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Sports => Snyder's Electronic Cyber Space World => Topic started by: Ben Ji 2.0 on December 28, 2009, 04:24:40 PM
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Texas Tech has suspended coach Mike Leach from all duties, including coaching the Valero Alamo Bowl, after receiving a complaint from a player and his parents.
"At Texas Tech, all such complaints are considered as serious matters, and as a result, an investigation of the incident is underway," the school said in a release. "The investigation into this matter will continue in a thorough and fair manner."
Defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill has been named interim head coach and will coach the team against Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl.
The school received a complaint from the unnamed player and his parents regarding his treatment by Leach after an undisclosed injury.
The school declined further comment because it was considered a personnel matter.
The big 12 is full of FP
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Texas Tech has suspended coach Mike Leach from all duties, including coaching the Valero Alamo Bowl, after receiving a complaint from a player and his parents.
"At Texas Tech, all such complaints are considered as serious matters, and as a result, an investigation of the incident is underway," the school said in a release. "The investigation into this matter will continue in a thorough and fair manner."
Defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill has been named interim head coach and will coach the team against Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl.
The school received a complaint from the unnamed player and his parents regarding his treatment by Leach after an undisclosed injury.
The school declined further comment because it was considered a personnel matter.
The big 12 is full of FP
Geezus.
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Joe Schad - Mike Leach is alleged to have isolated a player in a dark closet for not practicing with a concussion
Say it isn't so, pirate... :'(
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i see T-Tech is taking a page directly out of sweet lews book. This is 100% like mangino. Accept leach is wanted somewhere else.
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i see T-Tech is taking a page directly out of sweet lews book. This is 100% like mangino. Accept leach is wanted somewhere else.
HCIW??????? :woot:
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They put up with Knight and are suspending the Pirate?
Do you think Knight ever did anything outside the lines of decency in his time at Tech?
Ridiculous
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Texas Tech has suspended coach Mike Leach from all duties, including coaching the Valero Alamo Bowl, after receiving a complaint from a player and his parents.
"At Texas Tech, all such complaints are considered as serious matters, and as a result, an investigation of the incident is underway," the school said in a release. "The investigation into this matter will continue in a thorough and fair manner."
Defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill has been named interim head coach and will coach the team against Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl.
The school received a complaint from the unnamed player and his parents regarding his treatment by Leach after an undisclosed injury.
The school declined further comment because it was considered a personnel matter.
The big 12 is full of FP
And our old guard had a golden opportunity to trow this on Prince and they wasted it. Again our admin is behind the times. :blush:
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Texas Tech has suspended coach Mike Leach from all duties, including coaching the Valero Alamo Bowl, after receiving a complaint from a player and his parents.
"At Texas Tech, all such complaints are considered as serious matters, and as a result, an investigation of the incident is underway," the school said in a release. "The investigation into this matter will continue in a thorough and fair manner."
Defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill has been named interim head coach and will coach the team against Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl.
The school received a complaint from the unnamed player and his parents regarding his treatment by Leach after an undisclosed injury.
The school declined further comment because it was considered a personnel matter.
The big 12 is full of FP
:piratecaptain: :pirate_grrr: :piratewave:
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Texas Tech has suspended coach Mike Leach from all duties, including coaching the Valero Alamo Bowl, after receiving a complaint from a player and his parents.
"At Texas Tech, all such complaints are considered as serious matters, and as a result, an investigation of the incident is underway," the school said in a release. "The investigation into this matter will continue in a thorough and fair manner."
Defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill has been named interim head coach and will coach the team against Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl.
The school received a complaint from the unnamed player and his parents regarding his treatment by Leach after an undisclosed injury.
The school declined further comment because it was considered a personnel matter.
The big 12 is full of FP
And our old guard had a golden opportunity to trow this on Prince and they wasted it. Again our admin is behind the times. :blush:
Yep, all they had to do was march Matt Boss with his ripped off arm in front of the press and Prince would've been gone.
Of course, KSU 'Cat fans are f'n pvssies, so they probably would have told Matt to rub some dirt on it and STFU.
Sam S.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls09/news/story?id=4776848
Strange story. :piratecaptain:
Fire Bill Snyder right now, and offer Leach the job for twice his current salary.
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FP's
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Sorry, missed the other thread. :pirate:
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Texas Tech has suspended coach Mike Leach from all duties, including coaching the Valero Alamo Bowl, after receiving a complaint from a player and his parents.
"At Texas Tech, all such complaints are considered as serious matters, and as a result, an investigation of the incident is underway," the school said in a release. "The investigation into this matter will continue in a thorough and fair manner."
Defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill has been named interim head coach and will coach the team against Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl.
The school received a complaint from the unnamed player and his parents regarding his treatment by Leach after an undisclosed injury.
The school declined further comment because it was considered a personnel matter.
The big 12 is full of FP
And our old guard had a golden opportunity to trow this on Prince and they wasted it. Again our admin is behind the times. :blush:
Yep, all they had to do was march Matt Boss with his ripped off arm in front of the press and Prince would've been gone.
Of course, KSU 'Cat fans are f'n pvssies, so they probably would have told Matt to rub some dirt on it and STFU.
Sam S.
Oops, my post should have read "Of course, KSU fans aren't f'n pvssies,"
Sorry.
Sam S.
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so apparently it is Craig James' son
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Texas Tech has suspended coach Mike Leach from all duties, including coaching the Valero Alamo Bowl, after receiving a complaint from a player and his parents.
"At Texas Tech, all such complaints are considered as serious matters, and as a result, an investigation of the incident is underway," the school said in a release. "The investigation into this matter will continue in a thorough and fair manner."
Defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill has been named interim head coach and will coach the team against Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl.
The school received a complaint from the unnamed player and his parents regarding his treatment by Leach after an undisclosed injury.
The school declined further comment because it was considered a personnel matter.
The big 12 is full of FP
And our old guard had a golden opportunity to trow this on Prince and they wasted it. Again our admin is behind the times. :blush:
Yep, all they had to do was march Matt Boss with his ripped off arm in front of the press and Prince would've been gone.
Of course, KSU 'Cat fans are f'n pvssies, so they probably would have told Matt to rub some dirt on it and STFU.
Sam S.
Oops, my post should have read "Of course, KSU fans aren't f'n pvssies,"
Sorry.
Sam S.
No backsies.
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:dancin:
:woohoo:
:pray:
:woot:
:hope:
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So... are we raising a generation of nancys that can't handle things themselves and have to go running to mommy and daddy when they don't get their way?
GMAFB :banghead:
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So... are we raising a generation of nancys that can't handle things themselves and have to go running to mommy and daddy when they don't get their way?
GMAFB :banghead:
Been that way for a few years now. "It's not my fault! It's somebody elses fault!"
It's always easier to blame and sue than to take responsibility for being an FP.
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Bill Snyder needs to step down effective immediately and announce the hiring of Mike Leach at Kansas State. He only has one more year anyway doesn't he??
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Leach should hold out for at least 9 million
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Wow, this is the biggest non-story of the week. It's common knowledge (or at least I thought...) that staying somewhere dark and cool is good for a concussion.
Hope Leach takes Tech for a crapload of money and walks
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Leach has been talking to other schools about coaching jobs, and Tech was finally fed up and did something about it.
What pisses me off is that they used the Lew Perkins, scumbag, pvssy method instead of tackling it straight on like a man. They should have either put up or shut up, not slash Leach with pvssy leaks to the press. Lew Perkins is a queef, at the risk of insulting queefs. Tech aspires to be as slimy as Perkins. Absolutely disgusting, this has brought a whole new dimension to political correctness to college football, and giving incentives to players to be pvssies themselves. ku's treatment of Mangino opened this door, destroying the atmosphere of college football so fracking ku pvssies could save a few bucks.
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Wow, this is the biggest non-story of the week. It's common knowledge (or at least I thought...) that staying somewhere dark and cool is good for a concussion.
Hope Leach takes Tech for a crapload of money and walks
LOL wtf?
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I think this has something to do with Craig James. I'm not sure TT is in the position to just fire Mike Leach and hope things work out with whichever journeyman they find to replace him.
His lawyer is amazingly irritating in a West Texas sort of slow talking way too.
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Now he is getting all 'princee' about it and going to sue!
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2009/12/leach-considering-legal-action-to-coach-texas-tech-in-bowl-game/1
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Someone go tell Bill how calm the waters are
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The more info that comes out, the more Adam James looks like a huge pu$$y.
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I think Leach is a huge PU$$Y. Come on now, the guy never played football. I bet he got pushed around on the playground as a kid.
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I think Leach is a huge PU$$Y. Come on now, the guy never played football. I bet he got pushed around on the playground as a kid.
:blank:
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Is it irony that neither Leach nor Mangino played a down in college?
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Mangino couldn't have played had he wanted to. Sure back when he worked for Snyder he was smaller but when your blood type is Butter there's no way you could play a single down in college or pee-wee football.
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Wow, this is the biggest non-story of the week. It's common knowledge (or at least I thought...) that staying somewhere dark and cool is good for a concussion.
Hope Leach takes Tech for a crapload of money and walks
LOL wtf?
What part are you confused about?
The story is that Leach made James sit in a dark, cool room during practices. I just explained that being in a dark, cool area is actually good for recovery for a concussion.
???
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(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q226/FlaBama/judge.jpg)
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(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q226/FlaBama/judge.jpg)
:lol:
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(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q226/FlaBama/judge.jpg)
also.... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/former-am-star-franchione-also-abused-players-27501
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No matter which way Mangino cuts his cake, both men aren't fit to be a coach anywhere. The two of them should join forces and coach Pee-wee football and make refs cry. That way they can feel even better about themselves. Hmmm, self esteem issues anyone?
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Mangino's deal was one thing. This Leach deal smells all around. James and his father are a couple of whiney little b!tches. The media and all around this have said Leach is guilty from word one. Now, other players, former players, position coaches and everyone is coming out saying James is a prima donna, has an entitlement attitude and never gives 100%. This all draws into question all of the James' motives and why they are going after Leach. I say lets wait until the chips fall before we start making shortsighted statements to the effect of the above poster...
Leach gave James a scholarship above the objections of his assistants. However, James was considered a bad influence by some teammates.
Eric Morris, who played the same position as James for two seasons, decribed the player like this: "Ever since the day he arrived on the Texas Tech campus you couldn't help but to feel a negative energy from him. He expected people to baby him and that he was going make it solely on the fact that his father was a very successful player."
Current receivers coach Lincoln Riley, James' position coach, claimed the player "undermined my authority on many occasions."
In talking about the incident in question, Riley revealed that said the player was disciplined two practices prior to his concussion. James felt the punishment was unwarranted. Riley believes that is what lead to the allegations against Leach: "I have no doubt that anger from this led to where we are today with this situation and is his way of trying to "get back" at us coaches."
Former offensive lineman Rylan Reed described how he returned from a serious leg injury and that Leach "was very understanding, always had my best interest in mind at all times, and I will always be appreciative of that."
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No matter which way Mangino cuts his cake, both men aren't fit to be a coach anywhere. The two of them should join forces and coach Pee-wee football and make refs cry. That way they can feel even better about themselves. Hmmm, self esteem issues anyone?
I'd take either one of these Angry! fellas as coordinators over some of the jokesters we have now. If we could just get Venables or Phil Bennett to whoop up on a whiny kid and come home...
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Looks like James is just a little bitch. Damnit, I thought that we could actually get Leach out of the Big XII. :banghead:
http://dennis-dodd.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6270202/19238949
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Looks like James is just a little bitch. Damnit, I thought that we could actually get Leach out of the Big XII. :banghead:
http://dennis-dodd.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6270202/19238949
Those letters are pretty damn telling. James is a BFP and a daddy's boy who isnt' up to D1 standards.
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Those emails should be broadcast all over Sportscenter.
But I bet they aren't.
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NOOO!!!! :piratewave: :'( :pirate: :frown: :piratecaptain: :-[
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:dancin:
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can we raid their 'cruits?
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I will kill the first person who says anything about bringing him on as offensive coordinator. I'm not kidding either. :whistle1: (ftp://:whistle1:)
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We could use a new OC.
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waters are calm Snyds. please leave.
p.s. TT, stay the hell away from Venzy.
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I hereby endorse the firing of Old Ballz and the hiring of The Pirate. :piratewave: :pirate_grrr: :piratecaptain: :pirate:
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I will kill the first person who says anything about bringing him on as offensive coordinator. I'm not kidding either. :whistle1: (ftp://:whistle1:)
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Its only a $400,000 per year buyout. For 5 years. ;)
They can get a better coach like ....
well .....
like... ugh...
okay. Who would want the job now?
:billypopcorn:
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Damn, love it when sh*t hits the fan like this.
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Its only a $400,000 per year buyout. For 5 years. ;)
They can get a better coach like ....
well .....
like... ugh...
okay. Who would want the job now?
:billypopcorn:
I will kill the first person who says Mangino. Again, not kidding. :whistle1: (ftp://:whistle1:)
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I would bet that McNeil stays on as coach and they take off the interim tag
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I just found out this is step 2 of the 10 step program Snyder has implemented to get rid of good coaches in the big XII. Step 3 sputterd a bit as Urban did not quit and lure Bobby back to Florida.
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:facepalm:
might as well do the inevitable and join the MWC. What a bunch of FPs the Big 12 is.
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I would bet that McNeil stays on as coach and they take off the interim tag
I'm praying for this.
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I would bet that McNeil stays on as coach and they take off the interim tag
I'm praying for this.
That's what The Pony wants. Since he's basically TT's AD now and Mark May is Asst. AD, it will likely happen.
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To al that is holy please let us get mike leach.
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To al that is holy please let us get mike leach.
I would have more of a shot making out with Venzy than Leach being the next head coach.
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He and OB are friends :dunno:
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He and OB are friends :dunno:
no one worth a sh*t wants to work for snyds. everyone's like "oh, bill snyder? great coach, fantastic coach...what?...would I work for him? hell fracking no". our staff consists of (a) bad/lazy coaches and/or (b) coaches that were going to get canned or asked to leave or were desperate for a job. Dickey is the exception, but his wife is from KS, I believe. Though I'm surprised he hasn't left.
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How pissed is ND now that they already Hired what his name?
:D
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I thought TT was an awesome rogue school with the whole BK and Leach pirate thing. Turns out they are a bunch of pu$$ys.
If he and OB are pals, and seems like I read that Leach is a tireless compulsive worker too...HCIW?? :yikes:
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Leach was called out by his own players for being late to meetings. There is no possible way that Snyder could work with him.
I bet Leach never coaches football again. Not sure what he'll do, but whatever it is, I bet it will be cool as crap.
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Leach was called out by his own players for being late to meetings. There is no possible way that Snyder could work with him.
I bet Leach never coaches football again. Not sure what he'll do, but whatever it is, I bet it will be cool as crap.
I hear that they need more Pirates in Somalia. :piratecaptain: :pirate:
:piratewave:
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Do you think it was the "Fat little girlfriends" that got even? :ohno:
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was posted in other thread, but :eek:
http://dennis-dodd.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6270202/19238949
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or are they content with only throwing it 30 times a game?..and punting on 4th down.?
Leach would be a GREAT fit at Kstate. Just monster! :piratewave: :pirate_grrr: :pirateskull: :piratecaptain: :pirate:
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Leach was called out by his own players for being late to meetings. There is no possible way that Snyder could work with him.
I bet Leach never coaches football again. Not sure what he'll do, but whatever it is, I bet it will be cool as crap.
He'll probably become an attorney for BYU
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Thank god that the Pirate (genius) is gone. He completely owned us. :frown:
What a great off-season so far. Get rid of two ridiculously elite offensive minds in the Big XII. :thumbsup:
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Sumlin. :ohno:
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Texas Tech fired coach Mike Leach on Wednesday, just two days after he was suspended by the school as it investigated his treatment of a player with a concussion.
Texas Tech suspended head coach Mike Leach on Monday, Dec. 28, while the school investigates complaints from receiver Adam James and his family about how the coach treated the player after a concussion. Texas Tech will face Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl on Jan. 2, 2010. The school handed a termination letter to Leach's attorney, Ted Liggett, just minutes before the two sides were to appear in a Lubbock, Texas, courtroom for a hearing on the coach's suspension.
Liggett said Texas Tech general counsel Pat Campbell approached him outside the courtroom and told him that win, lose or draw in the hearing, Leach was out effective immediately.
Liggett told the judge there was no need for the hearing on Leach's request that he be reinstated to coach the Alamo Bowl. Texas Tech plays Michigan State on Saturday in San Antonio.
As for Leach's reaction, Liggett said, "Well, he's not thrilled."
Liggett said he planned to file a lawsuit on Leach's behalf against the school "soon."
"We can guarantee that the fight has just begun," he said.
Liggett said Leach's side has evidence that shows the decision to suspend the coach was without merit.
"So they pulled the trigger," Liggett said. "They don't want that coming out."
In February, Leach and the school agreed to a five-year, $12.7 million contract. According to terms of the deal, Leach was due a $800,000 bonus on Dec. 31 if he were still the head coach at Texas Tech.
Leach was suspended by the university on Monday after receiver Adam James alleged the coach twice confined him to small, dark spaces while the team practiced.
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Will be nice not to have to face that crazy bastard again.
What the frack was TT thinking with this? Seems like a horrible move on their part IMHO.
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guess they like finishing in the bottom third of the conference every year from now on :dunno:
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For entertainment purposes off of the field, this just sucks for us all...
But overall, thank god for Adam James. Single handily ruined TT football.
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I can't imagine a more fitting coach for our fanbase.
This man is a winner. He's a available. Pull the trigger.
:pray:
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Maybe he was looking to leave with the next chance he had and they knew it. So they went with the preemptive break up?
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Pirates are typically angry creatures.
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Tell Old Ballz to pack up his Werther's Originals and GTFO
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For entertainment purposes off of the field, this just sucks for us all...
But overall, thank god for Adam James. Single handily ruined TT football.
Irony? Considering his dad ruined SMU football.
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(http://sports.espn.go.com/photo/2007/1113/ncf_a_brown_300.jpg)
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I love the thought of this playing out at our place...
Mike Leach's next job is right around some corner, because that's how these things work. Once he learns that there was something not quite right about him playing Strother Martin to Adam James' Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke, he'll be hired again and by a high-profile program.
Why, you howl in mock outrage? Because Leach won games and made money for his partners, to steal from yet another movie.
But before we go all Pauline Kael here, let's move to the next part of the plan. Leach gets his next job, and promptly hires Mark Mangino, just to show the fully barbed nature of his sense of humor.
You see, Leach's best sales point is not his willingness to throw the football 75 times a game, it is his extreme contrarian nature. He will, when confronted by a sensible solution to a problem, choose willfully instead to pick as many fights as he can manage simultaneously.
In this case, he was fighting to coach Texas Tech one last time before he was fired Wednesday afternoon. He was perhaps fighting to get that $800,000 bonus he was due to receive for coaching that game, the relatively pointless Alamo Bowl. But mostly, he was fighting because it is his nature to start a scrap. He is America's Provocateur, all the way down to the eyepatch-and-pegleg fetish.
So he has to hire Mangino, even if it works no better than Mike Singletary and Mike Martz did last year. Leach should even offer a job to Lane Kiffin, another glorious smack-talker, though we doubt he'd leave Tennessee to become a quality control coach, especially after having outlasted Urban Meyer.
Point is, Leach has to try. He has to take every opportunity to find every other third rail in college coaching and make the Coaching Staff Of The Future. The come-on is obvious: "If You Can Play For Us, Ain't Nobody Gonna Mess With You Ever In Life."
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So Leach returns to OU? To get vengence on TTech?
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I say he goes to East Carolina.
(http://grfx.cstv.com/schools/ecu/graphics/ecu-08-masthd-right-1.jpg)
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Consolidation is pretty much is a thread killer. :angryMJ:
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More info on Mike Leach firing
http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/8897/video-texas-tech-fires-mike-leach
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More info on Mike Leach firing
http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/8897/video-texas-tech-fires-mike-leach
I caught myself watching this a few minutes ago, but then I stabbed myself in the thigh with a dull knife because of my shear stupidity for listening to such a biased source on this topic. Nothing at all said about how James (CRAIG AND ADAM) had any part in sinking Mike Leach. F*CK ESPN
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Sumlin. :ohno:
this.
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More info on Mike Leach firing
http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/8897/video-texas-tech-fires-mike-leach
I caught myself watching this a few minutes ago, but then I stabbed myself in the thigh with a dull knife because of my shear stupidity for listening to such a biased source on this topic. Nothing at all said about how James (CRAIG AND ADAM) had any part in sinking Mike Leach. F*CK ESPN
Of course, what did you expect. With James being employed by ESPN and all. About as bad as the whole Big Ben rape scandal.
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Got this from Ttech
What Graham Harrell had to say....(THE EMAIL)
To Whom It May Concern:
Texas Tech University and the athletic department is filled with great people from the top down, starting with the chancellor all the way down to the student athletes involved in the programs. In the football program, Gerald Myers and the rest of the administration have put together an unbelievable staff that believe success only comes from hard work and doing things right. The staff expects the players and everyone involved to buy into their beliefs, but like anywhere not every player agrees with or buys into what the coaches and program stand for. At Texas Tech the majority of the players do everything the coaches ask of them and anything possible to improve the team. Adam James is one of the few players who has never bought into what Texas Tech football was built on and in my years there with him had a negative impact on the team because of his attitude and work ethic on and off the field. Coach Leach demands a lot out of every player in the program and pushed his players and coaches as hard as any coach I have ever been around, but he is fair to every player and would never make and decision or action that is not best for the Texas Tech football program.
Before Adam James ever entered the football locker room at Texas Tech I heard how spoiled and selfish he acted in a team atmosphere from many of my baseball friends. Adam was on the baseball team his true freshman year at Tech, before he ever joined the football team, and did not make it through the baseball season because of his selfish attitude. After a baseball game in which he felt like he did not get enough playing time, but the team still won twenty to one, he came into the locker room after the game and “pouted and threw a big fit” according another player on the baseball team. A few weeks later in the middle of the season, he just stopped showing up to practices or game and quit because he was not happy about how he was being treated. One of my roommates was a baseball player on the team and many of my friends were a part of the team that witnessed all of this. These baseball players told me he was “spoiled and selfish” before he ever came to the football team. After quitting baseball he came out for football and his selfish attitude was very evident, as was his laziness. During off-season workouts he often would be caught skipping lifts in the weight room or finding ways to cut corners/get out of conditioning exercises. When we had player organized seven on seven throwing in the summer, when he would show up he was much more interested in playing his own games on the side of the field or telling people that he wasn’t going to run any routes because the coaches do not get him a “fair opportunity” anyway. During the season he was often “injured” (it usually seemed like a very minor injury that could keep him out of practice but never out of any other activity, including games) so he would not participate in some drills in practice. None of these acts were productive for our team, but the most detrimental part of Adam was his off field attitude and actions. In the locker room and away from the facility, Adam used any opportunity he had to tell other players how he was being treated unfairly, how the coaches did not give him a fair chance and how we did not have to do everything the coaches told us because they had no option but to play some of us. When I heard these kinds of things I usually tried to put an end to them but Adam pretty consistently talked bad about the coaches or down played the importance of working hard, when he was off the field. When he talked to young players or players that were usually on the scout he would explain how the coaches were not fair to certain players and only played favorites. When he talked to players that did get some playing time he would talk about how we didn’t really have to do what the coaches asked of us because the coaches had to play us anyway. And it almost always tied back to how he was not getting a fair chance to play just because the coaches were unfair. The coaches were always more than fair to Adam I felt, because he came in the game during certain formations and situations last football season, but because of his work ethic and attitude, many of the players on last years team had a hard time trusting him or relying on him because he was not always practicing and we had seen his laziness during the off-season. Adam was a kid that seemed like he had been given everything he wanted his whole life and acted like if things did not go exactly how he wanted someone was treating him unfairly or someone needed to be blamed for his failures. He was a selfish player on and off the field that was counter-productive for our team and would be for any other team.
Mike Leach was not only my head coach, but he was my position coach all five of my years at Texas Tech. I spent more time with him than any other player during my five years and had meetings with him every day. He was very hard on me and every other player in program and he held very high expectations for every player. He would push us all every day during the season and during the off-season. He felt that hard work, dedication and doing things right was the only way we could be successful and compete in the Big XII conference. He worked harder and longer than anyone else in program and was committed to winning at all cost. He would never have been unfair to a player or not played the best players he had because he wanted to win more than anything else. Coach Leach also expected us to be tough but smart at the same time. He would not pressure a kid to play with a serious injury or play when he did not feel ready to play. Coach Leach is a man that cares about his player and puts his players, coaches and the well being of the Texas Tech football program above all else.
Coach Leach is a great coach at Texas Tech that emphasizes the importance of hard work and doing things the right way so that the football program has the best opportunity possible to be successful. He, along with the administration and the rest of his staff, have built a great football program at Texas Tech that is built on the virtues and principles that give any program an opportunity to be successful. Every single player may not buy into the program’s beliefs, but Mike Leach has almost everyone on board with him and the Texas Tech football program on a successful track.
Graham Harrell
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This is probably all a misunderstanding. The kid told his parents he was coming out of the closet. As bad as analyst as Craig James is he screwed it up and assumed his son was put in a closet. :piratecaptain:
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Craig James is a FP and a tool. During the '03 CCG, he was pretty blatant about rooting for OU, and could not stop shooting jism on himself over Stoops and Jason White. Still can't stand to see his stupid face, and switch channels unless I really want to watch the game he's assigned to.
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More meltdown
http://lubbockonline.com/stories/123009/loc_541122452.shtml
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"It does not surprise me. I have always considered him a rather odd young man. A queer sort, that one."
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Tech Faithful are going to crap out over these...
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/12-09/1231leachblack.pdf
** Modified - I had to right click on the link and save it as a file and then open. I'm not sure why...
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From our favorite writer, Tim Griffin:
http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/8970/isu-athletic-director-takes-shot-at-tech-during-pep-rally?prosaction=newpost&status=ok&status=ok
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I say get him in the KSU fold!!!!! Screw the :piratewave: :piratecaptain: political correctness!
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The best take on it so far that i can find...
http://www.sbnation.com/2009/12/31/1227561/mike-leach-fired-texas-tech-adam-jones-downfall-of-different
Per Texas Monthly, this week's conflict all started when James, after suffering a mild concussion, showed up to practice wearing sunglasses.
When asked about the glasses by a perturbed Coach Leach, he told his coach that his doctor said they'd help his recovery. In response, Coach Leach sent James to stand in dark places over the next two days' practices. Not "dark places" in a figurative sense, although that's the way they've been described in some circles. But just... Some literally dark environments.
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http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/8989/video-mike-leach-reacts-to-firing
Would somebody get Coach Leach a god damn teleprompter and not just some piece of paper that he is reading off of to the side of the camera. :lol:
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They are going to legally ass&@#% tech