Report: Mike Leach Is Maryland's Next Head Coach
by Brian Favat on Dec 18, 2010 8:52 PM EST
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PrintLike Captain Morgan, the Atlantic Division's Maryland Terrapins are reportedly "calling all captains". From OrangeBloods.com:
Mike Leach is going to be the next head coach at Maryland, a key Big 12 source told Orangebloods.com.
Why Chip Brown, OB and a key "Big 12" source are all over this story, I'm not exactly sure. But OrangeBloods has been the king of the college football rumor the past year and was all over the college expansion rumors earlier this year. So this sounds a bit more solid than if the report came from, say, Bleacher Report.
If true, this move will likely shake up the balance of power in the ACC Atlantic.
I've always felt like Maryland was the Atlantic Division's sleeping giant. With the conference's second-largest undergraduate enrollment, playing in a Top 10 TV market, Terrapin football seems like it has the potential to be very, very good in the ACC for a long time.
As it turns out though, Friedgen never really proved that he could get the Terps over the hump in the post-expansion ACC. Fridge's record pre-ACC expansion stands at 36-14 (22-10 ACC). Post expansion? Just 33-36 (21-27), including a 2-4 record against BC.
Sure, there was a marked turnaround this season (a change of six wins), but consider that four of those five ACC victories came against the bottom four teams in the conference -- Wake Forest, Duke, Virginia, BC. Fridge couldn't get Terrapin fans to show up to a newly renovated Byrd Stadium. With Maryland's coach-in-waiting bolting for ... Vanderbilt, taking some key assistants with him, it seemed like as good a time as any to dump Friedgen for the Captain.
If this report is true, Maryland gets an accomplished coach in Mike Leach. As for the rest of the division, Florida State has already won the division in coach Jimbo Fisher's first season. Yet, Clemson seems to have stagnated under Dabo Swinney, and Tom O'Brien still hasn't proven he can get N.C. State over the ACC Atlantic Division hump. Wake Forest seems to be taking a step back after their dream 2006 season, and BC has Spaz.
Leach at Maryland ... bad news for Boston College? Is the window to get back to the ACC Championship Game closing for the Eagles? Talk amongst.
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Like I said on Twitter earlier, if it weren’t for a few other knucklehead coaches left in this conference, BC would be running away with the distinction of “Worst Coach in the ACC” (but hey, even Dabo won a division title, something our guy will probably never do). Miami upgraded from Shannon to a coach who turned an absolutely ghastly program into a bowl team, and Maryland is getting a guy who had steady success at Texas Tech and IMO will put the Terps in a strong position in the ACC Atlantic within the next few seasons. Meanwhile, we have a guy in his 60s who can’t bring us much more than middling 7 or 8 win seasons and his trusty sidekick, Gary “18 points per game” Tranquill. Oh yeah, we’re in good hands.
This is good news for Maryland, bad news for the rest of the ACC, and especially the teams in the Atlantic like BC.
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This is good for the ACC
Makes the league more relevant, and poses a major challenge for BC’s porous pass defense.
Yes. Tranq goota go. Will BC pay for an OC though?
I'm willing to give Spaz a chance...
We’re all talking about how Spaz hasn’t gotten us to a championship yet. He’s only been coach for two years. We talk about having a coach like Harbaugh, but it took Harbaugh fours to get Stanford where it is today.
I agree that Tranquil needs to go. He was a patch for our system two years, but we have the opportunity to go out and find an up and coming OC.
As for Spaz’ defenses, I think it’s solid. Bend don’t break may open up the short passing game for our opponents, but we have good numbers when it comes to scoring defenses.
Plus, under Spaz, we have been bringing in some great recruits. Look at the total number of freshmen that our producing for our team right now. Moving forward I say we need a new OC, not a new HC.
by polarbearbrother on Dec 18, 2010 11:19 PM EST reply actions
It’s not even just that Spaz hasn’t gotten us to a championship yet in two years (Jags did it twice in 2 seasons, but I digress), but with other teams in our division improving, the window is closing as Brian suggested. This year BC had to settle for 7 wins with what is arguably one of the easiest schedules we’re going to get. Future seasons will not be as charitable.
As for Tranquill, he should never have been hired in the first place. I don’t like this “patch” business; amongst other things, if Spaz had brought in a good, energetic young staff on Day 1, rather than making us suffer through a few seasons of an OC who is about 20 years behind the game, maybe I’d have a different opinion of him.
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by SoaringtoGlory on Dec 19, 2010 12:05 AM EST up reply actions
Nevada
Nevada beat Fresno state by 1 point
Fresno got rocked by a MAC team tonight.
WAC sux.
bC chances looking good
Not that I think the transitive thing necessarily holds up, but Nevada is a legitimately good team. Anyway, it comes down to this: Nevada can score points, and we can’t. If BC’s defense plays a good game, we have a shot. If it turns into a shootout, BC will almost certainly lose. 24 points (give or take) is roughly BC’s ceiling this year; if the Wolf Pack cross 30 we’re cooked.
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by SoaringtoGlory on Dec 19, 2010 12:10 AM EST up reply actions
This hiring is good for BC.
It will only be a matter of time before the people at BC see how most other ACC teams are taking steps forward and improving their teams.
In any case BC needs to fire Spaz and move into a new era of BC football again. We need to rid ourselves of this TOB coaching tree and find someone who can recruit and call plays. We have plenty of talent on this team. In fact next years offense may have more talent than we did when Matt Ryan was at QB, however we will have a hard time winning 8 games. Sad, fact.
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