Mike Leach contemplates the meaning of life during upset of Oregon
Go for two, or whatever... pic.twitter.com/rnKRnOTnyf
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October 11th, 2015 at 8:34 PM ^
Go for two, or whatever... pic.twitter.com/rnKRnOTnyf
— WSUFootballBlog.COM (@WazzuFBBlog) October 11, 2015
October 11th, 2015 at 8:37 PM ^
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October 11th, 2015 at 8:37 PM ^
For sure. College football's rich tapestry of different types of characters is part of what makes it the most interesting sport in America.
October 11th, 2015 at 8:49 PM ^
Perhaps he was thinking about which player of his he's going to lock in a dark closet next?
Or the fat little girlfriends that all his players have?
October 11th, 2015 at 10:10 PM ^
October 11th, 2015 at 8:39 PM ^
Is that at all taken out of context? Was he trying to listen to his headset? If not that is absolutely absurd.
October 11th, 2015 at 9:10 PM ^
October 11th, 2015 at 8:40 PM ^
Space cadet for sure.
I'd love to see what he, Gary Busey, and Matthew McConaughey would do if they were locked in one of those Lincoln's for 24 hours.
October 11th, 2015 at 8:51 PM ^
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October 11th, 2015 at 8:44 PM ^
WTF is this priceless piece of film. Unbelievable and awesome. It's like when my wife is trying to tell me something really "important" about one of her friends.
October 11th, 2015 at 8:44 PM ^
October 11th, 2015 at 8:44 PM ^
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October 11th, 2015 at 8:57 PM ^
when they had just scored a touchdown. Leach opted to kick the point and go to overtime, where they eventually won - which is why he was ignoring the assistant telling him to go for two.
October 11th, 2015 at 8:59 PM ^
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October 11th, 2015 at 9:31 PM ^
Seems a tad excessive.
October 11th, 2015 at 11:13 PM ^
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October 11th, 2015 at 9:22 PM ^
if they should go for two, not telling him.
October 11th, 2015 at 8:45 PM ^
was a fun guy back in the day.
October 12th, 2015 at 10:07 AM ^
i'm a huge leach fan. please regale us w/ a story or two.
October 11th, 2015 at 8:46 PM ^
CJK5H
October 11th, 2015 at 8:57 PM ^
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October 12th, 2015 at 7:46 AM ^
Allegedly
October 11th, 2015 at 8:49 PM ^
Don't smile don't smile don't smile.....didn't smile. #missionaccomplished pic.twitter.com/x4oSNALo89
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October 11th, 2015 at 8:49 PM ^
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October 11th, 2015 at 8:50 PM ^
I like how he sort looks up in reverence at...something...about halfway through that clip, almost as if to say, "Have you ever noticed th austere magnificence of a silenced crowd at Autzen? I certainly had not until this moment."
In any case, a very Leach look indeed.
October 11th, 2015 at 8:52 PM ^
WSU scores a TD with (literally) 0:01 left to pull within one. On the road, with a chance to pull a potentially program-changing upset, most coaches would have gone for the win tright then and there.
He didn't. He showed confidence his team would succeed on a SERIES of plays in OT vs.deciding it all on one play. Usually, a perceived underdog wants to increase variance vs. reducing it.
Leach is often a gambler but the "long-play" was the right decision here. Good for him and good for Wazzu.
October 11th, 2015 at 10:25 PM ^
By "right decision," you mean "wrong decision," then? Variance is the wrong variable; he should be trying to maximize win probability, not affect variance. If he has a play that he thinks is 60% likely to score a two-point conversion, he should go for it unless he thinks his team is > 60% likely to prevail in overtime. Given the talent level of the two squads, and the fact he was on the road, that seems unlikely. (Also, there needs to be a small correction for the actual probability of making a PAT, which is clearly less than 100%).
The only way in which this is the right decision is if his best two-point conversion play had something like a 40-45% chance of success, in which case, well, "Cougin' it" is the original "Clemsoning."
The only thing he was truly minimizing was the likelihood of being excoriated by ignorant fans and media members if he had lost.
October 11th, 2015 at 11:01 PM ^
And I offer you a bet that "let's flip this coin X number of times, where X is an odd number, and I bet that in the aggregate we get more heads than tails."
I want to maximize X. The more flips (samples) the better, at least for me.
If X is 1, my odds are 51%. If X is 11 (rough number of plays in an overtime), my odds of winning are about 53%. If X is 101, my odds increase to around 58%.
Leach basically had an attitude of "We may be on the road, we may be Washington State and they may be mighty Oregon, but I feel that we are better. I feel we have a greater than 50% chance of being more successful than Oregon on an individual play, so why play only one play, let's play more."
Maybe not a perfect analogy, but what I was trying to say in terms of "minimizing varience."
Leach also strikes me as a guy who doesn't care at all about the media and their Monday Morning Quarterbacking. He'll always do things his way.
October 11th, 2015 at 8:58 PM ^
October 11th, 2015 at 9:30 PM ^
for those who didn't see it, the craziest score of the day yesterday: Portland State 66, North Texas 7.
DESTROYED all types of records in terms of "biggest margin of victory for an FCS team over an FBS team", "most number of points scored in such a game", et cetera.
Also, here is the transitive property gone amuck: Michigan beat UNLV by 21, who beat Idaho State by 72 (!!!), who beat North Dakota by 6, who beat Portland State by 2, who beat North Texas by 59.
Thus: Michigan 160, North Texas 0.
October 11th, 2015 at 10:02 PM ^
Even better (because of the opponent)
Michigan beat UNLV by 21
UNLV beat Idaho State by 72
Idaho State beat North Dakota by 6
North Dakota beat Portland State by 2
Portland State beat WSU by 7
WSU beat Oregon by 7
MSU beat Oregon by only 3
therefore:
Michigan should beat MSU by 112
October 11th, 2015 at 10:57 PM ^
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"Go for two? Can someone go for something which does not tangibly exist in our world? Does two really exist at all or am I just doing this to cope with the ever imposing reality that I will die one day?"
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crazy coach is crazy.
October 11th, 2015 at 9:21 PM ^
I love the Air Raid Offense and therefore I like Mike Leach
October 11th, 2015 at 9:40 PM ^
I love it too. Kind of sad to me that people copy the Read Option offense RR and Chip Kelly brought to college football while the Air Raid seems less duplicated. If I had to pick an offensive philosophy, Air Raid would be my choice.
October 11th, 2015 at 9:29 PM ^
October 11th, 2015 at 9:35 PM ^
he's contemplating the decision and avoiding visual distractions while he does so. tilting up at the sky allows for a basically static view, sound in the background, and easier to go through the decision matrices of if/how/when he'd want to go for 2. and he made the right decision.
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