OFFICIAL HIRE MIKE LEACH THREAD - SIGN ON WITH SUPPORT

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Sign me up! Coaching clinics would be a lot more interesting.
 

I'd love to see Leach get the job. It'd be a fun ride.
 



I to have resigned myself to the fact that Maturi and Bruininks are not going to throw a life jacket to Leach. We need him on the bridge of the Gopher Scooner. More than any of the other candidates that seem plausible he would fill TCF Bank Stadium up initially, as well as provide the long term success that everyone on this board pines for. I am all in.
 



The 12th Man said:
I don't think this thread will make a damn bit of difference, but I'm on board. (Pun intended)
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Me too. Yay go fight win team Leach is our man ...(but we all know he won't get an interview, let alone the job).
 





100% behind Coach Leach. I sent Maturi and email. I suggest everyone send him one with support for Mike as our coach.
 

There's about a 0% chance of it happening. But I'm in.
 


Book em' Joel!

I agree. We've done nicey-nice safey-safe for so many years. I'd like to see a SPLASH hire in the mold of Coach Leach.

What if he's vindicated for everything that's been thrown at him? Did Mbakwe need to sit out last year because of allegations that weren't proven true or false? That's what we have here, allegations levied by people in media-powerful positions.

I'd be disappointed to see Leach continue to run a squeaky clean program in the eyes of the NCAA, enjoy massive success, and graduate players for another school when he could have been doing it for our school.

But you're right. This is a message board, not a phone line to Maturi's office, so we're basically talking to ourselves. I wish Joel luck on this search, cause I would love to sit in Pasadena someday with my letter jacket on cheering for my alma mater.

Sheesh, this board needs a "support group" thread, cause this search is crazy-makin.
 




Not my number one guy. If he was hired I would be thrilled and believe that Gopher football would be much better for it.
 


There are maybe 3 or 4 (known) candidates out there that I WOULDN'T be disappointed that we hired them instead of Leach.

I'm in.
 

Please, please, please let the admins wake up. In the stats that matter (grad rate, winning, and pirate references) Mike Leach has to be our man. DO IT!
 



I will sign it, but it won't do no good.

Anyone getting a mass Maturi e-mail campaign going?
 


Hire Leach, I'm ready for Gopher football to become the talk of the town and a fun ride!
 

A proven winner is sitting right at our doorstep and we won't even crack the door open to see who it is.

HIRE THIS MOFO
 


A lot of emotion here, but not much rational thought. I'd love to have Leach, if the search process revealed that the people in his profession believe that he is a high quality guy. But, if they warned us away from him, this is turning into a huge public relations nightmare and no good can come from it.
 

I did my part

Sign me up...I sent out all my emails:

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LEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

MINNEAPOLIS -- Former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach has accepted Minnesota's vacant head coaching job. Now, he just needs someone to offer it.

Well, maybe it's not quite that simple. But the controversial Texas Tech coach, out of work the past 11 months after being fired over his treatment of a player with a concussion, made it clear Wednesday in a telephone interview that he believes he could turn around the Gophers' legacy of football mediocrity. And he would welcome the chance.

"It's like buying real estate - you want a situation where it's undervalued so you can turn it into something," said the 49-year-old Leach, who went 84-43 and never had a losing season in his decade in Lubbock. "That's a program that's under-utilized, that has a lot of advantages but is just lying dormant. . . . I would enjoy the challenge."

And a certain segment of fans would enjoy watching it. As the names Brady Hoke, Troy Calhoun, Al Golden and a dozen others are vetted and debated around Minnesota, one name is constantly promoted on radio shows and fan sites, despite unsubtle hints on campus that he's not a candidate: Leach.

"Minnesota's fan base would explode if Mike Leach got the job," said Zach Johnson, publisher and operator of the Gopher Illustrated website. "He's the one guy that everyone comes back to. Dan Mullen (of Mississippi State) or Jim Harbaugh (of Stanford) might be more popular hires, but talking realistic candidates, he's by far the most popular."

With everyone but university administrators, anyway. Gophers athletic director Joel Maturi has not contacted him, Leach said, despite his resume as a national Coach of the Year only two years ago. And university President Robert Bruininks, asked in October about coaches such as Leach who may carry some baggage, said, "I don't think we need a checkered background." Leach said his background includes things like a 79 percent graduation rate at Texas Tech, and 10 consecutive bowl trips for the Red Raiders.

"Those are things that are important to universities, aren't they?" said Leach, who also said this week that he would be the perfect fit for Miami (Fla.). "We had an exciting brand of football that wins. We went to bowl games and won. We graduate our players - (ranked) sixth in the nation. And when was the last time you heard about one of my players being in trouble?"

Actually, it's Leach who got into trouble, initially by sequestering receiver Adam James, son of ESPN analyst Craig James, in a darkened shed during practice while he was suffering from a concussion. The case caused the university to suspend and then fire Leach, who responded by filing suit against the university for wrongful termination and ESPN for defamation.

Leach, who now has a daily show on Sirius satellite radio, believes the lawsuits are scaring off universities, though he added, "That's short-sighted. I'm in the middle of litigation that will obviously pass in a couple of months, and I'll be vindicated. That won't affect the job I can do for several years. If I wasn't trying to clear my name, I wouldn't be the right guy to hire."

It may be more than just the suit, however. Leach has a strong personality, and reports have circulated that the coach offended the Gophers delegation at events leading up to the 2006 Insight Bowl, and came across as arrogant. The coach denied doing anything objectionable - "except pulling off that comeback and beating them," 44-41 after trailing by 31 points, the biggest rally in bowl history.

Leach said Maturi "seemed like a nice guy. I enjoyed his company. But if they're basing (the hire) on how you're dressed or something, rather than winning football games, they're doomed to repeating history."

It's a history he said he knows how to change. "The most important positions are offensive linemen and defensive linemen. You can walk to the grocery store up there (in Minnesota) and find guys who could be good ones," Leach said. "And nobody in the Big Ten utilizes the skill positions like we do. The fans would rally around it, would get excited about the program. That's what I bring to the table."

That, and one other thing, Johnson pointed out: "He scored 70 points on Nebraska (in 2004)," Johnson said. "That would make him pretty popular."


Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/12/01/1...#ixzz16vwLy9Ag
 


Iceland12 said:
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So what? Can't say if he would have succeeded here or not. Obviously, 99.9% of us are happy the way things turned out, but doesn't prove or disprove whether we'd be on back to back to back National Titles had Leach come here. Comments in this thread were based on knowledge at the time, not knowledge now.
 

Sparlimb said:
So what? Can't say if he would have succeeded here or not. Obviously, 99.9% of us are happy the way things turned out, but doesn't prove or disprove whether we'd be on back to back to back National Titles had Leach come here. Comments in this thread were based on knowledge at the time, not knowledge now.
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Should have put it on the thread that's re-writing history.
 

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