Mike Leach once sold “jackalopes” to unsuspecting victims, per story

Mike Leach is a good football coach.

He has a 123-81 overall record over 17 seasons and he’s won a bunch of bowl games — six to be exact.

Mike Leach is also a character, and there’s a very good chance that at this point in his career he’s starting to become known more for his antics and stories than for his abilities on the sideline.

Case in point, here’s his latest tangent. This is Leach in his purest form. He’s asked a legitimate football question — well, it was about elevation so not super legitimate — and he somehow ended up on the topic of “jackalopes”.

See for yourself:

A question about Wyoming’s elevation transformed into a Mike Leach tangent about jackalopes. “I sold a bunch of jackalopes to people to this day from back east that think there are spots out west where jackrabbits actually have horns.” Gotta listen to the whole thing. pic.twitter.com/G3jY3Fa5sX

— Theo Lawson (@TheoLawson_SR) September 2, 2018

The thought process here is that Leach was asked about the elevation in Wyoming and it’s impact on this past weekend’s football game between his Washington State Cougars and the Wyoming Cowboys.

That then became a conversation about the Cougars using wildfires to their advantage and ultimately a story about how Leach sold jackalopes (a jack rabbit mixed with an antelope) to people on the East Coast convincing them that there are really jackrabbits with horns out west.

Moral of his story, in the way that only Leach can say, is that there’s no such thing as elevation impacting games. It’s just players being in shape, or out of shape.

For what it’s worth Leach’s Jackalopes… I mean Cougars…beat Wyoming, 41-19.

Andrew Kulha

Andrew covers the B1G on Saturday Tradition.