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Mind of Micah

Read, Pt. 2: The untold story of Mike Leach's 'lost' OU play script that fooled Texas

Mind of Micah

MWBK Creative

Comedy

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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RIP Mike Leach.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to mind of Micah today on the program. It's the return of Micah's

0:10.3

re of the week. The untold story of Mike Leach's lost OU play script that fooled Texas.

0:18.1

In part one, I offered some reflections on Leach as a coach, as a man, and the legacy

0:25.0

that he leaves behind after his untimely death at 61 years old. Sad. Anyway, I will read from

0:37.9

the piece we started at last last time, but I will restart because there's just a couple

0:42.1

paragraphs. And before we restart it, a note, get stocked up now for holiday time with

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1:14.5

to be around your in-laws. And most importantly, be ready for dry January. Let's go. promo

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code algo at earlybirdcbd.com. You can thank me later. All right, the untold story of

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Micah Leach's lost OU play script that fooled Texas. Few rivalries in sport fuel as much

1:37.4

hostility and pressure to win like college football's annual red river showdown between

1:41.4

Texas and Oklahoma. As we mentioned, during pregame warm-ups of that year's red river

1:46.4

showdown in 1999, an underhanded script outlining OU's opening offensive plays was spotted

1:53.0

on the field by one of Texas student assistants who scooped it up and took it along horned

1:57.7

defense coordinator Cargo Reese. We were trying to figure out if it was authentic, Reese

2:02.3

said, we were in a state of can you believe this? They shouldn't have. It was fake. Part

2:08.9

of that plot hatched by leech the sooner's offensive coordinator and consulted by the

2:13.8

long horns who quickly fell behind 17 nothing before realizing they'd been duped. That

2:20.7

does sound like Mike says former UT coach Mac Brown unaware of the script at the time.

2:26.5

I do know this offensive coordinators are so careful with those scripts. They wouldn't

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