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And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to Move the Sticks with DJ Buck back together again here.

Buck, some sad news here in the football world with the passing of Mike Leach, really a legendary coach,

someone who went to places where it was notoriously difficult to win and did win in a big,

big way.

You think about what he did at Texas Tech, Washington State, Mississippi State, not only a winner

as a coach, but a very unique personality, a very

innovative guy throughout his coaching career. And, you know, when the news came that he had

passed, you know, we definitely knew we wanted to do something on the podcast and talk about it

between us. And then the more we thought about it, we thought, you know, we had great

conversations with him at a couple different Pac-12 media days. So we're going to use this podcast today. between us. And then the more we thought about it, we thought, you know, we had great conversations

with him at a couple different Pack 12 Media Days.

So we're going to use this podcast today.

Kind of honor Coach Leach.

We're going to play back some of those interviews as well as kind of go through some of the

statements and some of the things are being said about him.

But man, it was really a gut punch here to learn of this, uh, this sudden passing of Mike Leach. Yeah, really, really sad day to, um,

wake up to the news. You knew he was, uh, in, in a difficult situation, you knew he was

hospitalized and people were saying that things didn't look great, but you're always

holding out hope for a miracle and that things would turn around.

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