has zany mike leach tweeted out any alex jones-style obama videos that are edited to alter the words recently?
Wait, you are telling me that mike leach at some point tweeted some crazy shit? Well that’s not why I am here. Oh wait, that’s exactly why I am here
No that's definitely from last year, although I'm sure someone will ask him again and get a similar response.
http://arizonasports.com/story/1798629/mike-leach-kliff-kingsbury-air-raid-nfl-aliens/ What’s your official alien stance? “My suspicion is there are. First of all, we know there are galaxies beyond ours. We don’t have a very thorough knowledge of our own. I’ve always found it to be just a crazy, incredible, incredible coincidence that we would be the only planet of all the specks out there that has life on it. I don’t really think it was an accident that our planet does. Betters would say, ‘Well it’s impossible. How can there possibly be life on another planet?’ Well if there’s life on ours, how could there possibly not be life on another planet? “The notion that we’re so unique and so lucky that something like a bolt of lightening hit a pile of mud or something and all of a sudden something started wiggling around in it … No. Somewhere I think there is life on another planet.” Do you believe in bigfoot? “That’s big in Washington, the bigfoot stuff. I would like to. I wish there was bigfoot, you know, and then I think go out there and stop the family vacation car, ‘Oh, look children, there is a bigfoot.’ I wish there was bigfoot, but I don’t believe there’s bigfoot because I think you’d find bones at some point, I think there would be bones. I think, you know, ‘This is a bigfoot thigh bone’ or something. They haven’t even found bones.”
HCA: Mike Leach has strong opinions about the air raid working in the NFL Leach thinks his offensive would work just fine in the NFL... And don’t you dare even talk about how none of his quarterbacks take snaps under center. By Jeff Collier on January 16, 2019 5:30 am Mike Leach has officially hit peak offseason mode. The Washington State head coach joined the ‘Cliff and Puck’ with Cliff Avril and Jason Puckett on 950 KJR-AM Seattle on Tuesday. And, in classic Mike Leach fashion, he joined the show during his lunch break at Harpoon Harry’s diner in Key West (where he was finishing up a meal of “ham, poached eggs, whole wheat toast and grits” in case you’re curious.) Spoiler The interview touched on the usual topics including his take on the impact Gardner Minshew had on his team, potential gradate transfer quarterbacks (“I’m not sure yet”) and a quick preview of his potential class at WSU. But some of the most interesting pieces focused on Mike Leach talking about how his offense would relate to the NFL. Last week, former Texas Tech head coach, and former Leach quarterback Kliff Kingsbury was named the head coach with the Arizona Cardinals. Kingsbury ran the air raid in Lubbock and will likely take parts of that scheme to Glendale on Sundays next fall. A lot of people doubt the air raid can make the transition to the NFL and compete with the talent on the field. Leach wasn’t a big fan of that take and took specific umbrage with one point he’s heard before. You can listen to the full interview here, but here are some highlights from the talk, starting with how his air raid concept would transition to the pros: I think [Kingsbury] will adjust it around the players he has and their ability... You can run the whole thing. Any notion that ‘anything you can run in college, you can’t run in the NFL.’ That’s just NFL arrogance and lunacy... I don’t see it so much out of coaches, I see it more out of media and scouts. They act like the NFL is so special and it’s something you can’t do in the NFL. ‘Well in the NFL the corners are guys like Deon Sanders and Revis’ and stuff like that. Well, Okay, then my receiver is Jerry Rice. It’s all relative. And then the best... I think the stupidity of the NFL hits a new low every time I hear this. ‘I’ve never seen the quarterback take a snap from under center.’ Oh really? You haven’t seen him take a snap under center.... You’re at the highest level. Somehow you’ve squirmed and crawled, probably very similar to Gollum from Lord of the Rings, and found yourself in the NFL and somehow you have the total inability to teach a guy to take a snap. Aren’t they proud to have you? Every 7th grade coach in the country can teach a guy to take a snap... Well, obviously it’s because he can’t. He’s got an inability to stick his hand under somebody’s ass and pluck a ball away once it’s placed at the top... (There was a whole lot more of Mike Leach mocking these hypothetical snap-doubters... But my hands got tired of typing.) On how much of the air raid he sees in the pro game: There’s a lot. Pretty much every time I turn the game on. I can go back to 1989 and turn on film and my offense still looks like my offense. None of these other guys can do that. On Kliff Kingsbury’s transition to the NFL as the new head coach with the Cardinals: I think offensively he’s running the same system that he did as a player in college. He did a good job running it as a player and he’s done a good job running it as a coach. There’s air raid concepts all over the NFL, it permeates the NFL. There’s more air raid teams in the NFL than not, despite what the NFL may or may not want to admit... I think offensively it will work out pretty well. All though I guess he hired an offensive coordinator and I’m not sure about that. I think I might be my own offensive coordinator. Leach was also asked if he would ever consider interviewing for a head coaching job in the NFL, himself: I’ve never ruled it out. The NFL is very dependent on who the owner is and who the GM is. I’d listen to it. It’s a league I haven’t been in... The closes I came was years ago. I was just appointed offensive coordinator at Oklahoma and they asked me to coach receivers with the Bengals and I stayed at Oklahoma because I had the opportunity to call plays at Oklahoma. It’s a good interview and, once again, you can listen to the full conversation here. But, be warned, Leach is talking on a phone in the middle of busy diner in Key West and — at times — things are a little hard to hear. There is plenty of chatter in the background, plates clanking together and at one point a strange voice can be heard calling the name “Ian” as clear as day. In other words: It’s exactly what you would expect a Mike Leach offseason interview to be like.
Professor Mike Leach Grades His Washington State Students' Play Design Skills https://www.si.com/college-football/2019/05/16/mike-leach-washington-state-insurgent-warfare-class-playbook?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=si-ncaafb&xid=socialflow_twitter_si Spoiler Toward the end of last year, Washington State football coach Mike Leach asked the university if he could teach a class with his friend, the former state Sen. Michael Baumgartner. They figured there was enough crossover between their respective fields that it could work. Baumgartner had worked in the United States Embassy in Baghdad during the Iraq War; Leach had an affinity for pirates, Geronimo and mesh routes. They’d call the course “Leadership Lessons in Insurgent Warfare and Football Strategies.” Leach sent out a tweet gauging students’ interest, and more than 44,000 people ended up liking it. This spring, the university green lit the class, and Leach and Baumgartner asked interested students to submit an application, consisting of two essay questions: 1. Can the British strategy for the Malaya Insurgency be used today? 2. Is the Wishbone a viable offense for the NFL? Why or why not? It seemed like a lot of work, considering this was an ungraded, un-credited seminar. The class would meet once a week, on Wednesday nights, for five weeks, and the sessions would last about 90 minutes each. (For what it’s worth, the fifth class would be a summation of the first four classes, open to the public and live-streamed online.) The students were essentially giving up one of their weeknights and adding an extra class to their courseload in exchange for … what exactly? A private audience with one of the brightest minds in college football, perhaps. Ultimately, 40 students were admitted to the class. Throughout the semester, Leach gave them a crash course on his famous Air Raid offense. He explained how, at its most basic level, the Air Raid is predicated on creating space and then devising ways to attack that space. Using game tape as a visual aid, he showed the students how he layered routes, moved players before the snap and tried putting the defense in compromising positions in order to achieve those ends. At the very least, the students left with a better understanding of what’s happening when they watch the Cougars play. As part of the students’ final project, Leach asked them to design three plays, under the premise that he might use one of them in Washington State’s game next season against Houston. “They were really quite impressive plays,” Leach says. “[There was] some dimension to them.” He also thought, intentionally or not, the students combined both aspects of the class in designing their plays. “There was an inclination toward trick plays,” Leach says. “We spent a good amount of time talking about insurgency and counterinsurgency, and probably the most memorable stories [Baumgartner told] were those that offered some level of deception, so the plays also have a little bit of sleight-of-hand and deception involved.” SI reviewed the students’ plays, picked out our five favorites, and had Leach analyze them. Here are the five plays, in no particular order: 1. HESITATION INTO “PICK & ROLL” Designed by Cody Cockreham Description: This play involves a good deal of showmanship. As the play develops, the X and Y receivers wave frantically at the quarterback, acting as though they desperately need the ball. Then suddenly, they both stop and relax at the same time, in an effort to trick the defensive backfield into thinking that the play is over for some reason. Once the defense lets up, the two receivers sprint off of each other, shoulder-to-shoulder, as a guard and a forward often do during a basketball pick-and-roll. Leach’s take: Of the five plays SI chose, this was the one Leach did not understand right away. He takes another moment to re-read the student’s description. “It’s really a delayed double-move play,” Leach says. “Same effect, kind of.” The difference here is that, before the receivers take off on the second move, they essentially play dead, hoping to lull the defense into a sense of complacency. Then the Y receiver is supposed to break upfield, using the X receiver as the pick man. “It could open up for a big play [for the Y receiver],” Leach says. “I think it’s sort of feast or famine. If you get them, you’re probably going to get all of it.” Leach is worried, though, that the play could take long to develop. If the defense blitzes and the corners don’t bite on the fake, the quarterback could be in trouble. But the student appears to have considered that, because, as Leach notes, the running back is there in the flat as a safety valve. “I actually think this could work,” Leach says. “I don’t think it’s an ‘every snap’ play. It’s a ‘sometimes’ play. It’s definitely something to think about, for sure.” 2. HUH? ALRIGHT, WELL, SEE YA LATER! (JIM CARREY, DUMBER AND DUMBER (SIC) (1994)) Designed by John Menard Description: This play takes the classic Emory and Henry formation and adds multiple wrinkles to it. In this version, on both ends of the line of scrimmage, tackles and the guards are lined up outside, next to a wide receiver. The center is all alone, and behind him are three quarterbacks. Together, the center and the quarterbacks form a diamond shape. The center apparently has the option to snap to any of the three quarterbacks, who can run, throw a screen route out wide, or potentially throw the ball downfield. The possibilities seem endless. Leach’s take: Leach’s first impression is, whatever you run here, the quarterback needs to get rid of the ball fast, because he doesn’t have any protection beyond the center. Leach also thinks you could throw a “pretty good screen” out of this formation, with the guard and tackle lined up out wide to each side. “But you’re kind of stuck with screens,” he says. “It’s hard to get very far downfield, because they’re going to be coming in, trying to pound you.” If Leach were re-imagining this play, he might not put three quarterbacks in the backfield. He suggests maybe swapping two of the quarterbacks with running backs or receivers, personnel that may be more dynamic with the ball and also more willing to block, to buy the quarterback more time. If Leach were to have three quarterbacks on the field, he says he’d try to run a double-pass, to justify having all of them out there. “As long as you have three quarterbacks in there, you can motion one of the quarterbacks behind one of the piles of the linemen and throw it to him, and he can throw it somewhere, too,” Leach says. 3. UNNAMED PLAY (LEACH: “THIS IS THE GUY WHO REALLY KNOWS HOW TO USE A RULER.”) Vaughn Beebe, Lewis Watson, Jarred Mac Description: This play uses a five-receiver set with an empty backfield. The receiver to the far left starts the action by coming in motion pre-snap. Once the ball is snapped, the quarterback hands the ball to the receiver in motion, who then continues a few steps toward the sideline and then tosses the ball back to the quarterback, in an inverted flea flicker. There’s also an option to shovel the ball to a slot receiver behind the offensive line. Leach’s take: “I like this play,” Leach says. “It’s a flea-flicker from a horizontal angle.” He thinks this play would be especially effective if you ran a fly sweep, too. “It looks like a fly sweep coming,” Leach says. “Then the fly sweep guy flips it back to the quarterback.” Leach’s concern is that the play will take long to develop, and therefore, you need to be mindful of where you have the receivers running routes. “Those routes could out-run the arm of the quarterback if you’re not careful,” Leach says, “because there’s extra time to [developing the flea flicker].” For instance, he would probably change the second receiver’s route. Instead of running an “out” route, he’d have that receiver run a post, over the top of the third receiver in the slot, who’s running a crossing route underneath. “I like how they’re layering it up,” Leach says. “I like the guy crossing there, because people are going to be incline to bite up [due to the fake fly sweep], so there could be space. That could be an easy throw.” 4. PLAY DESIGN 3 Austin Anderson, Gabe Arguinchona, Riley Hougan, David Winsor, Nick Ziegelmann Description: This is an option play specifically designed for the red zone. The quarterback takes the snap and starts running to his right and has five options of what to do with the ball. He can shovel the ball to the Z receiver, who is diving inside; he can toss the ball to the Y receiver, who is running a “rub route” off of the Z receiver, toward the outside; he can throw the ball to the H receiver, who’s running a crossing route downfield; he can pitch the ball to the running back, who’s running behind him; or he can keep the ball himself. Leach’s take: Leach seemed impressed by this play’s detail. He liked how the various options meshed with one another, particularly the “rub route” action with the Z and Y receivers. “I think what they’re doing with Z and Y is really pretty clever,” Leach says. “If they follow Z, you throw it to Y. If they don’t follow Z, you throw it to Z. That’s very simple.” The only thing is, Leach thinks five options may be too many for the quarterback to read, essentially, in a split second: “I don’t think the quarterback, as he takes the snap, can sprint out there and say, ‘Should I run? Should I pitch? Oh damn, I missed the Z. Should I shuttle pass it to Z? Or should I throw it to Y? Is Y going to sit there or is Y going to run his route?’ I think that’s too difficult.” Instead, if Leach were to call this play, he’d tell his quarterback to focus on only two of the five options, and he’d choose those two based on how the defense was playing them. “You could potentially run the play three times, and have two different options each time,” he says. “You could have two sets of options one game, two sets of options the next game, and then two sets of options the following game, and then start all over again.” 5. YANKEE CROSS James Dalton, Zach McBride, Kellan Sullivan Description: This play starts with the X receiver motioning across and taking a touch pass from the quarterback. The X receiver only has the ball momentarily, though. He quickly hands the ball to the Y receiver, who started in the slot to the right, and is now sprinting to the left, behind the line. The play appears to be part reverse, part counter, because once the Y receiver gets the handoff, he’s supposed to hit the hole between the left guard and the left tackle. The right tackle is also supposed to pull around to that side to clear a path. Leach’s take: Leach seems intrigued by this play, especially if he has the speed at the X and Y receiver positions to run it properly. He also likes the misdirection involved here, and the way the student designed the blocking scheme. “I think you can block it up pretty good,” Leach says. “The line play on it is kind of appealing. I like that play from the beginning.” His one concern is that the handoff between the receivers could get messy. “There’s a fear with the handoff, because it happens really kind of too quick,” he says. Instead, Leach would have the X receiver motion across, have his quarterback fake the handoff, and then have the quarterback toss the ball to the Y receiver, who can hit the gap the same as before. The X receiver would act entirely as a decoy, coming across the formation on a fake fly sweep. “It would probably work,” Leach says. “You can’t run it every time, but if you’re determined to run the fly sweep, I think it’s a good complement. I think it keeps them honest.” Leach says that all five of these plays were well thought-out, which may be the highest compliment he can give. “There was really no right or wrong answer [to the class assignment],” he says. “There’s a well thought-out play, and then there’s one where you’re just tearing a page out of your junior high playbook, without any real thought to it.” Now, will Leach run one of these plays against Houston? Or maybe another student-designed play from his class? He isn’t sure as of yet. “I just don’t want to promise anything,” Leach says. “We might—but different games dictate different things, you know?”
Lincoln was on radio again yesterday so they asked him for a Mike story, he said most are radio inappropriate but his g-rated one: they were in the meeting room going over film or something, and he gets a call on his cell phone. They hear him start chatting with the guy, asking what he needed and what was going on etc. Said most of Mike's phone calls are an hour minimum so they just turned and kept the meeting going or watching film or whatever. About 30 min in they hear Mike saying "Hello? You there? Can you hear me?" the call drops, so mike looks at his phone, calls the number back and starts talking to the guy again. Well another 30 minutes goes by and they say their goodbyes and Mike turns back to the room. They look back and ask who he was talking to, "oh some guy, had the wrong number" So not only did Mike Leach talk to a guy with the wrong number for an hour, after 30 minutes when their call dropped, he dialed the number back to continue the conversation
I remember years ago Leach called in to be interviewed by a local radio show in Eugene. In the middle of the interview someone walked into his office and he just starts having a full conversation with whoever it was while live on the radio. Zero fucks given that he was in the middle of being interview