Tuesday Before Southeastern Louisiana

The best news blurbs today are from the AV where Leach goes into detail regarding Tech's meltdown with some really good quotes from Mike:

"I saw a bunch of prima donna pretty boys prancing around like they thought they were too good to be there," Leach said. "And then when we got hit in the mouth, they looked surprised and frustrated, like this isn't supposed to happen. Like didn't (Tech players') press agent talk to TCU and let them know how good they were and what they did last year? Then they got frustrated like they were too good to fight back. I mean, we didn't even fight back."

Additionally, Leach addresses some of the comments from Whitmore as to whether or not teams have "figured out" Tech's offense:

Have other teams caught on to Tech?

"It's a stupid question," Leach said. "I try to be polite and answer it, but it's very difficult to kind of not roll your eyes at the thing. There's nothing wrong with the scheme. How it's applied, how you play, how hard you try, yeah, that's infested with problems right now.

"If it's so easy to lead the nation in stuff, everybody would do that. But the thing is, I think we have an entitlement syndrome around here and think that everything's easy and don't understand that to get anything, you fight for it."

The reality is that I'm still really impressed with Leach's response. Call out the players and let them make a stand. The only thing that I've given some thought since yesterday is the idea that this may be his one bite at the apple, and during the course of a year I think that this is all that a football coach gets in terms of challenging his players. Anything where he questions the integrity of the team will eventually fall on deaf ears and we'll just have to look forward to next year.

Leach is also not following the Hicks saga and it doesn't sound positive.

One basketball note, according to the Denton Record-Chronicle, Tech has 3 of the top 15 players committed next year.