Kliff Kingsbury

WE’VE ALWAYS CONTENDED that some of the most astute — and resourceful — college football fans in the land can be found on the Cougfan.com Luxury Suites message board and today they proved it again in a development that could be sheer coincidence unrelated to ball, or perhaps something as exciting as the wooing of Kliff Kinhsbury to be the Cougars' offensive coordinator -- or maybe an old, deep-pocketed friend of Mike Leach’s coming to make a plea.

Regardless, we do know this, courtesy of the eagle eyes on the CF.C premium board that a private plane from Texas is scheduled to land in Pullman this evening and return shortly thereafter.

As wsucougar08 posted, the flight is scheduled to touch down in Pullman at 7:50 pm. It is then scheduled to fly out of Pullman less than an hour later and back to Fort Worth, via Lubbock. The data can be found at flightaware.com ...

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/XSR315/history/20181127/2330Z/KLBB/KPUW

UPDATED: As of 9:15 pm Tuesday, nary a private jet to be seen at Pullman-Moscow.

All this comes in the wake of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reporting Sunday that two unnamed sources said Texas Tech may be interested in bringing back Leach, who was fired in 2009. Leach’s former Tech quarterback, Kingsbury, has been the head coach for the last five years and was let go the other day.

Leach very clearly told ESPN late Sunday that he has no interest in going back to Tech and that they still owe him more than $2 million from 2009. In addition to the public statement, those within the Bohler Complex inform us that Leach has made it clear to the administrators that the Tech talk is pure hokum.

So the question looms: Why is this private plane from Lubbock coming to Pullman?

Could it be pure happenstance and that a visiting professor is coming to WSU in style or Schweitzer Engineering has a business connection based there?

Taking Leach at his word, as there is no reason to believe otherwise, could it be Kingsbury coming out for a visit and interview? He figures to be a hot commodity on the offensive coordinator market this off-season and suitors will need to strike fast. Would Leach, who serves as his own offensive coordinator, make a shift and look to hire one?

Or maybe an old friend of Leach’s is desperate to plead Tech’s case and The Pirate relented to hear him out?

Time, perhaps, will tell. But right now, the intrigue abounds.

If any of this sounds familiar, remember that it was CF.C. premium posters who let the world know in late 2002 that a private plane from Tuscaloosa landed in Pullman right as rumors about the Tide and Mike Price were circulating.