re: Most true statement you’ve heard a coach say about their opponent?

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Maybe Alabama doesn't come back in the second half. It's all Alabama. We can't tackle them right now and… who knows why. You know, they're big and physical. I guess I do know why.

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“I've always felt that being a Cougar prepares you well for life. You learn not to expect too much.”

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But see, I don't care's not satisfactory at all, and you're going to get caught in a catch-22 — and I'm certain that you already have — and that catch-22 is, 'Well I want you to be a part of this too, so what color invitations?' 'Alright, the blue ones.' 'Well I kind of like the tan ones' — 'OK the tan ones then.' 'Oh you're just saying that because you want this over, you're not even thinking about it' — which is, of course, true. 'What do you want for dessert?' 'I was thinking strawberry shortcake.' 'Oh, OK, strawberry shortcake would be good. Well, what about the blueberry pie?' 'Well I like the blueberry pie. We could have the blueberry pie' — 'Well I thought you wanted to have the strawberry shortcake?!'" Leach said

"And it's just gonna go back and forth, and they're just going to play keep away from you until after you're married. There's no answer that you give that's going to be satisfactory or correct. And if you successfully please a few of them, a few others will be 'Oh, well I just don't feel like he's that interested,'" Leach said. "So you need to work late, go in the back room and read a lot of books, take the groomsmen out so you make sure that they march in just right, and they know exactly, you know these swell outfits that you picked out, or however you're doing it. And in the end, you'll wish you eloped. You need to find excuses that they'll buy to be as far out of harm's way as you possibly can."
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Bet he'd like to have that one back right about now.

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That game mattered about as much as LSU's 9-6 win over Alabama in 2011

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Here are the facts. The facts are, for significant portions of this season, this team has felt like they are entitled to something just 'cause the team before us won 11 games, and some of us participated in that. Well that's fricking bullshite.

You see it happening around the country with some teams too. You know, everybody says what's wrong with this team, what's wrong with that team, odds are it's something similar. Odds are it's something similar. You know, as a team we act like, well, we're 11-2 and we just have to [mumble mumble] frick that. You know, as a coach I didn't [mumble] call, the plays I called last year, they're all last year, they're just that; last year. As a player any play you made, that's all last year.

And I'll tell you another thing. Some of you mother frickers didn't play a snap last year? I mean if you're a receiver and you think you got credit because of Michael, because of one of Michael Crabtree's plays, you're out of your fricking mind, Michael Crabtree made that play! Graham Harrell made that play. Rylan Reed made that play. And over there on defense, the same thing. You know, you think, uh, you think you made that play? No, no Charbonnet made that play. Daniel Charbonnet. I mean, Darcel McBath made that play. Not you. Not you. I mean none of that shite adds up to this fricking year. [mumble] None of it.

But the thing is it hasn't sunk in. And as coaches we failed to make it sink in for the duration of this year. Now, failed to make it sink in, well how do you make it sink in. Well you start by probably cutting some people. You start by getting some people who are more mentally tough. You start by benching people. You start by rolling the frick out of somebody. I mean that's the fact of the matter.

But I'll tell you -- here's how the season went, with all of our unsatisfactory games.

Ok, against Texas, we'll play it close. We play that mother fricker close, and everybody's mommies and daddies are telling them how great they fricking are 'cause we played it close. frick playing it close, we lost the god damn game to the University of Texas and we could've won the mother fricker. Ok then based on that, the wealth of material that we did vs. Texas, we go play Houston, and the honest truth is, we're thinking well don't you remember, we're fricking 11-2 Texas Tech, we're just a little too good to play at Houston. When we lost our fricking asses, because we thought we were too good to fricking play.

So then, we get on a roll, we do some good things, and we play Texas A&M. And we lost our fricking arse 'cause we thought we were too good to play Texas fricking A&M. Now how in the frick can that be? Because we beat Kansas State? Because we put a thing on Kansas State as they put on A&M? bullshite! How many of those plays were we able to dial up. How many? How many plays were we able to dial up? Not a fricking one.

Alright, so then, we go play, uh, Oklahoma State where we go play together. We spent the whole day playing with nine. And I don't quite understand why we spent the whole day playing with nine. But we spent the whole day playing with nine. That's what happened. And, and, and I don't think, I don't know that we thought we were too good to play but we spent the whole day playing with nine.

Ok. And then we came out and play these mother frickers, and for two years in a row we thought we were too good to play. They thought last year's, the mighty 11-2 team, did not one of their fricking plays count this year? We thought we were too good to play Baylor. We thought we were too good. The mighty Red Raiders, oh yea, poo poo, fricking Baylor. frick you. And frick me. And frick everybody. That is fricking bullshite.

And then we come out this year, after they rub our nose in the fact that we, they, that we're not too good to play with them and they do the same fricking thing this year. Because we don't fricking listen, and we can't pay attention to history, and we only half-arse fricking pay attention and listen! Because we want to tell everybody, yea at one time I was 11-2. Well that doesn't make you shite anymore! That doesn't make you shite.

Oh but we're a young team, and then in the back of some of your minds, even though we don't talk about it, oh but we've been injured. frick that. frick. That. You know it's fricking bullshite, and I want that shite changed. I want that shite changed. As coaches we need to change it, as players we need to change it. We can't deal with success. As soon as we have a little bit of success, we think we're too fricking good.

Ok, last year, we beat a team that's going to put, or last week we beat a team that's going to put a bunch of draft picks in the NFL. Yea we did, but that was last fricking week! That wasn't this week. That was last, fricking, week! That was last week. That wasn't this week. And so we're too good to play Baylor. frick us. That ain't true. You know, shite, what are our three goals, they beat us on all of them. Be a team. Be the most excited to play, be the best at doing your fricking job. They beat us on all three. They didn't win the game, but they beat us on all three.

Now, as coaches, we're going to meet, and we're going to meet, and we're going to decide what we're going to do this next week, and I don't know what it's going to be; I haven't quite decided. But I'll tell you one fricking thing. We do not have the mentality and identity that we need to beat a team that we need to beat. And I'll tell you that there's a couple of you guys, uh, that your current living situation is going to change.

You know, I was sitting there, you know, we've got several of you, uh, particularly on offense, that all you do is pull mediocrity out of one another. Well you're going to live somewhere else. Last time I checked, we're paying the fricking bills. Last time I checked, you said you were either coaching or allowing it to happen. Well is this going to fix anything? I don't know. But I'm not going to sit there and watch people room together and be fricking mediocre.

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