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Electrical closet. Ended up being the media room.
This is what I don't understand. The coach can instruct this player go wherever the coach wants him to go when he's on the teams clock. After seeing that video I'm more than convinced that he gave him ample space and attention while he was "at practice". Boo hoo coach sat me down in a nice comfy room. If he didn't like it he should have walked away from the team. He certainly didn't lock him down in a coat closet like he was accused of.
Electrical closet. Ended up being the media room.
Besides, the coach is not your friend. He's your coach. Division 1 football is a tough game. Even if the players DIDN'T like him that doesn't make him a bad coach. Heck, rumors are that Stoops is a major and his players hate him but he has a national championship and multiple big XII championships...
Definitely drawing attention to the AlamoBowl.
This is pretty funny.
Kid isn't harmed in any way and they can their coach.
No, anything but standing in a dark room! Did the rich putz even try to get out?
That shed looks like a small pole barn, BTW.
Here is a link to the two rooms:
http://www.kcbd.com/global/Category....clipFormat=flv
The two "rooms" in question were a large garage buiding next to the practice bubble where the gators and pratice equipment are stored. There is an ice machine in there. The other room is in the stadium and is used for interviews with the opposing coach.
Not quite the torture chambers the press made it out to be.
A friend of mine with Tech said Craig James used to call Leach all the time with coaching suggestions and campaigning for more play time for his son. Adam was a red shirt freshman and caught only 30 balls in two years of play.
I am sure Leach had his fill of this kid and his asshole father, and was ing with the kid by sending him to those rooms. But I can remeber coaches being mad at me or the team and making us run wind sprints for a week. I would rather fo sit in a room than run wind sprints for a week. It is not like Leach was making the kid do push ups in those rooms.
This ended up bad for everybody. Leach probably could have saved his job, but pride got the best of him. Tech will rerutn to its losing ways. And Craig James will get a release dor his pussy of a son to go play at SMU. June Jones would be crazy to take this worthless sucker.
Wow what a PUSSY.
I think this is probably one of those rare cases where the perception of everyone is probably right. The kid is probably a whiner. Craig James is probably a major 'Little League Dad'. Leach is probably an arrogant prick.
What's getting lost in the shuffle is not the particulars of what happened, but WHY the kid was being locked up. He claimed he had a concussion, and obviously Leach, who is NOT a doctor, didn't believe him and thought he was dogging it. One of the things that the University said had to happen was that an outside doctor or doctors have to sign off on playing or practicing injured players. Leach refused. Bad move. He isn't a ing doctor, and with all of the concussion awareness being practiced all over football, he comes off looking not just like a hard ass, but like a ing Ogre.
I'm not sure why anyone was totally shocked that he was fired. Ohio State fired Woody Hayes, the greatest coach in their history and the one who led them to their first National Championship. He punched that kid from Clemson during the game, and didn't think he had to apologize for it. These guys get SUCH huge heads. There's still plenty of talent at TT, and I'm sure they can find someone else to come in and run the Stoops Dink and Dunk Offense and completely ignore the other side of the ball.
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Here's a good article on background...
By Tim Griffin
Mike Leach’s firing wasn’t a surprise on Wednesday.
His attorney had predicted to several reporters earlier this week that his client would be let go by Texas Tech officials -- probably sooner rather than later.
Mike Leach led Texas Tech to 10 straight bowl appearances.
But it was still a cataclysmic shock in Lubbock and West Texas when Leach was let go earlier this morning. For a period after his firing was announced, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal's Web site crashed due to interest in the story.
That firing speaks to a larger controversy than what happened over Adam James' concussion and “The Shed.”
Leach and Tech athletic director Gerald Myers always had a contentious relationship from the very beginning of his tenure there. It’s understandable when you consider the turf wars that sometimes develop in athletic departments when a headstrong former basketball coach is the athletic director and makes decisions over a similarly headstrong football coach.
It all started in 2002, when rumors about Leach’s off-field activities led to an investigation by the athletic department.
Leach was cleared, but the schism between him and his boss started at that time. At one point, Myers stopped Leach’s outgoing mail in a dispute about postage stamps.
It simmered early in Leach’s time when the Red Raiders played the toughest nonconference schedule in the Big 12 as a way to make money for the athletic department. During the 2002 season, for example, Tech played Ohio State, Mississippi and NC State in addition to the Big 12 South gauntlet.
That chapped Leach and he let Myers know about his concerns. The two always seemed to be better off if they were an arms-length away from the other.
Tech officials weren’t happy when news surfaced of Leach shopping himself for a number of major coaching openings over the past several years.
And it continued when he went through an extremely contentious negotiation with school officials before he was given a three-year extension on what was a five-year, $12.7 million contract. To get the deal done, Leach went over Myers’ head and personally negotiated with Tech chancellor Kent Hance.
Under terms of the contract, Leach was due an $800,000 bonus if he was still the Red Raiders’ coach on Thursday.
Now, it appears he won’t receive that bonus, although I’m sure the contract is headed for litigation between Leach and the school.
Even with the firing, Leach will be considered one of Tech’s top football coaches ever, leaving the school with a program he helped boost into contention in the extremely difficult Big 12 South Division. It’s not a stretch to say that he was one of the seminal figures in Big 12 history, helping transform the way offense was played from the ground-based philosophies of the old Southwest and Big Eight conferences into today’s high-powered aerial attacks that have become the national rage recently.
Leach built a program out of castoffs like Wes Welker, Michael Crabtree, Graham Harrell and Brandon Williams and turned them into a team that could consistently compete with teams like Texas and Oklahoma. The Red Raiders were ranked No. 2 in the nation for a three-week period during last year's 11-2 season, which was a national breakthrough for the school.
Leach was Texas Tech football. He was as much a part of Lubbock as dust storms, Buddy Holly’s statue and the blueberry muffins at the legendary Fifty-Yard Line Restaurant.
And no matter who follows Leach, he will face a mammoth chore of replacing a legend who directed the Red Raiders to 10 consecutive bowl appearances and more bowl victories in his tenure than the rest of the school’s 85-season football history combined.
The football program upstaged Myers’ basketball program and his hand-picked coach of choice, Bob Knight. Even with the legendary career leader in victories along the sidelines, the Red Raiders’ basketball team had trouble filling the United Spirit Arena or selling the personal-seat licenses that were intended to help build the facility.
But that wasn’t the case for the football program, which became a national phenomenon under their quirky coach. Tech’s success led to him being a cover story in the New York Times magazine and the subject of a fawning piece on CBS-TV’s "60 Minutes" late last season.
Leach gained notoriety for his fascination with pirates, mobsters and Indian chiefs. His stint as a weatherman on a Lubbock television station -- memorable because of his explanation of the local occurrence of “raining mud” -- became a YouTube staple with hundreds of thousands of hits.
He could coach a little, too. During what was expected to be a rebuilding job this season, Leach juggled three starting quarterbacks en route to an 8-4 mark and a berth in Saturday night’s Valero Alamo Bowl.
He’ll be gone from the sidelines in that game. The Red Raiders likely have the perfect solution to settle the upheaval with unassuming defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill. He’s familiar with the players because of his recruiting and will give them the best opportunity to keep their program together against Michigan State on Saturday night.
But after that, it will be a different story.
Myers needs to mobilize quickly to salvage what had been the best recruiting season for Tech in recent years. Whether those recruits will be willing to stay firm on their commitments to the far-flung West Texas locale that is still one of the toughest recruiting destinations in the Big 12 will be interesting to see.
Leach carved an iden y that made Tech one of the top 25 or 30 programs in the country over the past 10 years.
Now, we’ll see if his replacement can keep it there
It’s not a stretch to say that he was one of the seminal figures in Big 12 history, helping transform the way offense was played from the ground-based philosophies of the old Southwest and Big Eight conferences into today’s high-powered aerial attacks that have become the national rage recently.
wrong.
If anything, Stoops lifted Leaches offense. Stoops and Hal Mumme actually created the offense and perfected it at Kentucky and then Leach went to OU as offensive coordinator before going to Tech as head coach.
Heres a quote:
Prior to coming on board at Texas Tech, Leach, in just one season at Oklahoma, directed a Sooner offense that went from one of the worst in the Big 12 Conference to one of the best. Under Leach's tutelage, Josh Heupel was named 1999 Big 12 Offensive Newcomer of the Year. For his efforts, Leach was nominated for the 1999 Broyles Award as the top assistant coach in the country.
Leach guided an Oklahoma offense that went from 11th in the Big 12 in 1998 to first in 1999 and 101st in the nation to 11th. In just one year, OU's total offense numbers improved from 293.3 to 427.2 yards per game.
The rise in passing and scoring offense categories is just as impressive. Oklahoma went from last to first in the Big 12 in passing offense in one year, from 107th in the country to ninth. Under Leach, the Sooners improved from 109.9 yards passing per game to 321.7 yards per game.
In 1998, Oklahoma was last in the Big 12 and 101st in the country in scoring offense at 16.7 points per game. In 1999, the Sooners improved to second in the league and eighth in the country in scoring at 36.8 points per game, an increase of just over 20 points per game.
Under Leach, the Oklahoma offense set six Big 12 Conference and 17 OU records. The Sooners were one of only two schools in the nation to have six players with 20 or more receptions in 1999.
Whatever happened to the days where you went into a military/le/sport program expecting to be tortured, hazed, broken, etc.
I thought all men and even boys past the age of 15 pretty much assumed the man in charge would be the biggest you would ever meet and there would be nothing you could do about it other than survive. Did middle school/high school coaches not desensitize this gentleman?
Answer: daddy was big espn name.
I question how young athletes who can bench press 400 lbs, can be traumatized or allow themselves to be traumatized, by an old, out of shape, coach or senior citizen coaching staff…
I found this plausible:
http://www.sportingnews.com/college-...bref=obnetwork
It's a damn shame. Tech just fired the best coach they ever had. Guess Kent Hance and the AD didn't like being overshadowed by Leach and the football program. Too bad for the kids, too bad for Lubbock and too bad for Texas Tech. The way the University handled this does them no credit IMO. It looks more opportunistic than just IMO.
Gerald Myers, the over the hill ex-basketball coach/athletic director turned out looking like a petulant, jealous idiot. He hired Bob Knight to make the basketball program the "gem" of the schools athletic programs and Leach and football overshadowed it...
Bingo. You hit it right on the head. Now add in a really egotistic AD in Gerald Myers and you have the perfect storm.
I heard from my Lubbock and Tech friends that after his concussion, Adam James shows up at practice bubble wearing sunglasses a la Joe Cool. Leach asked him why he was wearing sunglasses and James said the bright lights in the bubble hurt his eyes since he had a concussion. This pissed off Leach and he told the trainer to take James out to the garage next to the bubble where the gators and practice equipment are stored. (I can only guess at this point Leach had his fill of this little prick and his father over the last three years. And I can guess that Leach has had many player sit out practices with concusssions and NOT wearing songlasses.)
I saw on either FOX news this morning or ESPN a cell phone video from Adam's phone that Adam took while confined to the media room. And the lights were off (not sure who turned them off) while he was filming. I am wondering if he called his sucker dad to tell him about his incarceration and the dad told him to film, or if Adam did it all on his own. It does tell me at this point, the James gang were building their case aganst Leach.
Saw that video on youtube.
I'm not an expert or anything, but aren't door locks usually on the inside? And I saw a chair, so unless they covered it on razor blades and fire ants, we can agree that the "forced him to stand" allegation is complete bull . EDIT: Even if there was no chairs, the whiny can't sit on the floor?
Honestly, from everything I've read, James is just the pawn. A bag pawn, but a pawn nonetheless.
Again, the James is just a prequel. Tech swears it has more to hang Leach with. Let's see what they've got and how the players react after the bowl game. This soap opera just got started.
Tech is really gonna regret this. Leach will get damn near his full contract amount now, Their football program will go into the toilet, and their stupid over the hill athletic director will still be running the show.
What decent coach would EVER want to coach there?
They will end up promoting the interim coach (the current defensive coach) to head coach because he can be manipulated. I'm sure he will be a great coach...Tech has ALWAYS been known for their great DEFENSE
Let's define "Tech".
If you mean the loyal Tech alumni that watched their football team play exciting football for 10 years after suffering thorugh years of mediocre football....Yeah, they are going to regret it.
If you mean the current young athletic players that came to Tech to play for Mike Leach, now will have to play for a new coach and his system....Yeah, they are going to regret it.
If you mean the University's financial coffers that made a lot of money under Mike Leach.....yeah they will regret it.
If you mean Mike Leach for being so stupid, stubborn and prideful to get himself fired....Yeah I think he will regret it. Start looking at D2 schools Mike.
Finally, if you mean Adam James for being a little arrogant, lazy, en led prick...yeah he is going to regret it big time. His career at Tech and any other D1 school is over. If you mean Craig James for being such a arrogant Pop Warner dad...yeah he is going to regret his actions for a long time.
Exactly......Lubbock is not exactly a vacation destination. Good luck trying to lure top rated players to Lubbock. Plus what good coach would want to work for asshole AD Gerald Meyers?What decent coach would EVER want to coach there?
They will end up promoting the interim coach (the current defensive coach) to head coach because he can be manipulated. I'm sure he will be a great coach...Tech has ALWAYS been known for their great DEFENSE
Tech is in a difficult spot here. If they don't promote Defensive Coordinator Ruffian McNeil, they will be accused of racism. If they do promote him, good luck to him and Tech as I do not think he has what it takes to keep Tech at a high level.
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