We recently came across this article about Texas Tech coach Mike Leach potentially using as his kicker this week a guy who won a halftime contest at a game earlier in the season. Apparently, Matt Williams made a 30-yard kick to win a contest a few weeks back and Leach decided he might be their best option to put one through the uprights.

Our inside source managed to get a word with Coach Leach and ask him how he was able to get Williams to agree to even try-out for the team. Leach’s answer was quite in depth:

“Well, uh, we went somewhere causal to begin with because you don’t want something real formal in the beginning. So, for some place casual, I chose Cagle’s’s Steakhouse, which is very casual. The other thing that’s great about it is there’s very little salad there at Cagle’s, so the my potential place kicker was forced to eat in front of me, which is something that I hear kickers hate. But if you can make them do it, then the earlier the better - the more they’ll conversate and show their true self and make extra points. I’m a big movie guy - I was hoping to do it the way I did when I was Matt’s age, going to the Stars and Stripes drive-in theater because that’s what they had in Cody, Wyoming. But no drive-ins here that I could find. Otherwise, the movie theater was pretty good, but I wanted to end it somewhere at some cool coffee shop kind of place where there’s bizarre-looking characters going in and out, so in case the conversation wasn’t going well I could reference some of the different characters you see coming and going from the place. And then since it was a huge night and we were really having a good time, we tried to trade, uh, computer schemes and emails and all that mischief people are up to nowadays, but those are things which I know nothing about.”

We are delighted to see that Coach Leach followed his own advice. And we really hope this new kicker works out for the Red Raiders. Confused? Check the video below…