Mike Leach
Mike Leach
Michael Charles "Mike" Leachis an American college football coach. He is the head coach of the Washington State Cougars football team. Previously, he was head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, leading the Red Raiders to winning seasons in every year of his tenure...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth9 March 1961
football played
You can just tell they've played a lot of football and have a lot of confidence.
america bowl cotton heard insulated parents players
It's not just a bowl that your players have heard about for a long, long time, but their parents and their grandparents have. There isn't anyplace in America that's insulated from the Cotton Bowl and its tradition.
ball block catch given offense position reads rush sort tough toughest
It's the toughest position in our offense to play, ... You're called on to rush the ball, to catch the ball and to block and protect. That can be tough to sort out because he has to make reads on his own. He's given us the versatility to do all that.
couple denying difficult good guy opportunity pattern
It's pretty difficult for me to try him any more than he's already been tried. I don't feel particularly good about denying a guy an opportunity on a misdemeanor alone. If he'd had a couple of misdemeanors or a pattern of them, that's different.
catching challenged inside past preventing run throwing
They challenged us. They said, 'Here, try to run past us, try to run inside us.' And they were better at preventing that than we were throwing and catching it.
hands
There was Lance Funderburk, ... He's got big hands like Lance. He does have these mitts. The Hodges have big hands and feet.
great group guys impressive job plays respond
Defensively, I think this is the most impressive group of guys able to respond to play after play. Overall, they did a great job making big plays and working well together.
excited great
Definitely, this is a great set of reinforcements and we're excited to get them up here and get them to work.
account both few good offer running skills variety wide
I think they have a really good running back, and they have a few quarterbacks that both offer a variety of things. The quarterbacks have different skills that account for a wide variety of things. But then the running back is a really good player.
games incredibly notion
I always thought it was incredibly ridiculous, ... The notion of artificially shortening games is crazy.
couple defense freshmen last older playing
We're older on defense than we've been the last couple years. We had been playing a lot of freshmen and sophomores. Now we're predominantly juniors.
dominate dominated drive game half second sure
I'm not sure that the first drive of the second half isn't the most significant drive in the game in a lot of cases. That was a drive that where, if you dominate that drive, you get the upper hand. They dominated that drive, and they got the upper hand.
pirate fans bigs
I'm a big fan of pirates in general.
two states quarterback
Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.