TEXAS TECH: Dora's back!

I am actually back to blogging about all things "Texas Tech Sports" related.

Feeling strongly discouraged by the antics which occurred during last year's bowl season when the Texas Tech ADministration decided to abruptly end Coach Mike Leach's coaching contract from our Texas Tech football program, I stopped blogging about Texas Tech. Things were sad and just felt wrong. I could not grasp it or put my hand on anything specific until I found "Team Leach" on Facebook and figured out why I was feeling so down. And NO, I am not opposed to Texas Tech. In fact I am still as enamored now that I am in my 40s by the glorious university located in Lubbock as I was when I was just a little girl of about 5.

Excuse me as I go off on a little tangent here, but... as a person born with a severe cleft palate - although young, but still old enough to remember certain events - I remember those earlier years of doctor's visits and hospital stays in Lubbock and of seeing that grand old campus for the first time!
And each time thereafter when my family had to pack up our stuff and head over there (Lubbock) for what always turned out to be an entire day just for a routine visit with my E.N.T. specialist (Dr Koch).
Whether a routine visit or when I was placed in the hospital (used to be Methodist) numerous times for various operations, I will always remember my first sighting of the university.
During hospital stays I remember the students and the residents and doctors who were attending or had attended Texas Tech. They were the friendliest people and always made me feel safe and welcome. They were clearly proud of their affiliation with Tech and of being alumni. Those awesome attitudes I was around and seeing the campus, even if we never stopped for a better view, always put a smile on my face and believe me, I needed one.

Anyway- the Texas Tech administration and their pathetic way of handling the Coach Leach situation is what muddled my thoughts and feelings. They soured me to a lot of things. They made me despise authority such as theirs and how they misused it to do their dirty deed of ridding themselves of the most successful football coach that Tech had ever had. A hugely beloved coach by Tech fans everywhere. The "Adam James Story" has yet been truly uncovered but soon the scam that it was will be undone and all will know what a creep Adam and his father, Craig, were and surely will continue to be. The older James with controversy plaguing his collegiate football career while attending SMU sure to be doing the same to his son's years while at Tech. Destroying another football program without the blink of an eye or care in the world. Sure they (James's) as much a pawn to the Tech ADmin in using them to fire Coach Leach and not having to pay out that huge bonus rightly owed to Coach Leach. Yes, indeed as much as Tech used the James's the James's used Coach Leach and Tech to overshadow Adam's ineptness at being a hard-working, dedicated team-player instead they tried another tactic and tried in vain to sway Adam James's bad behavior and laziness into that "closet incident".
My problem not being with the university or the team, or even the new head coach, just with the Admin and the likes of Kent Hance, Guy Bailey and Gerald Myers (a.k.a. "the three horsemen"). All three men who had a hand in dismantling our Tech football program and coaching staff only to bring in a man to coach our team who is more known for his GQ attire, "jumping ship" coaching style and for not having a loyal bone in his body. Coach Tuberville's m.o. is defense while Tech, under the care and tenure of Coach Leach, made headlines with its pass offense, our "Air Raid" was loud and proud. Surely our spread offense style under Coach Leach cleared the way for almost all Big XII teams to follow suit with similar offense styles - even though most coaches will never admit it.

What's right is right and, well, what's wrong is...

What the Tech ADmin did was wrong when they fired Coach Leach the way they did and everything negative against them and Tech since the cowardly games, per se, began. The "three horsemen" took it upon themselves to fire a coach who was more popular then the three of them combined. What a thing to worry about instead of worrying about Tech becoming a possible "Tier One" university and making sure that came to fruition. The "three horsemen" worried about losing out on an $800,000 bonus pay-out fairly owed to Coach Leach. Instead for an entire year they plan and scheme on how to fire the coach and risk owing millions instead of thousands to him (Leach). The "three horsemen" did use a bum like Adam and his super-bum father, Craig, as a stepping-stone towards ridding themselves of Coach Leach whom they were afraid was acquiring too much power with his popularity to justify their firing of him (Leach) only to appear like fools and money-hungry idiots. Instead of just making things difficult for themselves, they ("three horsemen") took the entire university and anyone associated with it down with them; they made all of us look bad in the eyes of the world that was watching us so closely for those several months. Hance, Bailey and Myers did not care about the university as they said they did. Yes, in the end it was/is about money and narcissism. The very narcissism they ("three horsemen") cited Coach Leach for is the one the three of them were influenced by when they began their witch hunt almost one year to the date of when they unjustly fired Coach Leach.
My love of all things Texas Tech has led me back to blogging about the Double T "U", and I will never succumb to the likes or pretenses of the "three horsemen". Only we as individuals can love Tech as much, and we do not need to be inspired by anyone or anything. Our love for the university is the only thing that truly matters, and only we should pick and choose what means the most to us. Only we can decide for ourselves what is right and wrong and do something about it or not. Only we can decide to take chicken shit and turn it into chicken salad.
That is my current m.o. and what will lead me into the future as Tech prepares itself for another football season. Will my heart be the same? Yes, it is healing after the Tech ADmin tried to rip it apart by their low-down antics last December right before the Alamo Bowl. I will miss Coach Leach and his style (on and off the field) and his character. He brought us (Tech) "Pirate Nation" and for that we are all truly grateful. He brought us (Tech) that awesome "pass/spread offense" and for that and the notoriety and successes that came with it, we are humbled but still thankful. He did as much for Tech (and us) back during those days of glory as Tech surely did for him. Except now Tech is able to "clean itself off" of all the mud it threw around and continue in all its grandeur, but for Coach Leach, the fight is still on-going and he is still a coach sans a coaching job and coaching home. Here's wishing Coach Leach continued luck and success elsewhere whether on or off the field...may he turn his chicken shit into chicken salad as well.

For Texas Tech and the rest of us fans...
"Long Live the Matador"! INDEED!