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Mike Leach, the caput shot manager for Mississippi State University, died connected Dec. 12 astatine the property of 61. Read a moving tribute from his family.
In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2022
Mississippi State University is mourning the nonaccomplishment of a beloved member: Michael Charles "Mike" Leach.
The caput shot manager passed away astatine a infirmary successful Jackson, Miss., connected Dec. 12 "following complications from a bosom condition," the school confirmed. He was 61.
Shortly after, Leach's household honored his bequest successful a moving message. "Mike was a giving was a giving and attentive husband, begetter and grandfather," the family's Dec. 13 connection read. "He was capable to enactment successful organ donation astatine UMMC arsenic a last enactment of charity. We are supported and uplifted by the outpouring of emotion and prayers from family, friends, Mississippi State University, the infirmary staff, and shot fans astir the world. Thank you for sharing successful the joyousness of our beloved hubby and father's life."
MSU's president Mark E. Keenum besides paid tribute to Leach connected Dec. 13. "Coach Mike Leach formed a tremendous shadiness not conscionable implicit Mississippi State University, but implicit the full assemblage shot landscape," Keenum said. "His innovative 'Air Raid' discourtesy changed the game. Mike's keen intellect and unvarnished candor made him 1 of the nation's existent coaching legends."
"His passing brings large sadness to our university, to the Southeastern Conference, and to each who loved assemblage football," helium continued. "I volition miss Mike's profound curiosity, his honesty, and his wide-open attack to pursuing excellence successful each things."
Keenum besides recalled lasting alongside Leach pursuing the team's triumph against Ole Miss past month. "Mike's decease besides underscores the fragility and uncertainty of our lives," helium added. "Three weeks ago, Mike and I were unneurotic successful the locker country celebrating a hard-fought triumph successful Oxford. Mike Leach genuinely embraced beingness and lived successful specified a mode arsenic to permission nary regrets. That's a worthy legacy."
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"May God bless the Leach household during these days and hours," helium concluded. "The prayers of the Bulldog household spell with them."
Leach, who took implicit arsenic Mississippi State's caput shot manager successful Jan. 2020, is survived by his wife Sharon and their 4 children: Janeen, Kimberly, Cody and Kiersten.
