Sir Edmund Hillary, Neil Armstrong… Lance Leipold. Men who like challenges. Maybe he wasn't climbing Mt. Everest or landing on the Moon, but Leipold has undertaken equivalent football risks in his last two gridiron coaching assignments. Only John Wooden and Geno Auriemma had comparable coaching records to the 109-6 that Leipold fashioned in a dominant D-III coaching run at Wisconsin-Whitewater, where Leipold could have coached as long as he wished while enjoying the Dells in the summer and leisurely B rewers games in nearby Milwaukee. But that challenge thing proved awfully enticing, and Leipold decided to give it a shot at the top level with Buffalo, not an assignment for the faint of heart. But win Leipold did with the Bulls, and could have stayed as long as he wished at Buffalo too, before the pull of the ultimate FBS challenge at long-downtrodden Kansas proved too intoxicating (even as the job in Lawrence didn't open until after spring practice two years ago).'
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