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Message: [QUOTE="HCCForever, post: 4466502, member: 8959"] Here is another story that I borrowed from FB. As we mourn the passing of Mississippi State coach Mike Leach, I thought I'd bring you a precious story that illustrates how much the coach loved people- all sorts of people. Lincoln Riley was hired by Mike Leach as an assistant coach in the early 2000's when Coach Leach was the head coach at Texas Tech. One day, Riley overheard a phone conversation that Coach Leach was having, and Lincoln Riley tells The Players Tribune it went like this: "He (Coach Leach) picked it up (the phone) and said, ‘Hey, how’s it going?’ And then he listened for a second and asked, ‘Where ya calling from?’ "He kept talking on the phone and I eventually sort of tuned out. Now, a short phone conversation for Coach Leach is an hour. "So he was talking about this and that, and I was kind of hunkered down working on my own stuff. At some point, the call got dropped. They must have lost reception. Coach said, 'Can you hear me? Are you there?' "He hung up his old flip phone, swung it back open and redialed. He said, ‘Hey, sorry I lost you.’ And then they resumed their conversation for another 30 minutes or so before Coach finally hung up. "After he was done, we started talking and I said, ‘Hey Coach, who was that on the phone?’ "And he said, ‘Oh, they had the wrong number.'” This story is not only hilarious, it reminds us all what a kind, patient people person Coach Leach was- he spent 90 minutes on the phone with a stranger. We can all learn from this story. We can learn to strive to be a bit more like Coach Leach. That sure would be a good thing for all of us. [/QUOTE]

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