Rock M Nation, a Missouri Tigers community

As expected, Double T Nation is all over the story.

Free Speech with Mike Leach -- perhaps one of the greatest local news segments since The Leprechaun. Hearing the list of potential topics for his Friday Night Lights appearance is fantastic. As always, a tip o' the hat to Double T Nation.

Sources say Mike Leach is close to a deal with Auburn. In another story, Graham Harrell is now saying there is a "great chance" Leach will leave. That story can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/5b6hvh. Hat tip to EDSBS for the heads up.

Not only is Mark Mangino (3-3 versus Gary Pinkel, has finished with a better conference record 0 times) a better coach than Pinkel (on everybody's list, not just this one), but now Mike Leach (1-3 versus Pinkel, losing the last three meetings by an average of 26.3 points) is too. I don't mean to snip at Tim Griffin, who's doing a fine job at the Dot Com (and has linked to RMN!), but I've seen this enough times now that I had to vent. (And for the record, his seat was hot two years ago, but not last year. Anybody wanting him gone this time last year was being silly.)