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For fans of Texas Tech, it's time to accept that they couldn't be mad if Leach left the program. His number is just up. But Texas Tech does have one thing going for it. Mike Leach is the hardest genius coach to hire since the New England Patriots hired Bill Belichick. He's weird. There's something off.
It's great for the media, who loved it when a viewer of his coaches show asked where do bring a first date in Lubbock. Most coaches would play it safe. Leach? He recommended that the viewer should bring the girl to a place that has very little salad so that she'd be forced to eat in front of him.
"When you first meet him, you think he's an equipment manager," former Tech wide receiver Jarrett Hicks told Michael Lewis in Leach's most comprehensive profile written three years ago. Even his agent told Lewis "it's hard to understand how he's a coach."
Not only is he different, from everything I've heard he has no interest in being a CEO, which football coaches have to be these days. He wants nothing to do with fundraising and all the things you'd have to do to be a head football coach off the field. He just wants to win games and be himself.
That's why he's perfect for Lubbock. They let him do what he wants in Texas Tech. The question is, who is willing to afford this Mike Leach if he doesn't change his opinions of being part of the business? Is it OK these days to just be a great football coach? We might have that answer if Mike Leach takes the job at Auburn, where the SEC is all about the coach as the figurehead on and off the field.
* Note: A report in the L.A.Times today says that Washington is ready to offer their head football coaching job to USC assistant coach Steve Sarkisian. There's no confirmation from Washington on the report.
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