Coach Mike Leach: Using a Law Degree in a Non-Legal Career

[@burlingtonbill1]

I could listen to this guy all day. What a brilliant mind and down-to-earth speaker. Will be sorely missed! RIP, Mr. Mike!

[@seanfrancisep]

You will be missed coach. How crazy that you could have impacted a random teacher/coach from NY simply through personality. I feel like I lost a friend.

[@salemshepard6883]

Same here. He was a real inspiration.

[@josephlavigne1495]

Ive seen Mike riding his bike around key West numerous times.... I will root for any team that Mike is coaching!!

[@AcoolT5]

Leach's camera setup: professional grade. Kiffin's setup: my boomer boss on Zoom with the sun in the background.

[@MatthewHaislip]

Looks like our fantastic MSU athletics media folks set him up with a nice camera on a different angle for this video upload, but the Zoom video footage looks similar for the two of them 👍🏼

[@footballtalkwithfreddy8684]

Of course Lane is showing off the trophy in the background, next year that trophy is coming back to Starkville

[@slawdawg23]

Pepperdine Law School loves Coach Leach! A great person and a pretty darn good coach. You are greatly missed, Coach Leach. RIP

[@user-ke7kh4xm2e]

The College Football universe will miss Coach Leach and his character that (in my opinion) designates him as a quality "Human Being" who cared more for others, than he did himself! RIP Coach and my heartfelt sympathies and condolences to his entire family and the Mississippi State University community... #SwingYourSword

[@davidfletcher4999]

Prayers to Coach Leach and family for a speedy recovery! A very unique and refreshing personality.

[@noobworld7607]

Texas Tech fans miss you coach. You were different. One of a kind. The Best, and you did it your way. You were our fearless Pirate captain who will forever be in our hearts.

[@donaldallen1276]

You have to admire a man that has the courage to actually speak the truth. Every detail of his path on his road to the coach that he was, not sugar coating, possibly avoiding the embarrassed parts that most people might not speak of like ducking out and disappearing on his student loans, living in the hood in Los Angeles with bars on his windows. It's the things to me that really matters , making him even more realistic, trustworthy, and no matter who you are or where you're from, your instantly a focused fan. I believe he could have been an excellent military General like George Patton in WW11,with his smart way of attacking anything in life and abilities to make everyone want to fight for him , simply by listening to his thoughts and ideas, brilliant ✌️👽

[@ethanbeall6422]

this was very good, I love to listen to Mike Leach.

[@bradstribling]

Hoped my alma mater would take a chance on Leach after Tech railroaded him. But I quickly realized the faculty and administrators at Texas probably didn’t want a football coach that was smarter than 90% of the faculty.

[@rt3box6tx74]

It was Kent Hance. Kent grew up in my county... 65 mi NW of Lubbock. Kent had served a couple of terms in the House of Reps from this district. He couldn't stand that he was a nobody as long as Leach was at TTU. I'm surprised there wasn't an insurrection at Tech over the board's decision to cheat Leach out of his bonus. We couldn't fathom that he wouldnt win the lawsuits. I haven't been back to a game since. I love the annual requests for alum donations. I find it an excellent opportunity to tell them why I'll never give them another dime.

[@machomarty8238]

I'm somehow not surprised to find out that Mike Leach once lived in the barrio. Interesting fella to say the least.

[@lizziebeth5296]

Mike Leach will be greatly missed.

[@paulbatts4935]

This makes me want to cry :(

[@The_Austin.]

The entire country lost a giant of a man.. Miss ya, Coach.

[@js290]

15:51 don't think it was related to Escola v Coke, but old MSU material engineering prof told the story that it was cheaper to pay settlement than to redesign a one cent bottle cap from popping off injuring people.

[@williammac3735]

Thank you very much coach Leach for this experience I've just watched. My parents come from LC valley and I'm an Oregon State alumni. I've been a football player or coach ever since grade school flag football. I now run my grandparents ranch to the South of L/C. When you came to WSU and then spent a couple of weeks of your summer practices here we really appreciated that. I too respect Jerry Spence. My favorite phrase that he said was "The justice system is broke and it just can't be fixed." Let me just tell you that everyone in our area was so disappointed that you left, but most of us understand that you as a coach and as a man are where you want to be now. I still follow you, probably always will the rest of our years. Soon I'm headed to finish my bucket list and my cousin lives near the Everglades and I wanted to visit Key West in my camper and pickup. I really hope to meet you someday. Everyone here is rooting for Mississippi State trust me. Your replacement is a joke.

[@rt3box6tx74]

Any coach that followed Leach was doomed to mediocrity. At TX Tech Tommy Tubby followed Leach. Tubberville made a total fool of his arrogant self in Lubbock. Thought he could be a commuter coach on a $2M salary. Now he's in the US Senate, failing there too. Leach = GOAT! R.I.P. Mike! Swing that sword. 🏴‍☠️

[@SteveBlakes]

Go Beavers! 🦫

[@abrahamkim1078]

The air raid. It’s the splits. It’s the gap. It’s spreading the line. The most overlooked aspect of the air raid. The spread. Leach saying, the offensive line is his favorite position”, is the Easter egg of the offense.

[@rockdawg6723]

That was incredible!! Thank you for sharing!!

[@orangeblue789]

Love Lane Kiffen... shows that coaches don't have to be pricks to each other. Love Mike Leach too It's good for these to schools to get along better.. Respect both of them and pull for them when they are not playing Auburn.

[@northover]

From graduating with a law degree from Pepperdine to Coaching football in Finland and now in Starkville, this unique individual is a great addition to Mississippi State University. Fits perfectly with Mississippi State being the home of the Presidential library for General Ulysses Grant where a ten million dollar addition to the University’s library was added.

[@fortsonre]

Two coaches, zero f**ks between them.

[@mountaineerpaultalksfootba4782]

Or championships at the head coaching level. *smug smirk*

[@BabyBudders]

@@mountaineerpaultalksfootba4782 where has mike leach been that should ever even be close to a championship? 😂😂

[@J.R.Graham]

Great true story,book-"Cowboy Mafia"🌿

[@josephlavigne1495]

Everybody reading this should come to Key West and go to Captain Tony's to honor Mike Leach...... this was his favorite Watering Hole

[@horaceball5418]

Did you know that the Civil War was a fight not on slavery in states that had slavery, but it was a fight on whether slavery could/should expand into the new states and new territories.

[@kellybearden6416]

Morgan Scalley ,defensive coordinator at Utah. Is an attorney. Steve Young, hall of Fame QB. Untill Coach Leach arrived Howard Costello was the most iconic lawyer to explain the relevancy of football to the American experience.

[@maddymud]

Howard Costello used to hang out with Bud Grant Abbott a lot

[@terencewinters2154]

Donnie Walsh. Conflict and competition are what the two have in common. Blank vs Blank. WALTON s brother was a UCLA offensive lineman. . Whizzer White u.s. Supreme Court Justice. What law teaches that's similar to coaching is know your opponents case as well as your own . That requires perspective taking. Law School is like the marine corps training for the practicalities of life. Vandy had an A.D. lawyer who was a civil rights and securities law attorney.

[@jimwright2795]

If any of you read for pleasure, John Grisham wrote "Playing for Pizza," about American football in western Europe. Grisham always a good read. Sounds like the same 'league.'

[@jalex5016]

omg all of my love for lane kiffin hahah

[@tomwilliams9315]

Did you do more interviews for this series?

[@ktt2062]

Fair winds & following seas…..HAIL STATE!

[@jameswright7189]

I rather think that Leach can use 'big words' in the presence of mere football coaches and help them to understand the concepts. NOT that they could then go and USE the words.

[@lazysob2328]

Jay Bilas

[@stewartbridgforthiii5107]

I am Stewart Rutledge’s cousin and he is a freaking genius.

[@pathegdal5923]

He will be missed. RIP

[@terencewinters2154]

Uh ah not a barrister.

[@jerrygarcia4390]

🤣🤣🤣

[@kennethlowrey2902]

Go to law school if you want to become a lawyer. Don’t go to law school to become a coach, author, etc.

[@stephensloan1795]

Law school is a good education to have for any career field. The number of full-time attorneys and amount of litigation in the US creates a brain drain in other important fields.

[@joeking-cl5pc]

Haha…anyone hear Leach fart? 3:35

[@strokerace4765]

For all that education he can’t speak well-- uhh, and, Um etc… I notice it because I do it too

[@mitchelll3879]

Mike Leach is a nominal intellect, not nearly as smart as Mike Leach thinks he is..also I find him a boor, and wholly uninterested, and why would I care about pirates or dinosaurs?? I think Mike loves him some Mike Leach

[@rubbingisracing6951]

get well coach