RIP coach. Truly a heartbreaking day in the sports world. There’s never been a coach I’ve loved more than Coach Leach. Swing your sword in paradise, you crazy pirate. And always remember… #CJK5H

Mike Leach is the realest. He's an intellectual and I could listen to his interviews all day.

Coach Leach was right for not playing the political game with parents that’s a way to lose not win. RIP coach Leach

I love this guy, not just because of his great ability as a coach, but most of all, because of his integrity. He is old school and he tells the truth - which is not popular these days.

@nyakiiyo6692

5 жыл бұрын

You are 100% correct. His integrity is second to none. He could’ve easily given Adam James and his dad a pass, but that’s not how Coach Leach operates. He is straight, consistent and honest. So glad we’ve got him at WSU. He has completely changed the culture of football in our program.

@WITH-THE-BUSINESS.

4 жыл бұрын

So Are You Saying That "INJUSTICE" exists in America.... I Am Shocked. :) TRY BEING A DARK SKINNED BLACK MAN.

@ryonsmith1380

4 жыл бұрын

Cry me a river

@ameertrace2253

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to be off topic but does any of you know a tool to get back into an Instagram account..? I stupidly lost my password. I would appreciate any help you can give me!

@aviprince4191

2 жыл бұрын

@Ameer Trace instablaster :)

Mike Leach is a class act.

History is all with Leach on this one. Statement by Leach back in the day: "My biggest regret was not cutting Adam James. I kept hoping he'd develop a work ethic. He had two position coaches, first Dana Holgorsen, then Lincoln Riley. He didn't get along with either one." Geee....wonder if those position coaches knew what they were doing? RIP Coach

Texas Tech under Mike Leach: 84-43 Texas Tech after Mike Leach: 65-71 Oops.

@oldironsides4107

Жыл бұрын

Bears with ditka 98-8 Bears without ditka. 32-246

@paulamolberg8706

Жыл бұрын

The Pirate was the best. Lubbock will always miss him. Shame on Tech for caving to a pissed off parent. Tech still owes him and now his family money. Shame again Tech. Pirate you are still the best. RIP

When a dude w a law degree debates a liberal network. God Bless you Mike Leach.

As a Texas Tech fan I miss him here in Lubbock. When Leach was here he made football exciting and fun to watch.

@willb8684

5 жыл бұрын

wish we could have gotten him hear in oregon...he is killing it for WASU though

@SealofPerfection

4 жыл бұрын

NC State is a bunch of idiots for not throwing the bank at him instead of Dave Doeren. He's worth his salary for the press conference alone.

@LARRYCAL

Жыл бұрын

He should have never been fired at tech

@rt3box6tx74

Жыл бұрын

@@LARRYCAL Chancellor Kent Hance couldn't handle being 2nd fiddle to Coach Leach. He thought he was King when he left the U.S. House of Representatives. Boiled down to Hance having the IQ of a rock. He knew he couldn't challenge Leach on an intellectual level.

Leach is a tremendous coach. He has shown the ability to recruit 3*’s and coach them to play like 5*’s. The James family did not use good judgement in the steps they took. Meddling by the James family and using the ESPN position as a leverage point was a poor choice. Not integrity I expect. Best wishes Coach Leach.

I am still angry at Texas Tech for what they did to Coach Leach.

@oldironsides4107

Жыл бұрын

Brother you should get over it. Nobody with this is associated with the school for a long time. I bet you are picketing outside of penn st. Football games

He was a great coach. He was old School. And he said it the way it is... And that's probably why he didnt get any big name college offers... RIP coach. I always thought you were one of the best.

@liberty5069

Жыл бұрын

But Mississippi State is a fairly large program, being a competitive SEC team. He beat Ole Miss this year as well. He was probably the most intelligent coach in football. RIP, Coach Leach!

I respect truth talkers. I am heartbroken over this individuals death. Nobody can handle the truth anymore

@heveyweightheveyweight5399

Жыл бұрын

Hes in heaven

@legibby

5 ай бұрын

Another clot shot tragedy sadly

What most people don’t realize is that ESPN aired this interview in the middle of the night when nobody was watching. This was the first time that Mike Leach had any voice in the matter. Everything before that was Craig James and the PR firm he hired: Spaeth Communications, Texas Tech, and the ESPN announcers constantly slandering him on national TV and during the 2009 Alamo Bowl with fake and fabricated news. Where are these cast of characters now? Mike Leach is coaching in the SEC West and Craig James cannot get another job in broadcasting if he tried. Karma always wins in the end.

@spetzzx

Жыл бұрын

Just ESPN being ESPN

@85baretta46

Жыл бұрын

All one has to do is look at the parties involved; ie. Tech regents, boosters and their business and personal connections and associstions with the University of Texas (most were UT alumni, having gotten their advanced degrees there) and one clearly sees who was behind the railroad job. Mike had no problem calling a spade a spade and telling the primadonna UT where to get off. He brought attention to their biased alumni officiated games and was a consistant thorn in their side. Knocked them out of the national championship game in 08 and would have done it in 05 if biased officiating hadn't changed the outcome in the second half. He was becoming too popular...cover of New Yorker Magazine, 60 miniutes, SI article that stated TT had become the American football fans second favorite team. Anywhere in the country if one sported TT gear someone would flash the Guns Up gesture back. The 08 TT-UT game is still one of the most watched sporting events in history; over 9 million households tuned into watch that game and 99% were not UT fans which certainly was putting a strain on UT and their negotiations with ESPN on the LHN. Tech had one of its best recruiting classes in history coming in '10. Tommy Tubberville was fired in '08 and not one single school with an open coaching position offered the bum a job in '09. TT gives him the job without even doing a coach search after firing Mike. What is interesting about that whole charade is that between the 08 and 09 seasons Tommy Tubberville and Mac Brown went on a USO trip together which I believe was to get Pine Box Tommy on board and guarantee him a lucrative job position in exchange for dismantling the TT football program. Tubberville stayed at Tech for three years and literally buried the program before skipping out of town...now he's a congressmen. Interesting also that Craig James just all the sudden decided to resign his ESPN position and run for congress in Texas at this time..I believe he was used because of his son being on the TT team and his obvious lack of character (SMU) He was lied to and used to help railroad one of the most successful coaches in history out of the conference because he was a threat to the blue blood flagship. This seems far fetched and silly until you understand just how arrogant UT and their boosters are. One booster had given 50 million to the school and then later demanded the university remove his name from the building that was built with that money because the football program was in a slump and hadn't won a nat'l championship in years.....that is the arrogance of the University of Texas. Karma is a B**** though as UT sports hasn't done a damn thing since Leach was railroaded. Here's hoping the Pirates Curse stays on them.

Coach Leach will be deeply missed. He has left us way too soon!

Same Craig James smu scandal????

Never kept up with this when it happened. The leadership at TTU should be getting Christmas cards from lots of WSU and now MSU fans.

@booboodafoo3247

2 жыл бұрын

Not really. He hasn’t won a single conference championship in all his years of coaching. He’s the definition of mediocre

@puttervids472

2 жыл бұрын

@@booboodafoo3247 wonder how many more kids graduated. Became great men who think for themselves. Etc. there’s more measuring stick than conference titles to a coaching job. The sec is a hard place to work. It’s not like being in the ACC or big 10-12. They’re more similar to high school. Sec is like a mini nfl atmosphere.

@thomastrain7311

5 ай бұрын

2 time national coach of the year​@@booboodafoo3247

Great interview, I’m sure dealing with affluent parents can really suck!

History has shown Mike Leach was right and espn and it flucky were wrong

Reese Davis keeps interrupting Mike Leach because he’s telling the truth.

This guy came up through the levels the hard way and always did it the right way. He went to law school, so it's tough to win a pissing contest with him.

A straight shooter with dry humor and a character with loads of personality. He will be missed.

It's January 9th, 2020 and Mike Leach just got hired as the Head Coach of the Mississippi State University Bulldogs. The Head Coaches in the SEC West got interesting.

@rynoo4357

4 жыл бұрын

Yep now you got Nick Saban, Ed O, Jimbo Fisher, Gus, Lane Kiffin, and Mike Leach.

@booboodafoo3247

2 жыл бұрын

Not really. Everyone knows you can’t win more than 7-8 games a year running the air dump off in the SEC. If you can’t rush for 100/game in the SEC you aren’t competing for titles period. Damn sure ain’t beating Lane Kiffin

@oldironsides4107

Жыл бұрын

Boo boo Dafoo Yeah man. Nobody beats lane Kiffin. They’re top 25. Today Where ole miss Ya bum dosser

@randallmccraw129

Жыл бұрын

Not sure about that.🏴‍☠️

@spetzzx

Жыл бұрын

@@booboodafoo3247 1st game against LSU Leach breaks all their most allowed passing and total yards in the HISTORY of their program. XD XD XD

Thanks for uploading the full interview!! Wreck’em Tech!!

Craig and Adam James are footnotes in epics that are "the death penalty" and the dorks that didn't know Mike Leach had a master's in law from Pepperdine (specifically product liabilities).... dorks... my inner pirate lives forever! Mike Leach was a national treasure and we didn't love him enough while he was here!

I love coach Leach. I followed him at Texas Tech, Washington State, and now Mississippi State. Actually, my high school basketball coach and history teacher fired him at the request of Craigh James. I lost all my respect for Gerald Myers when he fired Coach Leach. Since firing Coach Leach the Texas Tech football program has become a bucket of shit. I'm now a Bulldog fan!

@booboodafoo3247

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣I feel sorry for you. You’ll be a fan of a mediocre team at best as long as you’re following Mike Leach. The air dump off will never work enough to win more than 7-8 games in a good year in the SEC TO. Period. Everyone knows this.

@oldironsides4107

Жыл бұрын

Boo boo Dafoo Well ole had 4 10 win seasons in the last 60 years. To Mississippi sts. Too. 2 garbage programs. But one has mike leach to make one interesting. It’s like you’re a dirty stinky homeless bum and you’re turning you’re nose up as a railroad bum. Leach has a much better record than ole miss since he started coaching You’re just bragging about how shittynole miss is.

Texas Tech deserves to suffer for the way they treated this man.

@spetzzx

Жыл бұрын

Tech football suffered for over 10 years because of what they did to Tech. As an alum myself it made it difficult to be behind my school. The good news is, everyone involved with framing and firing Leach is long gone and the Tech alumni know exactly what happened.

@rt3box6tx74

Жыл бұрын

I haven't watched a game, haven't contributed a dime to the alumni requests for support.

I just love this man with all my heart

Best current coach in college football.

@processor5437

4 жыл бұрын

Alright now, lets not get crazy lol 😉

@BAKER22-l4u

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@booboodafoo3247

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you mean Lane Kiffin?? 31-21 2 in a row

@oldironsides4107

Жыл бұрын

Boo boo Dafoo He just beat Kiffin and shitty ole miss. What are both teams ranked? Nebraska passed on lane Kiffin and they’ve been garbage for a decade. Still better than ole miss I suppose

Mike leach was Texas tech

Creating a culture in a football program is key to creating a winning program, for a single season or creating a dynasty. Coach Mike Leach does that well. He will go down as a great coach!

@oldironsides4107

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. A very unique coach who never even played the game.

Mike Leach is the GOAT. Go listen to what he has to say about student loans lol

F the James' and Tech Athletic Board for letting this situation come between Leach and Tech Football. We should definitely pay coach what is owed. Still missing Leach in 2021.

“The obvious fundamental problem is that I did nothing wrong” LOL

@pathegdal5923

4 жыл бұрын

He didn't

@christophercasey6775

2 жыл бұрын

It's true

My school, Kansas, did the same bs to Mark Mangino. It destroyed our football program. Leach was a legend.

I would judge that Craig James is a terrible parent. If he had counseled his son and sided with the coaches, he would've done more to build his son's character. Wrong move Craig, BAD!

Mike Leach got such a raw deal. A spoiled little brat came up with a scheme that ended up costing him millions.

God damn is ESPN just garbage . I love Leech and I'd play for him in a heartbeat....and I'm 37

@markphillips4682

4 жыл бұрын

YES! ESPN is absolute garbage with people like Craig James and Kirk Herbstreit

Tech has never recovered from the blasphemous termination of Coach Leach.

@seanmartin6773

5 жыл бұрын

I hope they never recover.

@jaredgiff6342

4 жыл бұрын

@@seanmartin6773 i like it

Honest coach ❤

Boy, that Kent Hance & Gerald Meyers, really know how to shepherd a football program...

@rt3box6tx74

Жыл бұрын

How do you suppose that Kent Hance came from Congress and Tommy Tubby went to Congress. Craig James ran for Congress after Leach was dispached... but was rejected. Lubbock wasn't big enough for Leach and Hance. Hance couldn't compete with Leach on the intellectual field. R.I.P. Mike - Swing your sword. 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

"Chris Perry is Adam's roommate at the Hyatt" Sit down Rece.

RIP Coach Leach 💔 Tech did you dirty and look at them now…

@rt3box6tx74

Жыл бұрын

Every request for alum support I receive is responded to with an ass chewing response. I sometimes think I should write a form letter, but I can't give up the pleasure of telling them FO in a new way. I'm from the county the worm, Hance grew up in. He came from a nice family, but I suppose law school turned him cutthroat. It did my cousin. His personality completely flipped. I wonder if TTU regents ever bothered calculating what that fiasco cost them. Lubbock is farm country where business is done on a handshake. Personal honor is everything. I wonder if there are any locals or TTU grads on the board now. There weren't when Leach was here.

Awesome guy

Sure wish there was a way to get Mike back.

@ashcatchem5347

Жыл бұрын

This comment especially holds true today 😢😢😢😢

This guy is one of the best I’ve ever seen. As far as telling it flat like it is. Like a younger spurrier. He wouldn’t coach nfl anymore because “ the players are lazy and out of control “.

@jcrawford5176

Жыл бұрын

Spurrier was a great offensive mind but also an asshat. He's more like Lane Kiffin than Leach imo. When the going got tough, Spurrier got going

Texas Tech will forever be in the pirates debt for what he did for us and what our admin did to him. I appreciate him lifting the curse last year. I hope the new found good luck sticks.

Adam who? Craig who?

If Mike said he was a sanctimonious troll he prob is. I had emense respect for Mike. I loved his sophisticated humor and how he could sound half crazy when he was the soundest minded person in any room. RIP Coach I loved listening to your opinion on anything.

Come back to tech ! The old geezers who fired you are gone !

@jimpatterson7326

Жыл бұрын

He sounds very sensible and handled things in a way that makes sound business sense. I can't see how he jeopardized the health of anyone.

Great job beating LSU I love the Air Raid Offense when using properly that's a hard offense to stop he's one of the honest people in the coaching world Texas Tech made a bad decision just like Florida State Fire Willie Taggart after 21 games and look at them this year even worser

Love this guy.......hes the real deal.......WPS!

@501anon9

2 жыл бұрын

WPS

Swing your sword, Coach. RIP

Great coach and. Events greater family man. Lost all respect for Craig James when he got involved and tried to end his carrier guy who went to some tough places and always had success. Texas Tech made a massive mistake not backing him up.

I love em … always did

Respect to Mike Leach and respect to ESPN for giving him the platform

Mike Leach is the only coach at Tech that made me interested in the football games He added so much to Tech and when they fired him I was absolutely shocked out of my mind. Then the two that fired him left Tech. Tech still owes him money. Now he has passed , but I'm sure his family could use the money, so pay him. What a embarrasssment to the citizens of Lubbock. I will never support Tech again. I have a degree from Tech and learned nothing about teaching school.

All one has to do is look at the parties involved; ie. Tech regents, boosters and their business and personal connections and associstions with the University of Texas (most were UT alumni, having gotten their advanced degrees there) and one clearly sees who was behind the railroad job. Mike had no problem calling a spade a spade and telling the primadonna UT where to get off. He brought attention to their biased alumni officiated games and was a consistant thorn in their side. Knocked them out of the national championship game in 08 and would have done it in 05 if biased officiating hadn't changed the outcome in the second half. He was becoming too popular...cover of New Yorker Magazine, 60 miniutes, SI article that stated TT had become the American football fans second favorite team. Anywhere in the country if one sported TT gear someone would flash the Guns Up gesture back. The 08 TT-UT game is still one of the most watched sporting events in history; over 9 million households tuned into watch that game and 99% were not UT fans which certainly was putting a strain on UT and their negotiations with ESPN on the LHN. Tech had one of its best recruiting classes in history coming in '10. Tommy Tubberville was fired in '08 and not one single school with an open coaching position offered the bum a job in '09. TT gives him the job without even doing a coach search after firing Mike. What is interesting about that whole charade is that between the 08 and 09 seasons Tommy Tubberville and Mac Brown went on a USO trip together which I believe was to get Pine Box Tommy on board and guarantee him a lucrative job position in exchange for dismantling the TT football program. Tubberville stayed at Tech for three years and literally buried the program before skipping out of town...now he's a congressmen. Interesting also that Craig James just all the sudden decided to resign his ESPN position and run for congress in Texas at this time..I believe he was used because of his son being on the TT team and his obvious lack of character (SMU) He was lied to and used to help railroad one of the most successful coaches in history out of the conference because he was a threat to the blue blood flagship. This seems far fetched and silly until you understand just how arrogant UT and their boosters are. One booster had given 50 million to the school and then later demanded the university remove his name from the building that was built with that money because the football program was in a slump and hadn't won a nat'l championship in years.....that is the arrogance of the University of Texas. Karma is a B**** though as UT sports hasn't done a damn thing since Leach was railroaded. Here's hoping the Pirates Curse stays on them.

Mike Leach is my real dad

I love pirates how can I not like Mike leach I went to school at University of Idaho but once Mike leach took over the cougars I too was a cougar fan .

All things by merit alone.

Mike Leach should be coaching at the "U" !!

@tedtrowbridge7407

4 жыл бұрын

@Gary McMichael Yeh, but there's only one "U" and you know it !!

@mikewalsh8905

4 жыл бұрын

If yer referring to the scUm.... he has integrity, doesn’t let players feel entitled even if theyre really good and probably doesn’t like criminal wanna be street thUgs that like to get arrested. Or shit in their girlfriends closets. The scUm will NEVER be the same it once was when teams feared them and they were respected. These dUmb jack holes 1. Cant speak proper English, 2. Will end up as statistics in jail or in the morgue and 3. Represent the dregs of society. So no.... Mike Leach basically doesn’t want to represent an overrated power 5 that will always be going nowhere.

I don’t see why people hate this guy

@oldironsides4107

Жыл бұрын

20 ish years ago he drowned a homeless bum in a pond off campus. He didn’t drown drown him he just kept submerging him under water and bringing him up sporadically for several minutes. Then he instructed students to jump up and down on the bums stomach. As far as a coach he’s great. And he never even played the game himself which is remarkable. But a lot of people view hobos or homeless bums equally to people. And if you look at it with that perspective I could see how it would be off putting to some people.

@melodyannherringmcneely7842

Жыл бұрын

This is a bunch of bull shit!!

@atlhoe564

9 ай бұрын

@@oldironsides4107source?

Integrity!!!!

Where is Craig James today? And where/what is his son?

Did he suggest that Adam James and Chris Perry were homosexual lovers?

Leach is a legend, and a guy I respect a lot, but he was wrong here. He instructed an assistant to lock James in a dark room, you just can't do that...

@ekiller5689

Жыл бұрын

Locked in a dark room? He was sent to a garage near the field

Was Lincoln Riley the WR Coach during this time?

@NCISfanatic21

Жыл бұрын

Yes

One of the best coaches that ever lived. James family and Tech Administration are huge POS.

another Trumper who has left us ,

@michael.prescott4016

Жыл бұрын

@Wakanda Forever nope retired Army Officer,

get well coach

@ashcatchem5347

Жыл бұрын

😢😢😢😢