Behind the scenes: Film study with Mike Leach
LUBBOCK, Texas – Mike Leach is walking quickly, weaving through players on the way to the line for the training table. If Leach is going to eat, it must be quick. It’s Sunday night, and there’s film to watch.
On this night, Leach isn’t in a good mood. His Texas Tech Red Raiders got ripped the night before across the street in Jones Stadium. Making matters worse, rival Texas A&M did the ripping: Aggies 52, Red Raiders 30.
Mike Leach never stops working on ways to improve his team.
Afterward, Leach fumed as only he can fume.
“… I would like to have a dollar for every time somebody said something about how many points we were going to score or how bad we were going to beat them. … How great we are, and how good everything looks,” he says.
“Well, it’s all a bunch of crap.”
That brings us here, to Texas Tech’s football complex. It’s almost 6 p.m., and it’s time to get to work. A visit from Kansas looms, and it’s time to watch film with one of the nation’s most innovative coaches and his crew of quarterbacks.
Tech quarterbacks have led the nation in passing six times in nine seasons under Leach, and this season’s group is assembled in a meeting room adjacent to Leach’s office to watch film of the A&M debacle.
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