Mike Leach has taken his act away from Lubbock, Texas, but his voice still rings out at Texas Tech thanks to two locker room rant videos first obtained by Orangebloods.com and also posted over on Buster Sports.
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↵First, the video from the Oct. 31 game against Kansas, which was a 42-21 win.↵
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Gasp! Mike Leach Curses at His Players Like Most Coaches
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↵Where do you even begin? First, Leach’s (somewhat rough) quotation is from Revelation 3:16, which reads “So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth.,” in the New International Version of the Bible. Or do we point and chuckle at the fact that Leach is cool with his players praying ... so long as it’s directed toward football. I’m guessing his characterization of religious players as “God Squad” guys will maybe take a few people back. On the plus side, we all learned a valuable lesson: If you’re not totally focused on offense, defense or special teams, you’re “defying the book.” (I was unable to find the scripture passage on that one, Coach Leach.)↵
↵But that wasn't the only clip to come out on Thursday.
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↵The second clip originates from the Nov. 28 win against Baylor. It was another win -- 20-13 -- but you wouldn't know it from Leach's displeasure with his team. Language is extremely not safe for work.↵
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↵Coaches scream and curse at players all the time, so what’s really the big deal with this second clip? It’ll make great bleeped SportsCenter fodder and they can play that “F*** Baylor! F*** You! F*** Me!” over and over again. I’m sure it’ll get trotted out as an example of he’s somehow a loose cannon, but people who believe that are naïve to what a locker room is really like.↵↵Perhaps I’m being overly conspiratorial here, but there’s one last puzzle piece with these videos, and that’s the timing of their release. When we last left the Mike Leach saga, the AP had informed us that Leach would begin giving oral and video depositions on Friday (today). This report came out on Monday. So on the eve of his deposition, these videos that could potentially shift some public opinion about Leach just happen to come out? It’s curious timing. ↵
↵↵Clarification: Orangebloods.com said they were able to get these videos through a Texas Open Records Act request, which means these videos probably came from the school’s network, as opposed to some rogue camera phone video. The shots are too high quality and from an angle to be that sort of thing. These look like cameras that Leach would’ve been well aware of.↵
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