Untitled (The Legend of B.J. Symons)

5,833 passing yards
9 games with 400 yards of offense
448.69 passing yards per game
52 TD's
25 INT's
661 yards v. Ole Miss (3rd highest of all time, he also has the 7th and 15th highest games)

That's one season. ONE SEASON. Those would be pretty solid career numbers for most quarterbacks. But B.J. Symons only got one season to start at Texas Tech. Symons was a fifth year senior by the time he got a chance to play. Kliff Kingsbury had finally graduated and moved on to a mediocre NFL career (the same place Symons ended up). B.J. took advantage of the opportunity, as you can see up there. His worst senior game was 230 yards and his best was 661. He played the second half of the season with a torn ACL. The guy was a gunslinger through and through.

The point of this story, is that both that Mike Leach is a genius, and he has recruited some badasses. Looking back, Kliff Kingsbury was probably the worst QB of the Mike Leach era. B.J. Symons, Sonny Cumbie, Cody Hodges, Graham Harrell. All badasses

On that note Graham Harrell should be in the Heisman race this year. I agree with Mike Leach when he says that the fact that Harrell is really really good at what he does, should not work against him with Heisman voters.