Trends 2010

Fire Mike Leach?
Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach gets a lot of attention for his performances off the field. Whether it’s his part-time weatherman gig or his love affair with pirates and pirate lore, the fans love the Red Raiders coach.

What sometimes escapes the public eye, however, is Leach’s resume as head coach at Texas Tech. Despite all the hype, the fact remains that — in seven seasons with Mike Leach as head coach — Texas Tech has yet to sniff a division championship, let alone a Big XII title. So, is it time for the Red Raiders to cut their losses and look for a new football coach?

Mike Leach is signed at Texas Tech through 2010. He is scheduled to make $1.65 million in 2007, $1.75 million in 2008, $1.85 million in 2009 and $2.15 million in 2010, with completion bonuses if he is still with the school ($800,000 through 2009 and $200,000 through 2010). Leach’s contract has a $500,000 buy-out clause that he must pay if he leaves Tech before the deal is up.

Let’s examine the record.

In seven season, Mike Leach has won nine games only once. And while he’s never had a losing season in Lubbock (63% winning percentage), Leach has averaged nearly five losses per year. To his credit, though, Leach has taken the team to a bowl game in each of his seven seasons.

Red Raider fans point to his attacking offense as a signature Leach element, but his teams hold just a +206 scoring delta against the conference. That statistic is vastly inflated, however, by the seven games against Big XII South division mate Baylor. If you take out those games against the Bears and measure Leach against the eleven public schools, the Red Raiders have actually been OUTSCORED under Mike Leach by 52 points.

Everybody knows that — year in and year out — the road to a Big XII championship runs through Austin, Norman and Lincoln. In the words of Ric Flair, to be the champ, you have to beat the champ. If you take just the cream of the conference, Mike Leach has been outscored by 245 points by the elite teams in the conference (Texas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska) — an average of almost two touchdowns per game.

While Leach’s teams are 30-23 against the conference, the Red Raiders are 2-12 against Texas and Oklahoma under Leach.

To his credit, Leach graduates kids. The American Football Coaches Association recognized Texas Tech for having a greater than 70 percent graduation rate, in a era where most schools are well under that mark. In the latest NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) report, the football team achieved a 928 score versus the NCAA Division I-A average of 930.

And Leach has run a pretty clean program in Lubbock, with only a slight blemish two years ago when he personally signed orders for 15 banned supplements. However, I write that off to someone sticking an order form in Leach’s face and saying “sign this, coach”. Yes, he should have known better, but I don’t think Leach was trying to cheat, per se. He’s had a few kids get in trouble with the law (parole violations, shoplifting), but that can (and does?) happen to any coach. You can’t babysit kids 24/7/365.

So….. In seven years, Leach has shown that he’s going to win seven or eight games and get his teams into a bowl game. He runs a clean program and graduates his kids. He is tied for third on the list of seasons without a BCS bowl game appearance.He hasn’t positioned his team to win against Texas or Oklahoma and — in turn — has yet to win a division or conference championship.

Is it time for Texas Tech to fire Mike Leach and find a coach that can win a Big XII championship in Lubbock? How much more rope should the Red Raiders give Leach?

Posted by Kevin Donahue

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