zb008 said:
Kiffin is just another Leach. People gush over him because of his personality, not because of what his teams have actually done on the field. The guy has never won a championship of any kind in all of his years as a HC.
Ummm...Leach was a threat at a 3rd rate program. Consistently squeezing juice from a turnip. Tech was not destination for top recruits. Yet the autistic pirate always managed to beat quality opponents with bigger rosters and budgets. The allure of Leach is "what if he got a program with the capability to recruit?"
After his dispute with TTU and the hotshed incident he was functionally blackballed. Then he took the perennial basement program of the PAC and turned them into contenders and won the PAC COTY twice and the national COTY.
He was poised to do the same at MSST after Morehead ran the program into the ground after Dan Mullen left for Florida....until his untimely death.
Leach was desired because he got results and never had the opportunity to coach a major program, unlike Kiffin.