After stints at Kentucky and Oklahoma, Mike Leach took over a subpar Texas Tech program that had one of the worst graduation rates in all of major college football. A decade later, Leach had guided Tech to unprecedented on-field success and the highest graduation rate of any public university in major college football. Leach spent seven seasons as the head coach at Washington State before moving to Mississippi State in 2020. He has also served as TV analyst for CBS College Sports and host of the daily College Football Playbook show on SiriusXM. He is native of Cody, Wyoming, and graduated from Brigham Young University. He earned his J.D. from Pepperdine Law School in 1986. Leach and his wife, Sharon, have four children.
I could tell that our players liked him right away. What really
struck me was how sure of himself of what he wanted to do. He had
such conviction and confidence in his way of doing it and there
wasn't any second guessing it: "This is what we're going to do. It
is going to work. It has worked everywhere we've been." I remember
feeling great. This is exactly what we needed to do. -- Bob Stoops,
Mike's former boss at Oklahoma
He's one of the most unique people I've ever met. He's infinitely
curious about everything. He doesn't come in there and meet new
situations with an agenda. He likes to walk straight up and ask the
tough questions. He loves it when someone is real as can be. He
wants to learn something new. He wants to hear another point of
view on something. Mike Leach is an infinitely interesting guy. His
free association is epic. Nobody has the ability to free associate
like this guy. He starts going and you're thinking, 'O.K., where
are you going with this?' I love his re-set. His re-set line is
always, 'well, the thing is.' Whenever he switches gears to another
subject, that his comma, it's 'Well, the thing is. . . ' -- Matthew
McConaughey
Mike Leach has proved he can write a book that's as good as his
passing schemes. I might add that it also ranks up there with his
leadership and communication skills. Don't miss this eye-opening
entertainment. -- Dan Jenkins
I think he's brilliant. Mike Leach is a renaissance man through and
through. The commercials about the World's Most Interesting
Man-that's Mike Leach. I love him so much. I aspire to live a full
and rich life and he's doing it. He's as interested in literature
as he is in football. He's just a very complicated, well-rounded
individual. He's a real maverick and an inspiration. -- Peter Berg,
filmmaker, director FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
Mike Leach is a great leader and an amazing motivator of men. And
he got screwed. He's got fantastic ingenuity, not only on the
football field, but what he did with Texas Tech. The guy was on the
cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine as the head coach of
Texas Tech. Think about how unusual that is. He is just so smart
and really is a great guy, and a great coach. -- Donald Trump
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