Leach is new Wash. St. Coach

• Crimson streak

  

  Breaking news per espn. I was hoping he would go to Illinois
• OneBuckeye

  

  ARRRRRRR :LOUD NOISES: ARRRRRR
• vball10set

  has Craig James tweeted on this yet?
• FatHobbit

  

  PAC 12 kinda makes sense for someone who really likes offense. This makes more sense than RR.
• Crimson streak

  

  I think he could be pretty successful up there. I always thought he was a damn good coach
• Tobias Fünke

  

  FatHobbit;995110 wrote:PAC 12 kinda makes sense for someone who really likes offense. This makes more sense than RR.

  How so? Rodriguez has accomplished everything Leach did at Texas Tech.
• FatHobbit

  

  Tobias Fünke;995144 wrote:How so? Rodriguez has accomplished everything Leach did at Texas Tech.

  You might be right. He was just TERRIBLE at michigan.
• jordo212000

  

  I can't believe that out of all the open jobs he chose Washington State?
• dazedconfused

  

  like the hire but it's like the pac 12 isn't even trying to portray a semblance of defense as a whole. every over/under next year in the conference should automatically start at 65
• Radcliffe9

  welcome. thanks all
  
  
  
  
  
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• Manhattan Buckeye

  jordo212000;995238 wrote:I can't believe that out of all the open jobs he chose Washington State?

  1) No BCS appearances
  
  2) Gimmick offense (saw it live at the Cotton Bowl in '06, amazing how easy Alabama shut it down)
  
  3) A bit nuts, and attacked his former employer
  
  Not exactly an awesome track record
• Little Danny

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;995282 wrote:1) No BCS appearances
  
  2) Gimmick offense (saw it live at the Cotton Bowl in '06, amazing how easy Alabama shut it down)
  
  3) A bit nuts, and attacked his former employer
  
  Not exactly an awesome track record

  This.
  
  As others stated there were more attractive jobs out there. Perhaps they all weren't interested and he knew that to be the case. WSU is out in the middle of nowhere (like Texas Tech actually) and the admin has little expectations. It makes it easy for him to be himself and not have to worry about him slipping up and costing him his job.
• dave

  At least now I have a PAC12 team to root for.
• bigkahuna

  Little Danny;995289 wrote:This.
  
  As others stated there were more attractive jobs out there. Perhaps they all weren't interested and he knew that to be the case. WSU is out in the middle of nowhere (like Texas Tech actually) and the admin has little expectations. It makes it easy for him to be himself and not have to worry about him slipping up and costing him his job.

  Also, given the East Coast Bias and how much attention the B1G/SEC/ACC get, the coaches there are under a microscope.
  
  At Illinois, he would be a big media circus. Out in Washington/PAC-12, we don't know anything going on out there in the grander scheme of things.
• osudarby08

  

  
• bigkahuna

  osudarby08;996043 wrote:

  I'll rep you for this because it's pretty funny. Although, I feel like he should be going the other way, since Washington State is to the west. Reminded me of Washington Crossing the Delaware
• enigmaax

  bigkahuna;996290 wrote:I'll rep you for this because it's pretty funny. Although, I feel like he should be going the other way, since Washington State is to the west. Reminded me of Washington Crossing the Delaware

  Um, Washington State isn't to the west of the ocean.