Traveling Man

by Brent Schrotenboer
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
American Football Monthly July 2000 Issue OnlineSomewhere on the road between 19 cities in 11 states, Mike Leach found a way to climb the rope from the small time to the big time.

Call it the back-road plan for future coaching success. Leach, the new head coach at Texas Tech, never played college football, never coached at the Division I level until 1997 and never even really knew he wanted to be a football coach until after he earned his law degree from Pepperdine in 1986.

After law school, his path was filled with job after j...Login to Read More

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