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Leach is a horse's patoot for sure, and I've never been a fan of him coaching at Stanford.



But let me ask you this:  do you really even think the notion of lynchings in the south crossed his mind when he made his attempt at virus humor?  I do not.  Should it have?  Maybe.  But if you have no history in the south, and are not prone to think along lines that "a noose" = "lynching," then I find it not all surprising.  Not having a "sage, world view" about all things/issues - especially not one that comports with your own "sage ,world view" - is not a big offense in my book.

Snorlax evidently begs to differ.



Put it this way:  I'm more tweaked that Stanford has lost to Leach and WSU four years in a row (could easily have been 5), even though WSU's talent was below Stanford's.  I could give a rat's ass that Leach has stuck his foot-in-mouth again . . .

You are correct that he was probably oblivious rather than malicious.  As to "having no history in the south", his wiki tells me that he did get a master's degree in Alabama, and then there was that time he spent coaching in Texas (YMMV whether that is considered "the South", but there was certainly a history of lynchings in Texas).

BC

BC -- I agree with you.  

fwiw, Mike Leach also coached at Valdosta State (GA) in the early '90s under Hal Mumme.  while he was living in Valdosta, locals held a remembrance of the 75th memorial of a lynching rampage in Valdosta.  while the lynchings were just brutal, Mary Turner's murder was the worst in the rampage.  she was 8 months pregnant at the time.  she was tied up, hung upside down on a bridge near where her husband was hung, doused with gasoline and then burned to death.  and then the story gets worse.

Leach may have missed this one annually for years while living in Valdosta, but he would have to have been under an extremely large rock to be insensitive to lynchings in the South.

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Leach is a horse's patoot for sure, and I've never been a fan of him coaching at Stanford.



But let me ask you this:  do you really even think the notion of lynchings in the south crossed his mind when he made his attempt at virus humor?  I do not.  Should it have?  Maybe.  But if you have no history in the south, and are not prone to think along lines that "a noose" = "lynching," then I find it not all surprising.  Not having a "sage, world view" about all things/issues - especially not one that comports with your own "sage ,world view" - is not a big offense in my book.

Snorlax evidently begs to differ.



Put it this way:  I'm more tweaked that Stanford has lost to Leach and WSU four years in a row (could easily have been 5), even though WSU's talent was below Stanford's.  I could give a rat's ass that Leach has stuck his foot-in-mouth again . . .

You are correct that he was probably oblivious rather than malicious.  As to "having no history in the south", his wiki tells me that he did get a master's degree in Alabama, and then there was that time he spent coaching in Texas (YMMV whether that is considered "the South", but there was certainly a history of lynchings in Texas).

BC

BC -- I agree with you.  

fwiw, Mike Leach also coached at Valdosta State (GA) in the early '90s under Hal Mumme.  while he was living in Valdosta, locals held a remembrance of the 75th memorial of a lynching rampage in Valdosta.  while the lynchings were just brutal, Mary Turner's murder was the worst in the rampage.  she was 8 months pregnant at the time.  she was tied up, hung upside down on a bridge near where her husband was hung, doused with gasoline and then burned to death.  and then the story gets worse.

Leach may have missed this one annually for years while living in Valdosta, but he would have to have been under an extremely large rock to be insensitive to lynchings in the South.