Athletes on Reddit

Mike Leach 1961–2022

College football coach known for the Air Raid

u/MikeLeachAMA ↗AMA only

How we know it's theirs

His 2012 r/CFB AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 3 posts and 85 comments from u/MikeLeachAMA, dated 2012 to 2014, most often in r/CFB and r/IAmA.

Best moment

A redditor wrote in r/CFB

On “Swing Your Sword Reddit! I am Mike Leach Head Football Coach of Washington State AMA.”

I'm a Freshman at Washington State and I'm new to Pullman. I've got a first date with a girl and I was wondering if you might have some recommendations?

u/MikeLeachAMA replied

First take her to CDs Pit House BBQ in Moscow, ID. If she will get her hands dirty with some great BBQ, you will know you are on the right track! Then I would go enjoy the incredible college life…

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First take her to CDs Pit House BBQ in Moscow, ID. If she will get her hands dirty with some great BBQ, you will know you are on the right track! Then I would go enjoy the incredible college life on College Hill at WSU but make sure you have the opportunity to talk to her a lot.

More moments

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I am Head Football Coach and NYT Best Selling Author Mike Leach.”

The team is down by 15 with four minutes left when it punches in the ball on the outside zone read that hasn't worked all day but finally beats the WILL who's starting to dog it late in the game. Geronimo is the head coach. Does he go for 2 now, or kick the PAT and wait for the…

u/MikeLeachAMA replied

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Geronimo's speed and tenacity in adverse conditions is going to allow him and his band of Chiricahua Apaches to score swiftly with that much time left. Illustrated in my book, "Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior," they prepared for situations like this and were raised to respond to them starting as children. They would never flinch in a situation like this. Going for 1 or 2 would be based on their evaluation of the opponent, the terrain, and the resources they had to work with.

A redditor wrote in r/CFB

On “Hello again CFB, I am Mike Leach Head Football Coach of Washington State”

If you could go back and be an assistant coach under any head coach, who would you want to learn under?

u/MikeLeachAMA replied

Really I would like to draw from a lot of them. It's awfully hard to nail it down to just one. If I could observe a coach handling people in their program it would be John Wooden.