Leach lashes out at Tech, James family

NBC Sports ^ | January 1, 2010 | Posted by John Taylor

[TXBlair]

A ping for your peeps, Raider.

[Loud Mime]

What? No Waterboarding?

[deport]

You may want to read this NBC report. click the link to the article.

[lawnguy]

Here's the deal: I have known people like Mike Leach. I am a lot like him.

He is not going to go away quietly, he is going to defend himself, and he has the means to do so.

Wait until he plays those messages from Craig James in court.

Spoiled college kids won't fly to a west Texas jury.

This may get very entertaining.

And Leach will take his offense to some school somewhere, and just keep on becoming bowl eligible.

[TXBlair]

Again, this is making both sides look bad. Really bad.

Really? I failed to see anything in the article that made Leach look bad.

[demkicker]

I have definite feelings about this and although Leach is a different kind of cat, he certainly didn't deserve this kind of treatment. I predict (and rightfully so) that he will receive a substantial financial recovery.

Leach is an attorney and smart enough to not sign any b.s. papers put before him admitting any sort of guilt. Because of difficult previous dealings with the administration regarding his contract, he knew very well that he was 'persona non grata'.

As much as I love Tech, I hope Leach cleans their financial clock so that Myers, Hance, Craig James and others who have over-reached while trying to destroy a good coach will be the ones who receive the public scorn once the truth comes out. Those good 'ole boys need to be gone!

Watch This - after a brief commercial - and judge for yourself

[TexasNative2000]

Can you imagine Leach as Offensive Coordinator at an established school with a strong defensive reputation? Like, say, Alabama?

[OldDeckHand]

What is surprising and what seems to be the biggest problem is that the university doesn't have any specific protocol in place for athletes who have suffered a concussion - an injury that recent NFL testimony has proven can be a very serious event, with lasting consequences a possibility.

It's not surprising that Craig James is a first class idiot, and a college coach is a bit bullheaded. But, when it comes to brain-trauma injuries, you would think - especially given all the PR on concussions of late - the school AD would have a much more specific protocol for dealing with athletes rehabbing from these injuries.

[ssaftler]

Personally, I’d like to see Leach coaching another team in the Big 12 so he can annually layeth the smacketh down on the Pink Faiders.

[demkicker]

Trust me - the little wuss was taken care of. He just got pissed that he wasn't allowed to stroll around the sidelines in his expensive sunglasses like a prima-donna while his team-mates worked their @sses off.

The trainer has already blown up the twerp's video lie about the electrical closet/shed. See my earlier post and watch Leach's video regarding Adam and Craig James.

[sugarbabe]

Having taught school for 22 years, I can just hear Adam James saying, “wait til my dad hears this”. James sounds like those little league dad’s that followed their kid to college and he used his job to try to put pressure on the coach. I don’t know Mike Leach, and I am a Bama grad, but I know kids and parents like the James family.

[neodad]

I was in Lubbock the day all of this went down. This is not going to end well for the Tech admin. Most bowl appearances since the inception of the Big 12. #1 graduation rate. 99.9% of Raider Nation is furious. Tech is going to loose big time. And they deserve to. When I went, we were glad to beat either UT or A&M in a year. Now Tech owned A&M until this year. Leach put Red Raider football on the map.

[TexasNative2000]

Thanks for posting the link to the ESPN interview. ESPN.com has already taken the video off their College Football page AND off their "Video Highlights" page.

It was up for, what, a couple of hours????

[lawnguy]

Would be awesome to see. I’m not sure he’s the personality type to go back to being a coordinator. I just watched his interview on Sportscenter and he did a good job, btw.

[OldDeckHand]

"He just got pissed that he wasn't allowed to stroll around the sidelines in his expensive sunglasses like a prima-donna while his team-mates worked their @sses off."

That's just my point. There didn't/doesn't seem to be any specific protocol in place regarding these kinds of injuries at this school. The fact of the matter is photo-sensitivity is a symptom of person suffering from a concussion. It shouldn't piss a coach off - and it clearly did - that this kid had on sun-glasses.

[demkicker]

Thanks for the heads-up. It is glaringly obvious that ESPN has Craig James’ best interest at heart and not the truth. I saw an edited version on television of the internet link I posted on ESPN, but was shocked when I saw the online version. They left SO MUCH OUT!

That’s fine - maybe Leach will sue them too for contributing to his defamation of character. I hope he cleans Tech’s financial clock so that a new group will come in to manage a great university in an honorable way.

[Bad~Rodeo]

Home of Red Raider James gets added security:

Celina Police have beefed up patrol around the home of Tech receiver Adam James this week amid Internet postings from angry fans revealing his address.

“We have patrol officers that are watching over the house along with the Collin County Sheriff’s County,” Celina Police Chief Joe Williams said.

http://www.redraiders.com/2009/12/31/home-of-red-raider-james-gets-added-security/

[kittymyrib]

How do they know that spoiled brat got the concussion at practice and not at the bar fight he was in the night before?
After Leach finishes with the James family in court, they will be wishing they had just told their 22-year-old sophomore to come home and live in their basement. No school or coach will want to have anything to do with this whiner and his helicopter dad, who attended 70+ practices to see that the coaches weren’t being mean to his little boy.

[TexasNative2000]

I did find it very interesting that Leach said he would still like to be the Head Coach at Texas Tech.

Wonder if he's sending the signal that any settlement would have to include the resignation of the AD?