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
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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.
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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.
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I've said this one time before ? if anybody could do it, we wouldn't go around the country recruiting these guys to play quarterback. We'd just go to 7-Eleven and pull the guys out of there. There's a lot of guys at 7-Eleven who'd like to play quarterback.
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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.
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Definitely, this is a great set of reinforcements and we're excited to get them up here and get them to work.
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Moses was in high school the last time these guys lost a homecoming game.
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On that play, we had a return on, ... I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.
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I enjoy coming back to these breakfasts every year, ... They help you focus on community and things you might not always focus on.
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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.
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I don't care about the negative attention, ... I did feel that some of our players played like the media view of how we're supposed to play when you're ahead. I don't happen to subscribe to that view, and I'll address it with them (today).
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I always thought it was incredibly ridiculous, ... The notion of artificially shortening games is crazy.
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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.
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I'm a big fan of pirates in general.
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Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.