Quote Originally Posted by Coach34 View Post
Leach- 7 Top 25 finishes in 21 seasons

Tommy Bowden had 5 Top 25's in 12 seasons
Terry Bowden had 5 in 15 D-1 seasons
RC Slocum had 10 in 14 seasons
Butch Davis had 6 in 15 seasons
Lame has 5 in 14 seasons and was cheated out of one when he went 11-3
Houston Nutt- 5 in 14 seasons of D-1

These guys were basically the same or better than Leach- are they HOF also?
Only Tommy Bowden was at a program similar to ours. You're cherry picking coaches who were coaching at schools with much more funding and buy in.

Terry Bowden(Auburn)
RC Slocum(A&M)
Butch Davis(Miami)-When Butch was at Miami and FIU he actually had worse results than Leach.
Kiffin(USC and OM)
Nutt (Arkansas and OM)

Outside of Clemson, and maybe OM, we are a tier or two below any of those other programs. What Mike did here was what he did everywhere else he went. Rebuilt quickly and got back to respectability. He was probably never going to win big at the schools he was at because he was never going to be at a traditional power. I still think Mike Leach at Tennessee would have set the world on fire. I think they would've been really good. Fulmer should never be allowed back in Neyland for screwing that up. Hell, it took a former Leach QB to restore them.