Mike Leach was no football coach.
It was his life’s work, of course, and he did it far better than most, leading 19 teams to bowl seasons and completing the 2022 regular season as the major-college ranks’ fifth-winningest active coach. But Leach couldn’t really be put into any box. He was a Bigfoot expert with a law degree, a pirate aficionado who taught college courses on insurgent warfare, an outdoorsman who passed hours at a time with his nose in a book, and an occasionally irascible man who more often was incredibly patient, especially when being interviewed, which, delightfully often, would turn into holding court.
