The first thing to understand about Leach, is no one understands Leach. The Pirate will do whatever the 17 he wants to make sure he wins games.
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The first thing to understand about Leach, is no one understands Leach. The Pirate will do whatever the 17 he wants to make sure he wins games.
I can't believe Shotgun hasn't commented
Yes.
Kylin Hill will have 200 touches. He will be in our top 3 receivers. That means a lot of passes caught.
That's the air raid offense. There is 18 years of evidence how Mike Leach uses Running backs..
Actual stats for runs per game for Leach:
TTU
2000 Starting RB had 127 carries, 52 catches
2001 Starting RB had 142 carries, 92 catches (Led team)
2002 Starting RB had 153 carries, 98 catches (Led Team)
2003 Starting RB had 124 carries, 78 catches
2004 Starting RB had 162 carries, 60 catches
2005 Starting RB had 148 carries, 67 catches (Led Team)
2006 starting RB had 152 carries, 75 catches (
2007 Starting RB had 84 carries, 34 catches *this team had Crabtree and Amidola catching 243 passes
2008 Starting RB had 141 carries, 36 catches, backup RB had 113 carries, and 35 catches
2009 Starting RB had 158 carries, 60 catches
WSU
Ran out of time, and the WSU RB's sucked. Kylin Hill does not suck.
And your math is wrong, a 12 games season will be 20% more catches , so if you expect 70-100 "normally", you should expect 55-80 this year. Which is what I said.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb...e-leach-1.html
I'm going to somewhat disagree. I think he'll need a mobile QB, a legit defense, and a stud WR. Look at the Cardinals and Kingsbury is doing. He's basically running our offense with a mobile QB. He brought in a great WR while trading off his RB. The defense is scrappy. Murray brings a huge advantage being able to make plays.
This. He thinks their front 7's are too good to throw it all day...so he thinks the solution is to RUN it against them?!
Leach's offense is designed to slice up an over-aggressive defense. It's perhaps the best offense ever constructed to do that. If a Bama is well-disciplined, it will be very hard to move it on them through the air. Of course, it will be basically impossible to move it on them on the ground.
Leach throws the ball, but he doesn't launch it down the field constantly. He uses the passing game in many ways to replace the running game by simply getting the RB or slot WR in space and advance it more quickly.
Hasn't Ole Miss proven, though, that perhaps the best way for a less talented team to beat Bama is to just chuck the ball downfield indiscriminately?
This whole 'Leach can't do that in the SEC' talk reminds me of the people who kept saying you couldn't win in basketball by just shooting 3's all game. The only problem is, it's the opposite of true. The future of football will be continuing to throw it more and more, just like the future of basketball has been continuing to shoot more and more 3's. It's just a better way of advancing the ball down the field.
I don't think Luginbill has done his homework regarding Leach. I think this was a question thrown out by Bo and Luges just tried to bullshit his way through it. I mean, LSU wasn't exactly setting ground records for RBs last year. Burrow was throwing it around a lot. I guess Luges missed that whole Joe Brady inspired, Heisman winning season.
Johnny football and ole miss under Hugh Freeze are examples that you do not have to run the ball as much as people think.
A video of a bad WSU team vs an good SEC team
https://youtu.be/I0dxwNV96Uk
Leach will face 2 or 3 defenses this year (and every year) that we will struggle to put up a ton of points on. There is no magic potion to beat a bunch of 5 stars with a bunch of 3 stars. Leach has done more with less than any coach in the country for 20 years. He will take what the defense gives him, just like he did the 5 times he played Ole Miss, the 9 or 10 times he played A&M and Missouri, and the time he played National Championship game participate Auburn in 2013. He's not changing his philosophy. He has more talent as well, so it equals out.
Completely agree. To add, which makes more sense - Try and slam a bunch of our 3 star guys into a pile against Alabama/LSU 5 stars with the hopes of pushing them back or finding a hole and coming out clean on the other side... OR... Try and get the ball to our guys in space and MAYBE one of our guys can make one of their guys miss an open field tackle? It's going to be hard either way, maybe impossible, but I'd rather us try to something different from what Mullen already showed us wouldn't work against the elite defenses.
Now, obviously you can't try something different at the expense of not being able to make it work against the average and below-average defenses, but Leach's system has feasted when he had comparable or even just slightly less talent than his opponent.
So Lugis is saying Leach wouldn’t have run Holloway up the middle on third and short much??
Ok I can live with that..
I thought LSU and Alabama already disproved this theory?
At any rate, Mike Leach is probably OK with people telling him what he will have to do to succeed by now. It has only been happening for 20 years now.