Hal Mumme Lays Into Craig And Adam James
by Brian Floyd on Dec 3, 2011 11:01 PM PST
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PrintLate night post, but this is far too awesome to pass up. Bud Withers managed to wrangle Hal Mumme to get his opinion on Mike Leach becoming the head coach of the Washington State Cougars and it is awesome. For those that don't know, Mumme is Leach's coaching mentor and the two spent plenty of time honing their skills together at various jobs before Leach headed to Oklahoma as an offensive coordinator.
So, Mr. Mumme, tell me what you think about Craig and Adam James.
Mumme, asked about the saga, says, "Craig James is an (expletive), and everybody in Texas knows it. His son's an (expletive), and you can quote me. I was at New Mexico State, and we turned (Adam) down. Nobody would give that guy a scholarship except Mike Leach.
Read the rest of Withers' column for more from Mumme and a little more background on Leach. Like Mumme says, we're in for more fun than we've ever had. We've just inherited the wild side of the family, and it's going to be a ride.
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by TiltingRight on Dec 3, 2011 11:18 PM PST reply actions 5 recs
That was a very subtle message there, Brian.
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"Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay with them. And we shut them down because we can!" | Herb Brooks
by Coug999 on Dec 3, 2011 11:19 PM PST via mobile reply actions
I see what you did there, and I agree with this post.
#rememberThe5
"I don't really like pitchers." - Nelson Cruz
Whee!
But Mike Leach isn’t for everybody
But he IS for us!
by wazzu93 on Dec 4, 2011 12:27 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
I heard it was 6, but stories get bigger in Texas so who knows
I don’t care if you’re an All-American or a walk-on, he’ll treat you the same," says Daniel Loper, a Cowboys offensive tackle.
I spent a couple hours Friday with a new friend of mine, a former player under Leach who stayed around as a graduate asst.. until the time of The Shaft Job. He said exactly the same thing – everybody got treated the same. There was a punishment you had to do whenever someone cut a class. It was called the London Tower (described in his book) My friend told me that Michael Crabtree cut a class during the great 2008 season and he had to go to the Tower just like anybody else. The Tower involved holding a cinder block over your head while running the campus in the middle of the night, one of the largest campuses in the U.S.
He told me Leach was just like you see on the YouTube videos, up to and including cussing a blue streak when he was pissed. He also said the coach would never mistreat any player and that Adam James (the little shit Nancy to use the technical CougCenter term) was a lazy little expletive. Who knows, it might be the same expletive that Mumme used.
"I’ve established a reputation for integrity. I have maintained those high standards" - Craig James
That would be one heck of a punishment at WSU.
Lots of hills. Lots.
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by TiltingRight on Dec 4, 2011 12:45 AM PST up reply actions
Imagine going from the parking lot below Sloan
To Lighty. So the path leading straight up under the old arch, up to Thompson, past Bryan and Murrow, up the mall an back down. In terms of on campus punishment I can’t think of anything worse
Two in the cake, one in the puddin'! -Kevin Calabro, Twitter: MichaelTheCoug
by Michael The Coug on Dec 4, 2011 1:30 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
So many hills to chose from.
I picture Leach in his office staring at a large campus map plotting the hilliest route possible.
by Mark Sandritter on Dec 4, 2011 1:49 AM PST up reply actions 4 recs
We are talking about hills on campus.
But there are more potential hills outside where you can drop off people and tell them to get back to campus.
If My Life Is Great, Why Am I Not Happy?
by well you win some and lose others on Dec 5, 2011 8:43 AM PST up reply actions
Gotta love Mumme
That article brought a big smile to my face – y’all are getting so much more than a football coach!!
#RememberThe5
thanks for the read
good article.
i am happy for y’all but the more i read about our past, the more incense i get at our stupid administration for firing Leach
our stupidity is your good fortune i guess.
Oklahoma State
If you saw the beat down OSU gave OU last night you saw some Leach work. Coach Leach and Graham Harrell spent last spring in Stillwater working with their OC fine tuning their offense. Coach is well respected in the coaching profession.
They run a lot more than I remember Leach's
offense running. It was the same with Holgo there (having Kendall Hunter makes a compelling case to run, though). I wonder if that’s something Leach may reconsider in his offense?
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by TiltingRight on Dec 4, 2011 10:02 AM PST up reply actions
Coaches may not Cange but they Modify & Adjust
I know we are looking at a coaching style ML will bring to the Polouse that is going to be fun and fast. But we are also looking at a coach who has made adjustments all of his carreer to fit the needs at hand. I am sure that is why he has a system with the ability to flex to the skills of his players and the needs for the game.
Is it ML or the DC?
I would think the DC would have some responsibility for that as well. If the issue is with the DC then that choice for coach will be critical. Where do you feel the finger should point? The DC and his scheme or a direction?
It was always a guessing game for the fans
Since ML was focused on the offense, I always assumed it was the DC who was unable to make adequate adjustments. Once a team found something that worked for them, it seemed they could run it over and over. But the fact that this went on year after year would have to be on ML’s back. He fired his DC in 2007 and the next DC made notable improvements in every statistical category. We still griped about the lack of meaningful in-game adjustments, though.
Throughout his tenure, the defense was always described as the bend-but-don’t-break variety. His philosophy seemed to be that we could outscore anyone so all the defense had to do was just slow them down a little. You call tell by his W/L numbers that our average season was 8-4. Once you get spoiled, 4 losses a year give lots of ammunition for fans to gripe about.
In his defense, he had the bad luck of coaching during a period when UT and OU were in their prime – Sam Bradford, Vince Young, Colt McCoy, streaks of 10 win seasons at UT, multiple MNC games for OU, etc. We usually gave them a good game and sometimes we won, but those guys were tough. Kansas, Kansas St, and Missouri also had best-ever seasons during this same time period. It was a tough conference.
What frustrated us fans more than anything were the one or two games each year that we had no business losing but did. We called it ‘Typical Tech’. Sometimes the habit of going for it on 4th down blew up in our face. Sometimes our offense just came out flat. There was only one year (‘08) when we didn’t lose at least one to an inferior team. A better defense would have saved many of those games. But to put some perspective on it, in the last two years we would have given our right arm to have a Leach defense instead of the crap our SEC coach has given us.
With the lip service in his book about a new philosophy on defense, I’m hoping there will be a meaningful change on that side of the ball.
"I’ve established a reputation for integrity. I have maintained those high standards" - Craig James
Assistant Coaches
Lots of speculation about assistant coaches and who may be in the loop. It will certainly be interesting to see who is still available to him and if he is going to look closer to WSU. I would love to see him give Jason McEndoo a look. He has proven his ability to elevate good kids to great kids and that is shown by his recent national coaching honors. He was a key ingredient in the Rose Bowl run and is a true Coug. Google ’McEndoo" and see some of the innovative ways he goes about building teamwork. Taking intercity kids to the ranch to wrestle and brand calves in the spring is just one of them.
I trust TMB's (instead of TSO, The Strange One, ima move we call him The Magnificent Bastard)
judgement, obviously but I wouldn’t mind if we NEVER bring a coach without FBS experience again.
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