Washington State football coach Mike Leach once again proved to be a national treasure on a level that we might never see again in our lifetimes.
Leach wrote an article for The Players Tribune Wednesday titled, “5 Thoughts that Have Nothing to Do with Football.”
We finally have what college football fans have spent years begging for: Mike Leach unfiltered and off the cuff.
He discussed everything from pizza, vacation destinations and his love of raccoons. However, there’s one sentence in the whole article that I think deserves more attention, and it involves the Constitution of the United States of America.
He wrote the following:
Before I ever got into coaching, I got my law degree at Pepperdine. I think the legal profession is getting somewhat corrupted. When it comes to lawyers, I think it’s kind of a Catch-22. On one hand, there’s so much process, procedure and mess caused by the legal profession. But on the other hand, the only way to sort through all that process, procedure and mess is through the legal profession. That’s why I think lawyers are both very destructive and very necessary. It’s like if you have guys coming after you with a sword, well, you better have a sword too. It’s a shame though. We definitely don’t observe the Constitution like we once did. Now we treat it as more of a suggestion — but that’s a whole other conversation.
Is this an indication that he’s running in 2020? Has to be. Mike Leach is already a superstar football coach, and now he’s on the record as being very pro-Constitution. I’m not sure it gets any more American than that.
He can coach the Washington State cougars to victories on Saturdays, and then turn around and preach about the importance of the American law and our founding documents. Ladies and gentlemen, if that’s not an American hero then I simply don’t know what is.
And in case you were wondering, yes, I would vote for Mike Leach for President so fast that your head would be spinning.