RIP Mike Leach

[Faceplant]

Sad, surprising news.

Figured it was notable enough to post it in the main forum. Mods, feel free to move over if it is in wrong place.

Mississippi State coach Leach dies at age 61

Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach died Monday night after complications related to a heart condition, the school announced. He was 61.

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'A brilliant football mind': Mike Leach's unique life and football legacy

The life and career of Mike Leach was that of a true American original. From his beginnings as a college rugby player to helping take the Air Raid to the big time, he changed college football by always doing it his way.

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[Tano]

This is sad news.

 

[Haden]

I live in Spokane and he was a coach at WSU who was a ton of fun to listen to. A real character and talented too! Very sorry to see him pass.

 

[RamFanWA]

Very sad. Dang. Did some good things at WSU.
But, 61 yrs is waaaay too early.

 

[ottoman89]

He was such a national treasure, RIP to a GOAT

 

[Memento]

Mike Leach has a complicated legacy, from what I've heard publicly (I didn't know the man well enough in private to properly say what he was like.), but nobody deserves to die that young. My dad and mom are older than he was, for clarity's sake, and I can't imagine what his family is feeling right now.

Rest in peace, Coach.

 

[dieterbrock]

That's awful news!
The guy made the air raid offense legit in college football. Damn 61 is too freakin young.

 

[Antonius]

Loved Texas Tech during the air raid days, and still mad at Craig James’s son for crying to his daddy to get Mike fired. RIP

 

[So Ram]

He was such a national treasure, RIP to a GOAT

Talk about Freedom of speech

Mike Leach was always fun to listen to. How that Adams guy try’d to F’ him over ?

His football mind always challenged the logical thinking. A total innovator.

 

[So Ram]

Loved Texas Tech during the air raid days, and still mad at Craig James’s son for crying to his daddy to get Mike fired. RIP

Yeah - exactly. Talk about privileged.

Didn’t James help preserve some of ED29’s Rams Carrie’s thought at SMU? My memory is toast

 

[ottoman89]

Talk about Freedom of speech

Mike Leach was always fun to listen to. How that Adams guy try’d to F’ him over ?

His football mind always challenged the logical thinking. A total innovator.

Who tried to screw him over?

 

[den-the-coach]

It’s sad way too young hard to believe with a heart condition so serious, he was still coaching. RIP Coach you help transform the college game.

 

[HighDesertRam]

Who tried to screw him over?

The AD at Texas Tech did not pay his remaining contract after he was fired.

 

[Ramhusker]

Coach Leach coached here at Valdosta State University at the birth of the Air Raid O under Coach Hal Mumme. He was a special breed of coach. That is a heck of a coaching tree that came from those days. RIP Coach.

 

[ottoman89]

The AD at Texas Tech did not pay his remaining contract after he was fired.

I'm not even surprised.

 

[Ramhusker]

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Mike Leach remembered at Valdosta State

The College Football legend helped to birth the "Air Raid" offense in Titletown USA and put the DII program on the map.

www.wctv.tv

 

[gogoat1]

Very sad. Dang. Did some good things at WSU.
But, 61 yrs is waaaay too early.

These days it seems like lots of people are dropping way too young. Everyday the news feeds are full of these stories.
Sad and scary.

 

[Tano]

These days it seems like lots of people are dropping way too young. Everyday the news feeds are full of these stories.
Sad and scary.

And I am turning 61 in February

 

[RamFanWA]

And I am turning 61 in February

Congrats!
I got a few years on ya.... every day you are upright, is a great one!!