In a statement, Leach’s family said, Mike was a giving and attentive husband, father, and grandfather.As a final act of charity, he was able to participate in organ donation at UMMC.
More sports coverage on FoxNews.com can be found by clicking this link: Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach looks for his players after Saturday, September 24, 2022’s NCAA college football game against Bowling Green in Starkville, Mississippi. 45-14, Mississippi State won.
Mike Leach, the head coach of Mississippi State, looks for his players after Saturday, September 24, 2022’s NCAA college football game against Bowling Green in Starkville, Mississippi. 45-14, Mississippi State prevailed. According to the school, Leach passed away as a result of complications from a heart condition.
Mike and I were together in the locker room three weeks ago to celebrate an exhausting victory in Oxford.
Mike Filter really embraced life and lived in such a way as to leave no second thoughts. That is a commendable inheritance. The Leach family be blessed these days and hours by God.
After working as an assistant under Bob Stoops at Oklahoma in the latter part of the 1990s, Leach got his start as a college head coach at Texas Tech University in the year 2000. Additionally, he worked as a head coach in the American Football Association of Finland.
On Oct. 15, 2022, in Lexington, Kentucky, the Mississippi State Bulldogs will play the Kentucky Wildcats at Kroger Field. Head coach Mike Leach will be there. Andy Lyons/Getty Images) MIKE
Leach took over as head coach of Washington State three years later and helped the Cougars rise to prominence. Again, he would set up an offense in which Anthony Gordon and Gardner Minshew each had more than 4,000 passing yards in their seasons.
He led Washington State to an 11-win campaign in 2018 during his eight years at the school. With the Cougars, he went 55-47 and 2-4 in bowl games.
Leach moved to Mississippi State in 2020, where the Southeastern Conference already had many of the best coaches in the sport. He had a COVID-related season in which he went 4-7, but the year was saved by winning the Armed Forces Bowl.
Mike Leach, head coach of the Mississippi State Bulldogs, before the game against the Auburn Tigers on Nov. 5, 2022, at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Mississippi.
Mike was an innovator, pioneer, and visionary. He was a great coach and college football icon, but he was also a great person. The fact that we all knew Mike Leach makes us all better. His wife Sharon, his children, and the entire Leach family are in the thoughts and prayers of Mississippi State University and the Bulldog family.