The enduring Key West legacy of Mike Leach

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KEY WEST, Fla. -- I was running circles around the bar at Captain Tony's and I was getting angrier with each lap completed. It had to be there. I knew it was there. But where the hell was it?

It was Monday. Jan. 22, 2024, exactly two weeks after the College Football Playoff national championship game. My wife and I were in Key West. The mission of the getaway was to quiet my college football brain amid the rum-soaked breezes of the southernmost point of the United States.

But in this moment, the mission had changed. Because as has always been the case whenever I am in flip-flops on the streets of the Conch Republic, all I could think about was a college…