12-16-2023, 10:22 PM
(12-16-2023, 10:10 PM)WychesWarrior Wrote: A huge loss to the college game. Mike was a thinker, and he thought a lot about offensive football. I remember him here in Kentucky on Hal Mumme's staff. He was a gem....pressers and interviews are the stuff of legend. I miss Mike being around.
That was a tough one. Bob Stoops is a media guy working for Sellout crowd and has “conversations with coach” He interviews great national guests and local Sooner favorites. He was interviewing Mark Mangino recently. Mark a large human was on their first staff. Bob had all these K-State guys and Mangino was one. Mangino was OL coach. Leach was hired to run the Air Raid. The rest of the staff knew nothing about it. Leach was explaining it. Mangino said I’d like to incorporate some running plays from KSU as run game coordinator. Mike said sure you can design all you want but we’ve got 4 running plays and I won’t use yours once. Mangino knocks over their huge conference table and chairs. Bobs office next door and he said good grief it’s the first morning and we’ve got a brawl and runs next door. Mangino and Leach became life long friends. Bobby Jack Wright a coach that was on the staff and had been around great coaches assistants and head coaches said Leach was the best in game coach he’d ever been around on offense or defense in his lengthy coaching career.
Romo “ so impressed with Zac ...1 of the best in the NFL… they are just fundamentally sound. Taylor the best winning % in the Playoffs of current coaches. Joe Burrow” Zac is the best head coach in the NFL & that gives me a lot of confidence." Taylor led the Bengals to their first playoff win since 1990, ending the longest active drought in the four major North American sports, en and appeared in Super Bowl LVI, the first since 1988.
