{"id":7289,"date":"2022-12-13T10:31:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=7289"},"modified":"2022-12-13T10:31:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:31:31","slug":"rip-mike-leach-1961-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/rip-mike-leach-1961-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Mike Leach (1961-2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world of college football is mourning the sudden passing of Mississippi State Bulldogs head coach Mike Leach, who died on December 12 at 61 following complications from a heart condition.<\/p>\n<p>Leach is widely considered one of the greatest offensive coaches of the last few decades. After a string of assistant positions he landed his first head coaching gig at Texas Tech in 2000. Here he is on the front of a program from a Red Raiders game at Ohio State.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/wiki\/index.php\/Ohio_State_Buckeyes_vs._Texas_Tech_Red_Raiders_(August_24,_2002)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/wiki\/images\/thumb\/3\/36\/Ncaaf-program_2002-08-24_tt-osu.jpg\/600px-Ncaaf-program_2002-08-24_tt-osu.jpg\" alt=\"Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders (August 24, 2002)\" width=\"600\" height=\"792\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders (August 24, 2002)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From Lubbock, Leach went on to coach Washington State and Mississippi State. While he enjoyed some success at both schools his coaching legacy was largely built on his 84-43 record &#8212; including five bowl game victories &#8212; at Texas Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world of college football is mourning the sudden passing of Mississippi State Bulldogs head coach Mike Leach, who died on December 12 at 61 following complications from a heart condition. Leach is widely considered one of the greatest offensive coaches of the last few decades. After a string of assistant positions he landed his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[746],"tags":[284,748,26,747,116,14,493],"class_list":["post-7289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-2000s","tag-748","tag-college-football","tag-mike-leach","tag-obituaries","tag-programs","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","wpcat-746-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7291,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions\/7291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}