Thoughts on Texas Tech
Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 3:24 pmYour team played hard, and with class.
Your fans showed up in great numbers and supported your team vigorously, from start to finish. And they were respectful of SMU and its fans. You have great fans.
I do have a question: how many of you would have called for Coach Leach's head (or at least his job) when he had Kliff throwing the ball in the last minutes? Imagine:
An incomplete pass stops the clock and SMU had no timeouts left.
What if Kliff had been hurt on a sack?
What if he'd thrown an interception or fumbled, and SMU had run it all the way back, setting up an onside kick and .... who knows?
Your Red Raiders are a resilient bunch and fought a good fight, and they deserved a win. But that last drive seemed like an example of horrible coaching. If Tech had turned the ball over - or if Kliff had been hurt - you'd have every right to be furious at Leach.
Was he trying to run up the score to please Tech's Dallas alumni? Shoody logic, at best.
Your fans showed up in great numbers and supported your team vigorously, from start to finish. And they were respectful of SMU and its fans. You have great fans.
I do have a question: how many of you would have called for Coach Leach's head (or at least his job) when he had Kliff throwing the ball in the last minutes? Imagine:
An incomplete pass stops the clock and SMU had no timeouts left.
What if Kliff had been hurt on a sack?
What if he'd thrown an interception or fumbled, and SMU had run it all the way back, setting up an onside kick and .... who knows?
Your Red Raiders are a resilient bunch and fought a good fight, and they deserved a win. But that last drive seemed like an example of horrible coaching. If Tech had turned the ball over - or if Kliff had been hurt - you'd have every right to be furious at Leach.
Was he trying to run up the score to please Tech's Dallas alumni? Shoody logic, at best.