PULLMAN, Wash. — You’re damn right Mike Leach believes in ghosts. But more on that later.
We’ve only just begun walking and talking on his daily three-mile path to the office, and knowing Leach, it could go in any of a billion different directions.
“Once we hit this hill,” Leach says on a perfectly crisp day in The Palouse, “you can see everything.”
And he can say almost anything.
Donald Trump and Howard Stern. Goths and ghosts. Led Zeppelin and Van Gogh.
People and places and history come to life walking through the outskirts of town and into the heart of the Washington State campus, each connecting to Leach’s transformation of a struggling Pac-12 outpost into one of the sport’s elite.