College football fans have been hoping Mike Leach would make the Hall of Fame someday, but the odds are against him.
Mike Leach remains one of the most admired and influential head coaches in modern college football history, and given his innovative work in the sport, it would seem the late former coach would be an easy pick to make the College Football Hall of Fame.told
The Mercury News. "We've heard every reason why we should look beyond why someone is not in the Hall of Fame. But at some point you have to say, 'These are the rules.'", is credited with helping popularize the Air Raid offense, an aggressive, pass-oriented strategy that has strongly influenced the game of football at both the college and NFL levels in the 21st century.
Leach checks out on two of those three demands: he coached for more than a decade and more than 100 games. But his career record in that time was 158 wins against 107 losses — a .596 winning percentage, just .004 percent away from the mark he needs to be eligible for the Hall of Fame."Mike was great to the National Football Foundation and the Hall of Fame," Hatchell added. "... But once you get wiggly on the criteria, what do you say doesn't matter?"James Parks is the founder and publisher of College Football HQ.
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