Good morning West Texans and all you good, fine, friendly folks out there who wish you were . . .
5 things we know on a Friday: 11/13/09
- I love it when folks who aren’t from around here lecture me and others on what it takes to be “true basketball fans” and how to support a program or two. The A-J’s Courtney Linehan should probably do a little more research before she talks about fans in West Texas for the Lady Raiders and the Tech men’s program. Linehan has already written some fine articles but she’s off-base here. I’ve learned over the years when upper-midwestern types talk about their love of basketball they usually mean men’s basketball. They forget that West Texas has long supported two programs with a much higher combined ticket sales number than most schools around the nation, including those so-called basketball hotbeds. Is it down right now? You bet. Will it get better when the programs get better? You bet. That’s logic.
- TCU deserves to lose this weekend for mocking the football gods with their new uniforms. Someone stop them. Please.
- I still think Mike Leach should have supported his QB Taylor Potts more publicly over the past few weeks since coming back from a head injury. Players and fans alike have taken their cue from the Lead Pirate in their Potts bashing. It wouldn’t have taken much for Leach to say that Potts was the guy, is the guy and that they can’t wait to win with him again after the concussion. He didn’t. Hum. Some controversies are of your own creation. Meanwhile it’ll be up to Potts to save their bacon again this week at OSU.
- John Tesh was in Lubbock last night? Who knew.
- When did it become The United States is vs. The United States are? I’d like to know that answer as I think it would be most revealing as to the attitudes of the governed towards the government.
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