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The Youth Football Lesson in This As youth football coaches what can we learn from Coach Leach? First let’s look for a moment at Coach Leach’s background. With the exception of one year of sitting on the bench of his High School football team as a Junior, he never played organized football. He got his Bachelors at BYU and then his Law Degree from Pepperdine. At age 25, married, with his second child on the way he decides he wants to be a College Football coach. Yeah right, After stops at College of the Desert, Cal Poly, Iowa Wesleyan, Valdosta State, Finland and Kentucky he is now the head coach of Texas Tech, Not bad for a self described “Christian with serious obedience issues”. He seems to look at things from a slightly different perspective, maybe even a sort of an “outsiders” viewpoint. He has amassed a 74-37 record at a school that rarely, no let’s rephrase that, never gets the top tier or even second tier talent in the state of Texas. Those players are reserved for Texas, Oklah …

Barry Switzer and his pack said no, they just are not good enough. Followed up with the traditional rhetoric, who did they play? Utah as did Boise State before them, proved the pundits and BCS wrong. The Utes manhandled The Crimson Tide from the opening kickoff to the final gun. Alabama was no match for The Utah Utes. Bama had been ranked #1 in the nation for 5 weeks before falling to Florida. Their stingy defense allowed just 16 points per game. Utah hung 21 points on The Tide in the first quarter. So much for the argument Utah was not good enough and could not hang with Bama. The argument, who did they play is meaningless, Utah played and defeated everyone on their schedule. That included and Big 10’s Michigan and two highly nationaly ranked conference mates, BYU and TCU. The problem is, its not about who is good enough to be in the BCS Bowls, it’s about money and the 6 BCS Conferences want it all to themselves. In 2004 both Boise State and the Utah Utes were undefeated mid major te …