a good many that aren?t happy with anything but an I formation.
What WMD said as far as the story goes. LT wanted Bobby Wallace if I remember correctly. He was a former MSU player who had a lot of success at D2 North Alabama and had been a DC under Felker. Eventually he ended up at Temple and he didn't win much there although Temple is definitely a bad job.
Leach had been with Mumme at Kentucky and we all saw what a pain in the ass it was to defend the Air Raid when they were together. It seemed like every time we played them it ended up like 38-35. Mumme had zero defense though and I would have been all for pairing up Leach and Joe Lee Dunn in the late 1990's. No offense to Sparky Woods- no pun intended- but I bet we go 12-0 in 1999 with Leach and that defense. It would have been scary.
In some ways MSU fans are going to be more accepting of doing something like the Air Raid. But there is definitely the sect of MSU fans that think the only way we can win is to run the ball all the time too. Which is why I think Napier was so popular with some of our fans. Mike Leach will probably change that though.