Originally posted by CougEd:
How many coaches have we lost who had a losing record at WSU? Plenty. Many times where there is smoke there is fire. Is that the case here?
This is a pivotal year for leach. And you could say it about any coach with a resume. After three years he could simply say he is leaving for a better gig, and he could point t the market size and the stadium size. He can point to outsiders that the cupboard was bare, and he went to a bowl game and his talent level is so far up that he is leaving the next coach in a perfect position to succeed.
If the go below .500 year four, it becomes his. Will that detract programs from coming to get him? It will put him a precarious position.
And all Chinook said is if a coach leaves, whether it be Leach in this case, Wulff, Walden, Erickson, and Price, it is not the end of the world. A little known guy from Wyoming had a fair amount of success when no one else could at the school.
It is just like when kids transfer out. Since your handle is 95, is that because you were in Pullman in 95? In March of 96 they had a Wednesday that everyone thought was the end of the world. In the fall of 95 WSU had two DT that were freshman who started. Daryl Jones and Gary Holmes. Leon flunked out. WSU's prize recruit on offense was Ricky Austin, who also played. Their best linebacker was a kid named Glover, and all three announced they were transferring on that same say in February. This was done after Price had to take a small recruiting class. If Price had known there were three vacancies, he for sure would have done something different.
Two years later when Jones and Austin are playing for SDSU, and Glover was playing for Utah, the Cougs went to the Rose Bowl.
I personally think his post was about perspective.