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Post by fatmenace on Apr 29, 2009 9:57:09 GMT -6
I'm glad Leach is in the Big 12.
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Post by gk on Sept 1, 2009 11:27:34 GMT -6
Mangini not welcome in Lubbock Just got off the phone with Texas Tech coach Mike Leach. I think it's safe to say that Leach has crossed Cleveland Browns coach Eric Mangini off his Christmas Card list. This is what I mean: Leach had just gotten on a conference call when he described his pupil, new 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree, as someone who fled from the spotlight and as someone without "a bunch of distractions going on." That, of course, is the polar opposite of how Crabtree's been portrayed in the last few weeks. Leach obviously believed that rumors as to Crabtree's diva-ish behavior orginated in Cleveland with the Browns head coach. "Michael Crabtree has been more successful as a receiver than that guy has a coach at this point," Leach said. " ... Part of the reason is he's (Crabtree) too shy to be like that." Said Leach: "My definition of a diva is someone who's loud and self-absorbed. Michael Crabtree is the furthest thing from loud that I've seen." As evidence, Leach noted that the tape he had on Crabtree blocking in the running game was better than the tape of Crabtree making catches. "I think it's one of the strongest parts of the game," Leach said. "I mean, to the point where it's impressive." Leach described Crabtree as the "ultimate team player who would serve the 49ers well." As for Mangini? "Let's see how all those non-divas do up in Cleveland this year," Leach said. -- Matt Barrows www.shaggybevo.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=35546Just thought I'd revisit the Crabtree-as-diva meme as Mike Leach's first first-round pick ever continues to piss away his career. TMQ had a good and giggle-inducing take on it: "Avoiding Crabtree looks like the smartest move of the 2009 draft. Never, in turn, has a threat been more hollow than Crabtree's threat to sit out the year and go back in the draft because he thinks he will be selected higher in 2010. It is 100 percent certain he would be selected lower -- Crabtree might not go till the second round of the 2010 draft, because NFL clubs will remember how USC wide receiver Mike Williams sat out a year, went high in the first round and was a bust. Plus, though it seems today unlikely a new labor deal will be in place before the 2010 draft, one never knows. Wouldn't it be a hoot if Crabtree sat out till 2010, only to discover that a new deal with a rookie wage scale was in place, and he wound up with one-tenth the amount he could have today?"
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Post by finkle on Sept 1, 2009 15:55:29 GMT -6
it would most DEFINITELY be a hoot!
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Post by fatmenace on Sept 1, 2009 22:44:12 GMT -6
He'll be Matt Harrington. If he truly does sit out this year, he's done.
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