Quote Originally Posted by HancockCountyDog View Post
He simply is not used to this level of athlete on defense. If he had to go up against SEC level defenses, week in and week out, he would not have been as successful. The only team in the Pac 10 that had near SEC athletes on defense was Washington and we have beaten that horse into the ground.

I'm telling you, go back and watch the Wazzu/Oregon game Minshew's year, watch how many open field tackles Oregon missed. They also didn't have the athletes to stay in the 3-8, so they blitzed occasionally and Leach killed them.

Bottom line is that Leach has never proven that he can beat the 3-8 with top level athletes in the back 8 and front 3, in fact its been the exact opposite. Anyone that watched him struggle with Washington for the last 5 years, would have watched the last 3 games and thought "Yeah, I've seen this movie before".

I wish he would add some wrinkles, but that simply is not going to happen anytime soon. It is going to get worse before it gets better.
I saw a national cfb guy point out that our most recent games were basically like watching the last 7 Apple Cups. Everybody is saying he will figure it out but he never figured out how to crack that defense with SEC-type athletes in nearly a decade.