Quote Originally Posted by Santiago View Post
Appreciate you for contributing here. This is how many perceived it, but then we had media also all in with these alumni. I remember Faulk making smart comments about fans of Leach, etc.
We were winning....and yet we had alumni, some media, and leadership not really pulling in the same direction.

Some of the most backward BS I have seen in a while.... well until Auburn every November when upset with their coach.
The internet fanboys(Hadad and Faulk) had an axe to grind with Leach because he didn't hire their boy Bumphis as a coach in the 21 offseason. Even though WE OFFERED HIM THE JOB OF RB COACH. They wanted him on staff so he'd feed them info. I mean you saw how adamant they were about keeping him on staff this past offseason. And I will say in their defense, Chad has more than proven his worth just by the recruiting trail alone. And look, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows with Leach. He is one of the reasons that we're in the situation we find ourselves in. His disdain for recruiting 21 of the 22 positions on the field caused him to let Dave Emerick, and later Matt Dudek, run recruiting for us. This was a MASSIVE mistake. Emerick had never run recruiting and all of a sudden he was running it for an SEC program. Dudek at least had a tad of recruiting experience but was nowhere near ready to run that dept.