There were plenty of times we had protection and had our best receivers in the route and we looked like a jumbled up mess. Effort did not seem to be there either. It didnt help that the opposing coach ran this same playbook 20 years ago- probably the same napkin then. They knew our routes and our calls. Coming off the heels of a pathetic Egg Bowl its a huge step back.
But this is the risk you run when your coach shows little emotion. Compare his approach with what you saw from Cumbie last night. The teams took on the identity of their coach.
There were several times when they showed Cumbie on the sidelines and I had a brief moment where I thought I'd trade Leach for Cumbie in a heartbeat. I had to remind myself that he was 1-3 at interim coach prior to our game... but damn, his excitement and his desire to punch us in the mouth was refreshing to see.
Another thing that I've grown kind of pissed off about Leach, is that every one of his protege's, whether it's a former player (Kliff, Cumbie) or GA/Coach (Riley)... they seem to have no issues incorporating creative run concepts into the gameplan. Last night, TTech ran a few triple option plays against us. And they worked pretty well. I remember pre-season when Hadad (not a knock on him - he's only reporting what he saw) said that we worked on some read-option **** in fall camp. Did Rogers keep any read-option play this year? If he did any read option this saeason, he always handed it off.
After the Arkansas game, I posted about how I could start to see the light on how Leach could work in the SEC. We then proceeded to need to the biggest comeback in school history to beat Auburn (while it was fun to watch, it was about as miserable of a first half as we've had in a game against an opponent we can beat), we looked like **** against OM, and we looked like a high school team against TTech. I'm back off the train and will impatiently wait on Leach to drag my *** back on board.
I'm so sick of him and this style of play.