Mike Leach goes on scathing rant after reporter's recruiting question following loss to Washington
Washington State head coach Mike Leach is well-known for his press conference rants. Whether it’s aliens, or Thanksgiving food, his whimsical ramblings can entertain anyone.
However we saw a different side of it on Friday, after a seventh consecutive Apple Cup loss to Washington. Leach went on a scathing rant, following a question from Jon Blanchette in the postgame press conference.
The question came when Leach attributed the loss to having lower recruiting rankings compared to Washington, in the eyes of the media. Blanchette followed up, asking if that means Leach is not supposed to beat teams with higher recruiting rankings.
“We certainly have before” said Leach, “we didn’t win this one, and I don’t care to have a big discussion with you on it because I don’t really care what you think.
“You run your mouth on your little column and stuff, like some sanctimonious troll, where you’ve never been fair or even-handed with us so I really don’t care what you think” continued Leach.
“You can live your little meager life in your little hole, and write nasty things and if that makes you feel even you go right ahead.”
Leach upset Washington during his first season in 2012, but has lost every matchup since. The Cougars finished the regular season at 6-6.
Check out the entire rant here:
Mike Leach was asked about losing his 7th straight Apple Cup, said that recruiting has to do with it, then was asked if he wasn’t supposed to beat teams with bigger recruiting classes by Jon Blanchette, and then went off. Called him a sanctimonious troll. pic.twitter.com/jXmG328ZSu
— Brenna Greene (@BrennaGreene_) November 30, 2019
This sounds bad, but if you go and read this reporter’s writing, he is extremely critical of Leach. As a matter of fact, he called Leach a troll in one of his articles. In my opinion, sanctimonious was generous.
WE need Coach Mike Leach in the SEC.
Can you imagine?!?
I would love to see him at Lexington. A definite shot in the arm for our football program.
But first we would have to find an AD who would hold a coaching search.
leach would fill a stadium, with him offense, I would think high school quarterback would enjoy his passing game.
We recruit high school quarterbacks but few make it to the field. As long as we can get JUCOs, transfer portal, and wide receivers there is little need to recruit QBs.
Ketucky football: Nothing expected, therefore no disappointments.
He needs to take a year off, he seems burnt out. He would be must see TV on the Fox pregame, imagine Urban trying to respond to Mikes weird sh!t. Or he could go travel ancient battlefields across the world and write another book. Either way, dude needs to take a Vacation before he goes Bobby Knight on some idiot beat writer.
I like that dude. Seems almost everything he says is funny. Especially when he is angry.
I will NEVER understand the Mike Leach fascination.
Oklahoma won the national championship the year he LEFT.
He has been a head coach forever and has no conference titles, no major bowl appearances and a couple division titles to his credit.
Since he came on the scene LOTS of guys have come up with better versions of the spread and done more with it.
In fact some of his PREDECESSORS were running better versions of the spread and winning titles with it.
His QBs are producing diminishing returns. They aren’t throwing for nearly 6000 yards a season like B.J. Symons and Graham Harrell did.
Leach’s claim to fame was humiliating Mack Brown at Texas back in the day. No one remembers that it was Brown who in response popularized the RPO type stuff with Vince Young and Colt McCoy that so many, even NFL teams, use to this day because they win titles. Meanwhile practically no one still runs the Leach offense because it doesn’t.
Leach also has not shown that he can recruit, hire and develop top assistants or do anything required in building a great program. Yet, he is the guy that all the fans, boosters and journalists want to see get a big time job when all he has done in 19 years of head coaching is prove why he would be a disaster at any place with real expectations.
Amazing.
I agee.
The guy can’t recruit a quarterback to save his soul!
Leach would crash and burn at a top 10 program. But he would be perfect for Arkansas, and I mean that seriously.
Leach is right where he should be. The left coast where all the nuts roll out to.
Eventually Leach’s act will wear thin even in The Evergreen State. He reminds me a lot of a slightly younger Paul Johnson, whose quirky offense generated some success despite less than stellar recruiting. But he’s still owned by his in-state rival. And always tries to come off as smarter than everybody else, specially when methods are questioned. Like the option, it appears that defenses (especially the Huskies) have Leach’s offense down cold. At least the option had some recruiting limitations but you’d think an Air Raid attack could field more than a roster of 3 stars.