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This OP isn’t expansive because I’m phone posting, but Mike Leach, pbuh, changed the game of football forever. He was a weird cantankerous dude. He was opinionated and didn’t give a gently caress what anyone thought of him. He would scribble playsheets together on buffalo wild wing napkins and use them in game. He was awesome, and I’ll miss the pirate captain. Swing your sword, friends. Post your favorite Mike Leach stuff ITT.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICNE1Ifph6Y
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Dec 15, 2022 19:16
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWgTfVog7WU
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Dec 15, 2022 19:16
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I wish someone would put together an oral history of his life where everyone just tells their best Mike Leach story. I bet they could sell a few copies
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Dec 15, 2022 19:50
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Leach impacted offenses like Gary Pinkel who stubbornly refused to realize Brad Smith wasn't great if he stood in the pocket only and passed https://twitter.com/how_rich/status/1602705426835034112
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Dec 15, 2022 19:53
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQvFO9OEeDs
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Dec 15, 2022 20:16
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This whole speech was on YouTube at one point but this is the money shot https://youtu.be/sBIEQOzZFNE My wife and I quote this to each other a few times a year. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Dec 15, 2022 |
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Dec 15, 2022 20:23
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His candy thoughts were on point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmtg4AQ5IE0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u0woCcQH9U
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Dec 15, 2022 20:24
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C-Euro posted:This whole speech was on YouTube at one point but this is the money shot I somehow had never seen this, and it is glorious.
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Dec 15, 2022 20:37
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I'm crying with laughter at that Baylor speech, I never heard it before "gently caress you, and gently caress me, and gently caress everybody. That is loving bullshit" Put in on my tombstone lmaooo
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Dec 15, 2022 21:07
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drat I forgot Minshew and Leach were together. That must've been a hilarious duo. Rest in peace Coach 😔
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Dec 15, 2022 21:10
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gently caress. RIP to a cool one  Not enough  s in the world for this news “Tracked a raccoon one time in the snow,” Leach said. “I was in the neighborhood and I was just curious where this raccoon lived. There was some fresh raccoon tracks — he had been digging at somebody’s garbage. So I followed the tracks, and I don’t even know if these people know it, but he lives right in the back of their house.”
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Dec 15, 2022 21:39
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mdemone posted:I'm crying with laughter at that Baylor speech, I never heard it before The whole speech is about how entitled that year's team was based on the accomplishments of the last year's, and it happens after a victory over Baylor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZaOFTp5_C8 It's great "We lost our loving rear end because we thought we were too good to play Texas loving A&M. Now how the gently caress can that be?"
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Dec 15, 2022 21:49
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Go read his book "Swing Your Sword" and SC Gwynne's "The Perfect Pass" if you want some good history and personal insight into Leach and the Air Raid as a system.
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Dec 15, 2022 22:49
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fast cars loose anus posted:The whole speech is about how entitled that year's team was based on the accomplishments of the last year's, and it happens after a victory over Baylor. I'm still giggling hours later, I need more
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Dec 15, 2022 23:25
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A bunch of his former QBs gave some insight on what the QB room is like a few years ago and I highly recommend it, free to read without sub: https://theathletic.com/1138379/2019/08/15/what-the-is-going-on-right-now-inside-mike-leachs-qb-meetings/ quote:We’ll be watching film and he’ll be like, “Throw it to this guy here. On this play, we could have checked to this play. And you know what? That reminds me …” And now we’re on some story that happened in Key West and some guy with one eye and a peg leg that he met at whatever bar. quote:I said to Leach, “What do I need to do to get the ball there on time?” He was like, “Well, just throw it to the guy who’s loving open.” I was like, “Yeah, no, I get that dude, but what do you want me to do to get there quicker?” And he was like, “I don’t give a poo poo what you do. Just throw it to the guy who’s loving open.”
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Dec 16, 2022 00:13
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fast cars loose anus posted:The whole speech is about how entitled that year's team was based on the accomplishments of the last year's, and it happens after a victory over Baylor. There it is! Thanks.
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Dec 16, 2022 00:42
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I was at Texas Tech for that 11-2 season with Crabtree, walking around Lubbock after beating UT was magical. gently caress Craig James, Texas Tech should have never fired Leach.
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Dec 16, 2022 01:23
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The Notorious ZSB posted:Go read his book "Swing Your Sword" and SC Gwynne's "The Perfect Pass" if you want some good history and personal insight into Leach and the Air Raid as a system. Thanks for these recs, I'll check them out. RIP to one of the all time greatest.
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Dec 16, 2022 02:34
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I don't know much about Mike Leach but I know he never employed Jerry Sandusky, and he can face the Lord God knowing that is true.
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Dec 16, 2022 03:16
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Rollerblading through the pearly gates
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Dec 16, 2022 03:20
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I'm pretty sure that explaining his appearance on Friday Night Lights confused by wife even more than his enigmatic appearance did without any context.
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Dec 16, 2022 05:20
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Purdue just added Graham Harrell as their OC, so someone tell me how much he'll channel the spirit of Mike Leach into the offense.
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Dec 16, 2022 05:28
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mike leach made college football wayyy more fun both with helping to invent the modern spread offense and by doing insane poo poo all the time. and ill always be happy that he went to Wazzou not long after wheez passed and turned them into a legit team. that was pretty cool  dphi posted:A bunch of his former QBs gave some insight on what the QB room is like a few years ago and I highly recommend it, free to read without sub: this article is amazing Oh and of course always and forever gently caress Craig James. Cant' stand that dude. I mean poo poo, Craig James killed five hookers at SMU.
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Dec 16, 2022 08:37
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Mike Leach featured a lot of what I appreciate the most about college football: that there's still space for oddball characters and unique schemes to flourish, unlike in the NFL where it all gets flattened out and the details are almost minutiae. Leach himself, any of the stories this week have plenty of the anecdotes, but also the Air Raid itself. To a degree even that he kept running what could be called the pure, uncut poo poo, almost to prove the point that it could work. Spencer Hall had a lot of good thoughts Up on their Channel Six blog, a couple highlights: quote:Even when Leach's quarterbacks stayed upright, they were asked to do the absurd. He made Gardner Minshew throw the ball thirty-five times in a driving snowstorm in the 2018 Apple Cup. If a play didn’t work, it couldn’t be because the man wasn’t open. Leach sometimes called the same play three times in a row not because it was working, but because he believed the quarterback needed to learn a lesson. I can't be the only one thinking about going to install the Air Raid in NCAA 14.
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Dec 16, 2022 13:51
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The appearance on greatest show of all time Friday Night Lights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBxe3cprocQ A rendezvous of giants Sash! posted:I'm pretty sure that explaining his appearance on Friday Night Lights confused by wife even more than his enigmatic appearance did without any context. My exact experience as well hahaha
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Dec 16, 2022 15:41
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Mike Leach’s parking space at Texas Tech in 2009.
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I think this game right here is peak Leach even though he wasn’t coaching either team at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFLkXbBARLA Without Mike Leach, that game still gets played but it is a boring 20-3 rout.
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Dec 16, 2022 17:30
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dphi posted:A bunch of his former QBs gave some insight on what the QB room is like a few years ago and I highly recommend it, free to read without sub: lmao quote:Bruggman: One of the quarterbacks at Texas Tech took notes on Leach’s stories, and he would quote Leach but he wouldn’t say the F word and he wouldn’t write the F word. He left his notebook behind one day and somehow Leach got a hold of it and was looking at it, so the next day in the meeting he said, “I want you to get up on the board and write the word ‘gently caress.’”
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lmao quote:Anderson: Say you’re warming up and throwing routes to a receiver and you ground one about five yards in front of the guy. He would go, “Hey, you’re throwing that poo poo off your back foot, you’ve got to get your dick into it. Point your dick at him.”
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Roasted Donut posted:Thanks for these recs, I'll check them out. Gwynne has written a lot of other compelling books on neat pieces of sports history if you like that one too.
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Dec 16, 2022 21:45
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I went back through some Kentucky newspapers, wanting to see what the reaction was in 1996 when the Wildcats hired Hal Mumme (and Leach) out of Division II. The 4 final candidates that year were: - Mumme - David Cutcliffe (QBs coach at Tennessee) - Larry Kirksey (49ers WRs coach) - Mike Gottfried (who was working at ESPN and hadn't coached football since being fired from Pitt in 1989) Kentucky's governor was pushing for Howard Schnellenberger. Writers at the major papers wanted Mumme, for a few major reasons: a) Kentucky isn't going to win in the SEC by running a traditional program, b) Mumme will be cheaper than any of the above and c) We've got to do something to keep Tim Couch in state. The articles drooled over Chris Hatcher's passing numbers, but they were especially impressed by current Valdosta State QB Lance Funderburk, who had been predicted to be an NFL draft pick. Funderburk wasn't and kicked around Canada and Arena teams or something similar, never panning out anywhere. The papers didn't have footage so they were calling anyone they could think of with a connection to get any kind of scouting report. There were rumors that Baylor and Boston College were also looking at Mumme. Paul Finebaum called Hatcher this week https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-paul-finebaum-show-85958/episodes/hour-3-chris-hatcher-157966131 (Hatcher's at almost the end of the hour and speaks for about 10-15 minutes). Hatcher's been jokingly saying that he had a lot to do with the Air Raid's development, claiming he was too dumb to get as complicated as the coaches wanted to get. Where the papers wanted any kind of scouting report 25 years ago, now we can see it as it was. Valdosta State has digitized some of its films in the vault, including a fair amount of football games. An Air Raid in refinement. This first game film shows Funderburk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Gntw0CzTE 1992 clips are harder to find, but here is something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyGWa6t_EOU RC and Moon Pie fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Dec 16, 2022 |
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Dec 16, 2022 21:52
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fast cars loose anus posted:The whole speech is about how entitled that year's team was based on the accomplishments of the last year's, and it happens after a victory over Baylor. "Now how the gently caress can that be" is now fully in my lexicon
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4veYug5pFo
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Where the papers wanted any kind of scouting report 25 years ago, now we can see it as it was. Valdosta State has digitized some of its films in the vault, including a fair amount of football games. An Air Raid in refinement. This first game film shows Funderburk. Nice finds!
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