Happy Halloween: Here's Mike Leach's trick-or-treating advice

If you followed college football coaches’ Halloween advice, you would be a very proficient trick-or-treater.

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh wants trick-or-treaters to be hustling at all times. Washington State coach Mike Leach offered his advice on Monday and he wants kids to know that mobility is imperative.

“Mobility. Make sure you have mobility with your costume,” Leach said. “Make sure you can get around. Make sure that it’s warm enough so that you can get as much candy as possible. And then as soon as you get it, immediately hide it. Because your brothers and sisters will try to steal it. Especially older ones. I was the oldest, I know. And then the other thing is make sure the good stuff is out of the regular stuff because if they find your stash, you don’t want them to find the good stuff.”

Hustle and mobility are a good combination. You’d hit a lot of houses that way.

As you can imagine, Leach’s Halloween comments were not limited to that paragraph above. He was also asked if anyone had dressed up as him for Halloween.

“There was a girl that was at Stanford,” Leach said. “Now this is funny. So my wife was with [Washington State athletic director] Pat Chung. So there’s this girl dressed like me at Stanford. A Coog fan. Was dressed like me at Stanford. So then Pat says, ‘Can I get your picture?’ with this lady, so Sharon, my wife, gets a picture with this woman who’s dressed up like Mike Leach. To this day, I don’t think this lady knows that it was Sharon, that that was actually my wife. So it’s actually my wife [makes picture pose] and then … I don’t know what they’d have to know.

“Where you’d see a lot of that, we used to always play Kansas State about the time, about Halloween, right before Halloween. All those frats and what not, they’d be out there and there’d be a couple Bill Snyder guys that dressed like Bill Snyder. And some would do a very impressive job.”

Leach then went on to detail how Bill Snyder wore Nike Cortez shoes and was the envy of the Big 12 coaches. If you want to know how that goes, you can keep watching the video above.

He also lamented the apparent absence of a Halloween store in Pullman in 2018.

“That wasn’t in town this year, right? Was the Halloween store in town? I didn’t see it,” Leach said. “They had it the year before. So where you can get some cool skeletons or whatever and there’s all kinds of cool skeletons. The ironic thing is there are stripper costumes there. I didn’t know you needed a costume to be a stripper. And yet they have them hanging right there on the racks.”

Happy Halloween.

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Nick Bromberg is a writer for Yahoo Sports.

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