Mike Leach has verbally agreed to be the head coach at Washington St.

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Yup.

If a close friend of mine that I came up in the professional ranks with (and who I share many personality traits with) got nationally butt****ed by his employer, I probably wouldn't be eager to work there. Especially if same employer then then proceeded to piss on his rotting corpse to save themselves a few dollars after cutting him off at the knees.

The way they handled the entire Mangino affair could haunt them for awhile. In all honesty, it probably should.

You could say that Perkins is gone now and he was the one with the knife in Mangino's back when he had just won him a BCS game. Who knows if the higher ups were complicit in that effort.

But that argument undercuts the other one about how having won an Orange bowl 4-5 years ago is supposed to make the job more attractive. Everyone involved in that is gone. The cupboard is bare now. For all that spurt of success was, it doesn't seem the facilities were upgraded over that time and it created no momentum for the program.

A coach with options will look at what his chances of success are. With the Mangino assassination, the Gill debacle, the facilities, the state of talent on the team... not a great chance there.