Our 4-4 Buffs travel Saturday to scenic Lubbock, Texas, to take on the swashbuckling cadets of Mike Leach's Pirate School (lesser known as Texas Tech University). Coach Leach is a one of a kind - eccentric genius, totally unorthodox, unfit to live in normal society but too skilled to be kept out of Division 1 Football. Thus, he coaches in Lubbock. He's an enigma wrapped inside a riddle. His team will either score 60 points on you or throw five picks and run for negative yardage. It's wildly unpredictable but undeniably fascinating to watch.
Leach is such an unusual figure that the whole of the college football blogosphere is practically obsessed with him. The greatest of all college football blogs, Sunday Morning Quarterback, frequently invents imaginary "Ask Mike Leach" columns. In a recent one, this beauty of a quote is wrought...
"Somebody told me Sam Houston State was pissed at me for attempting a double reverse screen throwback hook-and-ladder with ten seconds to go and a 62-point lead. That's just "not done." Well, we did it, and we scored, because the goal of the game is to score, and we accomplished our goal. How many times in your life will you score 80 points? Identify your goal and take the straightest line to its fruition. Don't let society tell you "you can't do that" when you obviously can."
Mike Leach is a beauty and should be simultaneously loved and feared by all college football fans. We must celebrate his uniqueness while guarding against the possible contagiousness of his brand of utter madness. Yes, Lubbock is a good quarantine center indeed.
So what happens when our beloved but inconsistent Buffs face the Pirate School? I have no earthly idea. But I'm immensely certain it will not be dull.
Go Buffs! Yarr!
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