May 8, 2008...6:17 am

“I was hoping he’d cut my ear off…”

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Saying that Mike Leach marches to the beat of a different drum doesn’t do him justice. You get the feeling that he’d find the choice of instrument too restrictive.

(Trent Barnes/Daily Toreador)

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UPDATE: You’d think bloodthirsty pirates would be a little more fearless than this:

… Texas Tech continues its recent tradition of avoiding major teams. The Red Raiders play Eastern Washington, Nevada, SMU and UMass, though at least Nevada is a road game.

(h/t The Wizard of Odds)

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  • Gary
    May 8, 2008 at 8:58 am

    Umm. Red Raiders are actually cowboys. Name was taken from cattle raiders in the 1800’s.

  • Senator Blutarsky
    May 8, 2008 at 9:46 am

    Leach co-opted the pirate imagery for TT a while back. I’m just following his lead. ;)

  • Kit
    May 8, 2008 at 10:23 am

    I loved that article on Leach. The funny thing is I thought all those pictures with a pirate in the background were photoshopped and it was a part of some inside joke I wasn’t privvy to, but I’m glad to see that I was wrong and the skeleton is, in fact, hanging out behind Leach at all times.

    However, if I’m a recruit, the skeleton pales in comparison to say, I don’t know, the “talent” of the UGA campus.

    Keep your damn pirates. Real football players like girls.

  • Senator Blutarsky
    May 8, 2008 at 10:42 am

    Michael Lewis’ story on Leach is the best thing I’ve ever read on the coach.

    As good as the piece is, though, my favorite part is the correction that appears. I laughed my ass off when I first read it:

    An article on Dec. 4 about Texas Tech Coach Mike Leach misidentified the hand signal used by fans of the University of Texas Longhorns in a sign to suggest their bovinity. It is the index finger and the pinkie, not the thumb and the pinkie.

    “Bovinity”?

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