Quote Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg View Post
I'd say it was hiring Leach. It told me we aren't serious about having a competitive football program. We're happy to be the doormat and an SEC welfare recipient. There's a reason no other SEC team had seriously considered Leach for the 20 years before we hired him.

That said, the portal and NIL were the final nails in the coffin. We had a chance when we could be a development program with talented, blue collar players. But the portal allows players to leave with zero compensation or the ability to replace them. NIL means on the off chance we do have a good player, someone with deeper pockets is going to buy him from us. Look no further than MVB last year. Right when it seemed like we'd found a talent to develop around at QB, he's gone. Until there's some regulation of the portal and NIL, we can't hope to compete. College football is dead. I can't stand whatever this is now.
Yeah- nothing says we're "not serious" like hiring a guy two years removed from an 11 win season at a then P5 school and who should be in the college football HOF.**

I guarantee you that if we hired a guy with Leach's resume' and he had 50/50 run splits you would have been fired up.

Thanks for providing an example of the asinine shit that our fans come up with which is EXACTLY what we are talking about that is wrong with our fans.