Mike Leach Makes the O’Brien Watch List

These guys know the reason they win games

Today, thirty-three men were named to the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award watch list, the award that goes to the nations best QB.  The Big 12 claims the honor of putting the most names in the list, with six.  Interestingly, five of these come from the South division of the conference, leaving Texas A&M’s Jerrod Johnson much like the fat kid in dodge ball, singled out for his unique suckiness.

What’s really interesting about this list is the inclusion of Texas Tech Junior QB Taylor Potts, who has never started a game, and has only thrown 85 passes.  And of course all of those came at the end of blow outs.  So how did his name make this list, one might ask, had one not read the headline or looked at the picture.

Yes, it’s clear that the committee probably just pulled an EA Sports NCAA 2010 and put Texas Tech QB #15 on that list.  Sadly for the Red Raider faithful, this pattern seems to play out every year since the arrival of the Mad Scientist to the West Texas plains.  Early feigned respect followed by a quick dismissal as a “system quarterback”.

With Mike Leach at the helm in Lubbock, Tech quarterbacks will always get the attention that the mildly attractive girl in a group of hot chicks at a party gets.  All the guys will be really nice up front and give her lots of attention, engage her in some conversation and pay her some pretty nice compliments.

That is until the much sexier friend starts to dance and then it’s so long lame-o and hello hot stuff, did you see how nice I was to that friend of yours, Taylor?  Yeah, she’s cute I guess, but I think it’s that outfit that makes her look so pretty.  You think so too?  That’s awesome.  Yeah, I’m a really sweet guy.  You say your name’s Sam?  That’s so cute, what do you have going on December 10th?

Tags: Big 12, College Football, Davey O'Brien Award, Mike Leach, NCAA, Sam Bradford, Texas Tech

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