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From reading elsewhere, I understand that he had been fighting pneumonia and suffered a serious (massive?) heart attack.

I wonder if he'll return to coaching if he survives this.

He looks older than his years. He's 61 and looks a lot older than I do, and I'm 68. He looks older than Nick Saban does, and Nick is 71.

The only MSU game I watched this season was their game against the ags, and I didn't really pay attention to what he looked like.  But there were folks on surlyhorns commenting for about the entire second half of the season, that he did not look well, on the sidelines. 

Right now it's sounding pretty final.  I wish it weren't so.

Reported that he passed last night. Donated organs.

His Tech teams were frustrating, since he was always working to score if there were only seconds left on the clock. In my mind, 17 point leads were pretty solid in that era. He could whip out 3 touchdowns in 6 minutes if you took a break.

He himself never played the game, but used his problem solving abilities to leverage everything the offense could squeeze out. Afterward, he'd discuss piracy or the size of his players' girlfriends. No one really knew what was next, nor why.

The game is a little less interesting today without him in it.

RIP Coach Leach. 

I always hoped he could elevate msu just enough to disrupt Bama and the other behemoths the way he did Texas and OU. 

Godspeed, Pirate.  

A one-of-a-kind he was.

And the agent of much change in the way football is played.

He built a fantastic coaching tree.

Swing your sword, you old Pirate!