Leadership isn?t a popularity contest?Leach is paid $5mill to win in any way possible within the rules. If that means holding public tryouts for a kicker, he better freaking do it. And yes, that includes firing the ST coach if necessary, too.
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We still have 3 games left. 2 are tossups and 1 is an FCS school. Decent chance we win 7. The entire point of bringing up Saban is that if the best coach in the history of college football can say things like that then it really isn’t a big deal if others do too. I am all for doing as many things like him as possible. It’s not going to cause some mutiny on the team. It will hopefully motivate the kickers to play better. Or maybe it won’t. Who gives a shit?
It's not like they were actually successful before he called them out to it's not like if he hurts their feelings they're going to get worse.
As I've said before he just put out a public ad to find a kicker. We're rumored to have 30 people trying out Wednesday. We're also going to attract kickers that are competitive.