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No, Mike Leach, YOU'RE awesome! [Pirates Last Voyage]

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14 hours ago, Pimphand said:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24866357/the-untold-1999-texas-oklahoma-story-mike-leach-fake-play-script

Blast from the past with such stalwarts as Casey Horny, Tom Herman, & Bull Reese. Its not shocking what would happen the very next year.

 

9 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Leach dropping the fake playbook at the TX OU game is still a great story

 

2 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

Yes.  This needs to be reposted from time to time.  I think I might've been at that game.  I had never heard this story but it's outstanding, especially with the quotes from Texas coaches and players admitting they got duped by it and the fact that Leach never knew how effective it had actually been until the guy wrote the story about it years later.  

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  • It was spring semester of my soph year at tech and I was at the rec center swimming laps.  I pulled up the deck, sat up and removed my goggles. Then the guy in the lane next to me asks "how far d

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    strangulation!

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  • This is fucking sad. I’ve always respected Coach Leach for what he has achieved on and off the field; his willingness to speak his mind; his aversion to what everybody else would deem “normal” for a m

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His wife says something along the lines of "Oh, boy...Go, coach go," in a tone I can only translate as moderate, unsurprised bewilderment. She turns to the daughter, "Your Dad...he just doesn't care, does he?"

My favorite part of the story.  Wife & daughter, well experienced in his antics, fully resigned.  LMAO.

Dammit.

8 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

 

 

Yes.  This needs to be reposted from time to time.  I think I might've been at that game.  I had never heard this story but it's outstanding, especially with the quotes from Texas coaches and players admitting they got duped by it and the fact that Leach never knew how effective it had actually been until the guy wrote the story about it years later.  

especially given it was Tom Fucking Herman who was one of those GAs (if not THE GA).

10 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Horns up, Pirate. Sad day, CFB is worse off without Mike Leach. 

Football is worse off without him. But his and Hal Mumme's legacy is going to last a long, long time.

Just now, Rimbo said:

especially given it was Tom Fucking Herman who was one of those GAs (if not THE GA).

Jolly Roger > Jolly Mensa.

Incredibly sad shit.  No doubt one of my all time favorites and a treasure to all of CFB.  

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10 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

was he seeing a doctor , as most olds do , on a regular basis? No meds for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes , etc? 

And this is a good time for me, an old who is also a practicing internist, to remind all of you to mind your hearts. Especially  if you have a bad family history, get checked.  Get your lipids, your blood pressure, and your sugar checked regularly.  Get an ekg.  Get a calcium score (cheap and remarkably utilitarian). Maybe, if indicated, get a stress test and an echo. It wouldn't hurt you to exercise, lose a few pounds.  My long time partner and great friend fell over dead a few years ago at 56.  Don't be like that. 

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Went to grad school at WSU and the season he had with Minshew was the most fun that area has seen in a long time.

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Mike Leach dons a Gardner Minshew mustache postgame, hilarity ensues -  CougCenter

 

10 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

was he seeing a doctor , as most olds do , on a regular basis? 

Lulz.  I'm 59, so marginally "old" (or perhaps fully so), and I see my allergy doc.  As in, I only see my allergy doc.  I'm the classic American male -- I ignore everything.  I can only hope if some symptom gets annoying enough I'll go in to get it checked out, but I'm like all the other guys in my family:  "I don't have time to be sick."

As Warren Zevon suggested, this might be a tactical error, but it's really common.

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6 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

"I don't have time to be sick."

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Just now, strangulation! said:

you have over 26,000 posts on a message board

Well played!  + rep

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25 minutes ago, tx ind said:

 

“We care, but not enough to pay you or your family the money we owe you because sovereign immunity bro’l

“We care, but not enough to pay you or your family the money we owe you because sovereign immunity bro’l

That’d be hilarious if anybody cared enough about Tech to mock them.

RIP coach. Damn. Sometimes there’s a man for his time and place.

1 hour ago, Your Mom said:

 

 

Yes.  This needs to be reposted from time to time.  I think I might've been at that game.  I had never heard this story but it's outstanding, especially with the quotes from Texas coaches and players admitting they got duped by it and the fact that Leach never knew how effective it had actually been until the guy wrote the story about it years later.  

I was at that game. It was amazing. We were so pissed and confused by WTF was going on as OU easily built that 17-0 lead. 

CFB is really going to miss him. We have so few characters that aren't just the stereotypical hypercompetitive asshole type.

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He was something. Wouldn't be surprised if his final instructions call for a burial at sea.

  I have never heard that about the 99 OU game.   Wow.

44 minutes ago, strangulation! said:

you have over 26,000 posts on a message board

Yeah well your username kinda sucks today btw

1 hour ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

was he seeing a doctor , as most olds do , on a regular basis? No meds for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes , etc? 

You're aware he's a football coach right? I highly doubt it unless his agent made him. Then he'd probably find a new agent 

5 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said:

Yeah well your username kinda sucks today btw

i didn't really think that one through. probably not the last time

Man this is a new one to me.... NSIAP as I don't have time to go back through the thread.
 

 

  I have never heard that about the 99 OU game.   Wow.

Doesn’t look like anything to me.

Damn it. See ya on the other side pirate 

  I have never heard that about the 99 OU game.   Wow.

Where can one find this story?

Where can one find this story?

Never mind. I found it.

Of course it was Mensa.
Just now, tbone_ said:


Never mind. I found it.

Of course it was Mensa.

It was Casey Horny + Mensa. Don't forget Mensa brought that back after the Rayplor ordeal.

Man, I loved watching his interviews. I wish he would have retired 5 years ago and would have joined FOX or ESPN GameDay.

Unfortunately this hits too close to home. I had a STEMI (widowmaker) last November, 10 minutes after walking out of my cardiologist office. He had just given me clearance to have a prostatectomy after a stress test, EKG, ECG, and a calcium score. I waited an hour with severe chest pain and several other symptoms before going to the ER. No way in hell I was having a heart attack after walking out of my cardiologist office.  Doctor that I visited an hour earlier was the same doctor that put in my stent. He was shocked to see me to say the least.

My PSA. Don't screw around if you ever have chest pain. I'm middle-aged, not fat, don't smoke, and I exercise on a regular basis.

2 hours ago, tx ind said:

 

I dont get this. Why is it inside the stadium even? Jesus that post screams “look at me”

Fuck.

God speed pirate! May you find fair seas and more points of interest as you sail the great beyond. 
 

You will be missed!

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peace pirate. thanks for making the football fun

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25 minutes ago, mchookem said:

this just feels surreal 😥

Yeah, this just wasn't supposed to be happening right now. We were supposed to get a few more years of Leach being a goof in the SEC then him retired being a goof on TV.

Shattered for his family, just shattered. I don't know if he had grandkids or not, but that's a weird grandpa stolen away. 

damnit, this fucking sucks

Not gonna quote the long cat post of stories it came from, but I’m going to add “you gotta get your dick into it, point your dick at him” into my vernacular in Leach’s honor

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In December 2018, the Alamo Bowl had Leach’s WSU Cougars playing Iowa State. My son and I made this sign, knowing we were going to be sitting really close to the WSU sidelines. We were hoping to get Coach Leach’s attention with the sign, but the only reaction we got was from the sideline reporter - Tom Luganbill (sp?). He just shook his head and said basically “Wow”!

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A play sheet as if it was written on a dinner napkin.

Hook’em!

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