OSU football: Call Tech's Mike Leach weird; call him winner

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: November 5, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

Let’s cut the formalities and just talk straight. Mike Leach is one weird dude.

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A strange ranger. An odd fellow. A law-degreed football coach who steps to the beat of a different drummer, and I don’t mean the percussion section of The Goin’ Band From Raiderland.

You find a lot of eclectic people on a college campus. Just not in the football department, most certainly not in the head coach’s office and most absolutely certainly not in the head coach’s office at Texas Tech, where men are men and supposed to be tough ol’ Texans with raw bones and just a pinch between your cheek and gums.

But there sits Leach, riding his roller blades down Lubbock’s wide streets or pontificating about pirates or eschewing punts on fourth-and-long from his own territory.

And here also sits Leach: near the summit of college football. The Red Raiders are 9-0 and ranked No. 2 in the all-important BCS and hosting, for the second straight Saturday night, the sport’s game of the week, against Oklahoma State.

So it’s time to praise Gerald Myers. Praise him and warn him.

Myers is the Tech athletic director, a retired basketball man who had no pedigree in sniffing out good gridiron coaches but did so anyway.

Myers brought Bobby Knight to Lubbock. Who knew the hiring of Leach would trump the General?

Myers said he first knew of Leach at Kentucky, helping direct Hal Mumme’s spread offense. Then when Bob Stoops hired Leach at OU in 1999, and the Sooners started short-circuiting scoreboards, Myers’ interest zoomed.

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