Mike Leach hospitalized - passed away 12/12/22

#254
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(With apologies to Jimmy Buffett, of whom Coach Leach was a big fan)

"Yes he was a Pirate, two hundred years too late
His offense did thunder, defenses he did plunder
His death was an unfortunate fate,
Now at Heaven's Gate, now at Heaven's Gate."
 
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Condolences to the family and the Mississippi State team. The college football world has lost a true innovator of this sport but also a man whose players looked up to.
Rest in Peace, Sir.
 
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What a loss. RIP coach.

Oh, what could have been. 3 years of Slingblade McGump. And we ALMOST had Leach. I believe he would have been more successful, and I KNOW we would all have had a much better time.
 
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SEC Network hosts Dari Nowkhah and Alyssa Lang hosting a rememberance special on Mike Leach now.

RIP and condolences to the family.
 
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Rest In Peace Coach Leach. He will be missed in college football. We need more characters like Coach Leach. He marched to the beat of his own drum.
 
#261
#261
God bless Old Pirate. Here’s a few for us to remember you by.

“Any stuff on that is so closely guarded. I don’t know if you saw Harry Potter, but in the basement of this building, it’s guarded by serpents and wild dogs and things like that, and you can go try to find the secret to that, but chances of survival ... always a risk. Heck, it took until movie five before he got it done himself, and he had magic powers.
Anyway, [QB Connor Halliday] is doing just fine.”

“I’ve specifically concentrated on not concentrating on this, and up to this point, I’ve done a really good job.”

“If you get into a fight, don't take your helmet off. We're looking for smart football players, not dumb ones. In the interest of time, don't get into any more fights today.”

“There’s all these goths, there’s like six goth people. Well, they’re more like between I’m gonna say 20 and 30-year-old goths. You know, they didn’t have school its not like they were skipping school. And who knows, I don’t know what they’re going to do — ‘Hey how you guys doing, great cemetery up here!’ — and they just kind of gave me a frowney goth look, and just sort of nodded.
Because goths aren’t in good moods anyway, I mean everything’s about spider webs and black hair, black this — really white faces.
So anyway, hopefully I made about six new friends, but they didn’t speak much, so.”

“A cougar obviously kills a duck and a beaver.
A cougar against a husky, that's pretty well a massacre.
A cardinal or whatever: I don't know exactly what ... a cougar would either climb it, or I wouldn't want to think of what else he'd do on it.
Now golden bears could be kinda tough. I think you'd want to be a little fast and loose with them. You don't want to get caught by that bear.
The Ute ... you gotta dodge some arrowheads, but I still like the Cougar.
Buffalo ... I think the buffalo would be pretty tough to beat.
Wildcat: Cougars are bigger than wildcats.
Sun Devils, that's mythical anyway. Trojans, they may be as well.
The golden bear, bruin, and buffalo .. I think those are the tough ones.
You know, buffalo are significantly bigger than elk. I grew up near Yellowstone, so I've been near buffalo. Buffalo are huge. And then the other thing I've always gotten a kick out of: when you play Colorado, there's those buffalo dragging those six handlers around. Those handlers aren't dragging the buffalo. The buffalo's dragging him. Ralphie's not even a big buffalo.”
 
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JoAllan said:
God bless Old Pirate. Here’s a few for us to remember you by.

“Any stuff on that is so closely guarded. I don’t know if you saw Harry Potter, but in the basement of this building, it’s guarded by serpents and wild dogs and things like that, and you can go try to find the secret to that, but chances of survival ... always a risk. Heck, it took until movie five before he got it done himself, and he had magic powers.
Anyway, [QB Connor Halliday] is doing just fine.”

“I’ve specifically concentrated on not concentrating on this, and up to this point, I’ve done a really good job.”

“If you get into a fight, don't take your helmet off. We're looking for smart football players, not dumb ones. In the interest of time, don't get into any more fights today.”

“There’s all these goths, there’s like six goth people. Well, they’re more like between I’m gonna say 20 and 30-year-old goths. You know, they didn’t have school its not like they were skipping school. And who knows, I don’t know what they’re going to do — ‘Hey how you guys doing, great cemetery up here!’ — and they just kind of gave me a frowney goth look, and just sort of nodded.
Because goths aren’t in good moods anyway, I mean everything’s about spider webs and black hair, black this — really white faces.
So anyway, hopefully I made about six new friends, but they didn’t speak much, so.”

“A cougar obviously kills a duck and a beaver.
A cougar against a husky, that's pretty well a massacre.
A cardinal or whatever: I don't know exactly what ... a cougar would either climb it, or I wouldn't want to think of what else he'd do on it.
Now golden bears could be kinda tough. I think you'd want to be a little fast and loose with them. You don't want to get caught by that bear.
The Ute ... you gotta dodge some arrowheads, but I still like the Cougar.
Buffalo ... I think the buffalo would be pretty tough to beat.
Wildcat: Cougars are bigger than wildcats.
Sun Devils, that's mythical anyway. Trojans, they may be as well.
The golden bear, bruin, and buffalo .. I think those are the tough ones.
You know, buffalo are significantly bigger than elk. I grew up near Yellowstone, so I've been near buffalo. Buffalo are huge. And then the other thing I've always gotten a kick out of: when you play Colorado, there's those buffalo dragging those six handlers around. Those handlers aren't dragging the buffalo. The buffalo's dragging him. Ralphie's not even a big buffalo.”
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My favorite was when he was trying to keep his team on track but couldn’t compete with the ‘little fat girlfriends’ telling them what they wanted to hear 😂 only he could get away with lol
 
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Sad to hear of Leach's passing. He was a great addition to the SEC and had MSST on the right track.

I remember looking him up in 2017 when he was thought to be a favorite for our coaching search. He was a very interesting and light hearted guy that had a successful offense everywhere he went. It's crazy to think that it was very likely that he would've been our HC if John Currie wasn't fired before inking a deal.
 
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I have tried to find video of Mike Leach saying this but unfortunately I could not find it. This is one of my favorite quotes of all time, not just football. This guy was an absolute genius. This quote is actually listed on Wiki's page about The Chicken and the Pig (It says something when a page about a business fable quotes a football coach, albeit with a MS and JD):

The fable also is used as an analogy for levels of commitment to a game, team etc. For example, variations of this quote have been attributed to football coach Mike Leach who said, on the officials in the 2007 Tech-Texas game in Austin: "It's a little like breakfast; you eat ham and eggs. As coaches and players, we're like the ham. You see, the chicken's involved but the pig's committed. We're like the pig, they're like the chicken. They're involved, but everything we have rides on this."

The Chicken and the Pig - Wikipedia
 
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