'Steve Spurrier was with him, and he said, 'Mike, they’re in 2-man.' He goes, 'What the bleep is 2-man?'' An oral history of the mad football genius of Mike Leach — one of college football's greatest offensive minds.
Eric Mele, Washington State and Mississippi State assistant:This year, we had a late night. He’s got to go to the bathroom, so he gets up and leaves. We’re in there for 15 or 20 minutes, just standing there. We went by his office door and his door was shut – and he was doing Cameos!. I ask him: “Hey, Coach, what do you want here?” We had 1:17 left and were down by three. He goes: “Ummm. Probably a touchdown.” I made a mistake . He came up to me and was getting after me pretty good.
The Texas game in 2008, the game that his whole Texas Tech era gets remembered for. We were winning the whole game and they scored late to take a one-point lead. We get the ball with a minute and a half left. Right before he sends me out he’s like: “Hey, if we score, we win.” And that was the end of it.We’re playing Oregon my senior year. We’re up by like 17. I’m checking runs and short, quick-game passes at the end, trying to run the clock out.
We were in crunch time. Grinch called a timeout so we could strategize and game plan, so the whole defense is huddled up right off the sideline. We’re trying to hear what Coach Grinch has to say. He’s in there with a whiteboard, trying to tell us what we’re going to run. Then here comes Coach Leach.We’re really pressed for time, and it takes him like 20 seconds to get all the way to the middle. He goes: “All right, listen, listen. Everybody listen up.”He goes, “Don’t let them get a first down.
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