Second ranked Texas plays host to Texas Tech Saturday night in a nationally televised rematch of last year’s thrilling last second upset of the Longhorns. While revenge may be on the minds of Texas fans, the Red Raiders are looking to plunder Austin and take home the booty.
Say what?
Those who are fans of the boys from Lubbock already know about this, but the rest of the country may not be familiar with the fact that Tech coach Mike Leach is a huge fan of pirates. That’s right, pirates. The kind that Johnny Depp plays. The swashbuckling type.
He reads about them, talks about them, he even recently posed for Texas Monthly magazine’s cover wearing an eye patch. You could say he has a pirate fetish, but Leach says there are worse things that could have his attention. But for all his pirate knowledge, he only learned this week that Saturday is International Pirate Day.
Leach told the Lubbock newspaper that he saw that as a potential good omen for the game against the Longhorns. Well, when you’re school has never beaten a top five team on the road in their history and you’re 0-13 in your tenure against top 15 teams in true road games, I guess you look for anything to build your teams confidence. There’s gold in another victory over the Longhorns, but I don’t think Tech has the treasure map this time around.
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