Leach would have failed anyway cause the talent spike was enormous and he wouldn’t be able to get the elites here. No matter wth the offense looked like, just watch today kids don’t give a f about those things. Don’t think he would have built those relationships imo. We were destined to fall from grace.
They also turned down Butch Davis after the NFL did not work out. They turned down Leach twice?
With Leach we would not be having the QB problems we are having today. He beat Miami with the once lowly WSU is a bowl game, would have done much better than the Shannon and Golden embarrassments. At least brought back a passing attack offense to what used to be Quarterback U. Look what QBs we used to have to zero in the NFL. How many great WRs and other players left from south Florida for other teams during that time. Enough players would have stuck around to have a better teams.
Leach had the top offences and passing attacks in the country breaking NCAA records with lesser teams full of three stars starting out at the bottom going to double digit wins. His passing and offensive background was impeccable. Look at his background.
Starting at BYU sitting in on film room sessions learning under LaVell Edwards with his pass-heavy offense with offensive coordinator Norm Chow, and quarterbacks Marc Wilson, Jim McMahon and Steve Young. Around the same time as we all know Miami was starting a pro style passing offense with coach Schnellenberger winning a NC.
Leach later joined Hal Mumme as QB/OC coach in a partnership that developed the air raid offence perfecting it at couple of small colleges with some of the top offenses in the country breaking records before going to Kentucky that had a dismal offence with QB Tim Couch and becoming the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft. Couch broke several SEC records throwing for over 8,000 yards and 73 TDs in two seasons including 4,275 in 1998, a record that Joe Burrow broke. Hal Mumme was also influenced by LaVell Edwards but was never the same after Leach left in 1998.
Leach then joined Bob Stoops at Oklahoma in 1999 as QB/OC tuning the 11th ranked offence in the Big 12 into to the first ranked offence in one year and winning a NC the following year but Leach had gone off to head coach at Texas Tech breaking all kinds of NCAA records with multiple QBs. Beating teams like Nebraska 70-10 and running up the offensive scores on almost every other team they played.
Look at all the coaches that learned under him that are head coaches in college today with the Air Raid offenses. Almost all of them.
Not saying he would have won a NC but at least in the playoffs or close to it. Still got to have a o-line first and d-line team like Mario is trying to build to win a NC like Alabama, Georgia, Clemson, Ohio State and the rest.
