What he & Hal Mumme did at Valdosta ST & Kentucky revolutionized the game & then what Leach went on to do at Oklahoma & TTech changed College Football forever.
Legitimately the most innovative & evolutionary/revolutionary Coach the modern game has ever seen, his passing concepts have pretty much been ingrained in the fabric of CFB Offense for the last two decades, to the point that even Offenses that don’t run his style still incorporate what he taught in their system, that’s monumental.
How you leave this world your works & your legacy is what speaks for you & the fact that Leach has arguably the greatest & without question the most vast Coaching tree in College Football history speaks volumes in itself & represents the impact he had on the game.
Even more importantly, Leach gave a wide array of Coaches a chance, he gave them an opportunity to progress forward & accomplish their goals & dreams as Coaches, which gave them the same power to give others opportunities just like they had gotten from Leach. He opened the door for a number of High School coaches down in Texas to get the chance to display their coaching acumen, which thus then opened the floodgates for dozens & dozens of other programs to follow suit & do the same. He created bridge where conventional wisdom would normally block, because that was the kind of Coach he was, unorthodox, quirky, even could be categorized as “crazy”, but that was his special weapon that made him who he was; when everyone went Right he went Left, which made everyone go Left & follow behind him, but little did they know he was showing them the best pathway is to simply create your own.
No, he never won a National Championship & I personally never wanted him as a HC, but his students the Mike Leach disciples are without doubt some of the best coaches in the game today & have taken the sacred science & evolved it into what has become what the modern game is; Mike Leach left the game better than how he found it & for that alone he deserves all the credit in the world, but even more so, his legacy will last a lifetime because he changed College Football history & the numerous Coaches that came from under his tutelage are his Championship.
You never want to go in that way, but when it’s your time its your time & all you can hope for is that your loved ones get to make peace & say their goodbyes...
God rest his soul, RIP to Mike Leach
I loved coach I've started only one thread on CIS an it was to bring Leach to MIA! RIP Mr Pirate 
