Perspective: In the esoteric mind of Mike Leach, football was just the tip of the sword
, which he likened to pirate coves from which he sneak-assaulted ponderous royal navies. The offense was really just an expression of his fundamental irreverence, which was no unimportant quality. As writer Martin Amis once remarked, “The humorless as a bunch don’t just not know what’s funny, they don’t know what’s serious.” Leach kept college football mercifully unserious.
“Your body is your sword,” he told them. “Are you going to swing your sword aggressively but really out of control?” With that, Leach started to swish the sword around aimlessly. “If you’re frantic, without being clear-minded, you put yourself into a vulnerable position.
In his news conferences, Leach resisted obscure specialist terminology and droning coach-speak. As philosophy professor Martha Nussbaum has written: “Obscurity creates an aura of importance. … It bullies the [listener] into granting that, since one cannot figure out what is going on, there must be something significant going on.
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