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Texas Tech fires coach Leach
espn ^ | 12/30/09 | espn

Posted on 12/30/2009 10:27:47 AM PST by rintense

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Texas Tech has fired football coach Mike Leach.

The school handed a termination letter to Leach's attorney, Ted Liggett, on Wednesday just before the two sides were to appear in a Lubbock, Texas, courtroom for a hearing on the coach's suspension.

Liggett says the letter says Leach is "terminated with cause effective immediately."

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KEYWORDS: coach; collegefootball; fired; mikeleach
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry
Snake - that was fast because if he were the coach on 12/31 Tech would have had to pay him an $800,000 bonus.

Ironically, they may now have to pay him considerably more if he sues (and I hope he does).

41 posted on 12/30/2009 10:50:32 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

And attorneys are always forthright, no doubt. I have reason to believe that the story of the demand was true.


42 posted on 12/30/2009 10:50:43 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
The story from the kid who got hurt is awesome. Its in one of the links I posted above. Funny how all these people come out in support of Leach, including a Heisman Nominee, and the only person supporting Adam James is his daddy.

One incident in 10 years... what a load of crap.

43 posted on 12/30/2009 10:51:02 AM PST by rintense (You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal. ~ rintense, 2006)
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To: rintense

I always had the feeling that Craig James was a dick.


44 posted on 12/30/2009 10:55:25 AM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Leach put him in a dark room because he didn’t respect the fact that James had a concussion. I assume that is why James had on dark glasses. The fact is that Leach told trainers to find a dark, isolated place and stick Adam in it.

Per the DMN (Kevin Sherrington):
The message was clear: Leach didn’t like the diagnosis and/or James.

He also sent a message, perhaps inadvertently, to the rest of his players. Concussions may be the most underreported injuries in athletics, which makes them all the more dangerous. When a coach in effect tells his players this is how he deals with head injuries, it hardly encourages them to say they might have a problem.


45 posted on 12/30/2009 10:56:01 AM PST by cowtowney
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To: rintense
Texas A&M Aggie here saying... this is going to leave a mark on everything.

The James clan and Leach and tt need to go buy lots of something to put on those wounds... a tanker load of Windex should do the trick.

46 posted on 12/30/2009 10:57:10 AM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: pogo101

The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

If he established a reputation as a faker, who’s going to believe him? Once personal credibility is gone, nothing you say can or will be trusted.


47 posted on 12/30/2009 10:57:59 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: rintense
Pissed off for damn sure.

It was a perfect storm - an AD who wanted to get rid of his coach, a coach who was quirky enough to do something that some people might question, a prima donna player, a dad who wanted more playing time for his son, and a sports network who "broke" the story and reported the dads side of the story for the first 36 hours, setting the template.

48 posted on 12/30/2009 10:58:40 AM PST by TexasNative2000 (There's a reason the oath talks about defending the country from enemies both "foreign AND domestic")
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
Do you have some inside information that we don't have? Coach's attorney said in an interview that no such demand was made - the AD is acting like if Coach had just apologized this would have gone away - I don't believe he ever had any intention of believing the coach or giving him any leeway in the situation.

A high profile whiner made an accusation and it was just what gerald meyers needed to get rid of the Coach....

49 posted on 12/30/2009 10:58:50 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (He's changing his name from Tiger to Cheetah)
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To: GOP_Raider

College Football PING?


50 posted on 12/30/2009 10:58:53 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: Sir Gawain

Good to see you, Sir! And yeah, he’s a big time d!ck.


51 posted on 12/30/2009 11:00:21 AM PST by rintense (You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal. ~ rintense, 2006)
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To: cowtowney
Although it is certainly possible that, this time, James was telling the truth in claiming an injury, teammates and coaches report in considerable detail that James has a history of malingering to avoid drills and practices (but not games), along with a generally bad attitude.

James sure did Cry Wolf a lot, and that may explain Leach's skepticism that, this time, the wolf had really come.

52 posted on 12/30/2009 11:00:36 AM PST by pogo101
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To: cowtowney

Guess what doctors say to do if a player has a concussion? A dark quite place with supervision.... and a doctor later said nothing detrimental was done - in fact, dark, quite is called for. How was that abusive?


53 posted on 12/30/2009 11:00:51 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (He's changing his name from Tiger to Cheetah)
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To: pogo101

Yep. The boy cried wolf.


54 posted on 12/30/2009 11:01:50 AM PST by rintense (You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal. ~ rintense, 2006)
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To: starlifter

Your post will not be popular, but it is correct.


55 posted on 12/30/2009 11:03:07 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

I smell a set up.


56 posted on 12/30/2009 11:04:06 AM PST by Despot of the Delta
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To: EDINVA

Heh, I just posted that analogy (cried wolf), but it turns out you beat me to it. Right on.


57 posted on 12/30/2009 11:05:02 AM PST by pogo101
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To: Despot of the Delta

Yeah - it stinks to high heaven!


58 posted on 12/30/2009 11:05:35 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (He's changing his name from Tiger to Cheetah)
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore); aft_lizard; Archie Bunker on steroids; Auntbee; Bad~Rodeo; Bat_Chemist; ...

College football breaking news Ping!


59 posted on 12/30/2009 11:07:02 AM PST by GOP_Raider (You can now check out GOP_Raider on Twitter at twitter.com/RaiderUte)
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To: pogo101

A question that perhaps will be answered in the future, is Adam James was such a cancer in the clubhouse why did Leach keep him on the team all these years, I believe 3. was Leach letting his ego get in the way since he brought James onto the team when the assistants say he was not D-I material?


60 posted on 12/30/2009 11:07:17 AM PST by C19fan
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