First-year coach Sonny Dykes and four-year starting quarterback Max Duggan are deservedly getting the credit for putting Texas Christian one win away from its first college football title since the 1930s. TCU's offensive coordinator Garrett Riley played quarterback for Leach on those Red Raider teams, following in the footsteps of his older brother Lincoln, now coach at Southern California. He got into coaching for a small Texas high school then led by a spread-offense guru who Leach hired to coach Texas Tech's running backsformer Baylor coach Art Briles.Leach later coached at Washington State and Mississippi State. The assistants he groomed went on to become head coaches at North Texas, Houston, Baylor, West Virginia, California, Oklahoma, Nevada and USC. He and Riley, his offensive coordinator since 2020, have developed a more balanced version of the spread offense in which Duggan runs, or hands the ball off, as often as he throws.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 08, 2023 06:08 UTC