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Finebaum: Leach was one of college football's most brilliant innovators (2:28)

Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach passed away at the age of 61. There is a time and a place for it.

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Mississippi State will play in a bowl game in January.

The Mississippi State coach had a heart condition. He was older than 60.

The players are behind the game and doing what they're told to do by their coach. It's what we should do and we all know that.

The players will return to campus on Thursday. The next practice is Friday.

Arnett was put in charge of the program after the coach was hospitalized. The bowl game will be coached by Arnett.

The coach has made it clear that we're going to finish what we started.

The interim AD duties were taken over byBrett after John Cohen left to take theAuburn AD job. Raymond James Stadium is the site of the ReliaQuest Bowl.

The game will be played in a stadium that has a pirate ship as a tribute to the coach.

He had a life-size statue of a talking pirate in his office.