This weekend, Mike Leach will return to Kentucky for the second time as the head coach at Mississippi State. The Air Raid protege was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under Hal Mumme at Kentucky from 1997-98 and still has fond memories of his time in Lexington. Yesterday, he shared a few during his weekly press conference.
“Great atmosphere, you know, great atmosphere. Packed tailgate outside there that starts about on Thursday. As I walked from my office, which was under the stadium at that time, you’d walk right through the tailgate section, which was awesome and it was easy to get distracted from time to time.