Comments on: Mike Leach fired “for cause”

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By: Mr.Murder

Mr.Murder — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:47:52 +0000

Certainly James will forego playing football ever again from concern over his health due to a concussion? Call us back when he makes that timely statement.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:08:56 +0000

If Texas Tech was so concerned for the treatment of their students then why did they hire Bobby Knight that choked a player? This University is classless.

By: Handgunslinger

Handgunslinger — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:25:27 +0000

Old South, your comparatively short submission revealed more common sense than that of 90% of previous posts. The longest post was also well-informed, being from a coach.

My thought is that the only people who win in this situation will be the respective attorneys. Sort of like a huge divorce case, huh?

By: OldSouth

OldSouth — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:46:09 +0000

Good lord folks. Let me just make a general observation: when there’s significant factual dispute over an event from multiple people on both sides, don’t just assume one side is right, speculate wildly, then use that speculation to insult the other side. It makes you look biased at best, stupid in the middle, and malicious at worst. (Peter Maloney, I’m looking at you).

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:05:38 +0000

Unbelievable. Yeah, he was in a lot of danger by being told to stay in a shed, instead, choosing to show up at practice, “in sunglasses, with his hat on backwards.” Did you hear Leach’s interview? Like he said, is there anybody in their right mind who would say “lets see, who can we rip off?…and then, as you sift through the roster, come across the guy who is the richest, and whos dad has a huge microphone in front of his face….lets rip his kid off.” And, yeah, Im sure there will be no interest with D1 schools in one of the most prolific offensive minds in the history of college football. We wont have any room for that kind of a guy. What a bunch of pansies-this is football, not a dance competition. Good thing the James werent around during the Frank Kush type of years at ASU many years ago. What would then do then?…Wow

By: Chico's Bail Bonds

Chico's Bail Bonds — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:04:07 +0000

Leach has no one to blame but Leach. First, you don’t make an example, punish, embarass, or otherwise single out a player with a concussion — period. Second, Mike refused to adopt guidelines for the treatement of players with concussions. By doing so, he gave TT the perfect excuse to fire him.

It wouldn’t surprise me if James was a pain in the rump, or if his father meddled. So what? If a player has a concussion, you have to be aware of the message you’re sending the rest of the team. If that message could possibly be construed as “play through it,” then you’re wrong. Dead wrong.

So why not let James get over the concussion and then either: 1) hand him his transfer papers; 2) bench him; or 3) run him until he pukes?

Leach made some incredibly bad choices. In doing so, he handed TT the perfect excuse to fire him. I doubt if Leach will ever return to the major conference level.

By: LAW

LAW — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:30:58 +0000

I’m a Michigan State fan that didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to the details of the Leach issue until the bowl game today. All I can say is that the treatment of Leach by both TTU and ESPN is disgraceful. It was great to see the TTU fans supporting Leach at the game today and not lapping up the BS spin that ESPN is desperately trying to dish out.

By: Topher

Topher — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:09:14 +0000

Peter,

Take a deep breath…none of your wild allegations are backed up. If anyone has been shown to be an egomaniac it’s Craig James – calling Leach, his assistants and administrators to beg for playing time for his son, and when that didn’t work, using his bully pulpit at ESPN to claim he’s purely a victim.

Leach runs a tight ship (pirate he is, of course) but if you read up on him he’s far down the list in terms of egomaniacal coaches. His looseness and bizarre sense of humor that he freely shared with the media were evidence of a style unlike humorless, control-freak coaches like Lou Holtz, Urban Meyer and Nick Saban. He’s closer to normal people than they are.

I’m sad the coaching world will be losing an original, at least for a little while.