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If you have a sub to The Athletic go read this about Mike Leach. You may come to the conclusion that I did - so glad they didn't bring him to K-ville.
They interviewed some of his past QB's and here are some early quotes:
Brink: Our No. 1 rule was: Never say or ask or do anything that would get him talking about anything besides the film.
Apodaca: We would get pissed at people in the meeting room if they asked a question toward the end of the meeting. We would have these fall camp meetings that went until 9:30 at night and if there was a young freshman in there asking questions, we were all looking at him like, “Oh my God, dude, shut up because we will be in here for an hour and a half more on this subject alone. Stop asking questions, damn it.”
Isaac Dotson, 2013: I was playing QB at the time, and we had our first position meeting, and 90 percent of the meeting had nothing to do with football. Maybe five plays into watching film, something happened that sparked a classic Mike Leach tangent.
Brink: Every week we’d look at what the defense was going to do inside the red zone. So every week Coach Leach would lean back and be like, “All right, guys. When we’re down in the red zone, they’re going to do one of two things. They’ll be in man or they’ll be in zone.” Early on, you look around at the other quarterbacks like, “Are you serious? That’s what I came to play college football to learn?”
Apodaca: ...On doing check-downs - "He’s like, “Well, you’re the one who sees it. I’m just giving you a suggestion.”
Well worth the read.
They interviewed some of his past QB's and here are some early quotes:
Brink: Our No. 1 rule was: Never say or ask or do anything that would get him talking about anything besides the film.
Apodaca: We would get pissed at people in the meeting room if they asked a question toward the end of the meeting. We would have these fall camp meetings that went until 9:30 at night and if there was a young freshman in there asking questions, we were all looking at him like, “Oh my God, dude, shut up because we will be in here for an hour and a half more on this subject alone. Stop asking questions, damn it.”
Isaac Dotson, 2013: I was playing QB at the time, and we had our first position meeting, and 90 percent of the meeting had nothing to do with football. Maybe five plays into watching film, something happened that sparked a classic Mike Leach tangent.
Brink: Every week we’d look at what the defense was going to do inside the red zone. So every week Coach Leach would lean back and be like, “All right, guys. When we’re down in the red zone, they’re going to do one of two things. They’ll be in man or they’ll be in zone.” Early on, you look around at the other quarterbacks like, “Are you serious? That’s what I came to play college football to learn?”
Apodaca: ...On doing check-downs - "He’s like, “Well, you’re the one who sees it. I’m just giving you a suggestion.”
Well worth the read.
