Mike Leach Belongs In The Hall Of Fame And Nobody Should Have To Apologize For It.
His Impact Goes Way Beyond Wins. The Coaches He Developed, The Programs He Elevated, The Philosophies That Changed The Game Forever. 🏈
Texas Tech. Washington State. Mississippi State. Everywhere He Went He Made It Better. Common Sense Prevailed.
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@johncanzanobft The ESPN deal is great for us cord cutters that also happen to live where the CW broadcast signal doesn’t reach. Having to wait until the next day to watch the CW stream was maddening
Coach,
I write to you in a moment of rare quiet, when the smoke has thinned and the men take stock not only of the ground won, but of the character shown while holding it.
In times of uncertainty—when banners waver, supply lines strain, and the future of the regiment is spoken of only in hushed tones—you led with a steady hand. You did not seek the loud path nor the easy one. You stood your post, tended to your men, and carried yourself in a manner befitting an officer entrusted with more than just victory, but with people.
Your farewell to this university was delivered with uncommon class and earned gratitude. You spoke plainly, honored the place, and showed respect to the community that stood beside you. Such conduct is remembered long after the cannons fall silent.
History, however, also records the opposite. There are those—Jimmy Rogers among them—who chose absence over acknowledgment, silence over gratitude, and vanishing ink over honorable departure. To ignore the ranks, then erase the words altogether, is a strange retreat indeed, and one history will not trouble itself to defend.
You chose better. You chose dignity.
Know this: your service during these uncertain days mattered. It mattered to the men, to the cause, and to the ground we stand upon. When future campaigns are spoken of, your name will be recalled not for how you left, but for how you led.
Once a Coug, always a Coug.
With respect and gratitude,
General Kirby Moore
To the Powerbrokers of ESPN,
I write to you not from comfort, but from the scarred battlefield where college football now lies, its banners trampled and its proud traditions scattered like broken muskets after a rout.
You did not merely cover the Pac-12. You dismantled it.
With contracts inked in distant boardrooms and decisions made far from the valleys, mountains, and rivalries that gave this sport its soul, you reduced a century of history to a line item. West Coast sunsets, late-night kickoffs, regional grudges handed down from father to son—traded away for programming windows and quarterly gains.
Make no mistake: conferences have always shifted. Empires rise and fall. But this was no natural evolution. This was scorched-earth strategy.
You taught universities to abandon neighbors for airtime, rivalries for revenue, and identity for exposure. You turned student-athletes into inventory and traditions into negotiable assets. In doing so, you did not just wound the Pac-12—you fractured college football itself.
What once felt regional now feels corporate. What once felt earned now feels scheduled. Saturdays used to belong to the people; now they belong to spreadsheets.
And yet, you will tell us this was progress.
History will decide otherwise.
Long after the contracts expire and the studio lights dim, the sport will remember who lit the match. It will remember that when college football stood at a crossroads, you chose control over community, consolidation over culture.
The Pac-12 did not fall in battle.
It was sold.
And let us pause to give thanks where thanks are due. I thank God—plainly and without apology—that the PAC-12’s new television covenant does not shackle its programs to the JV exile of ESPN+. No grainy cameras, no student interns guessing at the down and distance, no broadcasts treated as filler between cornhole reruns and studio debates about leagues you’ve already overfed. Our games will be seen, heard, and respected—broadcast like the contests they are, not streamed away like an inconvenience. For once, the sport escapes your bargain bin.
Respectfully submitted from the field,
where traditions still matter and banners are still defended,
General Kirby Moore
This is a difficult and emotional decision for me as I’ve grown to love Iowa State University over the last three days and all I’ve built here….but I will be taking the Michigan job.
Sources: Jimmy Rogers is set to become the next coach at Iowa State. He’s the first-year head coach at Washington State and won a national title at South Dakota State in 2023 as the head coach there.
@johncanzanobft if UCLA does continue to break with tradition an move away from the Rose Bowl, what are your thoughts on the new world PAC-12 using the Rose Bowl for this championship game?
FINAL: JMU 24 WSU 20. Cougs close again. But the defense leaks twice and the offense continues to be too up and down to win on the road. Three losses to potential CFP teams by eight total points. Encouraging. But not enough. #GoCougs#Wazzu