Nov. 30: My main criticisms of Leach's coaching while he was at Tech

1.) The petty drama he brought even before the Adam James events didn't resemble events that went on under the watch of a big time college football coach.


See: Public contract negotiations and set up interviews.


2.) It was strange when his team captain Brandon Carter publicly questioned him. I have never heard players publicly question Urban Meyer, Nick Saban, Pete Carroll or Les Miles after losses, and if they did, those conflicts stayed in the locker room.

3.) He consistently spoke out against Twitter calling it “stupid,” and saying he didn’t want to sit with a bunch of “narcissists” that enjoy typing about themselves all the time.

It is beyond hypocritical that the same guy who can be seen on TV giving dating advice and soaking up all the attention that the pirate persona brings him —  gracing the cover of Texas Monthly with a pirate patch on his eye, is calling college students egotistical for using one of the most popular networking tools in the country.

4.) 5-4 in Bowl games

Leach's two best seasons at Tech during his nine-year tenure as head coach, 2005 (9-3) and this past season (11-2), both ended with losses in the Cotton Bowl. 

5.) 4-18 on road against ranked teams

Leach became popular in Lubbock because of his ability to pull off the occasional upset at Jones AT&T Stadium.

And those upsets have overshadowed Leach's obvious weakness as a coach - his inability to prepare his teams for road games against ranked opponents.

Leach's record on the road against ranked teams is a dismal 4-18.

Not only does Leach lose away games to ranked teams each season, but those games are embarrassing.

In fact, 2004 is the only season of Leach's 10 years at Tech where he didn't lose a road game by at least 24 points.

The 41-10 loss at Missouri in 2007 and this past season's 65-21 blowout in Norman, Okla., are the most recent examples of Tech not being prepared on the road.

While an annual blowout loss on the road has been a constant for the Tech football team under Leach, so has a loss to an inferior team.

Kansas in 2001, at Missouri in 2003 (62-31 blowout), at New Mexico in 2004, at TCU in 2006, and the home loss to Colorado in 2007 all are examples of Tech falling into trap games.

Does the 2007 upset against OU cancel out a disappointing home loss to a mediocre Colorado team?

6.) Never appreciated Tech like he should've

Leach will never get a better job than the one he had in Lubbock because he isn't capable of running an elite college program. He has tried to land elite jobs, but it doesn't happen.

At Tech, he gets to recruit in Texas - one of the top football states in the country. Also, very few programs would embrace a coach who has a 4-18 record on the road against ranked teams with consistens beatdowns.