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The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Mike Leach's impact on college football

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

FOX Sports' lead college football analyst Joel Klatt remembers Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach. Leach died Monday night at the age of 61. His impact on the college football world was immense and included revolutionizing the passing game with his air raid offense, as well as producing a coaching tree of Lincoln Riley, Sonny Dykes, Josh Heupel, Kliff Kingsbury and more. Joel ends the podcast by sharing some of his favorite moments and stories of Mike Leach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome into the show today, everybody. I'm Joel clap. This is the Joel clap show

0:07.1

Obviously some heartbreaking news in the world of college football

0:11.5

Mike Leach has passed

0:15.0

After the unfortunate

0:17.9

News over the weekend

0:20.6

Of the cardiac event that he suffered on Sunday

0:26.1

Obviously, I knew Mike pretty well and

0:28.4

I just wanted to come on and give some

0:32.8

Perspective of of what my thoughts are when I hear about

0:37.9

This tragedy first and foremost. I just want to say that I've been praying for Mike and his family over the last few days

0:45.9

That that he would heal and and obviously that didn't happen, but

0:50.8

I'm still praying for his family

0:54.0

Uh, obviously the the pain and heartache is is something that is is real and

1:01.2

My heart just goes out for for all of you. This this is a

1:06.2

Terrible

1:07.5

Terrible day in the world of college football, but obviously in his family

1:12.3

what I wanted to do today is

1:15.5

Let you in on just kind of

1:19.2

What has come flooding to me over the last couple of days in regards to my

1:23.6

And what he's meant to our sport you can't really encapsulate

1:28.0

The man

1:29.5

That he was outside of the sport and unless you were part of his family, so I don't want to try to do that

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