From Dennis Dodd, CBS Sports:
"I'd be thrilled to get back into coaching," Leach says now. "This year I've met a wider variety of people, a broader base ... I'm proud of what we did at Texas Tech. We had teamwork with fans, won more bowl games than the rest of the time combined. That was exciting. Recruiting was exciting ... This [life] is exciting too."
When I met Leach for the first time in 1999, he was the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma. An up-and-comer in the profession back then, Leach was typically locked in -- sitting in his office wearing a windbreaker, watching film and munching out of a bag from Hardee's.
"I hate Hardee's," said the trimmer Leach when reminded of that day. "That would have been a day of desperation. There was a time I lived off coffee, beef jerky and one gigantic meal at night."
There are different days of desperation now. Whether it be a breakthrough job at OU or club ball in France, at least it was coaching, and it was wonderful, and Leach would love to do it again.
If only someone would call.