Gasp! Mike Leach Curses at His Players Like Most Coaches

I am really going to miss Leach. If anything in these videos offends you, go watch chess or crouquet.

You’re right, Pablo. This guy made TT over-achievers by far. He struck fear into the Big 12, and opposing teams are breathing a sigh of relief that he’s gone.

both those videos are f*cking awesome. they make me want to curse.

f*ck!

love what he said about the prayers, too. "God squad." Heh. yea, if you’re praying it better be about football, as*hole.

Bear Bryant has not quit laughing from upstairs!

Go Tech

So what? My boss at work used worse language than that!

People that can’t express their thoughts without resorting to foul language are illiterate morons, but sometimes it’s funny to watch illiterate morons doing what they do best.

I’m guessing when these god squad members run into each other 20, 40, or 60 years from now, they will still be laughing at Leach’s absurd antics. 

He may be able to win college football games, but he’s really nothing more than a clown dressed up as a human.

Come off your high horse, qscft6y. Leach has an extremely high IQ. He was talking in terms which his listening audience understood. I know this will shock you, BUT COACHES CUSS! It is how they get their player’s attention.

Your reply has almost nothing to do with my comments. Why are you his apologist? His daughter maybe? Or just someone with a foul mouth that doesn’t like to face the truth about who and what you are. Try to go an entire day without any foul language. $10 says you can’t do it. Leach is a clown his players are laughing at and will continue to laugh at for the rest of their lives.

Wow, this is pretty lame for a locker room.  No wonder Tech lost as many as they did. 

qscft6y, I’ll bet the same $10 you have never played a team sport or been in the locker room of a successful team! To quote Keanu Reeves from The Replacements, "That’s why girls dont play the game coach". We will see how much laughing they do next year when they win half as many games!!  BTW, I’m not his daughter and I can easily go an entire day without swearing so stop being so sanctimonious!!

I can’t go a full day without swearing….but I don’t think that means I’m illiterate. I’m pretty sure most of these are spelled correctly. 
The fact is…the locker room is the teams (supposed) private area to get ready for, or to wind down from a game or practice.  If it bothers you that they get a little wound up, its just that their whole futures depend on it….and the ones that have no chance at going pro, well they are going just as hard, maybe harder, because they’ve worked hard their whole life, and they know there is no tomorrow. 
Coach’s job is to motivate, and also to manage his team. he’s like their parent……can’t always be a dad and a friend..sometimes you gotta pick one

and qscft6y………Of course they’re gonna laugh about it down the road….because they all went through it together!  It’s called a "TEAM"

I said he’s a winner as a college coach. I, same as you, figure they will win less next year without him.

Neither of those things lead to me respecting this clown, which is the differentiating factor between me and you/Pablo.

If a winning team is all you need to believe the coach is great then hooray for you.

I look for more than that. To me, value is generated in how you get there as much as that you get there.

It is so funny to me to hear a clown like Leach questioning the character of his players when he so obviously has character problems himself.

Coaches cuss. No kidding. My point is he can hardly string 2 sentences together without dropping a MF bomb, among many other things. 

John Wooden never used one cuss word his entire coaching career. I guess John Wooden and Mike Leach are at complete opposite ends of this spectrum. I’ll look to respect coaches that are more like John Wooden than like Mike Leach.

Well there ya go…if Wooden would have swore more, maybe he would have had some success………..Wooden = 8 titles in a row……pretty impressive ….Swearer’s =  Every other title……..even better

but really…….the players might not be pro, but the coaches are. They don’t volunteer their time to come down to the gym and babysit.  He gets paid to win.  That simple

John Wooden also paid most of his players while they were there. Maybe if Mike Leach were paying his players he wouldn’t have to work so hard to motivate them. Good for you that you have respect for someone who cheated the system for most of the time he was the coach at UCLA. BTW, that information comes from some of his players, it’s just not something discussed because we wouldn’t want to tarnish his legacy!

And maybe he really can’t string 2 sentences together……..he’s not an english teacher…he’s the football coach

More swearing = more winning.  Of course.  How could I be so stupid. I stand corrected.

historical fact…sorry

Actually what I’m saying is the opposite…should be past the swearing all together…people talk different everywhere you go…..I work in the oil patch…not a place where people say please and thank you.  Look past how they talk to get to what they’re saying sort of thing

Like I said, work in the oil patch, so I just have an opinion, not a hypothesis.

Regarding the Wooden vs. Leach style argument, I guess it was the swearing that enabled Texas Tech to win all of those conference and National Titles, right?

    Really, that’s the best compasison you can make John 100 year old Wooden and Leach. Totally different eras and sports. 

qscft6y – it is obvious that you never played a down of football in your life. I don’t respect Leach because he cusses. His profanity does not sway me one way or another. This is just his "style" of coaching, and it was effective. He went toe-to-toe with schools that had a lot more resources and talent than he had.

Your assertion that all people who who use profanity are "illiterate morons" is…moronic.

What I said was "people that can’t express their thoughts without…" which is very different than if I had said "all people who who use profanity are….." which is how you quote me.

Illiterate means can’t read and write. Does that ring a bell? No need to assume anything about you as you continue to do about me.  Your reading and writing says it all.

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Why do we admire people for intimidating and cursing kids? Does it
really make the kids "better" people or football players? Are football
players so lazy and unfocused that only four-letter insults and threats
can get them to perform their best?

My high school coach pulled
a scene like that after we lost a game to a team that out-weighed us by
an average 80 pounds.  Four of us seniors went into his office
afterwards and told him he’d lost a lot of respect of the team, and
that we couldn’t get other kids to try out for football because he had
a bad reputation.  Over the next couple of years he changed his act,
more people tried out for the team, and we started making the
playoffs.  Three years after that conversation, the team went to the
state finals.

Just because you put up with it doesn’t make you
brave or manly.  It just means you were too intimidated to do anything
about it.  Could you have walked into your coach’s office and said, "We
don’t need that, and we don’t deserve it?  If you want something more
out of us, just ask for it?"

OK just fired every coach who swears and see what happens

Motivation by profanity works up to a point—but you better also have some good schematic ideas and adjustments otherwise you are flogging a dead horse.

Leach has issues—he’s not alone among head coaches in that category. His abrassive personality played a role in the lingering resentment over his new contract last year and left some bad feelings among TT administrators.
 
And based on some of the early trial witness testimony and cross examination—-this trial may have another "casualty"—namely Craig James of ESPN who repeatedly called, berated and threatened the Texas Tech football staff and administration to the point that Leach was fired in a hasty fashion to beat a dead line to pay him part of his brand new multi-million dollar contract stipend on the next day. 

There is talk that TT is trying to shift some of the blame about how this was handled (which is poorly) over the Mr James and his threats to sue the University over his son’s treatment while he had a concussion.

In hindsite—TT may be regreting what they have done (they’re in court now being sued with the bad political fall out and loss of alumni contributions) and Craig James probably would not have had much of a lawsuit case since his son testified he was not being seriously abused or harmed by sitting in an equipment garage while practice continued.

Not only has Leach lost his job—but Craig James may end up in trouble over at ESPN and lose his job at the network if this gets ugly before a verdict comes out in the case.

This is a Lose-Lose-Lose situation.

They pay you like a multi-million dollar executive, they expect you to behave like one, and that includes respecting and protecting the corporation, which in this case was TT.  Leach was all about Leach.  People like that have little margin for error.

Say what you want about Saban, every press conference he did after the title game, he deflected questions about his own success to his AD, the University president, and the fans of Alabama.  He’s arguably the best coach in college football (definitely top 3), and he never stops praising the hand that feeds.  Mack and Urban are the same way.

Bottom line — Leach may know offensive Xs and Os, but for the all the yack about his law degree, he doesn’t strike me as being all that smart.