He and OB are friends
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.
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.
I could care less if you guys are good this year. I really could. You guys are talkin trash on the fieldhouse. Saying Bramlage is way louder and better and stuff.
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.
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."
More info on Mike Leach firinghttp://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/8897/video-texas-tech-fires-mike-leach
Sumlin.
Quote from: jonner 08 on December 30, 2009, 02:22:25 PMMore info on Mike Leach firinghttp://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/8897/video-texas-tech-fires-mike-leachI 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
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
