Yet another great Mike Leach story, from Bruce Feldman ($$):
When Leach was at Texas Tech, one of the defensive coaches he interviewed, the late Carlos Mainord, who had previously worked as a defensive coordinator for the Red Raiders in addition to being Miami’s defensive backs coach under Jimmy Johnson, left perplexed about whether he was offered a job. Mainord called Sonny Dykes, a young Tech assistant he’d known for years because of his relationship with his dad, Spike Dykes, the former TTU coach.
“Should I get Jimmy (Johnson) or Spike to call him?” Mainord asked.
“Nah,” Sonny told him. “Don’t get them to call. You should just show up to work like you’ve got the job, and he’ll get so uncomfortable about it that he’s not gonna tell you to go.”
Mainord did just that and worked as Tech’s new safeties coach, spending the next half-decade in Lubbock.
“It really was the Costanza approach,” said a former Red Raider coach.
I wonder if they gave him the Penske file.
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