Sunday night, Washington State head coach Mike Leach surprised some (though, perhaps not those who had been paying attention to Leach’s personal history) by tweeting out a heavily-edited video of former President Obama, supposedly in the interest of “discussion”. There was, predictably, immediate blowback, with many incredulous that a 57-year-old man in a near-dictatorial job who also talks about pirates a lot could have questionable political opinions.
But Mike? We understand.
Not the video, mind you. That’s stupid as hell and easily proven to be false. What we do understand is the desire as a head coach to prove yourself a free thinker, an iconoclast, someone who doesn’t just accept what they’ve always been told.