Big Boo Cast: Episode 194

This episode is brought to you by a Twitter wager wherein Sophie and I were able to get over 1,000 likes on a tweet asking if Coach Mike Leach would be a guest on our podcast. As it turns out, sometimes Twitter can be used for good.

The result is a delightful conversation with Coach Leach about football, which SEC coach would win in a bar fight, his favorite books and some thoughts on bad calls by officials. If you know me at all then you know I brought up DeShazor Everett and that wrongful targeting call back in 2013. I will never let it go.

We hope you enjoy because we sure did.

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Show Notes:

– Coach Fran

– Nick “Lou” Saban

– Coach Mike Leach

– The video that made Sophie clap her hands when Coach Leach was named head football coach at Mississippi State

– Melanie predicted Coach Leach’s hiring (go to 47:23 in the episode)

– The tweet that brought Coach Leach to the podcast

– The very strange Egg Bowl ending that set the wheels in motion for Lane Kiffin and Mike Leach to move to Mississippi colleges

– The Texas Tech / Texas game that Coach Leach remembers very fondly

– “Texas Back in 1880”

– Melanie’s Deshazor Everett heartache

– The Last Dance

– Michael Lewis

– Bill Bryson – The Lost Continent

– Henry Crumpton – The Art of Intelligence

– Operation Odessa (not for the children, and a little racy at the beginning, but Melanie says it’s fascinating)

– Narcos (again, not for the children, but again, Melanie and P are fans)

– Swing Your Sword by Mike Leach

– Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior by Mike Leach

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