Mike Leach

Mike Leach coaching Josh Heupel
Oklahoma 1999


I was at the game. Stoops first year. After 3 years of John Blake running wishbone, the I , and other running formations when we saw what Leach was doing on offense we couldn't believe it. Stacking 3 wideouts in a row, how spread out the O lineman were, and those slants. He really changed the game.
 
My favorite story:

Mike Leach is a man prone to strange interactions. He’s a guy renowned for a pirate fascination, for instance. But this anecdote from Lincoln Riley’s Players Tribune story really takes the cake as far as Leach’s aesthetic.

He picked it up and said, “Hey, how’s it going?” And then he listened for a second and asked, “Where ya calling from?”
He kept talking on the phone and I eventually sort of tuned out. Now, a short phone conversation for Coach Leach is an hour. So he was talking about this and that, and I was kind of hunkered down working on my own stuff. At some point, the call got dropped. They must have lost reception. Coach said, “Can you hear me? Are you there?”
Then he closed his old-school flip phone, swung it back open and redialed. He said, “Hey, sorry I lost you.” And then they resumed their conversation for another 30 minutes or so before Coach finally hung up.
After he was done, we started talking and I said, “Hey Coach, who was that on the phone?”
And he said, “Oh, they had the wrong number.”
 
This bums me out more than Vince Dooley dying earlier this year
 
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knew it was coming and it still bums me out
 
RIP Mike. You are loved not just in the Red Raider, Cougar and Bulldog community but he was a national treasure for anyone that watched college football. A genius that made it simple for his players. A character that always made you smile. Sad day, this one chokes me up
 
RIP Coach. Huge loss for college football. :(

 
Damn. This sucks.

:rip: Coach
 
I really hope the words "national treasure" are said during his eulogy.
 
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