With Senator Baumgartner. "Leadership Lessons in Insurgent Warfare & Football Strategy"
Pump this straight into my veins. Webinar, webinar, webinar.
Pump this straight into my veins. Webinar, webinar, webinar.
Leach teaching a class!!!????
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"Would this be of interest? Phhh.
Best part of this is that sounds like he's not planning on going anywhere.
Best part of this is that sounds like he's not planning on going anywhere.
You read my mind... He wouldn't be putting this out there if he was looking for a way out of Pullman. We all need to get over this. He likes Pullman. He'll stick around a while. Lets enjoy!
And side note: Vast majority of the comments on this tweet are asking for a webinar... WSU would make MILLIONS on this option.
He is not going anywhere.
Hopefully everyone heard that the plane deal last night was a hoax.
Weird. I was thinking about getting my Masters in Insurgent Warfare and Football Strategy.
“Leach! You magnificent bastard! I took your class!”—Jimmy Lake
Leadership classes are an interesting thing. Tough to define, let alone teach. Potter Stewart's comment about pornography...I know it when I see it....is IMHO applicable to leadership. I've often found it to be something far more obvious by its lack than when it is present. I've taken a few efforts at defining & teaching it, and using Guerrilla Strategy (my assumption regarding the basis of the insurgent warfare label) and Football Strategy as a framework for the discussion is probably a good foot forward for CML. One thing that would be interesting for me if I were to attend such a class would be CML's take on what leadership looks like from a strategic perspective as opposed to a tactical perspective. It has been oft quoted that no one has ever lost a prolonged guerrilla war. Both strategy and tactics are important in fighting a successful guerrilla war, and both have been studied and debated extensively. It would be hard to leave West Point without a pretty good dose of that. But you could probably draw some interesting football parallels, particularly when using an Air Raid strategic analogy in terms of the kids that you recruit, why you do what you do, etc.
This sounds like the kind of thing that CML would love to teach. He will do that in Pullman.
This sounds like the kind of thing that CML would love to teach. He will do that in Pullman.
There's a joke here I could drop, but maybe I shouldn't...(don't know if it was intentional, but great set-up!)
That is pretty cool. Could you imagine saban teaching a class?
In terms of any great significance , if someone like Maryland cam and offered him top in the country pay (which not sure they have the stomach for that ) he could hire a private jet to come back and teach the class .
Too quiet for the last couple hours, not enough shit being flung that you need to stir things up a bit?
What am I stirring up. The only time we will know for sure he or ANY coach isn’t leaving is when hiring season is over . Personally I don’t see him leaving for the jobs that are open .
Your comment is just an attempt to stir up hand wringing and discontent--there's virtually nothing suggesting Leach is going anywhere, so you just manufacture up a little hypothetical about rich schools and private jets to get people worked up. If he leaves, so be it, but you're going to make sure its on everyone's mind and it could happen at any minute right up until the point it actually happens.
Yea, I get that. This kind if dispels the rumors that he just can't wait to get out of Pullman and will take any job that comes along though.
Sounds like he really settling in.
Waiting for Leach field at Martin Stadium.
Waiting for Leach field at Martin Stadium.
I never thought he was waiting for an offer to leave . I think he likes Pullman . I personally think leach could be hapoy anywhere , but I think he likes where he is at. But money that I heard Tech boosters wanted to give him a crazy amount. But seems to be admin wouldn’t want him back.
I think there is one job he would bolt for if he had to take a pay cut and I am not being literal, any other gig will have to really pay through the nose .
I think there are two, maybe three: Oklahoma, Miami and Florida State - the last two simply for proximity to the Keys. Recruiting would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Leach and Luther Campbell - that would be quite a pair.
Good grief . If every rumor gets you or anyone else worked up that is on you . There was no attempt to stir the pot.
I did hear there were some wealthy boosters wanting Leach back, but guess what, they don’t make the call.
Leach’s name because of his success will be tied to another job or two . He has earned that respect.
I am going to make sure it is on everyone’s mind? Grow up and look around . Bruce Feldman tweeted Leach to almost every job last year .
I will enjoy Leach as long as he is here. He is good for the school . With this class he shows he wants to connect on a different level.
If he ever leaves he leaves . Odd are like with every other coach I have known save Bobo has left for other opportunities . Until that happens I will enjoy his work in Pullman .
But if you are wringing your hands then don’t read football scoop or anything on the internet . Close the computer, turn off your lights.
I don't think he'd take any of those. Too urban, too much media attention, too many boosters wanting a piece of him, too many inflated expectations.
The only thing I disagree with is I don’t believe people built like Leach are scared of expectations.
Yup. He has no issues with expectations... you are right ED. It's the "inflated" part that I'll agree with 95 on. And the reason I don't see him liking those specific positions is, he seems very much a man of, "fool me once, on you. fool me twice, on me." kind of guy. The size of the program, the amount of red tape to get things done, external influences, (his book talks about the copter parents, not just James and how much he hated that. Well, with big programs, guess what you'll get in spades?) etc. Those are things I think weighed on him at TT. He's all about efficiency. He's not going to take a step back in those categories, I don't think.
I think people are thinking too big for CML. When/if he ever leaves, it's going to be opposite of what you all think. He'll have made his millions. He'll be comfortable. He'll go somewhere like Appalachian State or UTEP (if he's OK going back to Texas with their immunity laws) or Weber... some place like that where he'll build some little school up to a national powerhouse. And he'll be able to walk to his office. Yes, he wants to be valued financially. That's only smart. But he isn't into it for the glory. Make no mistake, he's into this for his own gratification. He enjoys what he does. And that's building programs up. Not taking over big programs.
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