The thing with Leach is that he loves Florida and fishing. That could make up for taking a step back in quality of school. He is crazy enough to look at it as a challenge to take a team from such a small school to new heights. Texas Tech was a descent team when he became coach but nobody ever expected Texas Tech to hold the #2 spot in the nation, late in the season (of course OU took care of that). He was a good enough recruiter to get the kind of kids he needed to play his system. He did so recruiting people to Lubbock, Tx. I was raised in Lubbock and it is a nice town but not the easiest place to recruit kids. FAU has a new stadium and it is Boca Raton.

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Just read this interview.