The topic of the feature story on Big 12 football is long forgotten. Much like Mike Leach, who died Tuesday at age 61, the ensuing conversation was much more...
Much likeAfter a couple of days of trying to get Leach’s comment for a story when he was coaching, he finally returned a phone call late one evening. The story was about football, and he seemed bored with the whole thing.
In the wake of 9/11, he scribbled a credible, detailed Middle Eastern battle plan against terrorists on a reporter’s yellow notebook. “Our sport was better because of Mike Leach,” said Kliff Kingsbury, Leach’s first quarterback at Tech and now coach of the Arizona Cardinals, “and is far less interesting without him.”
Now it’s common to see one-back sets and wide receiver screens. Back when Leach was starting, it was new and novel. In 2008, current Oklahoma coach Brent Venables remembered Leach, as OU offensive coordinator, opening his playbooks against the Sooners defense in a 1999 spring practice. “I am heartbroken on the passing of coach Leach,” Heupel said in a statement. “In 1999, he gave a kid out of Snow College in Utah a shot at major college football. He saw something in me when no one else did.”
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