That was literally the worse loss by an SEC coach in three years, because that's the last time Arkansas won an SEC game. October of 2017. And btw, he inherited a 6-7 program (which is the same record he had at WSU last year), not some hopeless 2-10 program that went 0-8 in conference... like Arkansas. Who again, beat him, in Starkville.
And of course he lost at home, because that's Mike Leach. Mike Leach is the definition of fools gold and there is always a desperate, ****** school with a ****** football program in nowheresville that will pop up once a decade and take a risk on him because of the allure of points and a pass-happy offense.
Here are other teams, besides 0-20 in the SEC Arkansas, that Mike Leach has lost to while head coach of a Power-5 program:
East Carolina
Kansas
New Mexico
Colorado State
Rutgers
Nevada
FCS school Portland State (honestly I didn't know they had a football team or even existed until Leach lost to them. At home).
Eastern Washington
Air Force
Let's not forget that in his last year at WSU he had a LOSING record including a .333 winning percentage in a weak Pac-10.
Let's also not forget he was suspended and then FIRED from Texas Tech for inappropriate treatment of his players and for insubordination. Leach tried to sue Texas Tech and was laughed out of multiple courts all over Texas.
Let's not forget that his idiotic re-tweet of a doctored tin-foil hat political video cost WSU $1.6M in donations. There was of course suggestions of racism discussed that have always followed him everywhere. He not only tweeted the conspiracy theory, but then argued with people online that pointed out that it was a hoax and kept going. Like a loon.
And of course, this leads us to MISS ST. where before even coaching a game, he outraged many of his players and the entire African-American community by tweeting a meme of a woman knitting a noose. A NOOSE. IN MISSISSIPPI.
There is a reason no legitimate program or school wants anything to do with him. He's had three major jobs, and has embarrassed himself and his University at each stop.
Look at his three jobs and you will see they all have the same things in common:
They are all academically inferior, rural universities (Lubbock, Pullman, Starkville) with bottom-dwelling football programs that are absolutely desperate to do anything to try to compete after having failed over and over to win, and they can't draw top coaching talent because they don't have much to offer.
It's funny to see dumb-*** fans of real schools and football programs that think any legitimate President or AD would hire him. But then again, the world needs ditch-diggers too, I guess.
"Within the college athletics industry, he is widely regarded as a ticking time bomb of embarrassment."