[College Football] Tuberville to become new Texas Tech Head Coach

i lol'd

 

I know Tuberville's resume. That's not what I asked you for. My question is what will he accomplish at Tech that Leach didn't. Maybe he was the best coach available Tech could have hired, but Tuberville won't do any better than Leach. He'll be lucky to match what Leach did.

 

I guess we will see.

 

This is a great hire for Tech.

Ruffin is a great DC and the players love him but he'd be a rookie head coach and thats not something I wanted to see.Feel kind of bad for him this was his chance to be a HC but just not a good fit. I bet he reunites with leach in where-ever his next stop is...

I'm pretty confident Tubberville can atleast keep the program near the level is right now if not take it up a notch. I'll miss leach's personality and everything he brought to the program. I still think he was fired for no good reason but Tubberville is probaly an upgrade for us.

 

Maybe I'm a homer, but I'm optimistic he could win a national champonship, something that Leach will probably never do.

I love Leach. I was pissed that he left. But his style of play has a ceiling on it - any great defenses could shut down our offense (Alabama in the Cotton Bowl comes to mind), so we were never going to be a night in - night out powerhouse. We had enough offense power to stay with or beat most teams, but when it came down to facing the real defenses, we wouldn't be able to beat those teams because our defense couldn't match up to what theirs was doing. That's why we've always struggled with Texas (even when we won, it was @home and we caught a lot of lucky breaks. And, Crabtree > any UT WR ) and OU.

Tuberville has said he plans to leave the aerial offense in place, but change things on the defensive side of the ball that he had success with it at Auburn. At Auburn where he went to 8 straight bowl games playing in the SEC, including a perfect 13-0 season. He had one bad year (5-7), Auburn panicked and fired him. The year before that he was 9-4 (2007), 11-2 (2006), 9-3 (2005). In other words, he wasn't fired because he was having a string of losing seasons and was no longer a good coach. He had one bad year - I still think he's a hell of a coach.

Wreck 'Em.

 

Nothing wrong with being a homer, especially when you admit it. But unless both OU and UT go south, Tech won't even win the Big 12 South and play in the Big 12 championship game. If Tech was in the Big 12 North and didn't play both teams in the regular season every year, they would have a puncher's chance of winning the Big 12 in a magical season where everything went right.

Best of luck to Tuberville, but he'll hit the same wall recruiting that Leach did. He'll have to give good/great players a reason to come to Tech vs the others. I thought Leach did about as good as a coach could do there.

IIRC, Auburn's offense in Tuberville's last season was worse than bad. If he has the creativity to keep the pass-happy offense in place and be successful with it, I will be surprised. It would be good if somebody besides UT & OU won the Big 12.

 

I disagree with both of these statements - we were a game away from winning the Big 12 South two years ago (Leach, I know), meaning it can be done. Everyone always called Tech all offense and no defense - and now they're bringing in a defensive guy who says he'll keep the offense in tack. How he'll do that, I'm not sure.. I assume he'd hire on some of the offensive assistants Leach had? It said Tech was interested in him because he wasn't insisting on bringing in his own staff.

As far as recruiting goes, I think Tuberville will be a good test. He's a good recruiter, so maybe he can bring in more 4 star types or hopefully a 5 star. It could be that Leach just wasn't that good of a recruiter - Texas is one of the biggest producers of talent. I think it's too early to put up walls Tommy will run into. Either way, thrilled with the hiring, and I agree with a poster before - I'm surprised more Tech fans aren't bouncing off the walls. This was the best candidate available.

 

Give them a chance to win the big 12. With Leach the best they could do was play spoiler. There was no way Tech could would win the Big 12 without playing some defense. Last year was the closest they have ever come and they needed a miracle catch from the best receiver in college football to do it and then were subsequently throttled by Oklahoma.

 

Good luck. It would be awesome if Tech popped both UT & OU and went to a BCS bowl game a couple of times.

 

I wonder if Ruffin has a bruised ego and would want to leave Tech? I would not mind him taking the defensive reigns at UH. God knows we could use the help.