Mike Leach would have taken the job with the Tennessee Volunteers if it had been offered, according to the school’s former athletics director John Currie. That’s the biggest of a handful of revelations about the Washington State Cougars coach from a series of documents from the University of Tennessee obtained by media outlets as part of a freedom of information request.
Just how close the two sides were to an agreement, however, is still a bit unclear — it’s a bit difficult to follow the specific timeline with regards to Leach from the handful of electronic communications that pertained to him.