The grieving Mississippi State soccer gamers will face Illinois within the ReliaQuest Bowl in Tampa on January 2 regardless of some uncertainty following the sudden loss of life of head coach Mike Leach.
‘The gamers are one hundred pc behind taking part in this bowl recreation and doing what coach Leach would anticipate them to do,’ interim athletic director Bracky Brett advised ESPN.
A revolutionary soccer thoughts who helped popularize the Air Raid offense, Leach died Monday night time following issues from a coronary heart situation. He was 61, and in simply his third yr teaching the Bulldogs after profitable stints with at Texas Tech and Washington State.
A revolutionary soccer thoughts who helped popularize the Air Raid offense, Mike Leach died Monday night time following issues from a coronary heart situation. He was 61, and in simply his third yr teaching the Bulldogs after profitable stints with at Texas Tech and Washington State
Information that the Bulldogs deliberate to play the Illini on January 2 was first reported by longtime faculty soccer journalist Brett McMurphy.
Some had questioned whether or not Mississippi State would bail on the bowl recreation, notably after Virginia’s resolution to cancel the rest of its soccer season following an on-campus capturing that claimed three gamers’ lives.
Leach had fallen ailing at his Starkville, Mississippi residence on Sunday and was later handled at a close-by hospital earlier than being airlifted to College of Mississippi Medical Middle in Jackson, roughly 120 miles away.
