wow… that shocking

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Totally expected. 1) Tech has a large following now. 2) With the Leach firing people wanted to see if Tech woild fold. 3) People wanted more information from ESPN about Leach. 4) Tech is just exciting.

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So, Mr. Sheffield.

8.9 million people saw you take over and lead the team to dominate the opponent with 8 minutes left in the game. That must feel good. Good job.

Caleb

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Wow — that was probably the most watched one-sided campaign speech in U.S. history.

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teacupttu:

Maybe, but I think that would have been on Jan. 20, 2009.

Caleb

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4) Tech is just exciting. Wrong!

4) Tech was exciting.

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ESPN….. The REAL winners of this Leach/TTU mess.

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as they walk to the bank….

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And millions of viewers got to hear brilliant commentary from ESPN !

Two of those statements ( paraphrased ) were:

“…… Adam James was punished for having a concussion…” and

“… Tech does not seem miss Leach on the sideline….”

Nice work, ESPN. Very objective coverage of the controversy, and Mike Leach.

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53,717 members on Team Leach! Wonder if the stooges and cockroaches are thinking differently now. What fury the have unleashed

http://www.facebook.com search for “team leach”

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haha, haha, haha,

dogmasterbater, that’s funny. facebook. hahaha.

hahahaha

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espn said Adam James was courageous

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look up courage sally. if going against 60 other guys on your team; you’re immediate superior (coach); and, his immediate superior (coach) doesn’t fall in your category of courageous….

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ESPN also said it was a “controversial” move for Leach to put “Nick” on the back of Potts’ jersey. Funny how everyone thought is was so humorous and creative at the time.

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everyone? how do you know ‘everyone’ thought it was creative and humorous?

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i meant to say that espn doesn’t know what they are talking about when they said Adam James is courageous

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And I thought it was Potts that had asked for it to be on the jersey! Not Leach. Leach just called him by that nickname…

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kinda like we all call Lynwood and Stick by their nicknames….

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“Craig James deserves our respect for his courage…” Whatever!!!

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Watchgod113 — Besides “Team Leach” on Facebook, do you know of any other groups we can join? Some of us “old-timers” who are not on Facebook want our voices heard too!!!!!

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fire meyers petition….1428 signatures so far
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?ttu12309

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Go ahead and join up if nothing just the TEAM LEACH. I did.

Other than than just hold athletic funds, email, write, call ticket office and put a black slash across your double T’s (universal sign of mourning).

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“Craig James deserves our respect for his courage…”

Okay new nickname for him….DIVA.

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can someone please tell the bookstore to not display the Craig James book, it should be in the back in a dark place.

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sally, i signed the petition too: mike leach, bobby knight, kent hance, and gerald meyers.

hahaha, it’s as maroonish as dogmaster’s facebook page.

hahaha. lubbock doesn’t deserve either of you. please move to college station or bryan.

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the “good old boy” system at tech needs to come to an end!! fire myers, hance and bailey!!!

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adam james is a punk. period, end of story. he learned it from his daddy. now leach is gone and we’re gonna have humpty dumpty all confused and sweating on the sidelines. at least he’ll be a great yell leader.

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espn will walk to the bank & since Tech agreed to fire leach then espn will be paying tech to be on espn’s games a lot.
tit for tat.

only losers in this money madness are the tech fans. but it’s not about them anyways.

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Hold on folks. Bailey, Myer & Hance have a surprise for us Tech fans. He’ll may be in Lubbock on Thursday. His travel has been discrete to protect his current position. Met with several Tech administrators last Friday in San Antonio. You will be shocked if he is hired. It is no one that ESPN and others are reporting on. He’s a good coach, but not what we need. Air Raid is gone come Friday. Myers and Bailey must want to rid Tech of everything Leach. I can’t believe this is about to happen. Ruff and Tuber are decoys. Friday may just be the saddest day ever for Tech football.

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TTU Regent Friend,

So you are saying Obama is the next HC!?!?!

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that was the best bowl game so far. but the announcers saying Craig james was corageous is like saying Liberace was a real man. Craig James is a Soccer mom,adam James is a pansy and Myers is a pos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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What TTU Regent Friend is trying to say is that Hance is dead set on hiring Briles.

If Briles is willing to keep Ruffin around as Defensive Coordinator, the job is his.

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What TTU Regent Friend is trying to say is that Hance is dead set on hiring Briles.

Why? As said by someone else a chancellor should not be involved in the athletic decision process.

If Briles is willing to keep Ruffin around as Defensive Coordinator, the job is his.

But would Ruff stay? Leach appointed him Co-Head Coach and his replacement….Doubt if Leach would take him along to his next jig though after that knife stab.

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Craig James is so brave. He sacrificed his son’s entire hopes of ever playing another down of football so he could protect him. He sure ought to be safe now selling shirts at the Dollar Store.

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Folks, if you don’t protest this absurd event by the administration, then you are thanking them.
I don’t wish ill upon the students, but this horrible abuse of ethics must be heard. If not, they will continue to run a muck.

Also, home games are for the fans and the area. The moving of a home game to the metro for some fat cats is another slap in our faces. Regents and boosters over the tech faithful.Please show the administration that they can’t continue to screw us over.
The gig is up finally

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Another conspiracy theory: all this was created by craig james and espn for higher ratings…..week of the games……

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it was a great game, for those who could attend.
leach is gone, time for half the posters here to grow-up and time for tech to get a coach who is a grown-up… leach was good for tech, but alas, his bad habits and goofball personality ruined it for everyone. how would you like to have been myers the last ten years and be in a situation where the only way you could talk to YOUR coach, is to contact his FN lawyer!!! geez, not to mention the baggage and a$$ covering myers had to do for the goober… dig a little deeper and it ALL makes perfect sense… for those who know the “rest of the story”.
please, leach was an a$$ and deserves EXACTLY what he got. end of story…
think briles!
WRECK’EM!!!

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Doubt if Leach would take him along to his next jig though after that knife stab. wd113

uh huh, i see all these suitors just lining up to hire mike. he shopped his gig last year and the year prior. he’ll take a SIGNIFICANT step BACKWARDS, w/ the possible exception being weird al davis. now there’s a match made in heaven that will fly like a lead zeppelin!!! good luck mike, thx mike, see ya mike, ahoy mike!!!
GUNZ UP!!!

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Noel. It’s a little late in the season for Head Coaching jobs. He’ll be first called in next year cycle if the Pros do not try him out.

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“Alamo Bowl sets ESPN Record”

I’m still disgusted with ESPN for bagging on Leach before and during the Alamo Bowl game. They also gave Craig James some ESPN air time. Whether you liked Leach or not (and I liked him), ESPN’s efforts to influence public opinion in favor of James is inexcusable. And, on top of everything else, they obviously profited from the negative publicity surrounding the game. I’m surprised that the reaction of the viewing public, and especially Raider fans, hasn’t been more negative towards ESPN.

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why briles? i don’t understand why tech would want briles….baylor’s football record was not impressive at all…8 L 4 W for 2009

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Wow! What great ratings that got to see a good game, as Tech beat a mediocre team from the Big 10, got to see a record setting night by the quarterback (not Caleb’s BJ buddy), got to see another quarterback come in and deliver in crunch time, and probably did not get to hear the roaring disapproval of Adam James. It was definitely a game to see in person to get the full effect of what the administration’s actions have done to our school. I did not see a single person not support the team, but it was a very odd feeling to me. Like you didn’t know if you should be thinking you wanted to tell Leach goodbye, pat Ruffin on the back, or kick Gerald Myers in the teeth.

For those of you who were at the game, did you notice that the stadium screens tried to avoid showing any Leach signs. My favorite was the coed who had a we love Tech sign which they put up on the board, and then she flipped it over to show “we love our pirate” before they could take the camera off of her. hirlarious. Best of Luck to the new coach. I’ll be watching you on TV. My bet says its Ruff.

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watchdog, too much baggage. more than bob knight, that’s saying something. why do you think washington didn’t make a play? FN washington dude. he has much to overcome. he’ll, again, take a HUGE step back!!! hide and watch!!! forget that guy. he’s bent on self destruction, and he’ll likely achieve it, bar some REAL changes. whay do you think he’s just gotten stranger and stranger? it’s the can man, it’s the can. ruined many a man, the CAN!!! it’s hell lving your life in the bottom of a bottle…

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Noel, lets wait and see. I bet your be wrong.

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Children – let not your hearts be troubled – Coach Briles is coming!!!

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Leach was hired during the Bush administration. THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OUGHT TO INTERVENE AND FIX IT!

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TTU Regent Friend said:

Hold on folks. Bailey, Myer & Hance have a surprise for us Tech fans. He’ll may be in Lubbock on Thursday. His travel has been discrete to protect his current position. Met with several Tech administrators last Friday in San Antonio. You will be shocked if he is hired. It is no one that ESPN and others are reporting on. He’s a good coach, but not what we need. Air Raid is gone come Friday. Myers and Bailey must want to rid Tech of everything Leach. I can’t believe this is about to happen. Ruff and Tuber are decoys. Friday may just be the saddest day ever for Tech football.

“Rich Rodriguez”

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He’ll may be in Lubbock on Thursday. His travel has been discrete to protect his current position.

Huh?

Are you a moron, or did you stay at a Motel 6 last night?

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ditto

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You may not be old enought to remember “Sometimes in doubt, but always wrong”, but Rich Rodriguez was on our original list back when we hired Leach. He was listed ahead of Leach.

Were you working the desk at Motel 6 last night?

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Television viewers always are intrested in a disaster in the making. Game was viewed to see if the Tech team would implode. A college-football soap opera. That’s why they watched.

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So the stooges save us money by pulling the ol’ 10 year old search report and dusting the dust off of it?

That’s funny and typical for these yahoos/bozos. :-(

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Please demand an investigation into Leach’s firing! I don’t think the Tech administration is listening, so please email/contact Governor Perry http://governor.state.tx.us/contact/ if enough of us demand an investigation the appropriate people will hopefully get fired (Myers, Bailey, Hance)!!!!

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Any of you pea brains from West Texas given any thought to the fact that there are other things to consider besides who coaches TTU — such as academics, faculty, facilities, etc. If you think they are not related, I have over estimated the size of your brain. Give Mr. Hance all the static you want, but remember Leach would not have been there this year, if not for him. The things Hance agreed to were in writing and in a contract. The things Leach agreed to were verbal commitments with hand shake glue. Leach began violating his part before the sun went down. That world is a little different than working one illegal immigrant in a cotton patch. The trouble with not knowing is that you don’t know what you don’t know.

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Wanna break another record, announce the firing of Craig James and air at an announced time and we will all be glad to watch that.

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Bobert419 wrote: “Any of you pea brains from West Texas given any thought to the fact that there are other things to consider besides who coaches TTU — such as academics, faculty, facilities, etc. If you think they are not related, I have over estimated the size of your brain. Give Mr. Hance all the static you want, but remember Leach would not have been there this year, if not for him. The things Hance agreed to were in writing and in a contract. The things Leach agreed to were verbal commitments with hand shake glue. Leach began violating his part before the sun went down. That world is a little different than working one illegal immigrant in a cotton patch. The trouble with not knowing is that you don’t know what you don’t know. ”
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I don’t know about the “pea brains” but the intelligent folks of West Texas (South Plains, actually) have pondered virtually all possible scenarios. You last sentence is certainly true, and I’d guess that, by your inclusion of the phrase that you, too, “don’t know what you don’t know?”

There is a lot of dirt left to blow in the West Texas wind. Sadly, it will likely be buried through an out of court “Mangino” settlement.

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Bobert419……..there are many of us in Raider Nation that know it’s not only about football…….please. Quit insulting our intelligence. Believe me no one in my career history that I know of has refused to hire me because of my degree from a West Texas university. Again, remember that Leach had the best graduation rates in the Big 12.

That being said, what disturbes me about this whole thing is that the trickle down CAN affect our university in other critical areas……alumni contributions which go to student scholarships, etc. I have seen on various blogs that some Tech alumni are already pulling their financial support because of this mess. Football floats the boat for so many things. Alumni like myself find that the football team is a way to stay connected to Tech and I would say this is the case for many other people all over the U.S. I have been contributing to the Century Club for over 20 years….long before we got to this level of success. I will continue to do so.

This will be the most important hire in Tech football history…….are Myers, Hance and Bailey up to the job? I wish I had more faith in them. If they don’t hire someone that understands and can run the spread, then we’re in trouble. No one wants to watch “3 yards and a cloud of dust” type of offense anymore.

One more thing…….it was all about the money. I have it from an excellent source that a certain e-mail was sent which stated that Leach had to be removed before the deadline for his bonus to be paid. And, it appears that the pirate has this e-mail in his possession. This is going to be an ugly day in court for someone.

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great idea sally. contact an aggie closet queen and have him launch an investigation. geez, how dumb are you. please tell me you are not a tech grad!!!

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wd113
i know i’m not!!!

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and the game started late and ended VERY late!

Folks tuned in thinking they’d see a train wreck and saw a great game between two inspired teams, overcoming a lot!

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Related to the story … sorta as it does relate to video ….

Does anyone have a link to a YouTube video or other source that shows Adam James antagonizing the fans? Someone elsewhere eluded to his actions but I have yet to see anything conclusive. Of course I wouldn’t expect ESPN to have aired that footage, but someone’s personal video might have captured the act … if its true!

While I have a severe dislike of any nearly 22-year-old who is incapable of handling their own affairs, I don’t want to drag him behind the stagecoach any farther than he actually deserves. At least he’s been smart enough to say absolutely nothing since his fabricated YouTube videos were exposed. (Craig “Little League Dad”, on the other hand, …. )

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As a old time fan going back to the Dewitt Weaver days, I am here to tell you Tech has never been able to stand prosperity. Leach, for whatever faults he had was a d__ good coach and he put Tech on the map. He upstaged his boss Gerald Myers and just like he was playing round ball for Tech in the late fifties he cannot stand being upstaged. I think Adam James is a cry baby, probably lazy, and spoiled, We have YOUNG men in our military younger than him who I am sure had a rougher 2 or 3 days than James ever thought of in that ” terrible ” room. Craig James has now had a hand in ruining two football programs that I know of. SMU twenty five years ago and now Tech. I just hope it does not take 25 years for Tech to recover I do not personally know Coach Leach but I hope he sues Tech and if I were him I would add a separate law suit against Craig James for deformation of character and loss of income and mental anguish. I have said my piece. This is the last you will hear from me.

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