What a bunch of crap.
That’s what happens when you mistreat Craig James’ son.
The dreaded double post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417808/posts
Without looking, this is the same school that hired Bobby Knight as basketball coach?
Now TX Tech has opened the doors for the kids to overrule the coach for future situations.
First I heard of this, but it sure sounds like a real piece of stupidity and injustice to me.
Some interesting reader comments on an earlier news report:
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/12/30/report-leach-fired/
My boos has been mean to me all week by not leaving me alone while I was on vacation....humm I wonder if I could get my daddie to call the CEO and get him fired.
Just a thought?
My boss has been mean to me all week by not leaving me alone while I was on vacation....humm I wonder if I could get my daddie to call the CEO and get him fired.
Just a thought?
It takes two to make a situation like this. I think Adam James is likely a serious attitude problem.
I also think that Mike Leach is a bully.
Too bad it came to this.
The president of the university should also be canned for such a knee-jerk reaction. Future recruiting will be very difficult.
This kind of crap happens all the time in higher education, but usually not at such a visible and high level. The AD wanted to can Leach, and Pansy James gave him an outrageous, if true, story to accuse Leach with. I would bet the real reason has to do with the inability of the AD, Leach, alumni, and others to get along. Also, saving 800,000 bucks may have had something to do with it.
Leach obviously, blatantly, punished the kid for reporting a concussion. If Leach could prove the kid knew he didn't have a concussion, he should have yanked his scholarship for lying. Because is this day and age, you can't retaliate against an athlete for reporting a concussion.
Yeah, I know, the punishment was mild. But it was punishment. Leach should have given the kid (a wide receiver)a DVD of Michigan State's last two games, and told him to sit in a the media room, watch it and record every play where Michigan State tried to cover a wide receiver with a running back, or where a defensive back released a wide receiver to a safety -- only the safety wasn't there. Do that, then bench the kid for the Alamo Bowl if he thought the kid was lying, and no one off the team would ever know about this story.
It has been reported that the Tech AD told Leach that he had to apologize, and Leach flatly refused. Good enough. I can respect a "My way or the highway." kind of guy. But that kid of guy has to understand there will be times when the boss tells him that Highway 87 will get him out of Lubbock.
I hope TT and ESPN get nailed to the wall. TT is obviously trying to cheat the coach the money they agreed to pay him.
The president of the university should also be canned for such a knee-jerk reaction. Future recruiting will be very difficult.
Texas Tech has been demoted IMO to that of Ohio State and Notre Dame. I do not care if any of the three ever win another game.I will pull for who is playing against them.