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Woody Marks finally getting the chance to unleash his total skill set at USC
2 months, 1 week ago

Woody Marks finally getting the chance to unleash his total skill set at USC

LA Times  

As Woody Marks weighed his football future last winter, Darren Myles was frank with his former running back. “He’s showcasing it again, what he didn’t get to showcase the last four years at Mississippi State — that he can actually run!” USC running back Woody Marks runs through Utah State safety Jordan Vincent to score a touchdown at the Coliseum …

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Mississippi State fires Zach Arnett as head coach in 1st season after succeeding the late Mike Leach
1 year, 1 month ago

Mississippi State fires Zach Arnett as head coach in 1st season after succeeding the late Mike Leach

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Mississippi State fired Zach Arnett on Monday after less than one season as head coach, just under a year since he took over the Bulldogs after the tragic passing of Mike Leach from a heart issue. Arnett began this season as the SEC’s youngest head coach …

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Mike Leach is still part of Mississippi State, but there’s no sob story in Starkville
1 year, 5 months ago

Mike Leach is still part of Mississippi State, but there’s no sob story in Starkville

New York Times  

— Drive up to Mississippi expecting a sob story, one of a football program crushed by grief and trying to rebuild in the honor and image of the iconic coach gone too soon. 3: “We had a bowl game to win.” Mississippi State was 8-4 and in the midst of something of a breakthrough season in Leach’s third year. “I …

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Mississippi St rallies to win ReliaQuest Bowl, honors Leach
1 year, 11 months ago

Mississippi St rallies to win ReliaQuest Bowl, honors Leach

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! TAMPA, Fla. — Massimo Biscardi made a 27-yard tiebreaking field goal with four seconds left, Marcus Banks returned a fumble 60 yards for a touchdown on the game’s last play and No. 24 Mississippi State rallied to beat Illinois 19-10 on Monday in the ReliaQuest Bowl …

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Mississippi State hires DC Zach Arnett to replace Leach
2 years ago

Mississippi State hires DC Zach Arnett to replace Leach

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! 24 Mississippi State is promoting defensive coordinator Zach Arnett to head coach to replace Mike Leach, who died suddenly of a heart condition earlier this week. Arnett was put in charge of the team by Mississippi State officials in Leach’s absence. With the early signing period …

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Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach dies at 61
2 years ago

Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach dies at 61

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Gruff, pioneering and unfiltered, Mississippi State’s Mike Leach was one of the most influential football coaches of this or any generation. Thank you for sharing in the joy of our beloved husband and father’s life.” In 21 seasons as a head coach at Texas Tech, Washington …

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Mind of Mike: Expansive coaching tree part of Leach’s legacy
2 years ago

Mind of Mike: Expansive coaching tree part of Leach’s legacy

Associated Press  

When Mike Leach first moved to Mississippi State from Washington State, he stayed in the Left Field Lofts at the Bulldogs’ baseball stadium. Running the prolific Air Raid offense he learned from Hal Mumme as an assistant early in his career, Leach’s teams went 158-107 and often set records along the way. And that’s why he was able to turn …

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Mississippi St faces tough decisions following Leach’s death
2 years ago

Mississippi St faces tough decisions following Leach’s death

Associated Press  

24 Mississippi State will be playing in the ReliaQuest Bowl against Illinois on Jan. 2 in Tampa, Florida. “Our players are excited about going to the ReliaQuest Bowl and they will play in honor of Coach Leach,” Mississippi State interim athletic director Bracky Brett told The Associated Press. Brett said he would defer any questions on the search for new …

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Mike Leach dead: The Mississippi State coach’s Air Raid offense transformed college football.
2 years ago

Mike Leach dead: The Mississippi State coach’s Air Raid offense transformed college football.

Slate  

Most of the coaches who stand out as singular entities in the big sweep of college football got there because they won, won, and won. As author S.C. Gwynne chronicles in The Perfect Pass, a tome of the system that Mumme once told me I should read, the Air Raid was a radical shift when Mumme and Leach developed it …

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Pioneering college football coach Mike Leach dies at 61
2 years ago

Pioneering college football coach Mike Leach dies at 61

LA Times  

Mike Leach, the gruff, pioneering and unfiltered college football coach who helped revolutionize the passing game with the Air Raid offense, died Monday night following complications from a heart condition, Mississippi State said Tuesday. Riley made the most of the opportunity to soak up essential traits of Leach’s Air Raid offense, fast-tracking his ascent as a young college football coaching …

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Appreciation: ‘Call anytime.’ Football great Mike Leach always seemed eager to learn from others
2 years ago

Appreciation: ‘Call anytime.’ Football great Mike Leach always seemed eager to learn from others

LA Times  

Mississippi State coach Mike Leach looks across the field during a game against Georgia on Nov. 14. Sports Pioneering college football coach Mike Leach dies at 61 Mississippi State says football coach Mike Leach has died following complications from a heart condition at the age of 61. Today, with the official announcement that Leach died following complications from a heart …

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Kiffin plans to return; No. 20 Ole Miss falls to Bulldogs
2 years ago

Kiffin plans to return; No. 20 Ole Miss falls to Bulldogs

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! — Mississippi State coach Mike Leach admitted the Egg Bowl series with Ole Miss ranks among the nation’s elite rivalries in unpredictability. Just about the time you think it couldn’t get any crazier, it did.” Will Rogers passed for two touchdowns and Mississippi State stopped a …

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No. 2 Alabama, minus Jaylen Waddle, hosts Mississippi State
4 years, 1 month ago

No. 2 Alabama, minus Jaylen Waddle, hosts Mississippi State

Associated Press  

Mike Leach’s Air Raid offense has put up some big passing numbers, just not nearly as big as those produced by Nick Saban’s Alabama team. But quarterback Mac Jones and the second-ranked Crimson Tide have been prolific offensively while Leach’s first Mississippi State team enters Saturday night’s game at Bryant-Denny Stadium with an uncertain quarterback situation. “We’re playing a team …

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Costello’s 623 yards lead Miss. St. past No. 6 LSU, 44-34
4 years, 2 months ago

Costello’s 623 yards lead Miss. St. past No. 6 LSU, 44-34

Associated Press  

— New Mississippi State coach Mike Leach put his “Air Raid” offense in the hands of a transfer quarterback who showed up over the summer and the results were like nothing defending national champion LSU or the Southeastern Conference has ever seen. That’s just Leach’s philosophy.” LSU became the first defending national champion to lose its opening game since Michigan …

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