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“Texas Tech will never get a good coach after firing Mike Leach”
–Caller
I don’t know how many times in the past 48 hours we’ve heard the doom and gloom crowd say that Texas Tech football is over and done with the firing of Mike Leach. They say that Tech will never get a coach to come in and work for Gerald Myers and Kent Hance. No one would ever want to be in this environment. It is over.
They’re wrong.
They’re wrong at about Tech’s chances just like they were wrong when Kansas fired Mark Mangino and folks said Lew Perkins would never get a good coach. All he did was capture Turner Gill, one of the hottest names on the market and a guy many thought should have had several BCS jobs before now.
Yesterday we found out former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville is telling any media outlet that will listen that he’s more than interested in Texas Tech. How could this be?
Texas Tech fans, once they get over the shock of what happened with Leach, will realize that the program has elevated so much over the decade that it is a highly desired job. There’s about 2.5 million reasons most coaches will listen to any overture by Myers. After that you’ve got great facilities, a lot of returning talent, a high-profile conference to play in and an administration that has spent madly on football the last few years and no matter what the Lead Pirate may say seems to have tried to do everything they could to help Tech win football games, perhaps even at the expense of every other program in the department.
That gets the attention of guys like Tuberville.
The bottom line is that interest like this from a guy that went undefeated in the SEC and went to 8 straight bowl games should make Texas Tech fans feel pretty good as the calendar flips over to 2010. It is also the ultimate compliment that can be paid to any coach. Mike Leach leaves Texas Tech a better place than when he arrived. Because of the work he, his staff, the administration and the fans have done since 1999, Texas Tech will be able to hire a coach today that will have much more impressive credentials that the ones carried by Leach when he was hired in 1999.
That’s one of the few positives that’s coming out of this situation right now, but for Tech fans you need to grab on to anything good you can right now.
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