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Mike Leach Gives Interview to ESPN, Trainer refutes James
ESPN ^ | 01/01/2010 | ESPN

Posted on 01/01/2010 6:41:58 AM PST by rintense

Texas Tech head football athletic trainer Steve Pincock said Red Raiders receiver Adam James was placed in a "sports medicine garage" and media room as "big as a two-car garage" while recovering from a concussion, and was monitored by two trainers at all times.

Pincock's account of the incident, given in a statement to representatives of former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, contradicts James' version of events that led to Leach being fired Wednesday.

James, who is the son of ESPN college football analyst Craig James, sustained a concussion on Dec. 16. He was examined the following day and told not to practice because of the injury and an elevated heart rate.

(Excerpt) Read more at sports.espn.go.com ...


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To: lonestar

I never said there weren’t conservative places, just that it is not a conservative state.

I want Texas to be conservative, just as I want Mt, ND, SD, Co, Ar, and In to be. Before we can win, we have to objectively look at ourselves and see the landscape for what it is.


161 posted on 01/01/2010 5:45:16 PM PST by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Raider Sam

TX is becoming more liberal by the year and we stand to lose control of the state legislature.


162 posted on 01/01/2010 5:56:27 PM PST by lonestar (Obama and his czars have turned Bush's "mess" into a national crisis!)
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To: commish
Hearing a lot of chatter that the Buffalo Bills have approached him,....

I hope Mike comes out smelling like a rose. Wouldn't be surprised that Kentucky is interested; he was offensive coordinator there before Stoops hired him at OU.

163 posted on 01/02/2010 2:14:46 PM PST by Ole Okie
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To: rintense

ESPN keeps digging themselves quite a culpability hole on the air. They will lose some serious dollars in this. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

BTW - the kid looks like a complete turd.


164 posted on 01/02/2010 11:08:58 PM PST by noblejones (Obama rules!)
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To: the808bass

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A question no one on Leach’s side wants to answer: why did Leach cuss out the kid before sending him to “the shed”?
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I take it you’ve never played football. I got called a “stupid m*therf*cker” during a game for scoring a touchdown. I picked up a fumble and ran with it in the waning seconds of a game in which we were winning when the policy was to just fall on it. Coach was right.


165 posted on 01/03/2010 1:02:22 AM PST by noblejones (Obama rules!)
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To: the808bass

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Know what that changes in this situation? Nada.
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Changes plenty. Likelihood is that the staff wanted James to quit. If he were to quit he’d forfeit his scholarship. If they kicked him off the team he’d get to keep it. That’s usually the case.


166 posted on 01/03/2010 1:11:03 AM PST by noblejones (Obama rules!)
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To: noblejones
I take it you’ve never played football. I got called a “stupid m*therf*cker” during a game for scoring a touchdown. I picked up a fumble and ran with it in the waning seconds of a game in which we were winning when the policy was to just fall on it. Coach was right.

And if you had broken your tibia and Coach called you a "stupid m*f*er" you'd have an analogy.

167 posted on 01/03/2010 5:15:32 AM PST by the808bass
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To: noblejones
Changes plenty. Likelihood is that the staff wanted James to quit. If he were to quit he’d forfeit his scholarship. If they kicked him off the team he’d get to keep it. That’s usually the case.

If they wanted him to quit, why didn't they release him from his scholarship and let him transfer? Additionally, being kicked off the team doesn't mean you get to keep your scholarship.

168 posted on 01/03/2010 5:18:18 AM PST by the808bass
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To: rintense

But why do it at all? If the kid is a pain in the neck, then send him back to his dorm or kick him off the team. What on earth is the purpose of putting him in a dark room?

It just sounds childish and petty to me. A really dumb thing to do.


169 posted on 01/03/2010 9:17:02 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

Because if you send him back to his room, etc., you lose control of a player with an injury during practice time. As someone who has had concussions, a dark, cool room is a perfect place for someone who is having light sensitivity. From a coaching perspective, I also don’t want a kid, with a record of being a disruption and non-team player, on my practice field distracting other players/coaches when he is unable to participate- esp. if he’s injured and has a history of dogging it.


170 posted on 01/04/2010 3:49:06 AM PST by rintense (You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal. ~ rintense, 2006)
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To: rintense

Well, Leach also made sure there was no place for the guy to sit or lie down. It still sounds like a petty, vindictive thing to do that had nothing to do with the player’s medical condition or discipline.


171 posted on 01/05/2010 10:37:56 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Raider Sam

Texas is no different than any other state in that it has its share of corrupt, concentrated Democrat parasite nests (”cities”) that consistently give the rats the bulk of their votes in statewide races. But when you subtract the Democrat party base of welfare grandmothers, atheists, abortion enthusiasts, condom-throwers, gold-chained union thugs, Boy Scout-hating lesbians, hand-wringing college professors, and the rest of the parasites, losers, and goofballs, Texas is a very conservative state.


172 posted on 01/05/2010 10:47:23 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Pining_4_TX
Wrong!!! James own video proves there were chairs in the 'closet' (the alleged electrical closet James put himself in, even though the trainer told him not to go in there due to noise). And in the 'shed', the trainer said James was eating ice, even sleeping.

Got any more?

173 posted on 01/06/2010 3:48:20 AM PST by rintense (You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal. ~ rintense, 2006)
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To: rintense

As Steve Martin used to say, “Well, excuse meeeeee!” What I saw and read stated that Leach made sure there was no place for James to sit or lie down. Even so, I still think it was a petty, silly thing to do. What was it supposed to accomplish? If James was/is such a pill, I don’t see how that would improve him any. Just kick his behind off the team if he’s a problem child.

“Got any more?”

Don’t be snippy with me young man (or woman)! I’m probably old enough to be your mother! :-P


174 posted on 01/06/2010 9:36:47 AM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

Old enough to be my mother? :) Probably not. I’m almost 41.


175 posted on 01/06/2010 10:35:36 AM PST by rintense (You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal. ~ rintense, 2006)
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To: Lancey Howard

I agree. Unfortunately, that group is large enough to make Republicans think the need Kay Bailey Hutchison instead of Jim DeMint. I want to pull Texas to a constitutionalist level, but we have to acknowledge where we are to be able to set a oath to where we want to be.

In my opinion, we should be building a bench in SW texas, Eastern New Mexico, non Denver Colorado, Eastern Arizona, Eastern California, as well as ND, SD, and Mt. These are traditionally libertarian areas that have been snookered by the dems claim that Republicans want to make everyone join the Methodist church.


176 posted on 01/06/2010 4:44:10 PM PST by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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