Nov. 30: Good to have Leach back in the game

I've been Mike Leach's biggest critic in the past, but it's still good to have him back in the game. I've written many articles about the man and stand by everything I've ever said about him. Here

In fact, I was booted from the paper for an article I wrote about him because he got butt hurt over it.


However, I'm happy for him and glad he's back, wont be as easy as it was at Tech because you can build a program with a good coach in this state. See: Art Briles

It's good to have a personality like his back in the game. I just hope he has matured and learned from his past and realized that nobody is above a program and that's an outdated concept to think anyone is.

Leach is the only coach I can name that made contract negotiations ugly and public, name another. You can't. 

He also would pay his own way to job interviews even when the team wasn't interested. He clearly thought he was better than Texas Tech. A lot of people will point to the current state of the program since his departure, but the Big 12, as I predicted, was getting better top-to-bottom at the end of Leach's tenure and he wasn't putting in necessary recruiting efforts to build on the momentum he had built.

We will see how Leach does at Washington State, but I can assure you that it will be much harder than Tech because even when you aren't getting top-notch recruits in Texas you're still getting guys that can flat-out play.

There were many schools that passed on Leach's services despite his efforts at trying to upgrade while in Lubbock. The bottom line is Tech and Leach was a perfect marriage, but Leach, contrary to what he says now, never embraced it the way he should have.

Maybe WSU will be the place where Leach earns the top-notch that nobody, except him and his team of misfits, thinks he deserves. However, he needs to keep the ego in check and realize that everyone in the world has to be able to work with their bosses and not be a complete pain in the ass to them, even college football coaches.

Mike Leach needs college football more than college football needs Mike Leach, hopefully he realizes that.