Mike Leach assesses where Bryce Young stands among elite QBs, asked for update after dinosaur rant
By Keith Farner
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Mike Leach got a first-hand view of Bryce Young last week, and was asked for an assessment of the Alabama quarterback and reigning Heisman Trophy winner.
“There’s a lot of good ones. He’s in the field,” Leach said Wednesday on the SEC coaches media teleconference. “I’ve seen better ones, too, but obviously most guys are worse.”
Leach was also asked for a follow-up given his rant last week about dinosaurs, when he said, “Well I think we need to use our hands better. We don’t move our hands very good. You know, when I was a kid and I was in grade school, there was this nice big dinosaur guy. I can’t remember the gas station, but they would give you a free dinosaur [toy] if you filled up there. That’s back when they had commercials on TV and then they would give something to the kids like me,” Leach said. “And then the idea was that you should raise hell with your parents every time you’re in the station wagon. We had one, a good classic like one off the Wonder Years, one of those fake woody ones, you know, fake painted-on wood. But then the best is it would always without exception the finish and the varnish on it would peel. So then it looked more bogus than ever.”
Asked for an update, Leach said Wednesday, “We’re a work in progress.”
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
