The Don Williams piece about Coach Leach is very well written, IMHO, and well worth the time to read and maybe reread. There is a lot of good thoughts and perspectives about Mike Leach’s thinking from a head coaches / program leader’s perspective. It is a gread lead in to the piece about Brandon Sharpe.

Brandon Sharpe (and Rajon Henley) has done an outstanding job helping everyone to forget about a couple of players who did not make it onto the field this fall. As we stand today, I cannot think of one reason why I would want either of them on the roster considering what they were not able to do outside of the game. Sharpe has a degree and is prepared to step out and take a job as a teacher….but he is clearly hanging around to use his eligibility to see if he can work into an opportunity in the pros…I think that would be awesome for him. (Henley as well)

I think there was a lot of tongue in cheek in the quotes that Price chose to hightlight, both from Pugh and from Coach Leach. I kind of like it that some of the people involved can laugh at the perceptions and on-going legends.

Yeah, Seth, me also, I have never seen any batteries thrown…but I, too, am one of those guys who closes his eyes when he exerts himself…

Of all the players on the maroon active roster Tanehill is one that I think could have excelled as a reciever in the Air Raid. He plays football.

wadded up balls of tortilla dough, yes.

When I arrived at Tech in 2001 it was widely rumored about the battery tossing. Apparently it was all the rage about 3-4 years before I got there… From what I heard it was a variety of AA-D cell batteries any of which would apparently ding a helmet or get tripped over or slipped on by the other players (due to our concrete like astro-turf at the time). I dunno how much faith you can put into these stories, but many of my friends who had been at school for a while had told me these tales, considering our program wasn’t quite up to par at the supposed battery tossing, and knowing the Tech fan base’s love for getting completely smashed before games… it is a possibility.

In my day though the only thing I can speak for as fact is tortillas with “customized messages” on them thrown from the first couple of rows in the student section… plus from that level you could actually peg the punt/kick returners with them… which was always fun… and yes, wad them up and toss them.

Leach – "And, as always, I can’t guarantee the safety of anybody that’s not a Red Raider fan in Jones AT&T Stadium."

YES!! That is the coolest thing I’ve heard all day!!

Wreck Em TECH!!

can we get an afternoon open thread for those of us stuck at home and not tailgating or otherwise having fun? =\