College football quotes of the year: From Ricky Chicken to

Every December, we commemorate the best noise bites in college football and a collection of quotes, tweets and memories that exhibit the arc of the season.Except for the ones by Mike Leach. They always appeared to be about anything however football. Leach, who passed away recently at 61, was the most quotable coach in the nation and will be kept in mind as the most unpredictable, yet most expected, interview in the history of the sport.So, like Leach, we won’t lose at any time getting to the good things. Providing the 2022 Mike Leach Memorial Quotes of the Year.Leach’s legacy SEC Network’s Alyssa

Lang got some personal suggestions from The Pirate on her upcoming wedding.”We’ll keep a close eye on it, “he said.”But whatever you and Trevor choose, I would keep it on the down-low, which you stopped working to do that.”Listen to the rest of his recommendations here.No football coach has more powerful viewpoints on wedding events than Mike Leach After we talked about the win, I got some guidance directly from the source. Coach Leach

, big elopement man Hi @TampaBayTre pic.twitter.com/C9pvrFsm0t!.?.!— Alyssa Lang (@AlyssaLang)October 2, 2022 After Leach’s death, colleagues and archrivals alike responded mentally to the loss. New Mississippi State coach Zach Arnett, Leach’s protective planner who has actually been named as his replacement, wanted to play the bowl game in Leach’s honor. “I’m grateful to be part of his final win, hug him and view him stroll off like the winner that he is.”– Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin, whose Rebels lost to Leach and Mississippi State in the Egg Bowl, Leach’s final game, on his unhappiness over his friend Leach’s death.”Coach Arnett has actually made itclear that we’re going to complete what we started and honor Coach Leach. It’s only fitting that we play this game and honor Coach Leach in an arena that has a pirate ship.

“– Mississippi State interim athletic director Bracky Brett, saying the Bulldogs would play the bowl game despite Leach’s death.Not to be eclipsed, this Nick Saban reference is given you to remind everyone that Leach changed football forever.Nick Saban talks about how much college football has changed when it comes to offense, which he stated is for the great.”Tennessee got in what looked

like an I-formation recently on the goal-line and our players in fact did not understand what to do”Via: @UA_Athletics pic.twitter.com/IOAbOf6Mab!.?.!— Trey Wallace(@TreyWallace_

)October 21, 2022 On the other hand, Spurrier’s still got it “I practically sympathize with Tennessee. They’re not going to win the division, they’re not going to win the SEC, they’re not going to get in that Final 4. They’re just going to have a little bit better than typical year now. Somebody

told me,’Tennessee is probably headed for the Citrus Bowl now.’I think that’s sort of a mean thing to say.”–

Kept in mind Vols villain Steve Spurrier, who famously stated”you can’t spell ‘Citrus’without U-T”25 years ago this year to the Charleston Post & Carrier after South Carolina’s 63-38 upset of No. 5 Tennessee.Boy, this seems like permanently earlier Jimbo Fisher and Nick Saban controlled headings in the spring after a remark Saban made followed by a news conference where an intense Fisher freaked out.”We were second in recruiting
last year, A&M was first. A&M purchased every player on their team. Negotiated for name, image and likeness. We didn’t buy one player. However I don’t know if we will have the ability to sustain that in the future due to the fact that more and more people

are doing it.”– Saban, on May 18, speaking with a group of business leaders in Birmingham about how college football recruiting had changed. “Some people believe they’re God. Go dig into how God did his offer. You may discover … a lot of things you don’t wish to know. We construct him as much as be the czar of football. Go dig into his past, or any person’s that’s ever coached with him. You can discover anything you want to find out, what he does and how he does it. It’s despicable.”
— Fisher ripped Saban, calling him a narcissist, saying “we’re done “and that Saban had called him however he didn’t address the phone.

“Perhaps I can get better from some of these things … I do not feel any differently. I really don’t because I do not take things personally. You know, some people take things personally– when they win and when they lose. I suggest, when you play pickup basketball, some people take things personally and some individuals don’t.”– Saban, on Aug. 25 on how he saw the spat.The day a message board poster ended up being a legend”This $30 million thing is a joke. This concept there’s some fund out there and it was written on BroBible by a guy called Sliced Bread and now all of a sudden the country believes it?”– Fisher, attending to a rumor that began on message boards and was later on aggregated throughout websites saying the Aggies had a considerable NIL fund to sign their top-rated recruiting class.Kiffin understands how to keep it going”We got outbid. Sort of a typical theme with that program.”– Kiffin, on losing defensive organizer D.J. Durkin to Texas A&M.

After Kiffin and the Rebels beat the Aggies on Oct. 29

, piling up 390 backyards rushing” versus a lot of five-stars,”as Kiffin kept duplicating, he fasted with the jokes when asked if he had a Halloween costume in mind that weekend. Fisher had actually alluded
to Kiffin when talking about”clown acts “in the SEC after Kiffin asked if the Aggies incurred a high-end tax for how much they paid for their signing class.”Maybe Jimbo has a Joker outfit for me.”Lane Kiffin interviews never ever

dissatisfy @SECNetwork pic.twitter.com/eeWsf6I332!.?.!— ESPN College Football(@ESPNCFB )October 30, 2022 The Horned Frogs are cooking”
Not actually. If I can’t do that, I need to go work for Ricky Chicken at Chicken Express.”– TCU coach Sonny Dykes, referencing the label of Ricky Stuart, owner of a Texas junk food chain, when asked if the fans’hostility troubled him in his return to play against former school SMU, the Horned Frogs’ Iron Frying pan rivals.Old competitions die hard, Vol. 1″They ran for 194 lawns versus Texas A&M, the number whatever group in the country. They ran for 68 versus us. They balanced 1.6 backyards per carry– they offered us$1.5 million, but they got 1.6 yards per carry … You know, it simply … I

do not know where that came from. “– Middle Tennessee State coach Rick Stockstill, a Florida State grad, in a radio interview with 104.5 The Zone

in Nashville after the Blue Raiders beat Miami 45-31. Offering ’em the bird”A chicken is a chicken but a battling gamecock is something various. Thisis dumbing down the Gamecocks. Whenever a new coach goes to a school that’s been having a hard time, you always hear a declaration similar to,’You have actually got to change the culture.’I do not know what’ culture’in our day and age indicates,

but if it suggests making a gamecock look like a chicken, or not hurting him due to the fact that it may make the chicken feel excellent, it’s not maintaining what we’ve built. This is dumbing down our culture.”– Ron Albertelli, former owner of South Carolina mascot Big Spur, who is distressed that the new mascot handlers, Beth and Van
Clark, do not trim the comb, the little red thing on the top of roosters ‘heads.Prime grade beef” He ain’t SWAC. I’m SWAC, he ain’t SWAC. He’s in the conference, doing a great task,

can’t knock that, got

an excellent team, his son needs to be up for the Heisman Trophy, I like Shedeur, excellent player, I enjoy what he’s doing for the conference. … But you’re not going to come here and disrespect me and my group and my school and after that want a brother hug. Shake my hand and get the hell off. “– Alabama State coach Eddie Robinson Jr., after refusing a postgame hug with previous Jackson State coach Deion Sanders, taking issue with Sanders stating that they were picked as Alabama State’s homecoming challenger due to the fact that of the crowds and attention that follow Sanders.”I was a darn great salesman leading up to the week. Did we offer the game out? Did we sell the game out, yes or no? Had they ever been sold out here? So I thought I did my task. I believed I ought to be applauded, really.”– Sanders, in reaction to Robinson’s comments.Cutting to the chase “I’m a dumbass, Jerry.” Pat Narduzzi’s response to being asked by @JDiPaola_Trib about trying to pass with 21 seconds left at the end of the second quarter.– Chris Peak(@PantherLair )September 12, 2022 Not cutting to the chase” I’m not going to discuss whether it’s a felony or not, or whether it should’ve been charged as a felony or not, but I believe if you do your research you’re going to recognize you can’t compare this to the low-hanging fruit that’s out there. I ‘d motivate you not to cater the Twittersphere and really, the haters that like to drink their haterade and consume their hater toddlers. “– Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh on Dec. 4 on his choice

to play Mazi Smith all season regardless of an arrest in October on felony hid weapons charges. Smith pleaded guilty on a misdemeanor charge Dec. 8 and his sentencing will be announced Jan. 12. They ‘d still state it deserves it”
When you initially see all the stogies you’re like, what is all that? They got dropped, however then they

got shredded. So

we had all this tobacco laying all over. But in between shoes and cigar tubes … we could not overcome the quantity of clothing.

OK, what ‘d you do, go out of here nekkid?”– Tennessee director of sports surface management Darren Seybold

, on the garbage left from fans storming the field after the Vols beat Alabama Like Dua Lipa said:’Don’t appear, do not come out’ “I inform people all the time, the audacity for other people to even step on the field is rude to me. … Individuals ask me what motivates me, and I state,’The audacity for the fans to show up and for the team to come
action on the field and have fun with us.’ “– Alabama outside linebacker Will Anderson Jr., who might just drink haterade and consume hater tots.Old competitions pass away hard, Vol. 2″I was a little frightened of Boz. Boz scared me a bit. Boz was on a different type of synthetic nutrition than I was. Duration.”– Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy, on his memories of his first Bedlam competition game in 1986 and playing against Oklahoma legend Brian Bosworth, who had composed Gundy’s name on his shoes.Gundy also had plenty to state at Big 12 media days in the spring, especially on adjustment.”Well, all of us know, conference realignment, it’s sort of almost the old Karen Carpenter’We’ve Only Simply Begun’ idea. I think it’s simply getting started, in my opinion … I like the Carpenters. I heard that tune recently, and the first

thing I thought of was conference realignment. I believe that she cut that record on the very first take. That was a one-take offer.”– The Oklahoma State coach on a 1970 pop hit and Carpenter’s studio abilities.”It’s fascinating. We go to conference meetings, and OU and Texas remain in there. They’re still in the conference. But I’m thinking when they leave, they’re scratching down things that can help them when they’re in the SEC.

So it is an uncommon circumstance. I think there’s a company side of it that nowadays individuals say,’It is what it is.’ Which, ten years ago, they may not even let them in meetings. The brand-new commissioner, I suggest, honestly, if I was him, I would not let OU and Texas in any conferences.”– Gundy on Texas and Oklahoma still being in the Big 12 up until (allegedly)2025 in spite of strategies to move to the SEC, and the guidance he has for brand-new Huge 12 commissioner Brett Yormark Brian Kelly, man of the world “Understand now, I have a Boston, Midwestern and Louisiana accent now. So it’s 3 dialects into one. It’s no longer family– I have actually got all sort of things to toss at you.”– LSU coach Brian Kelly, at SEC media days, after being buffooned for the lengthened way he stated”fam-uh-lee “in a makeshift Southern accent when he first spoke with LSU fans last December at a basketball game.That’s excellent? Or bad?”There’s 2 options in life in any circumstance. You can give up, and if you

give up, then I think the outcomes are basically guaranteed. Or you can dig in, you can continue to fight and you can attempt to improve and do things much better. I will constantly select choice A. … I wouldn’t have the ability to go house and look my kids in the eye if I wasn’t an option B individual. I think I said alternative A. I began with alternative surrender, right? That’s not me. Let me be crystal clear about that. That’s primary. “– Iowa offensive organizer Brian Ferentz, on Oct. 12, as Iowa’s offense ranked 131st of 131 groups nationally in overall offense.Cade McNamara, who revealed he was moving from Michigan to Iowa previously this month, might discover some takers.Cade McNamara is prepared to change the story of Iowa’s offense pic.twitter.com/h4BY8IVS7G!.?.!— 247Sports(@ 247Sports )December 13

, 2022 Michigan’s one-track mind”I didn’t get a sandwich tossed at me, however R.J. [Moten] came near me and said I just got hit with a PB&J in the face. So I think they were.”
— Michigan offensive lineman Trevor Keegan, who stated teammates stated food was thrown at them after the Penn State game.Some B1G twists and turns”You go to USC and UCLA games, and rather truthfully, it’s just kind of boring. Without all the people

. They sort of simply exist on holiday. You go to the other schools out of state and their fans are sort of like enthusiasts.”– Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud, on Dec. 29, 2021 (technically, it’s within the last year, given that this taken place after our list in 2015 ). Then USC and UCLA stunned the college football world in July by revealing they were splitting from the Pac-12.” We wished to run in a position of strength, which was the Big 10.”– UCLA athletic director Martin Jarmond, to ESPN on why his school made the move.”You’re going to get up watching Huge Ten football and go to bed watching Big 10 football. So that’s interesting for our players, interesting for our fans. Will there be a travel part to it? There is,

but we’re going to Dublin in the opener, so it won’t be that big of an offer.”– Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald “I got asked,’

How are you going to feel when you play your very first conference game at SC?’Simply hope I’m f– ing still there.”– Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst, at Big 10 media days

July 27. Chryst was fired Oct. 2.

Saban’s daddy jokes “Before you ask, you oughta see the other person. And you understand I took one of the hardest hits of the whole game, and unlike some of
our players who needed to go to the medical camping tent … like I always say, they do not make ’em like they used to.”– Saban on a cut he suffered when he was hit in the face by a player’s

shoulder pad throughout the Iron Bowl win over Auburn.Drink it in, Sam” I think the very first couple series are going to be really crucial to sort of determine what they’re giving the party. Some guys bring iced tea, and some guys bring liquor. You have actually simply got to find out what they’re bringing.– Arkansas coach Sam Pittman, prior to the Razorbacks ‘season opener versus a Cincinnati offense with 2 quarterbacks still contending to replace four-year starter Desmond Ridder.” I do not have a great deal of friends and I do not get welcomed to a lot of celebrations. So I don’t know what I’ll do. I feel in one’s bones who I am. And I think they’ll learn. “– Then Bearcats coach Luke Fickell, in action to a question about Pittman

‘s comment.After Arkansas’31-24 win over Cincinnati, Pittman chose “an ol’ cold beer”is what he was up for after all.Cheers, @CoachSamPittman pic.twitter.com/M9XVS8vXvJ!.?.!— SEC Network (@SECNetwork)September 4, 2022 The Dawgs ‘dominance “Individuals ask the concern,’How does it feel to be hunted?’ We will not be hunted at the University of Georgia. I can assure you that. The searching we

do will be from us going the other instructions. We’re not going to sit back and be passive.”– Georgia coach Kirby Smart, at SEC media days, on life after winning a national championship. “I told our kids I don’t want one

kid to go out of our

program without a champion ring, and that will take place. They said enough was enough, and they got them one tonight.”– Smart, after Georgia’s 50-30 SEC championship game win over LSU provided him his first SEC title since 2017 and the first 13-0record in school history.The last word”Mike [Leach] had a larger influence on football, whether pro football, high school football or

college football,

than anyone in my generation. He simply altered the way people approach the game. “– TCU coach Sonny Dykes, a previous Leach assistant at Kentucky and Texas Tech