LOL. Yeah, how many will get accolades for 4 top 20 finishes in 21 years.

@@mas5867 tell us you’re clueless about college football without actually telling us you’re clueless…😏

@@mas5867 you do realize he took on programs that were failing and turned them around with literally no budget or recruiting. Every program he took over became respectable.

@@mas5867 unbelievably casual

ARRRRRRRGH !

As a Mississippi State fan I have the same feeling as you. I was so excited that our little school was good enough for Coach.

@@bradyb2233 as a Clemson i offer my condolences

Until they ran him out of Lubbock because of a spoiled little daddy's boy who' used his influence in media to get him fired ?

@@bobmiller9967 the fans in Lubbock never wanted Leach to leave, but the board of regents did for some reason

@@hunterburt9399 I meant the University establishment .

100% he will be missed

LOL. He and other dumb people seemed to take him too seriously. 5 million a year for a coach that finished in the top 20 just 4 times in 21 years.

@@mas5867 Go Away Troll!

Absolutely 💯

Well said. Boomer!

me too

Well said !

That you based a life decision that affects your career trajectory on a football game is inconceivable. Not academic prestige, not job prospects, not USNWR rankings... a football game.

​@@Zenigundam I would argue that a football game provides more insight than a flawed (at best) ranking system like USNWR. The viewer of a football game can gauge, in a much more engaging way the overarching sense of community, sense of belonging, institutional support, alumni support for the school both financial and through time involvement (not to mention alumni network oppertunities), as well as local community support for the campus. If student diversity is a measure that interests you, a quick glance at the stands will provide a more realistic measure than any ranking system, you can actually see how interdispersed various demographic groups are. A prospective student Internalizing that information, comparing the percieved institutional values and against their own, and making an informed decision is a lot more ecompassing a process than basing a life decsion on nothing more than a peice of paper and the opionion of others. Student succes can also be directly correlated to how much a person wants to be there. A football game will tell a person a lot more about that than a few articles as well.

I am a hardcore UT graduate and alum, lived in Austin, worked for the Texas Legislature, and bleed Burnt Orange - that one play drove Captain Pirate Mike Leach's sword into my heart and made me respect his genius from that day forward, and I always wished UT would have gone after him with crazy Nick Saban amounts of money, and with our depth of talent and collegiate football budget we would have been in the Top 4 every year for a decade, with 2 or more National Championships if he had been UT's coach.

@@pleaseclap5210 😂 Boomer freaking Sooner!

@@Zenigundam That is one way to look at it.

The 2023 season was incomplete because Coach Leach was no longer being with us. I agree with you totally

I'd rather have Pete Carroll or Tom Osborne coaching in a big game. Mike Leach never had an undefeated season or came close to winning a national championship. Also, he often made very low football IQ clock management decisions.

@@Zenigundam get out of here, troll

@@ZenigundamPete Carroll is great, but he isn’t succeeding at Texas tech. They’re like the #4 or 5 school in Texas. Budget not even close to Oklahoma or Texas . USC was the top dog . They got LA weather & celebrities going to games and recruiting ! Washington state was winning like 2 games a year when Leach showed up there

@@Zenigundam I'm certain they're releveled you don't make up the schedules. Be carful- you might be up next to do what you do best in whatever arena you play in. 🙄🙄

@@Zenigundam win loss records aren't everything. He introduced the air raid offense to the spotlight and helped change the way football can be played. He took a big 12 cannon fodder team and turned it into a major contender that fought above its weight level against past juggernauts like Texas, Texas am, and Nebraska. While he may have never made the big dance but you can not discredit his role to this game.

Craig James helped run Leach out of Lubbock.

@@tchender1 Yes, he did but he could not have done so if Myers had not taken the opportunity to run out Leach because he was was making a greater positive contribution to TTU athletics than Myers himself ever did.

@@vargviper7192 Absolutely.

@@vargviper7192 absolutely! I think Kent Hance had a hand in screwing Mike too.

@@stever5359 Hance was Chancellor at the time so that would be right.

Coach was a character and CFB is less interesting without him but he won just slightly less than 60% of the games he coached in.....every school he coached at has a better winning % for the entirety of their history than they had while Leach was the coach. It's enough to say he was an extremely interesting person who made college football more enjoyable....it isn't necessary to overstate the impact he made on CFB or compare him to the GOAT and the heir apparent to the GOAT.....Saban has outpaced Alabama's historical winning %, which was impressive before he showed up, and Smart is significantly outpacing UGAs historical winning %, again a % that was pretty impressive prior to Smarts arrival.