Leavitt fired at USF

I for one will miss his 100 yard sprints!

Florida defensive line coach Dan McCarney, former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville, who has strong ties in the state of Florida from his tenure on Miami's coaching staff, and Michigan offensive coordinator Calvin Magee are expected to be candidates to replace Leavitt, a source told ESPN.com's Ivan Maisel.

That would be serious -- is the Florida recruiting connection more Rodriguez or Magee?

When the kid and dad "recanted" their stories, I thought
I'm still not 100% sure what I believe about this, but if it is true he tried to obstruct the investigation by tampering with sources, then firing him is the absolute right call.

Wow! That's three. Mangino / Leach / Leavitt.

Not sure if this new mentality of what a coach should/can't do is good or bad, but either way, dickhead coaches are on the outs.

Looks like the days of Woody Hayes coaching are 100% dead. No more grabbing face-masks, no more locking kids in sheds because they are "injured", no more threatening poor black kids that if they drop another pass you'll send them back to the hood to get shot like their dead brother, no more beating up a walk on to pump up your starters. Basically, coaches can't do anything that coaches did prior to 1999.

It is officially a different era. Players are tatteling on coaches, the media is hunting for coaches' heads who are "mean". Daddy's are running to their prince's rescue -- and it's working.

It's officially about Pete Caroll Player-coaches that coach with touchy-feeling feelings, no swearing, answering to parents complaints.

RR better watch his F-bombs!

Are we in serious contention for Chandler? If so, this certainly doesn't hurt our chances.

I think this may help our chances in landing the talented lineman. On 1/6 USF's Rivals site put out an article detailing how they thought Wilson was theirs to lose and had a bunch of quotes from him regarding USF and early playing time.

Link($): http://usf.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1036613

"Florida defensive line coach Dan McCarney, former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville, who has strong ties in the state of Florida from his tenure on Miami's coaching staff, and _Michigan offensive coordinator Calvin Magee_ are expected to be candidates to replace Leavitt, a source told ESPN.com's Ivan Maisel.

"A family's complaint about how Mike Leach treated their son after a concussion ultimately led to Leach's recent firing by Texas Tech..."

In other words, "Our analyst, Craig James, ran Mike Leach out of town."

Looks like the steroids/HGH witch hunt is losing momentum, and the media now has the "abusive" coach witch hunt to replace it. I wonder how long Bo would have made it in this era? Ironically, those who endured Bo's "tough love" for four years pretty much worshipped him after they left UM, and almost every ex-Bo player, including the current AD, cited Bo's teachings as a major reason for their success.

I'm glad there wasn't anybody in administration who took the losers who bitched about Bo seriously. All it would take nowadays is for a player's side of the story to get out, a bunch of self-righteous media to bemoan his "abuse," the public buying into the story as gospel, and Bo would be gone.

Thankfully, it wasn't like that back then, and two generations of UM players were able to benefit from Bo's discipline and guidance. I'm not saying that any of the coaches in question were as good as Bo, but I am saying that the recent rash of coach firings, which all happened in slight down years, is questionable at best.

As for USF, they shouldn't be looking for an assistant to train on the job. If they want to be a major player, they need to hire someone with head coaching experience. That would make Tuberville the best of a mediocre lot candidates with head coaching experience.

is in a world of hurt academically.

The guy always seemed like a psycho on the sidelines. Not hard to envision him straight losing it. That said, where's the proof that he tampered with witnesses again? Because if he didn't, and nobody is saying he actually hit this kid, why is he getting fired?

This doesn't help: http://espn.go.com/blog/BigEast/post/_/id/6984/ugly-end-to-leavitts-care...

I wish nothing but awful things for Texas Tech's entire athletic department based on Leach and what I have seen. Mangino's firing/resignation I was 100% behind. I'm waiting on the facts on this, I guess, but this sure seems strange.

In all three cases, these teams were underperforming this year when lined up against expectations. Coaches tend to get upset. They might even tend to ride players harder. It's okay when you win, and usually winners take coaches being mean if it leads to a victory.

However, a very dangerous trend is being established in college football. We already know that University presidents are weak when it comes to standing up to pressure. I could go on about how they always bow to the first complaint made by a student group, but that's for another time. College football players are seeing that if they don't like their coach, the coach that recruited them and now puts up with their whining and complaining, they can allege an abuse and get that coach fired.

Maybe Mangino was a jerk - and it sounds like he was. But I've not heard former players complain about either Leach or Leavitt. Why are these allegations coming out now? Because the players aren't having a great season, and they need some reason to complain. Adam James - we've all been on teams with guys like him, the perpetually injured, but never willing to practice/play through it (there are the perpetually injured in part because they are always pushing themselves in practice or on the field - totally different type of athlete).

Maybe instead of transferring away, Tony Clemons and Justin Boren and some of the others should have just alleged that RichRod beat them, told them to get back to the ghetto, or bitch-slapped them after they dropped the ball on a punt return (his hand would be very sore by now).

When I consider the Leavitt situation I can't help but think of the Year of the Bull documentary. The clip below is a little lengthy and NSFW (language). A little over half way through the HC of the team full on jumps a player and starts a fist fight:

losing magee to south florida would really, really hurt imo.