Leach to Wazzu

Re: Leach to Maryland

Leach is definitely a hired gun, even more than most of them. Reminds me of a football version of Rick Majerus. Amazing tactician and Xs and Os guy, but all he wants to do is coach, literally. Know nothing about what Maryland expects of its coaches in terms of dealing with the alums and booster groups, but Leach rarely does any of that kind of stuff. Like Majerus, his favorite thing is to be left alone in his office with the tape machine going.

For all the publicity he brought to Texas Tech (mostly good, until the end), he did very, very little actual public-relations stuff on behalf of the school. But he won, so Tech put up with his eccentricities for a long time.

 

Re: Leach to Maryland

My money's on Muschamp because he'd have to try to mess up that gig.

 

Re: Leach to Maryland

Didn't Maryland play in an Orange Bowl within the last 10 years?

I hope Anderson makes sure Leach knows who is in charge there. Because from everything I ever read Leach thought he was bigger than everyone at TTU, which he clearly wasn't, as things turned out.

And I expect some of the guys Leach recruits are going to be real knuckleheads compared to the guys Anderson was used to at Army.

 

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Friedgen did an amazing job there his first three years. He's now working on a seventh straight year of finishing out of the top 25.

Since the ACC went to divisions, he's finished 4-2-5-3-6-2.

Leach is going to kick all kinds of ACC ass.

 

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What's the over/under on the number of snarky comments traded between Leach and Gary Williams over the next two years? I'd be surprised if they played nice.

 

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2001: Orange
2002: Peach
2003: Gator
2004: -----
2005: -----
2006: Champs Sports
2007: Emerald
2008: Humanitarian
2009: -----
2010: Military

Pretty sizable drop after the first three years.

 

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Micro, Bobby Knight was bigger than everyone at Texas Tech. Leach was the crazy uncle everyone loved but knew to keep their distance from when he got too loony.

 

Re: Leach to Maryland

1948 Gator Bowl Georgia 20 Maryland 20 Tied
1950 Gator Bowl Maryland 20 Missouri 7 Won
1952 Sugar Bowl Maryland 28 Tennessee 13 Won
1954 Orange Bowl Oklahoma 7 Maryland 0 Lost
1956 Orange Bowl Oklahoma 20 Maryland 6 Lost
1973 Peach Bowl Georgia 17 Maryland 16 Lost
1974 Liberty Bowl Tennessee 7 Maryland 3 Lost
1975 Gator Bowl Maryland 13 Florida 0 Won
1977 Cotton Bowl Classic Cougars 30 Maryland 21 Lost
1977 Hall of Fame Classic Maryland 17 Minnesota 7 Won
1978 Sun Bowl Texas 42 Maryland 0 Lost
1980 Tangerine Bowl Florida 35 Maryland 20 Lost
1982 Aloha Bowl Washington 21 Maryland 20 Lost
1983 Citrus Bowl Tennessee 30 Maryland 23 Lost
1984 Sun Bowl Maryland 28 Tennessee 27 Won
1985 Cherry Bowl Maryland 35 Syracuse 18 Won
1990 Independence Bowl Louisiana Tech 34 Maryland 34 Tied

Their last bowl game was 1990.