Dec 12, 2022 05:43 AM
#1
It’s very, very dire. Coach Leach is truly a national treasure. Above all Bucketeers, Swing Your Sword.
Mike Leach
Dec 12, 2022 07:31 AM
#2
@FarmerJayhawk 🙏🙏
Dec 12, 2022 10:27 AM
#3
This Jayhawk is praying for Mike Leach.
Dec 13, 2022 01:30 PM
#4
Sadly, Mike Leach has passed away. That man was absolute national treasure. I understand why KU didn't pursue him in 2012, but I would've loved to have had him as coach here.
Dec 13, 2022 01:57 PM
#5
MSU has no AD currently. I assume the defensive coordinator will coach their bowl game.
61 is awfully young to die of natural causes. Too sad. We all lost quite a character today!
Dec 13, 2022 02:59 PM
#6
@dylans said in Mike Leach:
MSU has no AD currently. I assume the defensive coordinator will coach their bowl game.
61 is awfully young to die of natural causes. Too sad. We all lost quite a character today!
He had a massive heart attack and had been dealing with pneumonia for a chunk of the season so it doesn't sound like he had been in great health recently.
Dec 13, 2022 08:46 PM
#7
Leach was as good of an interview as he was as a coach, maybe better (and he was a pretty good coach). His press conferences could go off on any number of tangents, like when he'd give a soliloquy on pirates. You wonder what kind of teams he would've had if he didn't have to recruit players to out-of-the-way places like Starkville and Pullman.
He'll be greatly missed. The college football world just got a whole lot less colorful.
Dec 14, 2022 03:15 AM
#8
@nwhawkfan amazing guy for sure. He would’ve taken the job at KU in a second after Gill was let go. Can’t help but wonder what if. We could’ve had a weird, whacky, and winning program.
Dec 14, 2022 04:41 AM
#9
@FarmerJayhawk I wanted Leach at KU then, but I didn’t think he wanted KU. Never heard any of the inside workings of the coaching hiring fiasco(s) of the time.
Dec 14, 2022 01:26 PM
#10
@dylans said in Mike Leach:
@FarmerJayhawk I wanted Leach at KU then, but I didn’t think he wanted KU. Never heard any of the inside workings of the coaching hiring fiasco(s) of the time.
I believe KU didn't want him at the time because he was dismissed for similar reasons to Mangino and PR would've looked bad at the time for KU to hire Leach at the time.
Dec 14, 2022 08:10 PM
#11
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Mike Leach:
@dylans said in Mike Leach:
@FarmerJayhawk I wanted Leach at KU then, but I didn’t think he wanted KU. Never heard any of the inside workings of the coaching hiring fiasco(s) of the time.
I believe KU didn't want him at the time because he was dismissed for similar reasons to Mangino and PR would've looked bad at the time for KU to hire Leach at the time.
And Zenger being an incompetent boob didn’t help
Dec 14, 2022 09:17 PM
#12
@FarmerJayhawk rock chalk park fiasco