[JohnR34231]

I can’t believe people here like Mike Leach. He is a racist and an a-hole and a piece of sh!t excuse for a human being.

I hope KJ reconsiders. I always said a coach has a big impact on a student athlete’s development into a man and that no parent should let their child be influenced by Leach.

Leach has already damaged their recruiting probably for a decade, embarrassed  his university, alienated his program from his community, and has just put a of immense proportions, of immense proportions target on his team for some pissed off opponents. Leach should pray there is no college football this fall — qbs 5 deep may not be enough for the revenge people will take out on his team.

Mississippi State Football Coach Must Visit Civil Rights Museum After Noose Tweet
Mike Leach shared a meme on Twitter of an older white woman under quarantine knitting a noose for her husband. He later removed the post.

The first-year football coach at Mississippi State University has been reprimanded and must visit a civil rights museum after he recently shared a meme on Twitter of a woman knitting a noose, the university’s athletic director said this week.

The coach, Mike Leach, 59, who has since apologized for the post, also must participate in a series of listening sessions to “expand his cultural awareness” of the state, John Cohen, the athletic director, said in a statement on Tuesday.

The meme, which Leach posted on April 1 and later deleted, featured a black-and-white image of an older white woman with knitting needles. Its caption read, “After 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit him a scarf.”

But instead of a scarf, a hangman’s knot was on the woman’s lap, an image that critics said was highly offensive and evoked the lynchings of black people in the Deep South. At least one player on the football team has announced his plans to transfer because of Leach’s tweet.
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Fabien Lovett, 20, a defensive tackle who grew up in Vicksburg, Miss., responded to his coach on Twitter with an expletive. Lovett said in an interview on Wednesday that he was upset by Leach’s tweet and was seeking to transfer because of the post.

“We’re in the South,” Lovett said. “We’re in Mississippi. Stuff like that plays a of immense proportions role in our family, especially black men. Our ancestors were lynched.”

Lovett said he was dissatisfied with the university’s response and with Leach’s apology, which he described as insincere.

“That’s the prime example of why I need to leave Mississippi,” he said.

I don't think there is anyone on this site that particularly likes Leach. I do think people recognize the fact that he is a pretty effective football coach. After all he beat us four years in a row, and I don't think anyone would argue Wazzu had superior talent to us during that time.
Leach has gotten away for a long time with saying and doing what he wants without particularly caring if people get offended or not. Perhaps this is his wake-up call.

[JohnR34231]

I can’t believe people here like Mike Leach. He is a racist and an a-hole and a piece of sh!t excuse for a human being.

I hope KJ reconsiders. I always said a coach has a big impact on a student athlete’s development into a man and that no parent should let their child be influenced by Leach.

Leach has already damaged their recruiting probably for a decade, embarrassed  his university, alienated his program from his community, and has just put a of immense proportions, of immense proportions target on his team for some pissed off opponents. Leach should pray there is no college football this fall — qbs 5 deep may not be enough for the revenge people will take out on his team.

Mississippi State Football Coach Must Visit Civil Rights Museum After Noose Tweet
Mike Leach shared a meme on Twitter of an older white woman under quarantine knitting a noose for her husband. He later removed the post.

The first-year football coach at Mississippi State University has been reprimanded and must visit a civil rights museum after he recently shared a meme on Twitter of a woman knitting a noose, the university’s athletic director said this week.

The coach, Mike Leach, 59, who has since apologized for the post, also must participate in a series of listening sessions to “expand his cultural awareness” of the state, John Cohen, the athletic director, said in a statement on Tuesday.

The meme, which Leach posted on April 1 and later deleted, featured a black-and-white image of an older white woman with knitting needles. Its caption read, “After 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit him a scarf.”

But instead of a scarf, a hangman’s knot was on the woman’s lap, an image that critics said was highly offensive and evoked the lynchings of black people in the Deep South. At least one player on the football team has announced his plans to transfer because of Leach’s tweet.
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Fabien Lovett, 20, a defensive tackle who grew up in Vicksburg, Miss., responded to his coach on Twitter with an expletive. Lovett said in an interview on Wednesday that he was upset by Leach’s tweet and was seeking to transfer because of the post.

“We’re in the South,” Lovett said. “We’re in Mississippi. Stuff like that plays a of immense proportions role in our family, especially black men. Our ancestors were lynched.”

Lovett said he was dissatisfied with the university’s response and with Leach’s apology, which he described as insincere.

“That’s the prime example of why I need to leave Mississippi,” he said.

I don't think there is anyone on this site that particularly likes Leach. I do think people recognize the fact that he is a pretty effective football coach. After all he beat us four years in a row, and I don't think anyone would argue Wazzu had superior talent to us during that time.
Leach has gotten away for a long time with saying and doing what he wants without particularly caring if people get offended or not. Perhaps this is his wake-up call.