This time, I’ll let Mike Leach have the final word.
Leach was asked after the game about how his program can catch up to Georgia’s.
“First of all,” he said, “I think I’ll ask every other team in the nation that’s below them what their thoughts are.”
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UPDATE: By the way, if there’s ever been a fly on the wall moment this season, this has to be it,
Get The Picture 
Yeah, nobody else has figured it out so far this year. Why should the Pirate be any different?
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Isn’t that the point of gimmick offenses? To be honest with themselves about having less tools and be different enough to keep pace with the big boys anyways?
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A good friend here went to law school at UGA and is a Dawg, but he got his undergrad at Tulane so I went by his house on Saturday to drink some beers and watch the Green Wave play UCF before Georgia-Miss State, and speaking of gimmick offense, it was an unpleasant blast from the past to have to sit there and watch Gus Malzahn’s gimmick trick play misdirection coward offense for three hours, I can assure you. But when you’re up against a team that is similarly talented or even perhaps less talented, it works. I was so frustrated watching Tulane’s guys chasing UCF’s guys haplessly around the field, just thinking that if they even had our second string for just a quarter they’d knock those dudes back into the stone age. I think ol’ Gus has found his level, and it’s Orlando. At least until they level up to the Big 12, that is.
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Gus may be ok in the Big 12. The gimmick takes at least a season or two to adapt to and that conference is pretty topsy turvy.
What will be interesting is if in 3-4 years UCF has demonstrably better players than almost everyone in that conference due to Texas and OU leaving.
I’m excited for the new Big 12 just to see the variety of schools.
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That’s a good point, UCF will probably be able to recruit better players in the coming years and there’s certainly going to be a vacuum there when UT and OU move on. The Big 12 will be fun to watch, it’s certainly been a lot of fun to watch this year with both the Sooners and Longhorns doing their best impression of middle of the road teams.
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In the darkness of their water closet, do the powers at the prettiest little cesspool regret cutting the gus bus loose, does anybody here really GAS…GO DAWGS!
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Ryss Plumlee was recruited by us. Hell of an athlete
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Yes he was and yes he is. That’s another thing that struck me from watching on the couch this weekend as opposed to being on the road with the team, it was hilarious watching LSU-Arkansas, UCF, other games and seeing how many of “our” guys are playing around the country and doing well.
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Matt Landers had a TD for Arkansas.
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Also a drop, which was more like it.
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Yeah, I was watching and saw both plays and it was a bad, bad drop. Momentum killer.
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It takes money, people working in the same direction and a perfect coach to come along at just the right time. So, no every other team can not do it.
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It’s almost like you’re suggesting that Gus isn’t the perfect coach.
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All things considered this has been a crummy year in Starkvegas. They’ll likely finish 7-5, excellent by historical State standards, but Leach had a super senior-laden team that (one assumes) had bought into his BS and the results have been….mixed.
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Maybe the Pirate was offering SB a coaching position next year.
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Hey Stet can you talk to your people and see if they can make one of those sweet “Call me” hoodies in maroon?
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I’m sure it was a fascinating conversation to be honest. Real talk with some humor mixed in.
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I have a feeling this was like one of those awkward exchanges you have at work with the guy down the hall that won’t shut up but you don’t want to be rude and just dip mid-conversation. Watch the end. Stet saw his shot and got the hell out of there lol.
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Yup. Kinda looked like that.
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I agree that’s the way it looked but I saw footage of Stet going out of his way to hunt Leach up. Stet was looking around and saw Mike, ran just as fast toward him as he did at the end of conversation . I will see if I can find that footage and post it.
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“Just how old are you, Stet? Are you certain you don’t have another year of eligibility? Portal on down to Starkvegas.”
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Whatever it is was that Mike Leach and Stetson Bennett were talking about, I guarantee it’s something that Bennett won’t soon forget.
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Leach was talking about the relationship, if any between Blackshear, Ga and Blackbeard Island north of Sapelo and how in three years when they’re both unemployed they can look for Teach’s buried treasure and produce a show for the History Channel.
“Hey! It worked for those grifters on The Curse of Oak Island. See you in three years, Coach. Gotta go!.( Whew! What an asshole).”
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Fuggin epic analysis. Cause I might be that guy.
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I’m no Doctor….but Mike Leach does not look like he is in good health…
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I dunno, Leach always looks like he just ate a bad bratwurst.
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Damn Mike, throw your receivers under the bus often?
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Wonder if he mentioned fat girlfriends…………
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🤣
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Stetson played at Jones County Junior College after leaving UGA the first time. It’s under 3 hours from Starkville. I’m willing to bet Leach recruited him a bit while he was there.
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Stetson asked Coach Leech if his cell phone ring was a cowbell. Coach replied that his ringer is set to “Come Sail Away” by Styx. Bennett then said that the first concert he ever went to was when his dad took him to Styx, and he thought he was at a D&D convention. Coach then said he had to run because he had some World of Warcraft games lined up after the presser. Bennett then shouted “Leroy Jennnnnnnkins!” and split. Neither of them acknowledged that they just played a football game.
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Always like Leroy Jenkins.
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Lost a good one yesterday SF on an A Team at Bu Dop with a high school buddy of mine as his CO. He,Mo, another friend and I were at the Wall for the 20th and he drove his Vette from Illinois. All four of us somehow jammed in the damn thing for a tour.
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Rest In Peace.
DOL
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Maybe sharing some LSU weaknesses he observed. “Do what we did in the 1st half of that game. Not the second half – forget that. Just continue being explosive. Tell Kirby to fold up sideline chairs if he has to. ” “Sure, Coach – sounds good . . .”
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I don’t like Leach but I bet he could make you laugh standing there talking in a setting like that. I bet he can be pretty funny when he wants to be.
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Senator, I’m sure everyone here joins me in offering prayers and thoughts of comfort to the University of Virginia community. I can’t imagine the feeling not only of having college students shot at and killed on your campus, but for them to be athletes that you feel like you know and have some sort of connection with. It’s a terrible tragedy.
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Sad, horrible situation.
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I hop this link works.
Best pic of the night
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Fat little girlfriend?
😉
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Stetson: “Mike, thanks for hosting us and allowing us to kick yer ass….you got any game film & qb tips I can borrow for the LSU defense?”
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Leach “I see what you mean about Robinson…
I’ll talk about it in the Presser but won’t mention you”…
Stet- Uh, sure what ev…
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I’d bet they were talking about Leach’s former QB at Valdosta State and Stetson’s HS coach Sean Pender.
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Exactly what they were discussing. Also, Leach did recruit Stet while he was at JCJC.
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