Leach still lovable at OU
11/3/2008 7:23:44 AM
Bob Stoops said the only staffers inside the Switzer Center roaring over the result of Saturday night's Texas Tech-Texas game were equipment managers. Maybe so.
But deep down, even if they didn't project it, I'll bet Oklahoma coaches were about as giddy as the OU fans who went bananas when Michael Crabtree scored that touchdown. Has to do with the Big 12 race, sure, but also the guy who had just coached Tech to the biggest win in school history.
Simply put, Mike Leach still makes Sooner coaches laugh. Take last week's OU press conference, when Stoops was asked about following all of his former assistants scattered around the Big 12.
"I don't pull for Leach as much as I do those other guys," Stoops wisecracked. "They're in the South. Mike would appreciate my candor."
Leach was on the Sooners' staff for one year, but he pops up in conversation as if still around, a favorite topic of storytelling.
Here's another they'll share in the Switzer Center this week, courtesy of the New York Times' Thayer Evans: Leach spent a Texas postgame interview with a cup of coffee in his hand, quoting from "The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill."
"That’s Mike,” Brent Venables told Evans. "He’s got a lot of thoughts. He’s got a lot on his mind."
The Sooners have Leach on theirs, and that's something they can smile about as their week begins.
-- Guerin Emig
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