10. Mike Leach goes to IKEA
IKEA, if you’re unaware, is a Swedish paradise of poorly crafted and built-buy-you-the-consumer furniture. IKEA has been featured on The Daily Show and the feature film “500 Days of Summer.”
The IKEA furniture always comes with a small hex key (allen wrench back in my cool guy skater days) and at least one hundred parts to build a foot stool. However, for all the hassles of using coding to find your new bookshelf down in a warehouse lot the food court is phenomenal. IKEA is know for their cinnamon buns and Swedish meatballs, but the pizza and chicken strips are fantastic as well.
Our field trip would take Mike Leach, the head football coach at Washington State, to IKEA. We would start off in the food court, picking up meatballs, buns, pizza and coffee (as we know, coach likes his coffee cooled manually) before making our way to one of the pre-designed living rooms to sit down and talk ‘ball.
Leach is an Air Raid master and the guru behind such passing concepts as “Mesh” and “6.” His concept “6” was featured in Chris B. Brown’s “The Essential Smart Football” and is his take on running four vertical routes with his wide receivers. Mike Leach believes in simplicity within his extremely complicated nature.
One could only hope that Coach Leach would expound upon Swedish culture, the process of making a meatball, and how he could’ve used a futon back in Cody, Wyoming as a teenager.