[College Football] Mike Leach new head coach for Miami.

I agree, this gimmick business is ridiculous. Nebraska was running over everyone for years with the gimmickiest of gimmick offenses, the triple option. If you have superior talent and use it properly, you'll win, end of story. And vice versa, running a pro style offense doesn't equate to success either.

It just happens to be that many of today's gimmick offenses are in awful locations. The last true run and shoot team is in Hawaii (which is a great place but also miles from civilization and impossible to recruit from). Texas Tech is in Lubbock for god's sake. UH runs a gimmick offense but they're also a small school in a non-bcs conference.

Hell, West Virginia runs that stupid spread offense that is basically the modern version of the option. Florida will probably end up running something very similar to that when Tebow is the QB next year.

In college you can get away with "gimmick" offenses that don't work in the pros. Look at college basketball, no one runs an NBA-esque offense there. It's all about zones and motion offenses and the works. The same also holds true for football.

 

the orange bowl is in the ghetto.

 

Hialeah baby!!!

I live directly across the street from the Miami Athletic Department; my sources (yes, real sources within the program) are saying that Leach will be hired (as early as tomorrow) and the agreement is that Randy Shannon will remain as DC.

Kyle Wright - 2007 Heisman?

On an unrelated note, on my way over there this afternoon, I passed by Gino Torretta (he drives a Honda Pilot, ha) before he was about to give an interview. Also Penny Hardaway was here today for some reason (he's got a house in the Miami area).

 

Not really. Our running and passing are much more balanced that Hawaii or TTU's offenses

 

sure but it's not a pro-style offense by any stretch of the imagination. It still reminds me of a high-school offense. But hey it works so no one should be complaining.

 

Option isnt gimmick. Its old style nitty gritty power running. College football at its finest.

 

But that's the point and it shows the lunacy of "gimmicky" offenses. According to people here, anything that's not a pro-style offense is "gimmicky." It's old school but it inflates rushing stats in the same way the run and shoot inflates passing stats.

 

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4381786.html

Leach's talks with Miami won't lead to move

By JOSEPH DUARTE
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

Texas Tech coach Mike Leach met with the University of Miami about its vacant head coaching job earlier this week but is not a serious candidate for the job, an NCAA official said Tuesday night.

Leach met with Miami athletic director Paul Dee in New York on Monday and had what the NCAA official described as an "informal conversation" about the position. The Hurricanes are seeking a replacement for fired coach Larry Coker.

The rampant speculation Leach might be heading to South Florida reached locally, where University of Houston coach Art Briles was mentioned as a possible successor to Leach at Texas Tech. Rutgers coach Greg Schiano, who was thought to be the leading candidate for the job, announced Monday that he was not interested in the job.

Miami defensive coordinator Randy Shannon, who is a leading candidate for the same position at Texas, also is under consideration. Leach, who has taken the Red Raiders to a bowl game in each of his seven seasons, signed a five-year, $10 million extension in August.

The contract runs through 2010 and makes Leach one of the highest-paid coaches in the Big 12 with an annual average salary of $2 million. Leach is 55-33 in seven seasons at Tech.

The Red Raiders play Minnesota in the Insight Bowl on Dec. 29.

joseph.duarte@chron.com

Maybe we should change the thread title now.

 

And this is why crap like what percicles wrote is frowned upon. You don't state rumors as fact, period.

Now while I understand idiots like Samfisher trying to goad anyone into arguments, I was quite surprised by how many Tech-haters showed up in this thread. The only excuse I can think of is jealousy.

 

C'mon, FFB. Even ESPN made it sound like Leach was a serious candidate for the job. Sure, he shouldn't have stated it as fact, but let's not act like it's some serious BBS offense.

BTW, Greg Davis will be the next coach at UAB.

 

I was annoyed by this first coming out and people calling me on it, as if it was something personal. Did you not read the first post? I retorted yesterday by saying that nothing was official and shouldn't have been stated as such.

None of this explains why there is so much animosity for Tech.

 

We are actually bigger than Tech. If not mistaken we are the 3rd largest college in TX.

 

If I had a texas tech degree I'd ride into a wall and break my neck like that horsey did once.

Other than that I bear it no animosity and could not care less, as would anybody outside of the state of texas.

 

thats funny

 

As a Miami fan since '83, I would have liked to see them hire Mike Leach as Miami has really fallen off the last couple of years offensively. Get Leach in with this "gimmick" offense all of you are talking about and with their already stout defense, maybe the Canes can get back to the way they were in 2000-2002 and even before then which was back in the mid '80s to early '90s.

But whoever they hire, I would like for them to get someone who can inject some life back into their offense. Kyle Wright has been a major bust, IMO (compared to what he should have been) and the O-line play has been mediocre at best. It's funny how the way the O-line plays really tells how good your team is going to be (along with how well you stop the run on defense). I'm just glad that Coker is gone; I thought that Barry Alvarez would be the #1 choice after Schiano turned them down.

 

I don't like Miami... that's why I'm 100% behind this coaching candidate...

 

Well, looks like we have a winner (and it's not Mike Leach )

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2690489

 

Wow. I have nothing to do with Tech but did a Tech graduate rape your mother? Kill your dog?

 

Uh...aren't we talking about sports?