Same happened to my mom at 58. Was treated for asthma by our small town doctor for several years, but it was an enlarged heart all along.
Find yourself a good doctor and use them.
Mike Leach is awesome and he will be missed.
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Find yourself a good doctor and use them.
Mike Leach is awesome and he will be missed.
I missed that originally; thx for sharing. Good dude.
Journalism ethics are strange. This guy isn’t going to break “the news,” but does everything but that.
Ha! True story and there are hundreds of other similar stories.
Quick story…
My parents went to the bowl game and by chance the three of us (plus one other staff member) ran into Leach in a hotel hallway. Leach stops us to chop it up with my parents because he knew I was from Iowa (presumably b/c the conversation was mostly around Iowa as I remember).
After the conversation (not quick, maybe 8-10minutes) Leach moves on. My father states (father is oblivious to Leach’s personality)
“That’s your HC? He seems nice but kind of weird, not what I expected him to be like.”
My response (or to the effect); “Yes dad, that’s coach and he’s crazy smart. Earned a law degree and decided to get into coaching.”
(Other staff member is almost in tears laughing witnessing this exchange)
Dad responses, “Why did he do that?”
My response, “Would you wanna be a lawyer?”
*Brief time in Lubbock but fond memories. Great college town.
My parents went to the bowl game and by chance the three of us (plus one other staff member) ran into Leach in a hotel hallway. Leach stops us to chop it up with my parents because he knew I was from Iowa (presumably b/c the conversation was mostly around Iowa as I remember).
After the conversation (not quick, maybe 8-10minutes) Leach moves on. My father states (father is oblivious to Leach’s personality)
“That’s your HC? He seems nice but kind of weird, not what I expected him to be like.”
My response (or to the effect); “Yes dad, that’s coach and he’s crazy smart. Earned a law degree and decided to get into coaching.”
(Other staff member is almost in tears laughing witnessing this exchange)
Dad responses, “Why did he do that?”
My response, “Would you wanna be a lawyer?”
*Brief time in Lubbock but fond memories. Great college town.
Good taste is to allow for the family or close friends to be notified before reporting it to the general public. That doesn't always work out.
Sounds like he's going to lay off his sources and just wait for announcements from the family.
Bill Snyder just tweeted that Leach has passed away
An innovator, with a bonus of dry wit/quotability.
Chuck Klosterman summarized Leach’s impact & philosophy in a chapter from “Eating the Dinosaur,” (written when Leach was at Texas Tech, but it applies to general approach to offense that also succeeded at Wazzu and Mississippi State).
(Scroll to “3a”)
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A key Leach quote from the excerpt (even better if you imagine hearing him say it):
“There's two ways to make it more complex for the defense," Leach told journalist Michael Lewis, writing for The New York Times Magazine. "One is to have a whole bunch of different plays, but that's no good because then the offense experiences as much complexity as the defense. Another is a small number of plays run out of lots of different formations. That way, you don't have to teach a guy a new thing to do. You just have to teach him new places to stand."
Chuck Klosterman summarized Leach’s impact & philosophy in a chapter from “Eating the Dinosaur,” (written when Leach was at Texas Tech, but it applies to general approach to offense that also succeeded at Wazzu and Mississippi State).
(Scroll to “3a”)
Klosterman: "Eating the Dinosaur"
In an excerpt from his book "Eating the Dinosaur," Chuck Klosterman breaks down the game of football.
A key Leach quote from the excerpt (even better if you imagine hearing him say it):
“There's two ways to make it more complex for the defense," Leach told journalist Michael Lewis, writing for The New York Times Magazine. "One is to have a whole bunch of different plays, but that's no good because then the offense experiences as much complexity as the defense. Another is a small number of plays run out of lots of different formations. That way, you don't have to teach a guy a new thing to do. You just have to teach him new places to stand."
Kind of agree but unless I’m not understanding the link, that was posted behind a paywall on 247. Then a member posted it on Reddit.
So the original 247 guys was just updating subscribers, not trying to report to the masses
