Today's Teleconference

by jdeeTTU on Nov 23, 2009 1:20 PM CST

I'm sure this would be much more amusing if I had taken the time to go listen to it, but here is a link to the transcript of Leach's weekly teleconference today.

Leach had a couple of notable quotes:

Leach being Leach about a neutral field game -

What's your opinion on playing in the Cowboys' new stadium?
ML: "I think it'll be fun. My opinion is that it's fabulous this year, because otherwise we would have gone to Waco. Not so good next year, when the game would have been in Lubbock."

Leach taking up for an old friend -

Should the accounts that have come out of Kansas give coaches pause as to how they treat players?
ML: "Well, I think you try to collect the most effective way to coach your guys. My suspicion is, and nobody truly knows what went on in Kansas, my suspicion is that Mark is in the middle of a witch hunt which is unjustified. Heaven forbid, somebody should ask a guy to pay attention and focus in. For the sake of all his teammates and coaches and everybody else, to pay attention. Well, there are different ways to ask a guy to do that. Sometimes, after you've asked him a number of times, you raise the bar. The interesting thing to me is all this murmuring went from, 'He hit some guy in the face,' To, 'Well, he didn't even touch anybody but he just said mean things to him. The mean man told some player something he didn't want to hear.' Well, there's a mean man in Lubbock that tells people stuff that they don't want to hear, too. it's just part of it."

Leach being Leach when the media gets a little too overzealous with a loaded question (The set him up perfectly to knock one out of the park and he refuses... I think he likes the challenge of coming up with off the wall comments to seemingly legitimate coaching questions) -

If you had to give yourself an alter-ego name, what would it be?
ML: "I don't know, I'm too close to the fire for that. I get plenty of nicknames just in the course of life as it is. I'm going to leave it to those experts who have provided those for years."

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if mangino punched someone in the face how far would they fly in the air?

by logan5555 on Nov 23, 2009 4:27 PM CST reply actions

the mass behind the punch is there, but the muscle required to move that arm toward someone probably is more than he has, so I’m going to guess not far.

Now, if you were to put mangino on a carrier catapult and fire him off of the front of a ship into a player standing on the end, how far then would that player fly?

by kayakyakr on Nov 23, 2009 4:53 PM CST up reply actions

As far as the ship? Mass-adjusted, of course.

by TechFirst on Nov 23, 2009 5:00 PM CST up reply actions

I'll have to go make some calculations.

On another note, it was finalized this weekend that Tech is dropping the Engineering Technology department. Looks like I’m the last of a dying breed.

by RdrPwr on Nov 23, 2009 5:14 PM CST up reply actions

That's odd

With the drive to get to Tier One status, I’d think they would want as many degree fields as they could get. Or maybe it’s a deal where they have to give up degrees in engineering in order to add fields in other disciplines. You know, some more of that artsy-fartsy stuff.

by TechFirst on Nov 23, 2009 5:50 PM CST up reply actions

Not to point fingers... but..

The guy that took over the program (which was electrical, mechanical, and construction technology) was originally over the construction technology part. Now its only going to be construction technology, the ET’s are joining up with the electrical department, and MT’s falling by the wayside. We were one of the few accredited Mechanical Technology programs in the state. But, there are a total of 4 people in my graduating class that are MT, could have something to do with it, but I had heard that enrollment numbers were up. Can’t decide if this is a good or bad thing for my future.

by RdrPwr on Nov 23, 2009 6:12 PM CST up reply actions

I’m not sure Mangino could actually bring the arm around his ample gut to actually strike someone in the face. They’d have to sort of be standing shoulder to shoulder so he could just fling the arm out from his side. Just sayin…

by Tech92 on Nov 24, 2009 10:16 AM CST reply actions