Good morning West Texans and all you good, fine, friendly folks out there who wish you were . . .
Tech’s former Lead Pirate, Mike Leach, is back in the news. The A-J reports that Leach will be in town Friday to give his first put your hand on the Bible and tell the whole truth statements about his firing. Not only will Leach be giving his side of the story but other Tech officials like Chancellor Kent Hance are expected to put their statements down for history as well. Of course if this thing gets settled in the next few weeks like some still believe we’ll probably never get to see the statements. Probably.
I say that because conventional wisdom has been thrown out the window when it comes to this story. Leach has taken a much more aggressive stance than most fired coaches ever do and Texas Tech seems firmly entrenched and more than willing to let this play out in court confident that they’ve got the facts on their side. That’s what makes this so interesting to watch.
The element of the story about Leach this week that has tongues wagging is that his legal team is apparently seeking records from Frenship I.S.D. about Tommy Tuberville’s childrens’ enrollment status. In other words, when did they show up and did it pre-date Leach’s firing.
Some view this as a thinly-veiled attempt to smear Tech and Tuberville and encourage more conspiracy thinking on the part of the Team Leachers that think Leach’s firing and Tuberville’s hiring had been pre-ordained in the Old Testament. To some it wreaks of a desperate fishing expedition by a desperate legal team that knows they don’t have a chance in court so they’ll try to go scorched-earth in the media.
Then there are those that think it is a shrewd move to force Tech’s hand to hand over the cash and scare them out of a trial.
Some one’s got to be right, some one’s got to be wrong here.
Either way, if it does settle and there is no releasing of details, both sides will claim the other side caved in and that they won. They’ll also claim their disappointed the “facts” never came out, but they have to abide by the decision of the court. That’s why so many want this to go to trial. I still think those folks will be left wanting more, much more, at the end of the day.
By the way, if you’re looking for good comedy you’ve got to read the comment section after the A-J story on Leach. I worry about some of those folks, I truly do.
MORE LATER ON THE SHOW
Hyatt
I personally facrbooked Tucker, the oldest son of coach Tuberville which is a quarterback entering into Friendship as a freshman. He and his brother Troy were not yet enroled into school at that time and infact were still in Alabama with their mom, acccording to Tucker. This all took place just a few days after Tuberville’s hiring and after he mentioned the names of both his boys. I searched and found Tucker and sent him a message, welcoming him and Troy to Lubbock and giving them an idea of what there is to do around the area from Joyland, the waterpark, to the lakes around us, and where good hunting was.
After he responded to me I then asked whst high school he would be attending so I could watch some of his games. Thats when he told me that they would be going to friendship. It seems that Daddy was told that would be the better school district to have the boys in. Evidently one of his dads jobs here when he returned to Lubbock on the wednesday after the press conference to meet with his new team, was to enroll the boys that morning at Friendship. Now, this is all according to Tucker Tubberville. So Leach’s Leagal Team would have no leagal leverage there at all.
Ryan, I am with you on the sick weirdo’s of team Leach. BUT, think of how sickly murderous they would have been had Mike Leach had of been hired by Miami, Auburn, or Washington ,and walked away from Tech and His Leacher fans. They would have demanded his head on a silver platter and I wouldn’t doubt that there would have been a death threat in there either, like there was against Myers and Hance in some of these sick comment pages.
I don’t blame Tech for wanting to cut ties with Leach. He was everything that you would not expect from a major collage coach. Mike was late to every team meeting, to every radio show, to every press conference, and how did he usully show up? Looking like he was majorly hungover and pissed off, sloppy dressed, and he hated to be interviewed. You never knew what he might say with his answers. It seemed that Leach was never happy at Tech and seemed to be looking for greener pastures yet never another job because no school would pay him what he wanted.
Ever wondered why Mike Leach never acted like a Loyal Head Coach, and stop the rumors right in thier tracks, like Bob Stoops would when his name was mentioned as a possible canidate for an open coach’s job, where he would deny any intrest and proclaim his loyalty to OU? Leach would never say a word about it because at the time he might have been secretly interviewing for the jobs leaving everyone at Tech and the fans wondering, What The Heck is going on here! Then I guess if he and the other schools couldn’t come up with an agreement, he then would say, im not interested in that job, but that was after taking everyone on an emotional Mr Toad’s Wild Ride in the process.
Yet at the same time, the Tech Administration Royally blew it with the way they handled the suspension, and then the firing of Leach. It was almost like a scene right out of a Keystone Cops episode. Talk about something that you would not expect, coming from a school wanting to be a Tier1 University. A Royal Railroad job all the way, that just might backfire right in Tech’s face. Mike leach was a great offensive coordinator, but a head coach, he was not. There definitely needs to be some big changes within the Texas Tech Administration and thats a cold hard fact.
Peace out everyone and, WRECK’EM TECH!