The cheese was binding for ole Kent Hance
His tarnished image needed enhanced.
That silly pirate had him spinning
Quoting Churchill and always winning.
Something needs be done and quickly,
The A D is getting sickly.
That same coach shot him the finger
Trump up a charge, do not linger.
The whole debacle is now history
How it went down is a mystery.
Tommy T. is already installed
And Pirate fans are simply appalled.
But Kent is safe, he’s put out the fires---
The students no longer flip off Meyers.
The Team has made losing look easy
And Tech officials just look sleazy.
I wrote this a couple of years ago, when I was angry. I'm not angry anymore. I'm just sad. Sad for the boys who could have played for Mike Leach at Tech. Sad for the boys who did play for Tom Tom at Tech and for the ones who will play for him in the coming years. Sad to see all the Tech fans move out of the limelight and back into the shadows, no longer proud to talk about where they went to school. And sad for the administration, who runs the school like a sleezy political campaign, from a smoke filled room where only insiders have a voice. I am sad for what could have been.
Jim McLaughlin
I am as proud a Red Raider as anyone - double T skullcap in the OR and more 'officially licensed' stuff than any sane person should ever buy. I was wearing and buying it before Leach and I still am. I just have had a hard time ginning up much sympathy for a guy who seemed to take so much pleasure in 'giving the finger' to a group of alums (Hance and the Regents) who are signing seven figure checks for him. He believed he was bulletproof, so he was insubordinate. It was incredibly sad how it went down, but I blame Leach more than Hance.
ReplyDeleteOne or two ohher thoughts - Hance has led the fight to make TTU the first non - PUF tier one research school in the state and has 'found' more than $800 million to add to Tech's endowment.
ReplyDeleteSo, he's not a 'football' chancellor, but he's making our TTU sheepskins more valuable by the day. I'll take that over a pirate patch. Tom Tom may not (probably iisn't) be the answer, but we were looking when we found Leach - we'll rise again!