And the moral of the story: never lose your inner pirate or coach will help you find it.

Mike Leach Suspended. The Pirate Captain allegedly confined Adam James (son of Pony Craig James) in a dark electrical closet because he wouldn’t practice with a concussion. And BONUS Craig won’t be working the Alamo Bowl. When you’re on the ship and you disobey the captain you get tossed in the brig, obviously Leach improvised.

The Wesley College Amphetamines versus The Naropa University Tailors in the Wizards of the Coast Gooseberry Bowl. Can you say Magic The Gathering Cards for the bowl swag? Yes we had some fun playing around with a bowl game generator that hit our inbox this evening. And for the record we’re taking the Amphetamines, they’ve had their eyes on the prize and haven’t blinked since their last fix. We encourage you to leave your zaniest creation in the comments.

Peach Bowl. Stay tuned, as the closer we approach kickoff the more our levels of Vol hate and coverage will increase. For now Gobbler Country has a Q&A with Rocky Top Talk and Vols in the Fall makes a good argument that the Hokies are ultimately playing to beat the SEC patch.

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My thoughts on Saturday that you will probably disagree with.

Nighttime in Death Valley was a letdown. Tebow, for the most part, was kept out of the shit and did just enough. LSU’s offense was lousy and because of that the Tigers were never a threat to win the game.

Blackout Fail. Doak was a sea of Garnet and Gold and three coeds fought a movement backed by thousands of no-show forum warriors.

The commissioner’s office has notified Vanderbilt that Commodores’ fans have lost the right to chant, “ESS EEE CEE (repeat ad nauseam)” after their 13-16 loss to Army.

Hokies, we can have offense too? Who the hell is Jim Drunkenmiller anyways?

So far, Texas has been sleepwalking through their schedule. The alarm goes off for Oklahoma this week.

Rich Rod was looking Einsteinian after he pulled Forcier in the fourth quarter and replaced him with Denard Robinson. He promptly lead Michigan to score. Then on Michigan’s final possession Robinson sealed Iowa’s win after he was picked.

I’m convinced I could lead Texas Tech on a scoring drive. Red Raiders’ backup QB Steven Sheffield threw for 7 TDs.

Alabama is the most complete team. Ole Miss is the most disappointing team.

Houston is 3-0 (Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Mississippi State) against the BCS and 0-1 against Conference USA.

This is our new Thursday night thread. We hope YOU our readers and friends in the blogosphere pop your heads in and engage in a little conversation.

1. Virginia Tech-Nebraska. The Hokies look to sweep the two-year two-game series with Nebraska. The Huskers are improved, hungry and capable of gorging themselves full of turkey. Thoughts?
2. BYU-Florida State. With a win BYU can tout an impressive out of conference resume that could be enough to send them to the MNC. Florida State is looking to prove they’re the proverbial “back”. Thoughts?
   H/T: Mike Bianchi
3. Texas-Texas Tech. How many points will the ‘Horns win by or are you going “guns up”? Thoughts?
4. Boise State-Fresno State. Any time, anywhere (except on the Smurf Turf). Well Pat Hill you got ‘em at home. Thoughts?
5. Big Ten Redemption. OSU and Toledo tangle in front of a crowd with brown bags over their heads. Sparty travels to South Bend to crash Charlie Weis’ buffet line. Thoughts?
6. Arkansas-Georgia. The only time pigs and dogs get along together is in Vietnamese cuisine. They are both relatively unknown quantities.  But more importantly, were Mark Richt and Christopher Walken separated at birth? Thoughts?
   

Shut up.

The back and forth between Leach and Sherman is like listening to two teens diss each other.  Leach is the one eliciting all the “Ohh Snaps!” and “Duh-Amns!” while Sherman has nothing but stale yo-mamma jokes to toss back. Here’s the latest from the Pirate Captain.

“I never questioned the handling of the (A&M) players in any way and have always expressed the utmost respect for their coaching staff,” Leach told The Avalanche-Journal.

“I’ve always said that it is truly exciting to play Texas A&M – the quality of coaches they have, the great team and great tradition and, above all, the quality of players they have,” Leach continued. “I’ve always known A&M had great players. The fact that they have the luxury to put a third- or fourth-round draft pick on the bench, to me, identifies what a truly great team they are.

“It’s an honor for us at Texas Tech to have the opportunity to play them. There are numerous players on our team that will never get a look or play a down in the NFL, so you can imagine how exciting it is for me and them to go play a team the magnitude of Texas A&M and look over there on the bench and see third- and fourth-round draft picks.”

It’s already rough for the Aggies who are 1-7 against Texas Tech in the last 8 seasons. But listening to your coach take it on the chin from Leach just exacerbates the embarrassment.

Mike Sherman you aren’t winning this one. Save some face, shut up and let it end.

H/T http://www.burntorangenation.com/

Mike Sherman tells the Pirate Captain to piss off.

There is nothing Mike Leach could ever say that would offend me. I do find it unfortunate, however, that a college coach feels the need to question the handling of a player by a staff particularly without any knowledge of the facts or the extent of a player’s injury. It is equally bothersome that a football coach would question the draft status of a player.

I wonder if he would find this offensive? “Ned Flanders Mike Sherman I mock your value system. You also appear foolish in the eyes of others.”

Sherman’s comment came after his initial response and Leach’s trashing of Eric Mangini.

Is Trev Alberts being groomed for the big seat in Lincoln?

Hokie Spring Wrap Up

Gobbler Country grades the offense and defense. He also points out our 40,000+ fans were the most to attend an ACC spring game. We run this conference. The special teams needs to work hard this summer. Kyle Tucker has some post spring game interviews and Illinois Hokie drops some statisticals on how the offense performed. The offensive numbers have to be taken with a grain of salt simply because Ryan Williams and Tyrod Taylor were on different teams. And Annette took a break from lobbing soft-toss at our Commandant Offensar.

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Marve, who is transferring from UM, plans to visit Nebraska this weekend and then Texas Tech and Arizona State the following week. Marve also is considering South Florida and Purdue.

Our money is on Arizona State because of the Dennis Erickson Miami connection. (TBO.com)

Hold onto you booty Oklahoma and Texas, Mike Leach and Texas Tech will be trying to pillage your hardware for the foreseeable future.

Texas Tech and football coach Mike Leach have finally agreed to a contract extension after more than 10 months of negotiations that will keep him at the school through 2013, a source with knowledge of the talks told The Dallas Morning News on Thursday.

Leach’s unusual hardball-ish tactics of brushing off the importance of resigning and naively stating and restating he ‘d coach through his current contract got him 90% of what he wanted.

The two sides agreed to take out the buyout in the contract altogether, the source said. Tech had wanted a $1.5 million buyout, but now Leach will become the fifth Big 12 football head coach without a buyout in his contract.

The two sides agreed to raise Leach’s guaranteed money to $2 million, the source said. Tech had offered $1.5 million in its latest offer. Both parties agreed that Leach is to give notification if he is to interview for another job, the source said, but doesn’t need Myers’ permission, as Tech had originally asked. Both sides agreed to meet in the middle on Leach’s personal property rights, the source said.

Leach needs 7 wins to pass old salt Spike Dykes (82-67-1) to become the winningest coach in Texas Tech history.

Texas Tech, Mike Leach finally agree to contract extension [The Dallas Morning News]

Have you ever wanted to read an in depth, and we’re talking cavity search deep, explanation of how the BCS works and why it sucks so much? If you pressed one on your touch-tone phone check out this great post by Amphibious Sports Duo.

Tommy Tuberville who has the fine distinction of going 12-0 in the SEC and not getting a chance to play for National Championship resigned fired from Auburn yesterday.

Nick Saban is a little pissed off at all the SEC firings.

I really question some of the judgment relative to how it is for our game that people who have those kind of relationships and have done that kind of job and affected so many people in a positive way – and have had a reasonable amount of success relative to their circumstances – would not be given more respect and consideration than what these guys have been. So I guess we’re 5-7 away from the same thing.

Texas still has a chance to play for the National Championship. Expect an upheaval from Jort National if this scenario unfolds.

Washington has been in contact with Mike Leech. Look U-Dub if you want to seal the deal you will change your nickname from the Huskies to the Pirates.

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Here are the best and funniest signs from Texas Tech @ Oklahoma. It was a blowout on the field, but competitive in terms of sign quality.

I am thoroughly impressed with this sign. Genius and creativity aside, the creator managed to get a depiction of a guy grabbing his ass cheeks on ESPN. My hat is off to you sir or madam.

Crabtree only sees the dreams, in his head, he is not responsible for their message. If you don’t get this you need to educate yourself here. Continue Reading “GameDay Signs – Norman, Oklahoma” »