Coach Rips on Fat People

When coaches lose football games, they usually have some interesting things to say on why their team lost the game. Some coaches will be truthful and say that the team didn't execute or that the offense or the defense wasn't clicking right. Texas Tech college football coach Mike Leach has taken excuse making and has placed it on a different plane this week. After Texas Tech lost to Texas A&M 52-30 last Saturday, Coach Leach popped off on why their team lost.

"You know what happened. We pound on Kansas State, so A&M looks at the film all week. An they strut around and laugh, and you know, ‘Ho-ho-ho. Ha-ha-ha.’ And everybody’s listening to their fat little old girlfriend, and then pretty soon, what happens in Manhattan happens? And then the first thing we do is we go in our meeting and we talk about, ‘We’re gonna respect everyone, we’re gonna fear no one, and we’re not gonna compare scores and we’re not gonna listen to our fat little girlfriends. And like I said, it starts with the coaching staff. But in the back of our minds as coaches and the back of our minds as players, is ‘Ha-ha-ha, he-he-he. We pounded Kansas State. Kansas State pounded A&M. So therefore we’re really going to pound Texas A&M.’ I would like to have a dollar for every time somebody said something about how many points we’re going to score, how bad we were going to beat them, how great we are and how good everything looks. Well, it’s all a bunch of crap. And I told this to the team, if you don’t learn from somebody else’s mistakes in history, you’re destined to repeat them, which is essentially what we did. We repeated several mistakes that teams before us have made that were clearly illustrated for us to avoid, yet we repeated them. In a nutshell, everybody looks at everybody’s scores and then behaves accordingly.”

At his weekly press conference, he did not apologize for his comments. "No, I am not apologizing to them...Absolutely not...as coaches we failed to make our coaching points and our points more compelling than their fat little girlfriends. Now, their fat little girlfriends have some obvious advantages. For one, their fat little girlfriends are telling them what they want to hear, which is how great you are and how easy it's going to be. As coaches we have to solve our failure on reaching them, and the players have to listen. I am willing to go to fairly amazing lengths to make that happen. I don't know if I will be successful this week or not, but I am going to try, and there will be some people inconvenienced, and it happens to be their fat little girlfriends."

Basically, he is blaming his team's lack of mental strength on not being able to take criticism, but to blatantly disrespect fat people is wrong; they just eat more than the average person.