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Mike Leach Speaks Out On ‘Joyless’ College Football Season

SAN DIEGO, CA - DECEMBER 28: Washington State head coach Mike Leach walks off the field at the end of warmups prior to the Holiday Bowl game between the Washington State Cougars and the Michigan State Spartans on December 28, 2017 at SDCCU Stadium in San Diego, CA. (Photo by Chris Williams/Icon Sportswire)

Mike Leach is never afraid to speak his mind, and that’s part of what makes the Mississippi State coach so captivating. This college football season must be hard for Leach and everybody else involves. Every week there’s cancellations and postponements, and many teams have had a hard time getting by.

Leach spoke about how all the variables that have gone into this college football season have made the game itself less fun.

“The NFL does it one way, we do it another,” Leach said in part of his rant. “It’s just the constant stop and start and just the incessant change, adjustment, anytime you get committees involved in something, it’s going to be convoluted and twisted up and then the politicians are trying to beat their chest, and maximize on this at every step. In the end, together with all the commotion and clutter, we’ve created one of the most joyless seasons on earth. And hopefully we have the presence of mind to not repeat it this way again.”


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It sure sounds like Mike Leach is calling out the NCAA for how they’ve handled this season. I feel for Leach, and all the student-athletes, though. This whole year has been so unprecedented and they’ve had to sacrifice a lot to try to play football every Saturday. Hopefully this nightmare will be over soon.


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