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Here's another Leach story:

Tech coach Leach had NYC traders scurrying
By PATRICK REUSSE, Star Tribune

Insight is a tech company that trades on NASDAQ. It also sponsors a bowl game in Phoenix. The Gophers and Texas Tech were opponents in December 2006.

Glen Mason, then the Gophers coach, said: "We were brought to New York a while before the game to be at the opening bell -- myself and [athletic director Joel] Maturi, and [coach] Mike Leach and [AD] Gerald Myers from Tech.

"We had dinner at a very nice Manhattan restaurant the night before. Leach showed up in khaki pants, an Under Armour T-shirt and a sports coat.

"We walked around for an hour after dinner and were headed back to the hotel. Leach said he was going to stay out for a while.

"The next day, we get to NASDAQ, Leach shows up and he's in the same clothes. I honestly think he had been out all night. We all were told to say a few words but keep it to no more than 30 seconds.

"Maturi said something, then Myers, then me and then Leach gets the mike. He says, 'I don't have much to add, so as we say in Lubbock, 'GUNS UP!'

"He shouts it, and people on the floor hear 'guns,' and they are ducking for cover, and security is running around.

"I tell you, Leach ... he's a different sort of cat.''

Come and Take It wrote:Here's another Leach story:

Tech coach Leach had NYC traders scurrying
By PATRICK REUSSE, Star Tribune

Insight is a tech company that trades on NASDAQ. It also sponsors a bowl game in Phoenix. The Gophers and Texas Tech were opponents in December 2006.

Glen Mason, then the Gophers coach, said: "We were brought to New York a while before the game to be at the opening bell -- myself and [athletic director Joel] Maturi, and [coach] Mike Leach and [AD] Gerald Myers from Tech.

"We had dinner at a very nice Manhattan restaurant the night before. Leach showed up in khaki pants, an Under Armour T-shirt and a sports coat.

"We walked around for an hour after dinner and were headed back to the hotel. Leach said he was going to stay out for a while.

"The next day, we get to NASDAQ, Leach shows up and he's in the same clothes. I honestly think he had been out all night. We all were told to say a few words but keep it to no more than 30 seconds.

"Maturi said something, then Myers, then me and then Leach gets the mike. He says, 'I don't have much to add, so as we say in Lubbock, 'GUNS UP!'

"He shouts it, and people on the floor hear 'guns,' and they are ducking for cover, and security is running around.

"I tell you, Leach ... he's a different sort of cat.''

I love Leach. But the Gophers collapse againt Tech in that bowl game got Mason fired.

Come and Take It wrote:Here's another Leach story:

Tech coach Leach had NYC traders scurrying
By PATRICK REUSSE, Star Tribune

Insight is a tech company that trades on NASDAQ. It also sponsors a bowl game in Phoenix. The Gophers and Texas Tech were opponents in December 2006.

Glen Mason, then the Gophers coach, said: "We were brought to New York a while before the game to be at the opening bell -- myself and [athletic director Joel] Maturi, and [coach] Mike Leach and [AD] Gerald Myers from Tech.

"We had dinner at a very nice Manhattan restaurant the night before. Leach showed up in khaki pants, an Under Armour T-shirt and a sports coat.

"We walked around for an hour after dinner and were headed back to the hotel. Leach said he was going to stay out for a while.

"The next day, we get to NASDAQ, Leach shows up and he's in the same clothes. I honestly think he had been out all night. We all were told to say a few words but keep it to no more than 30 seconds.

"Maturi said something, then Myers, then me and then Leach gets the mike. He says, 'I don't have much to add, so as we say in Lubbock, 'GUNS UP!'

"He shouts it, and people on the floor hear 'guns,' and they are ducking for cover, and security is running around.

"I tell you, Leach ... he's a different sort of cat.''

As a matter of clarification. Nasdaq does not have a trading floor as it is a computer based trading system. No screaming traders running around which is a floor based trading system used by the NYSE and American Stock Exchange. Nasdaq does not use a bell or any other noise maker to open the market, rather a written sign in by a NASDAQ member company official, IPO company CEO or sometimes a special guest. The techincally enhansed signature is then flashed up on an overhead screen and briefly on 94 separate plasma TV monitors set up on what is referred to as the MarketSite trading wall. These 94 monitors are used by financial broadcasters to show the online trading of any NASDAQ company they are featuring. The opening ceremony is merely a TV broadcast, which last for roughly 30 seconds, carried on MSNBC. The MarketSite is merely a television studio located on the SE corner of 43d and Broadway one door down from the ESPN Zone resturant. ESPN uses the NASDAQ TV links for a number of their resturant based sports broadcasts and interviews. Lastly, NASDAQ security personnel are retired NYPD cops who are present in the studio at the opening and have generally had introductions to the daily guests who have been searched and processed throught metal detectors. Security personnel know exactly what is happening at the opening ceremonies in the small studio which is limited to guests and several NASDAQ officials. I know as I headed this operation for NASDAQ for a number of years. I think the author of this idiotic article Patrick Reusse generously fabricated most of his facts just to write a balony filled piece with some lame/sorry [deleted] Texas spin and/or Coach Glen Mason spent too much time under the bright lights of Manhattan partaking in the night life and had no clue where he was or what he was doing if any part of this event actually took place.