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Maturi considered Leach to be too big of a risk to even interview. Instead he went with an ever bigger (health) risk to hire Kill. Now Leach has taken what was a complete dumpster fire of a program and is hosting Gameday and competing for a conference championship with his ranked team.
Don’t get me wrong. I was a fan of Kill and we will never know where the team would have gone under his long term leadership had his health been good. In fact, at the time of his departure it could be said he was ahead of Washington State. But over the long haul with 20/20 hindsight - who among us wouldn’t like to go back in time and hire Leach in 2010?
So now we have what was seen as the hot up and coming coach in 2016. We are all about youth and our current staff is willing to gut the program to do it their way. We are told the only way to wash away 50 years of championship drought is to be this bad, now. Meanwhile Meat and Potatoes Brohm just hammered Ohio State on National TV and are positioned to make a run at a division championship in his second season.
It wasn’t lost on me that BOTH Washington State and Purdue ironically posted massive home wins on national TV last night with their fans flooding the field literally within moments of each other. WSU is now hosting Gameday. Gophers will be hosting an empty stadium through season’s end. Purdue has a full house of a packed stadium in a backwater town despite having competing programs located on all sides.
With a new stadium and a beautiful practice facility it can no longer be argued the Gopher problem is institutional commitment. It seems to be more of a problem of making the wrong choices for who leads the football program. The jury is still out on Fleck but yesterday’s disaster appears like it could be a turning point where the benefit of the doubt will no longer be easy for him to obtain from people that follow the program closely.
Don’t get me wrong. I was a fan of Kill and we will never know where the team would have gone under his long term leadership had his health been good. In fact, at the time of his departure it could be said he was ahead of Washington State. But over the long haul with 20/20 hindsight - who among us wouldn’t like to go back in time and hire Leach in 2010?
So now we have what was seen as the hot up and coming coach in 2016. We are all about youth and our current staff is willing to gut the program to do it their way. We are told the only way to wash away 50 years of championship drought is to be this bad, now. Meanwhile Meat and Potatoes Brohm just hammered Ohio State on National TV and are positioned to make a run at a division championship in his second season.
It wasn’t lost on me that BOTH Washington State and Purdue ironically posted massive home wins on national TV last night with their fans flooding the field literally within moments of each other. WSU is now hosting Gameday. Gophers will be hosting an empty stadium through season’s end. Purdue has a full house of a packed stadium in a backwater town despite having competing programs located on all sides.
With a new stadium and a beautiful practice facility it can no longer be argued the Gopher problem is institutional commitment. It seems to be more of a problem of making the wrong choices for who leads the football program. The jury is still out on Fleck but yesterday’s disaster appears like it could be a turning point where the benefit of the doubt will no longer be easy for him to obtain from people that follow the program closely.