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Why Mike Leach's Texas Tech coaching tree is spreading everywhere except where it started

Mike Leach protégés are suddenly all the rage, to the surprise of many. Not the least the Pirate himself, who, when asked recently his thoughts on Kliff Kingsbury's hire by the Arizona Cardinals, answered, "I'm kind of curious myself."

Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but that's Leach. Don't ask him what he thinks of your baby.

Leach's own progeny are going everywhere except Lubbock, while the Pirate remains stuck in Pullman, Wash.

One development in the paragraph above is not necessarily unrelated to the other, in case you were wondering.

Before getting into how that could be so, consider the recent spread of Leach's coaching tree.