Swing your sword : leading the charge in football and life

Newly-minted Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach tells his captivating story#8211;#8211;from rural Wyoming to law school to the upper echelons of the SEC. SWING YOUR SWORD is the first ever book by one of the most fascinating and successful coaches in sports today. A maverick who took an unlikely path to coaching through law school, Mike Leach talks about his unorthodox approach to coaching and the choices that have brought him success throughout his career. A lover of the game who started creating formations and drawing his own plays as a kid, Leach took his Texas Tech Red Raiders to numerous bowl games, achieving the #2 slot in national rankings and being voted 2008 Coach of the Year before being unceremoniously fired at the end of the 2009 season. The scandalous nature of his dismissal created a media frenzy and began a personal battle between Leach and his accusers that remains unresolved Legendary head coach Mike Leach tells his captivating story—from rural Wyoming to law school to the upper echelons of the SEC. SWING YOUR SWORD is the first ever book by one of the most fascinating and successful coaches in sports today. A maverick who took an unlikely path to coaching through law school, Mike Leach talks about his unorthodox approach to coaching and the choices that have brought him success throughout his career. A lover of the game who started creating formations and drawing his own plays as a kid, Leach took his Texas Tech Red Raiders to numerous bowl games, achieving the #2 slot in national rankings and being voted 2008 Coach of the Year before being unceremoniously fired at the end of the 2009 season. The scandalous nature of his dismissal created a media frenzy and began a personal battle between Leach and his accusers that remains unresolved. Mike Leach led the Texas Tech football program to unprecedented success on the field beginning in 2000, achieving a #2 ranking in the national standings and earning himself the title of College Coach of the Year in 2008. Off the field, Leach led a program that now boasts the highest graduation rate of any public university in the Top 25. In Swing Your Sword: Leading the Charge in Football and Life, Leach shares his unorthodox approach to coaching, the choices that have brought him success throughout his career, and how he dealt with the adversity of being unceremoniously fired at the end of the 2009 season, just a year after receiving his Coach of the Year award. Mike Leach, who took his Texas Tech Red Raiders to numerous bowl games, achieving the #2 slot in national rankings and being voted 2008 Coach of the Year before being unceremoniously fired at the end of the 2009 season, talks about his unorthodox approach to coaching and the choices that have brought him success throughout his career. (Publisher) Leach talks about his unorthodox approach to coaching football. He took TexasTech to numerous bowl games and was voted 2008 Coach of the Year before beingfired at the end of the 2009 season. His dismissal created a media frenzy anda battle that still remains unresolved.