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🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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The entire college football community collectively mourned the passing of legendary, long-time head coach Mike Leach on Tuesday.
Leach died at 61 following a cardiac event that necessitated Leach being rushed to the hospital over the weekend. He never recovered.
Ben Garrett and David Johnson share their thoughts on Leach and his legacy in this edition of Franchise Player, a site-crossover podcast of the Ole Miss Spirit (On3) and Inside the Rebels (247).
They also provide the latest in Ole Miss football recruiting, including a pair of transfers visiting the Rebels on Tuesday.
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0:00.0 | What's up, players? |
0:03.0 | This is the talk of champions, franchise player. |
0:07.0 | Always boss player. |
0:09.0 | Forever. |
0:10.0 | Welcome into franchise player. |
0:20.0 | I'm Ben Garrett at Spirit Ben on Twitter. He's David Johnson at Rebels 247. |
0:24.9 | I write for the Old Miss Spirit on three and David writes for inside the Rebels 247. David, |
0:29.5 | my friend, how are you? You feeling better? |
0:31.6 | Good, Ben. Yeah. Feeling better getting a, getting my voice back a little bit, not singing yet, but feeling better. |
0:40.8 | And, you know, it was such a strange day on Monday, such a somber day with everything going on |
0:48.5 | with Coach Mike Leach. |
0:49.7 | And I think it's only appropriate that we talk about that a little bit before we get into |
0:57.2 | all the Ole Miss stuff that's going on as well. |
1:02.6 | Certainly our thoughts and prayers go out to Coach Leach and his wife Sharon and their four children |
1:09.4 | and grown children, but children nonetheless |
1:12.9 | during this very difficult, difficult time. |
1:18.5 | And certainly difficult for the family, but difficult for the college football world as well. |
1:26.0 | It is. |
1:26.5 | I was talking to my wife about it yesterday because he's been in bad shape for |
1:30.2 | multiple days. And she didn't know who Mike Leach was. And for me, it was kind of profound, you know, |
1:37.1 | because for a lot of us, the best we can do is hope that people outside of our family, |
1:43.5 | we left some type of impact on everybody, you know what I mean, the people we can do is hope that people outside of our family, we left some |
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