Tuberville was fired from Auburn after the 2008 season with a 5 win and 7 loss record which included only 2 SEC conference wins and a tie for last place in the SEC conference. He tried to install a spread offense with virtually no success, winning the 2 SEC games against losing teams by scores of 3 to 2 and 14 to 12.

The Big 12 will be weak in 2010 and there is no reason whatsoever that if the 2009 Texas Tech coaching staff had been left in place sans Leach, that they would have had an excellent chance of winning the Big 12.

Texas Tech is loaded and does not need to be rebuilt, so anything less than a Big South 12 division title will be an underachievement.

Talk is cheap, so now we will see if the Arkansas salesman is a contender or pretender!

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Tuberville.. you keep back tracking on what you said earlier, I will keep the current staff in place, I will not change the offense, you will divide the fan base even more, you are not a messiah, get rid of the people behind the firing of L each , and there may be some hope, they are mad as hell , by hiring you is not going to sooth tempers anytime soon and HANCE ISSUING GARBAGE AFTER THE FACT TO CHA IS NOT GOING TO HELP, EITHER..!!! People are not stupid, they can read and they actualy read and read betwen the lines, please do us a favor and shut the hell up!`

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Tuberville was 85-40 at Auburn. What was Tech’s record during that time? Tuberville was out of coaching one season – 2009. The Auburn program was not left for dead and went to a bowl game this year. Team Leach knuckleheads need to find out the real facts, get a life and bury the pirate persona forever. A professional like Tuberville will not stoop to wearing eye patches and pirate hats to gain personal attention.

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leach helped put texas tech and lubbock on the map!! he helped increase giving, increased enrollment, increased graduation and according to the alumni magazine increased tech pride. he was all about the players and about winning. he deserves an apology from the administration for how they treated him.

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I would say Edward Britton deserves an apology and as well as all of Leach’s coaches who will be without work because of Leach’s actions.

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If Leach hadn’t accomplished all he had, a coach of Tuberville’s caliber would have never given Texas Tech a second thought. He may not be perfect — every coach makes mistakes, but he has proven he can hold his own against the big boys. MAYBE he can do that here — we will have to see. He definitely has the best chance of those willing to put up with this administration.

People who think Ruffin was the answer are simply letting emotion get in the way of reason. How can a coach who was a DC be the head coach when he wasn’t that great at being a DC to begin with? His one win came with someone else’s team — and it was Riley reading Leach’s playbook — not Ruffin. The defense played horribly in the bowl game. A 6-6 team missing 14 players should not have even come close to scoring on us, but they did. And let’s be honest guys — the defense has cost us MANY times before.

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The Leech was a horrible person who bullied and tortured young men. The players heaved a sigh of relief. I am embarrassed to be a Tech alum after reading things from people like Sally. Tech needs to up the admissions’ standards because Team Leech is filled with a bunch of really sick, pathetic people without a grain of decency. All they care about is winning — nothing else matters. Kind of a Hitler mentality.

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I support TTU as an institution, I support the football team, I was in favor of Tuberville over Ruffian. All that being said, I am keenly aware that Tuberville made a pledge BEFORE being hired that he would not change TT offense. He nuanced that comment today by saying that he would add a few wrinkles. I’m all for that—however, he had better make DAMN sure that he keeps coaches from the offense that know what they are doing. HIS old cronies from Auburn did not know how to run the spread offense, and I’m sorry, Tommy, but your one year of trying to get up to snuff while unemployed is NOT enough to sustain what Leach has built.

Now, Tuberville claimes to be a salesman. Well, I want to say right now that all of the snake-oil and smiles that he may have will not blind me nor convince me that hiring outside and unproven offensive coaches is going to improve our team. He has stated that he wasn’t going to mess with the offense and intimated that there would not be many changes. I can understand hiring an OC, but the staff needs to stay…PERIOD!! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. One thing that I cannot stand, and which has riled up the Raider Nation, is the disingenuousness of this administration. They say one thing, back track, restate, and then ask us to believe them. I hope Tuberville does not prove to be in that same category. For SURE, he had better keep Lincoln Riley, because that local boy has got talent!!!

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This is going to be disaster. Tuberville lost the press conference. The three stooges must go. We are Team Leach!

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Good words Jerry. BTW Ruffian was a thoroughbred horse. Ruffin is TT’s DC, unfortunately.

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Normally when a large entity such as TTU is involved in a law suit, especially involving an employee they are very closed mouth. I find it odd that Hance would choose or even be allowed to make a statement for the AJ unless they are not too secure in their actions and are trying to build smoke screen or slant their story.

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“When Tommy Tuberville took over at Auburn in 1999, the Tigers had been 3-8 the year before and last place in the Southeastern Conference West Division.

When he took his first head-coaching job at Mississippi in 1995, the Rebels were coming off a 4-7 season and, because of NCAA sanctions, he began with only 61 players on scholarship.”

And when touchdown Tommy left Auburn his last year he was 4-8.

Good luck!

Guns Up!!

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Nothing else matters if wins and defeats of TU and OU and A&M and any other big opponent become the norm for TT football. Whatever gets wins on a consistent and repeatable basis is what fans and recruits and TV etc support and cheer about.

And if Big 12 Championships and perennial runs for BCS championships become the norm, who will care about former coaches and processes except to remember the improvement they brought and the focal power provided during their tenure…and at a time when such national attention was useful to the program, the school and the city of Lubbock.

I am a a season ticket holder that is excited to watch TU go down at the JONES in 2010…and then OU at norman…and A&M at Kyle fld…etc….etc

Tuberville will get this team consistently in the hunt every year

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What does this say about a coach’s brains. Mike Leach – “The Mad Scientist.” Tuberville – “Big Ears.”

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Not happening……………see ya.

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Let’s get behind the coach — he deserves a chance.

Let’s NOT let the administration off the hook regarding Leach. His punishment does not fit the “crime” (if there was one). Timing of the firing is totally inconsistent with two other universities’ similar situations (Kansas and South Florida). They actually did investigations, actually found wrong doing, then acted. Unfortunately, Tech fired the wrong guy. They were looking for a reason since the contract renewal. Leach will get a big check when this is done, but like the Duke Lacrosse players, how long will it take for the stain to wear off his reputation? This will be a big part of the lawsuit, as well — defamation.

Good luck to both coaches. I hope you both Wreck ‘em.

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Give him a chance, Leach ain’t coming back

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I want the best for our Football Team. They deserve the best coaching to have a winning season. Guns Up Red Raiders

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I wont be giving anyone a chance until Hance, Myers, and Bailey are fired with cause!

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Not only is Texas Tech getting a great coach, you’re getting a good man. Get on board, because he will win.

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But we got to clean house first, otherwise the cancer will spread. We want the Truth!

Strive for honor evermore…

Team Leach

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On CNN they referred to the former coach of Texas Tech as “Rick Leach”. The rest of the world has a short memory so let’s stop looking foolish and move on. Most of us have to answer to someone…I’ve never cussed out my boss but I’m guessing it wouldn’t work in my favor…….by his actions, Leach never considered the livelyhood of his staff. While they are wondering if they will have jobs he is probably in another country taking in a Rugby match. As to Hance…we better hope he spends time in Austin Courting the Gov and Reps…..the last I looked we are a “State” funded school. So unless you Hance haters want to pony up a few million every year to donate to the school….let the man do his job.

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While we pay the legal bill that he has cost us? No thank you he must go and he must be held accountable!

Strive for honor evermore…

Team Leach

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If all they wanted was someone that has a suit and a Texas Tech tie, they could have hired me. I’ve even got a Double T tie tack.

I’m not too sure about this. I hope I’m wrong, but I’ve got a very nervous feeling about next year, when I was having thoughts about the Fiesta Bowl.

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TTU just got blindsided. Tubberville will be running the ball out of the spread. He was on the FOX news today and Chris Level is quoted as saying he wanted to know how big the running backs are are how mobile the quarterback are. He also plans to hire his own offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator. The leach air raid is finished. He is a “salesman” remember. The G.O.B. network just got what they deserved today. Salesmen tell people just what they want to hear. Before he was hired “I plan to keep the staff 80 to 90% in tact. At 2:30p.m today

“I’m a believer of having a great offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator,” Tuberville said. “But I also believe in letting them have the opportunity to interview coaches, to make sure that they fit into their beliefs and how they want them to coach, either receivers, running backs, quarterbacks, offensive line.

“So what will happen is my first order of business, as I told the coaching staff last night, the present coaching staff, is that I will hire those two coaches first, and then we will sit down with each coach here on the staff. We will evaluate them and we’ll evaluate other people.”

The new coach did hint that changes to the staff could be in the offing. When asked if any of the coaches currently on the staff will be candidates for the coordinator positions, Tuberville acknowledged that he’s “thought about that” before quickly adding that there are “four or five guys on each side of the ball that are not on the staff that I want to talk to first.”

TTU just got burned and Tubberville will not save the ded raiders. Tech will always be behind UT, OU, A&M. All this move did was give Tech a leg up against Oklahoma State and Baylor. Bob Stoops and Mack Brown do not fear the Red Raiders and the entire Big 12 is excited that they no longer have to play defense on their toes agains the Mad Scientist of Football. Leach will win BCS Championship if secures a job at any of the schools in the PAC 10. Tubberville will not be successful running his schemes will the lower level recruits that he will get at Tech. The SEC is a stronger conference than the BIG 12 and we saw that on Thursday Night at the Rose Bowl. It truly looked like Men amongst boys. TTU has officially taken a step backwards.

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Me too PaBear!

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Red Raiders,

Lets just give this guy a chance.

GUNZ UP

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I sincerely hope that Tuberville will in fact keep the “Air Raid” offense because that is what we are known for. Leach brought TECH up another level, but he isn’t coming back and we have to move forward and support our players and new coaches. At least we brought someone in that has the potential to get us to the next level and be in the running for the Big 12 every year.
We, as faithful alumni, must show the players that we are behind them, are proud of them and believe in their chance to take the BIG !2 next year.
And I still believe that Meyers needs to fired and the administration investigated. What they did was wrong and a disgrace to the RED and Black. That would maybe bring closure to this transition.
Wreck Em Tech!!

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I understand the Tech Fanbase is upset with the departure of Leach, hell as a neutral observer I think Leach got screwed and I like Leach, however Tech just make a great hire. The way Tech fans feel about the departure of Leach is the way many Auburn people felt ih the departure of Coach Tuberville last December. This coming from an Auburn alum.

Coach Tuberville is an oustanding coach. Against the best his teams play the best as his record against top ten teams indicate. He will recruit high character guys, he will graduate his players, he will keep them out of trouble, he will run a a clean program, he will win his share against OU and Texas. Furthermore, in a day and age with primadonna coaches full of themselves he is very approachable, friendly and down to earth. Basically he is the anti Knight and Saban personality. He will be active in the community and will easily reunite the Tech fanbase. He is so likable you want him to do well.

Congrats Tech fans you got a great hire.

I will be rooting for Tech this fall for sure.

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If Lincoln Riley is not made the OC, then the air raid as we know it is dead. It was not the plays, but the training, repitition and belief in the system that made it work. No other OC can instill that belief and that confidence and sell that to the players.

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You have to remember that the recruits that are coming in have beenrecruited by the curent staff, Ruff, RILEY AND OTHERS, they may not be comfortable talking to someone they dont know or how many new wrinkleson ofense, Tuby said he would kep the ofense in place , would retain the curent staf before he was hired or have you forgot that? The only way to unite the fanbase is to have all the people involved in the firing of M ike Leach resign. They are to blame for the torn fan baseand destroying the reputation of Tech and Lubock,and let this insanity go on way too long now you hire a new coach, have a press conference with the jokers that started this fiasco and division in the fan baseto begin with, loks like to me you are trying to put a band aid on a a- bomb, and the fallout, Tubervile needs to coach footbal and stop being a pawn and the so caled mesiah for the evil ones and quit trying to put new wrinkles in the staf and the ofense, gues what tt, i can think, i do have a brain, i do know right from wrong , I do have loyalty to something when it is. woth loyalty, I dont like to be lied to and I dont like people saying one thing and changing their mind a day or two later, got it?

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The commode is backing up again, flush the cancers before it spreads, AJ, I thought he had been elected president judging by the headlines yesterday, The Mesiah has come, praise be! what a circus!!

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Riley did not even call the plays in the Alamo Bowl. Cumbie did. They just did not want to admit that the offense was being run by an unpaid grad assistant. The offense is not calculus. It is a good 5 back pattern offense with QB reads that dictate checks to runs. I like the offense just like everyone else. However, the morons on this site have not been national coach of the year and have no right to dictate what the coach does. If you like the team, buy tickets and come watch…if not, don’t. Tuberville and Tech do not owe anyone any more than that.

Tuberville will put together a nationally recognized set of coordinators. He has not even met with Ruff (who was not at the coaches meet and greet) Ruff is a good guy but the defense is going to change and it will get better. Tuberville has been a part of 10-11 defenses that were the best in the country during their years. Tech has not had one defense in the top 25 under Leach. This team will be hard to score on and I am excited.

The offense will be a little more balanced. (When Oklahoma added “wrinkles” (more run game) to Leach’s offense after he came to Tech, they went 11-0 and won the national championship. I think we are in for a treat.

The team leach stuff is ridiculous. Leach tried to interview for another job every off season for 3 years before he was fired. (Remember, Washington, Auburn, Miami…) I hope that those who want the truth can handle the truth. Rallies are very rarely supported by the truth.

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You guys are making this stuff up as you go along. Tuberville is one of the top defensive coaches in college football. There is no way that a recruit would not want to come play for him. The linebackers coach for Alabama is one of the main coaches of the best defense in college football 2 years running. Who would not want to play for him? Recruits want to win. So do I.

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Give him a chance guys. I’m an Auburn fan and an Auburn man. Go check out AU’s message boards. While we’re giving Gene Chizik his chance on the Plains, Tommy Tuberville is greatly missed by the Auburn Nation. Heck, we even put a huge picture of him on Jordan-Hare Stadium.

I wish we still had Tuberville, but trust me, he won’t let your team down. He was forced out by an awful adminsitration and meddling trustees, not because of one sorry season. Under Tuberville, your team won’t make any headlines for having goons on the team that get DUIs and drug arrests like at Nick Saban’s Alabama. He’ll run a clean program with good people and plenty of wins. You’ll probably even beat Texas much more frequently – Tubs was 7-3 against Bama and has a winning record against Nick Saban. He’s also the ONLY coach that is 2-0 against Urban Meyer and Tim Tebow. I’m sure you all miss Mike Leach the way we miss Tuberville. Seriously though, give him a chance and you’ll be well pleased.

That is, unless our administration gets a brain and hires him back.

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When he said “I’m not here to Win, I’m only here to teach” remark I knew we were done.

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Concerned TTU Grad: Do you really think that Rilley is qualified to be the OC?

There is a big difference between calling plays and developing a Game Plan. I think he did a fantastic job at the bowl game but I he is untested in building a game plan. The new staff will need an offensive coordinator and a quarterbacks coach that knows the system. Hopefully, Sonny Dykes or Halgorson will be interested. That’s the best we can hope for.

That being said we added some new wrinkles and returned to some old standards during the bowl game. How long had it been since we ran a flee flicker? I do not remember our QB being under center in any of the last 5-6 games (I always thought the sweep/dive counter was one of our most effective plays). Who decided to put those in no one knows, but there are definitely some things that could be added to the offense that could make it grow and get better.

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And Mike did a fine job of TEACHing the kids to be MEN, look what that got him.

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Tuberville wants to unite the fanbase, then the best way to do that is to call for the firing of Hance, Bailey, Anders, and Myers.
I look forward to Tuberville coming forward to demand their removal with cause.

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My wife and I have three degrees from Tech, and are finally proud to be Red Raiders again. Tuberville is a gentleman, and brings a touch of class to Texas Tech–something we have not had in a long time in our head coach or fan base. When you say “Strive for honor,” make sure you mean it.

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I think the hiring of Tubby is a good thing, He is a big name coach that will continue to win and Tech will have the national spotlight,anyway next year because of this fiasco that our administrators, Leach and the whinny Adam James put us through. I do not think that Lincoln Riley will be our OC, but i do think he and Sonny Cumbie will be retained on staff. Tubby is too smart to let the two people who know this offense this well, go. Perhaps he will bring back Holgorsen or somebody of that nature. Maybe he will bring another coach in with a strong passing game resume’ to continue this offense and add a few wrinkles. With the players we have and the recruits coming in an aerial assault is imminent at Tech for the next several years and Tubby knows this. On defense, I hate to say this but Ruff is done, because his presence will bring controversy throughout the entire year among the fan base if the offense is doing poorly, especially since such a strong support for him was evident. No head coach wants this controversy. Tubby will most likely bring in his own D-Coordinator, and very few people in this country know defense better than Tubby, so there may be a few replacements with our defense, i am guessing he will try and bring Alabama linebackers coach James Willis here, but that may be tough since it looks like Alabama Def Coordinator Kirby Smart is going to be the new Georgia Head Coach which leaves Willis as the heir apparent to Def Coordinator at Alabama where he has a home and a national championship. But if we can get him, he will be amazing. If Willis doesn’t take this I hope he rolls the dice and sticks with Ruff, but i doubt it. Either way, i am a fan of the football team, and an alumnus of Tech and will support my team and root for the guys on the field that are here. I know that Tubby will not cut his own throat and whoever he hires to help coach our team, will be the best for the University. Wreck’em Tech!

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My advice to Tommy T is this. The SEC is a “good ol boy” conference, but since Dec 30th the “good ol boys” are on the outside. If you want to be successful and garner the fan base support you should distance yourself from them and be transparent with the fans. That will put you in good stead. West Texas is a un ique place where people look you in the eye and expect you to be a man of your word. That is not saying one thing and the “nuancing” your statements into something else. Myers, Hance, and Bailey are feeling the heat for their back room manuverings and we are “Mad as hell and not goping to take it any more.” God speed and good luck. If you are up front and honest with us you will have our support. Being the administrations PR man will only hold you back.

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Voice of reason stated it perfectly. Tech was poised to take it all in the south next year with a veteran team while the powers are reloading. Wish we had hired TT for athletic director rather then ceo of the football team. We really have some great young men playing for Tech and I will continue to support them in any way possible. Good luck guys make the most of it.

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Good luck, he needs it in this mess. Hopefully it’ll all work out in the end, but boy the journey sure ain’t fun.

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I think most new coaches retain a couple of assistants to help keep current recruits and to provide some continuity with players and recruits already being pursued for following years. For these reasons and because he seems to be an up-and-comer, Lincoln Riley should get strong consideration. I can see CTT’s apparent concern for having any possibe lightning rods around. In that regard, I agree with Dennis Dodd’s suggestion of getting shed of “The Shed,” as well as Adam James.

If CTT can find an uncommitted SEC-style linebacker to commit to this year’s class, that would be a great PR coup. IMO, the linebacker position is the area of biggest need (despite the recent improvement), especially regarding speed.

ps: Coach Tuberville:
I hear that OU is recruiting Tre’ Porter as a receiver. He has been committed to Tech as a DB. The guy is a solid 4-star at either position plus RB, IMO. Since he’s said to be waivering, I suggest that he be offered a shot at his choice of RB, WR, or DB. I think he is closer to being your type of running back than others “in the running.” I think his Okla championship team lost 2 games early before he was moved from WR to RB, then won all the rest. All the while, he was multi-tasking at DB and super returner. Hang on to the guy! But give Batch and Stephens a full chance. (For next year, take a long look at WR/athlete David Glidden of Mustang, OK.) This advice if free, and I don’t even have a kid on the team.

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If Tuberville wants to get a new clean program up & running, he needs to look at the team players. Clean out the cancer among your players & get rid of the negative, slackers who want to play in the game, but not practice…specifically, get rid of those who run home calling mommy & daddy whenever they don’t like your decision. Beware of being videoed, even if phones are banned at practice…the true leech isn’t gone.

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I am a tech fan….but i have learned over the years that everything comes down to the dollar…tt didn’t want to honor their contract wtih coach leach. thats the sum of it….

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Tuberville coached in a conference even more competitive than the Big 12. Just as Leach knew how to beat Texas and OU, Tuberville knew how to beat UF, UGA and UA–no mean feat.

Could Tech’s offense stand some improvement and changes? Absolutely. If Tubs can also establish a strong and consistent running game–as he did at Auburn, Tech will be unstoppable.

Read that again–Tech will be unstoppable.

The icing on that cake will be a quarterback who can–and will–scramble outside of the pocket and is a threat to to pickup or gain ten/fifteen/ or more yards any time he does that. Opposing linebackers will become suicidal and depressed beyond salvation to face an offense that can do THAT. Imagine the horror opposing Big 12 teams would have had if Graham Harrel was also a feared scrambler and runner? Holy Cow!

Defense? Ruff made some nice improvements, but defense has never been a priority since Leach arrived. Look at the Alamo Bowl. It was Ruff’s team, and the defense had more leaks than the White House. Michigan State exploited the defense. MICHIGAN STATE!

Bottom line: Tuberville adds a strong running game, mobile and wiley quarterbacks to the offense, and establishes a defense like those found in the SEC, Tech will be a PERENIAL BCS contender.

Nice thing is, Tubs is smart enough to realize he already has a whiz-bang offense with almost all of the major pieces in place. And nobody should ever doubt his defensive abilities.

He can recruit–and what Tuberville does is spreads our recruiting out beyond the Texas and our border states. We can now credibly tap into some Florida, Georgia, NC and TN talent as well as what we have right here at home. Tubs will also bring a lot more national attention–especially media and broadcasting–our way, which will help with subsequent recruiting.

Good hire. We’re going to keep moving forward and upwards.

Take it to the bank.

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Garyount,

Get a job!

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Moving on would be easier if those who created this disaster moved on as well. Firing Hance, Meyers, Bailey would help to heal the Red Raider fans, plus it’s the right thing to do.

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Good hire. Leach spent far less time on defense and it showed. Now we have a man who thinks defense all the time. If he can keep the offense on track and grow from what it is we will be in good shape for 1010. I will renew my season seats!

As for the LEach supporters. You are going to go someplace to find him because he no longer has a parking spot at Texas Tech. It is time to move on; he has said little to the fans since he moved on.

Tech Alum

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I have seen a dwindling of comments from angry fans over the past couple of weeks concerning the firing of Leach. If Leach is smart he will learn from his mistakes and when he stops being a lawyer he will move on and coach again somewhere, probably with success. He will understand that it was his own actions that got him fired and he won’t repeat his mistakes.

Tech is lucky that Tommy Tuberville was in a position to be hired at this time. Even if he does not hire many members of the current staff, he will hire good people and there are lots of them not on our current staff. Don’t expect a Big 12 championship the first year he is here. There is always a learning curve even keeping the air raid because his new wrinkles and new approach are still unfamiliar to the players. He will be more of a father figure to the players than Leach ever was, more like Ruffin’s relationship with the players. I hope a place can be found for Ruffin on his staff. But Ruffin could eventually be hired as a head coach at a smaller college if he still wants to be a head coach. You can’t be looking back and think about what might have been in college football.

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Tommy Tuberville, if you want tobe victorious and unite the fan base call for the resignation of everyone involved in this mess, the firing of Mike Leach,be a man not a puppet, the reason I say that is because when a person does not acknowledge a problem , that person is doomed to fail and do not change the current staff, it could ruin the recruting, do not make changes to the offense, it is fine the way itis, if its not broke dont fix it come tomind, you will alienate the already divided fan base, please do what is right if you are man enough..

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Just a little more free advice for CTT:

My understanding is that good Offensive-Line coaches are the hardest to find. Therefore I think Matt Moore is a good candidate to consider retaining. Also Special Teams Coach Russell seems to have produced well and has less time with Coach Leach if that is a factor.

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It sounds like Tommy was the right hire for Tech. Many go back to his losing season at Auburn and use that to make their judgment, ‘he’s a loser”. Too many very good coaches lose their job because of that and the main reason is the administrators at that school look for a reason to fire him. Case in point, a few years ago Joe Paterno, a coach, a scholar, and a man of age and longevity at Penn State had a bad season. Did he get fired, no, he considered retirement but stayed on for another year, then another, and I think you get the picture. On the other hand, A & M fired R. C. Slocum after a bad season, despite his past winning record at the school, and what has A & M done since then. “Fran was not the man”. Slocum was fired because of the new president who came to A & M and hired an athletic director from Nebraska. The President is gone, after 1 year, and their program has never been the same and will take a number of years to get back to the days of Slocum’s wining tradition. Tuberville comes into a winning program and will take it to the next level of winning. He is capable of winning the Big 12 and will be a thorn in the side for all other Big 12 schools. Give him a few years of adjustments and recruiting, he will make the unhappy fans happy.

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If anyone needs further proof that the James Gang set out to destroy Mike Leach then here you go: http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/james-hired-swift-boat-firm-before-going-public-27593

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Reading all these responses is uplifting to say the least. I am supprised that no one mentions the fact that Leach was a quirky nerd that had all of his interviewers laughing behind the scenes. They were not laughing at the wit of the man but more out of sympathy for this personality retarded individual and the misguided fan base and University that was stuck with a sucessful Head Coach who was unable to answer the simplest questions posed to him. It was obvious to all of us that had to watch our beloved University and Football Program suffer when this idiot was on camera that the TT Administration was on a mission to replace him as quickly as they could.
It was only our great fortune that the stupid jerk was insubordinate when called on the carpet to explain his handling of a health issue with one of his players. The Administration was able to then fire him for that insubordination and his subquent filing of a lawsuit to negate the suspension they had placed on him.
Texas Tech needs a good quaity Head Coach who has some decorum and ability to relate to the world outside his own little quirkly world. We now have such a Head Coach. We all hope that this new coach can put together a good program that can compete with the big boys in the big 12 South. If he can do that and surely he can, AND he can represent the University and the Red Raider faithful as a CLASSY and ARTICULATE individual, we will all breath a sigh of relief.
TEXAS TECH

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ttu will recieve a stimulus bailout to pay off the pierat. TTu will become a bottom feeder in the big 12 south. we are doomed. lets rally in front of the admin building until the three stooges resing.

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According to the 2007 Auburn media guide, exactly one player was from Texas. Why does anybody think this guy will be able to recruit here? Spending summers in west Texas thirty years ago doesn’t make much of an impression on Texas high school coaches! While I understand TT is the new coach, I’m afraid my beloved Raiders are in the hands of another Dennis Franchione. Ask the Aggie faithful how well hiring the big name SEC coach worked out!

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I have been a loyal Texas Tech supporter for more than 30 years. While my education didn’t come at Texas Tech, my wife and most of her family attended Tech. I had season tickets for football and basketball the entire time I lived in Lubbock and have kept intact a 15 year streak of attending at least one Texas Tech football game each year since we moved away from Lubbock. Anyone who knows me, socially or professionally, knows that I bleed red and black. My vehicles, home and office have proudly displayed the Double T.
No more, not until at least the athletic director is gone.
As someone who has handled public relations crisis that dwarf the Leach firing, I am in awe of the incompetency shown in the public handling of the Leach suspension and firing.
As for Coach Tubberville, he is polished and slick and I hope I am wrong in my early impression that he is more of a used car salesman than a sincere advocate for the future of Texas Tech football.
I am most distressed by his, and the administration’s, early claim that that the offense would be kept intact, teasing us into believing that while Leach might be gone, the soul of his offense would remain. His admission that he intended to interview four or five other people for the OC position before even considering anyone on the current staff, including Lincoln Riley, is ludicrous. With the possible exception of Dana Holgorsen at Houston, where are there four other coaches who have a clue about the Leach offense? Running a spread offense isn’t the Tech offense. It is more than Xs and Os.
Unless Tubberville hires someone such as Holgorsen, Riley or Josh Heupel from OU to lead the air attack, it is just going to be a disaster similar to his “Out the door” season at Auburn.
I am all for giving Coach Tubberville a chance, but for me the first test is the hiring of the OC and the offensive staff. Breaking faith here isn’t the way to “reunite” the angry fan base.
I wish the players and especially Xoach McNeil the very best. They are the true victims in this mess. I fervently hope that I am misreading the early signals from Coach Tubberville and the intends to live up to his promise to keep the offense intact.
This is your first big chance to win us back coach…don’t let us down!

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Leach fought the Administration so he could comeback for one more year. He knew next year was his best chance to lead TT to a Big XII Championship since Texas and OU are rebuilding. He talked about asking for a exit stratgey after next season if he and the TT Administration could not workout their indifferences.

TT hired the best coach available and Tuberville should win big next year. However watch Tuberville leave TT whenever LSU fires Les Miles.

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Actions speak louder than words, when TT hires another coordinator other than Lincoln Riley, or does not retain him ,that will be a mistake, he recruited a lot of the players coming in, he said before he was hired he would retain the staff, I plan on interviewing 4or 5 people, I will retain the offense, running option quaterbacks are not generally good at throwing the ball, there are exceptions, I will tweak the offense, why would you want to do that, past history with the spread at Auburn also, actions speak louder than words..

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I spent eight years at Tech. I’m a huge fan of the football program, and I think Mike Leach was the best coach the school ever had. He did a tremendous job, and it’s a bummer that he’s gone. But the fact is, Leach (and his fat little ego) screwed up. The administration handled the situation badly, but in the real world, we all have a boss. Anyone with a job knows you aren’t going to be around long if you continually disrespect (and then sue) your boss. Even if you think they’re wrong.

All of you people so obsessed with Mike Leach should quit calling yourselves TTU fans. It’s clear you’re willing to tear down the institution and the football program to show your love, love, love of Mike Leach. You can build a shrine to him somewhere and worship at the pirate altar. Just remember: MIKE LEACH WAS EAGER TO LEAVE TTU EVERY YEAR. He surely didn’t love, love, love you back. If he did, he wouldn’t have added his name to almost every coaching vacancy that came up every year. He did what’s best for himself, which is fine, but he was never a die-hard, loyal Red Raider. He would’ve left at the drop of a hat if Washington, Miami or any other large university had wanted him. Remember that.

You can continue to insult your university and the players on the football team by refusing to support them. You can continue to root for them to fail, and refuse to go to games (although I bet you do). But you surely cannot call yourselves fans. You talk about wanting the truth. The truth is this: LIFE AIN’T FAIR and NO ONE IS BIGGER THAN THE UNIVERSITY. Leach is gone and he ain’t coming back. Get over it, and get on board. Or hey, go back to flaming the blogs while the rest of us have a life.

Go Raiders.

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Eloren,

Again, Leach’s record at Tech was 84–43. What

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Jaimaica Beach,

Its too bad that Tubbs will not be running the TTU offense. The Quarterbacks Coach he is interviewing from Troy knows nothing about Mike Leach’s offense. The only person that can run that offense is Leach. You say Ruffin’s defense got exposed which is true, but you fail to mention that the offense got exposed as well. Then ran 5offensive plays all game. Screen left, screen right, run, and pass on up the middle or down the side line. That was it. Michigan State should have won despite missing 14 key players which not only impacted the game but their preparation as well. It does not matter what offense you run if you don’t have the mad scientist calling the plays. That’s what made the air raid. Leach was smart. That’s why he was the offensive coordinator and not the Riley. Tubbs is a salesman he told sold you a Beach Front Condo in Lorezno, Texas. Get a clue!

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Jim, did it ever occur to you that Leach was willing to look at other schools each year because of his treatment by Myers & camp? It isn’t easy or pleasant to work for a bad boss, especially one you probably know has it in for you & will use any excuse to get rid of you, which of course, is exactly what happened. Throw in the extra buddy who works for a sports channel who can help with pressure & press, &, well….you get what you got. Does anyone believe that Adam just started acting out this year or last? This has been a pattern with this baby & his daddy probably since T-ball. Conveniently, dad’s a friend of Hance & probably Myers.

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The hiring of Tubervile is like puttiing lipstick on a pig..

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lluvpirates, I have no illusion that the Administration handled things well. They have not. I also am well aware that Gerald Myers and Mike Leach do not like each other. We (those of us outside the fray) will probably never know exactly what happened, or why things went down as they did.

Whether or not Mike Leach felt some people in the Administration wanted him gone, he was getting paid a huge salary, with very minimal expectations (compared to those of other big-time coached). He didn’t have to win 10 games a year or go to a BCS bowl every year. Eight wins and the Alamo Bowl? Everyone’s happy. (I don’t think that would happen at OU or UT.) He could be an oddball and do his own thing. He had incredible freedom, as far as I can tell. It was a pretty good deal, from my perspective.

And it sounds like (again, we may never know for sure) he had a chance to save his job. But ego got in the way. Yeah, we can speculate all we want about what was asked of him (because right now, we really don’t know), but for the sweet deal he was getting, one might think he could swallow his pride, do right by his TEAM and COACHES, and move on. He elected not to do that.

Look, I believe there is PLENTY of blame on each side. There are no innocent victims in this mess, other than the players still on the team. I guess my question is, how does it help TTU or the football program to be ripping into the new coach (who I happen to think is a great hire), proclaiming that the team will be mediocre (or worse), wishing for failure, and refusing to support the football program? A TTU fan isn’t going to do that. At least give the new program a chance.

I understand the passion here. Mike Leach brought the program to a whole new level. Believe me, I can appreciate that. I was at Tech during some pretty lousy football seasons. But as I pointed out earlier, Leach is neither a saint nor a hardcore Red Raider. He is a great, egotistical, creative coach, and a very intelligent, odd guy. He will be fine, and I promise, he cares far less for all the people screaming right now than they care for him.

As for Craig James…. I saw him and Eric Dickerson play at Jones Stadium. They were highly paid running backs for SMU at the time. My level of disgust with those cheaters matches yours, I believe. I watched SMU win on a heartbreaking final play kickoff return (I think it was 1983). I listened to all the SMU fans screaming “GO PONIES!” and wanted to puke. I don’t know Adam James, but if he’s like his Dad, I suspect he’s spoiled and unfamiliar with ethics. Maybe he’s just a whiny baby who deserved what he got.

But even if that’s true, I am not willing to punish the rest of the guys on the team by rooting for them to fail. I don’t care what people say about Craig James, but I DO care what people say about MY university and MY football team. And if you are a fan, you will care, too. Be mad at the Administration, but don’t take it out on the new coach or the team.

Be cool, support your Raiders, and demand success in 2010.

Jim

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Hum, if things continue the way they have this last month I would not be holding out for the best. As any hope for the best has been dashed by stupid choices…

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Each time Tubberville talks he changes story,

He might fit in with Admin, He Lies.

Quotes from interview below

“Change offense and defense with mostly all new people”

“sometimes have to win game 14-6″

Very interesting

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4813710

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How come everybody wants to be known for the “air raid” offense, pirates, weird drunk coaches etc. etc. How come nobody wants to be known for winning championships period end of story???????????????????????????

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Leache’s record at tech was 84-43, but I’m guessing 50 of the 84 was against powder puff U. North Dakota, New Mexico, SMU, Rice, and Baylor. Anybody know what his record was in the big 12?

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If Holgerson’s so great why did he leave Tech?

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Somebody, anybody, please explain to me: If he is such a good hire, such a hot commodity, why did 22 schools have a coaching change last year and leave him at home on the couch?????

SOMEBODY,ANYBODY, please explain that to me???? IMO, bad hire!

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Let’s get behind Coach TT. He may be looking at bringing in Dana Holgersen from Houston for OC. Guys, I love Ruffin as much as the rest of you, but we have to be honest with ourselves. We always saying “if we only had a great defense, who could stop us.” I know Ruffin improved the Defense, but we were never a great defense. If he keeps the Air Raid, but makes us a great defense than our dreams will come true. Big XII Championship and BCS game!

Wreck ‘em TECH!!!!

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Hey sports Nympho,

Ever occur to you he didn’t want to coach last year hince the Time Off tt refers too. Let me guess you wanted the DC from the 6th worst defense in the big 12 to be the coach

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Tuberville took the year off. He traveled watching and studying different teams off and on for a year.

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couldn’t agree more setx raider fan!

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We were never a great defense because of the players, not the coaching. You all will soon see that Tubby will be faced with the same issue when recruiting to Tech – the top blue chips are NOT going to come. Face it, Ruff was not hired because he is BLACK! Typical West Texas….

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disagree with quote..

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“TAKE THE YEAR OFF”…haha…hmmm, I see he is the “salesman” that he professes to be…he already has you all believing him!

WOW, unbelievable!!!

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Sports Nympho your a complete JACKA**

Race had nothing to do with it. Top blue chip recruits play for classy coaches not drunk pirates. Ruff was DC for 2 years tops Tubbs was a head coach for 15 years after he was a DC for 5 years at big time college programs. I think the choice was pretty clear.

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Come on people they just announced that they were going to hire him (10 day NCAA rule till it is official) . GIVE TT a break. He has had one staff meeting, A press conference announcing his hire, is going to have more meetings and interviews with the CURRENT STAFF, all TTU coaches are on their way to a Coaches conference, and he wants to meet with them individually. Plus he has a family that he will be moving to Lubbock. Do you really think this all can be done in 24 hours.

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still waiting on all you pirate lovers to tell me what drunkboys record against the big 12 was

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@RIDE RAIDER RIDE:

I see he has you sold as well. Amazing!

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Hey sports nympho educate us with all your brilliant knowledge. Tell us what you think instead of just saying everybodys wrong but you.

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E veryone shows his true colors eventually, youare what you are, there is no denying it or hiding it..

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Never called anybody wrong…just stating that I disagree….TIME WILL TELL who was wrong or right!!! :)

By the way,
1999 – (5 – 3)
2000 – (3-5)
2001 – (4-4)
2002 – (5-3)
2003 – (4-4)
2004 – (5-3)
2005 – (6-2)
2006 – (4-4)
2007 – (4-4)
2008 – (7-1)
2009 – (5-3)

Total record against Big 12 teams 52-36 (60%)…not bad at all..considering we are the third or fourth stop on any recruits wish list

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I see the article mentions Tuberville’s appearance. Maybe Tommy will “clean up” this team and make them a little more dignified/ready for prime time. I’m sick of the clown paint on Carter and seeing a roster that looks like a group of bearded slackers up and down the sideline. I understand the desire for individualism – but NOT in the ultimate TEAM sport. Toe the line and start looking respectable. You just might find that you are taken a lot more seriously.

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sports nympho, I guess we should be grateful that we are mediocre at best because leach was a crappy recruiter.

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Big Truck,

Can you tell us what Turbs record was in the SEC?

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Ditto Benjamin well said, maybe with a little discipline tech wont be 118 of 120 teams with the most penalties. You are correct carters a freak show, too bad he didn’t scare anybody. He needs to go to the WWE

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Let me help you out! 52-30

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plainotxen who the hell is turbs

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TUBBS RECORD versus SEC:
@Big Truck:

Auburn under Tuberville against SEC teams:

1999 – (2-6)
2000- (6-2)
2001 – (5-3)
2002 – (6-2)
2003 – (5-3)
2004 – (8-0)
2005 – (7-1)
2006 – (6-2)
2007 – (5-3)
2008 – (2-6)

Total SEC record = 52 -28 (65%)…..decide for yourself????/

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plainotxen which conference has won 6 of the last 8 national titles. That ought to tell you which conference is a little harder to win in.

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Sports Nympho
If you know anything about College football you would know the story about Tubs and Auburn. Tubs was loved by Auburn fans as much as Leach and Ruff are loved by the Raider Nation. They were equally upset when he was released.

Yes he did try to introduce the spread at Auburn however as the Raider Nation knows all to well it takes 2-3 years to get it up and running. You have to have the right players for the spread. Remember Leach’s first two years he still had Spikes players (which were mostly geared for the run game). Leach went out and recruited pass blocking linemen, a lot of receivers, running backs that could catch. Something that can not be done in a year. Kingsbury got killed that first year. And if memory serves me correct Tech in 2000 and 2001 (Leach’s first 2 years at Tech) Tech finished 7-6 and 7-5 / 3-4 and 4-4 in conference respectively.
Leach is THE spread Coach and I feel that the first two years we did as well as we did was because of Leach and we all know he improved Tech each year.

TT is going to keep the spread and tweak it a little, which I personal think a few (not many) running plays would help.

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@Big Truck:

All I am saying is TEch will ALWAYS be mediocre at best…face it! That is just how it is…with that said, RUFF would have been just a good a choice as anyone. Considering his loyalty to the program, he would have been in my opinion, the BEST choice.

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HAHA! Big Truck is really sold by this guy….now he is making excuses as to why Tubby didnt fair much better than Leach….time will tell, time will tell….amazing!

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Tubbs Leach
1999 2–6 5-3
2000 6–2 3-5
2001 5–3 4-4
2002 5–3 5-3
2003 5–3 4-4
2004 8–0 5-3
2005 7–1 6-2
2006 6–2 4-4
2007 5–3 4-4
2008 2–6 7-1
2009 — 5-3
52-30 52-36

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sports nympho better percentage in a tougher conference thank for making my point now go back to the bong

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Just stating facts. I like both Leach and Tubbs

I think Tubbs will have more success at Tech than did mike. I think other Big XII teams are worried because Tubbs can recruit.

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Tuberville was associated with several of the best defenses in college football history. (11-0-1 A&M team, UMiami during its heyday, several teams at Ole Miss and Auburn including the 2004 12-0 team) I think we will be OK on D. I hope we get the LB coach at Alabama as DC. That may get us several BLUE CHIPS this year alone!!!

For those of you who say he cannot recruit in Texas…He was not from Florida when he coached at Miami (they did ok), he was not from Texas when he coached at TA&M (they did ok), he was not from Mississippi when he head coached Ole Miss while under NCAA sanctions and he turned the program around and he was not from Alabama when he coached Auburn to a 12-0 season in the SEC. But, I will let his actions this month speak for themselves.

Also, I agree with Jim. Leach tried to leave every year he was here. Some of you try to implicate the administration for this but none of the coaches in any of the other sports are having the same problems. This certainly does not look like a systemic problem.

Also, it does not appear to be a money issue. The 5 yr. contract that Tuberville reportedly agreed to will end up costing the university about the same as it would if Leach had stayed. We need to face facts. Leach is gone. He will be fine. He is an excellent coach. Once he settles his lawsuit for something amounting to a severance package under the liquidated damaged provision of his contract, he will immediately go find another job. Lets keep our eyes on the ball. FOOTBALL!!

Guns Up.

WRECK EM’

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sports nympho are you a tech fan or just spewing?

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And don’t forget, the 2009 Auburn Tigers were all of Tuberville’s recruits…they went 3 – 5 in the SEC….

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2004 Auburn was 13 – 0 and left out in the cold for the Natioanal Title which was not Tubs’ fault – BCS and press wanted UT and USC.

He had five years with 2 loses in the SEC – and 3 years with 3 losses in the SEC. THE SEC! It is the toughest conference, and every school in the SEC recruits well.

BIg 12 played two Bowl games against the SEC this UT and OSU both got pounded.

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Well it’s being. One of our prized recruit looks like he’s walking away. DB Tre’Vante Porter has decommited. Check Rivals.com

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I am a Tech fan and alum….and I am spewing also because I feel Ruff should at least be given a chance. Black coaches will never have a chance to “build” resumes unless they are given the chance. This was a great opportunity for Tech to lead the way in that regard…..this is 2010!

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Big Truck,

One other thing, Tech was on scholarship reduction up through 2002. Leach inherited a program with a bum leg. Allow an extra year or two for the full effects of those reductions to matriculate through the system and he didn’t have a full team until 2004/2005. I’m just saying. Leach did very well with what he was given and what he was able to take.

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Gosh u guys are starting to sound like Adam James whinning about everything. This guys is a winner and he will make tech more of a winner.

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Sports Nympho

are you a guy or girl?

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OK… my quote was from video which plays at top of article.

To be politically correct he has at the very least PARAPHRASED his comments from when interviewed here before job, to radio interview in Memphis, to when introduced and then to interview on the link (espn). Take it back further to pine box comment…. is want to be believed, best not to lets say Paraphrase..

Not taking sides..

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Does any one know if Ruff is being looked at by other schools or has he had any offers?

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sports nympho I think if ruff had 6-8 years dc experience he would have gotten the job no questions. He was inexperienced and not that good no matter the race.

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TT must retain a couple of o-coaches if he sincerely intends to keep the current scheme. Probably Riley and Cumbie. He may keep 1-2 other coaches, but that’s it. RM is gone along with most d-coaches. RM recruited big DEs and power LBs. TT will recruit speed over size, which I agree with. Look at TCU. Therefore, the defense is of no concern.

However, everyone who enjoyed the “air raid” should be worried. It is a style of offense that can’t be tweaked much at all without changing it effectiveness. This why you see lots of spread offenses, but only one “air raid”. UH has tweaked ML’s system. They use standard line splits, QB under center twice as much as Tech and not near the number of crossing routes.

An outside OC will add a few wrinkles and TT will add more running game. If the offense runs a few QB draws and zone reads per game, great. If you start seeing more QB under center with I-back, it is only a matter of time and Tech will evolve to a balanced scheme and a 6-6 ball team, regardless of defense. In fact, how many 7-5 or worse records did TT have? If his defensive prowess is so great, why did he have lose so many (about the same as ML). Someone in an earlier post alluded to Mizzou and OU. That is a perfect analogy of where we are headed. If Riley or Cumbie get the OC, we can survive. Otherwise, the air raid is extinct in 2-4 years.

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Very nice article from the Houston Chronicle:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/solomon/6808677.html

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CANNOT get others to run this offense!!!!!! Must be from last years coaches. CANNOT tweAk by making smaller gaps on the line (for running).

He said he wants to air it out!!!!! A lot of teams air it out and can’t score. It is because they us a running formation to pass from. Anything less than 42 points a game will be a dissapointment with this bunch coming back. All other Big 12 schools will be worse than this year.

Tear it up on Defense with all your new coaches Tuberville, but you CANNOT destroy the offense foundation of this offense. DO NOT TWEAK our offensive coaching staff and fundamentals which you do not KNOW.

We coaches with 20 year experience in the old school are stubborn. I Know. I hope you can see what the NEW coaches and the Offense at TECH is working.

This is NOT a rebuilding year. GOOD LUCK and make it happen with “OUR RAIDERS” and OUR Offense. Remember what you said “IT is up to you to make it happen”. (Paraphrasing)

You do not have to SELL THIS PROGRAM. Just your defense. We have bought this offense, Do Not return!!!!!!

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Tommy just needs to learn to fully extend his arm/elbow when he gets his GUNS UP

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Remind me NEVER to sign a contract with anyone from Lubbock, since you would have no intentions of honoring it. I hope all of you rationalizers get what you want: Craig James and son running things at your college. I’ll have no more to do with your school in any way. I know it doesn’t mean anything to any of you, but some of you make Bonghorn fans look good. Before you write negative replies, Bight Me (mis-spelling intentional).

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I am a guy ( and Nympho refers to, in this case, can’t get enough Sports, thus the screen name)….

And no one is whining; I think everyone is just stating opinions…this is America!

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@ Big Truck:

I agree with you about his inexperience – but where does he get it if the “good ole boy” system never gives him a chance???? Race has everything to do with it!

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I’m so confused. Is Tuberville going to keep the air raid in place or not? I really think Lincoln Riley brings great experience and is familiar with the new recruits. Looks like Tuberville is going to hire outside – http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/17884/troy-oc-brown-interviews-with-texas-tech

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sports numnut, always about black, black , black. What about the other monorities in coaching. And all you team leach cry babies need to toughen up. You are the same guys that will be in the bandwagon if tech does start rolling. I was a Leach fan, but this is business and life, move on. TT is a big name in the coaching field, and 10 years ago people said would couldnt attract someone that big.

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Face it, Ruff was not hired because he is BLACK! Typical West Texas….

WRONG! Ruff was not hired because he is FAT! Typical West Texas…image is everything!

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@Watchdog and Honest:

You two probably attend the monthly K K K meetings…whether you choose to face it or not, race is and will always be a factor. How many major schools, including high schools, in West Texas have had a black head football coach (Estacado doesn’t count!)…hmmmmm?

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If you believe TT will keep the air raid -WRONG. He will pass often, but intends to become more balanced. TT is interviewing Troy Univ OC. Go to ESPN and look at Troy box scores. You will find a balnced offense with 25-35 runs per game. It’s dead folks, face it. A matter of time. Glad I got to see it from the first year on.

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Color doesn’t matter I said it was that he’s fat. He was already a co-head coach! Tech didn’t want him in the spot-light.

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Look at all the talk in KANSAS about Mangino….Some of you were part of that as well.

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Give Tuberville a chance, like it or not he is now the head coach at TTU. I would love to see him keep most of the coaching staff intact but ultimately this is his decision to make. BTW some of the more rabid TEAM LEACHERS need to get a life, stop lambasting and resorting to the childlike name calling of those that are just trying to support the program.

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unfortunately TTU will not be the barrier breaker and hire a head coach that is black, so yes color does matter! This is as much if not more of an injustice then how TTU dealt with Mike Leach.

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Who called who what first! You know if you can’t stand the heat….Seems the AJ in their quest to be the TTU public relations firm is kinda inviting this though…

By the way, no one is saying fire Tubs now. Geez! We are just are demanding accountability. Something wrong with that?

TEAM LEACH.

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I agree with FORMER TECH ATHLETE and SOCONFUSED, the air raid I am afraid is dead we are no one of many running the spread.. if even that?

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The good ole boy network that you guys point to includes Myers who was a basketball coach who employed, promoted and worked closely with black coaches and student athletes at a time when it was risky to do so in West Texas. He hired Leach, who hired and promoted black coaches who have become great role models at our school and in our community. Tech just hired Tuberville, who immediately reached out to another black coach, James Willis (the LB coach at Alabama and former assistant to Tuberville) to be DC. Tuberville clearly had a better resume that Ruff. This is not about race.

Also, Footballcoachscoop.com is reporting that Tuberville will retain Lincoln Riley and Matt Moore. (but neither as OC).

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We are running the Raider package.

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Footballcoachscoop is reporting that Tuberville will retain Lincoln Riley and Matt Moore on his staff.

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Myers hired, promoted and recruited black coaches and athletes while serving as basketball coach. Myers hired Leach…who hired, promoted and recruited black coaches and athletes. Tech has now hired Tuberville whos first step was to try to hire James Willis, a great, talented young black coach who is the LB coach of the #1 Alabama Crimson Tide defense and their recruiter to the Florida High Schools. Tuberville had a better resume than Ruff. This is not about race.

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Total record against Big 12 teams 52-36 (60%)…not bad at all..considering we are the third or fourth stop on any recruits wish list

Question I would ask is, “WHY are we the third or fourth stop on any recruits wish list?”

Could it possibly be because of fans who are more loyal to an image (ie, Leach) than to the program itself?

When you attach yourself to an image, ie a COACH, that’s all you have and it becomes pretty shallow. No tradition in that whatsoever.

Tradition-laden programs, on the other hand, such as Oklahoma, Texas, A&M, Penn State, Florida, etc, have little trouble attracting top-shelf, blue-chip recruits. It’s about PROGRAMS, not coaches.

Otherwise, Bob Knight would’ve had a myriad of blue-chip high school recruits lined up at his door. Say what you will about Knight, he graduated his players and there are FAR MORE former Knight players who speak highly of the man than there are ex-players who speak otherwise. Flaky, hotheaded and immature? Absolutely. Knight was–and is–all of that and more. But he also built a TRADITION at Indiana that made it possible to not only recruit, but keep the boosters strong.

Tuberville comes from a conference that probably has more tradition than any other conference. He understands tradition. He understands recruiting. So what if he only had one Texas player/recruit in 2007? How many Alabama or Florida or Georgia players did Tech have that same year?

Local schools get local recruits. National schools get national recruits. Lubbock has a hard time realizing that there is a world–a successful one–out there beyond Loop 289. Apparently so do a lot of the naysayers here on this forum.

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Former Leach players speak well of him. I thin the current bunch didn’t like their benches taken away from the sidelines. Adam James needed a place to sit afterall.

TEAM LEACH

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I’ve been hearing both good and bad about tuberville…….He admits he is NO offensive coach, where Leach WAS offense oriented.

Honestly i’m surprised Gerald selected Tuberville after Hance stated.. ” if the folks are satisfied with our selection, this should all blow over, we may HAVE to give them ruffin”…I wonder what swayed him in the end to NOT select ruffin?

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TEAM LEACH ROCKS….ALL go to the rally thursday

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“RUN FORREST RUN!”

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What exactly is Team Leach going to accomplish?

More fragmentation? More divisiveness? More of the same old Lubbock stuff?

Do you honestly think Tech will/can hire Leach back? Do you honestly think Leach would come back? Leach took the Tech job and never stopped looking for another/better job. Good that you guys are loyal to Leach. Just too bad the gate never swung the other way.

Yeah, I was furious at how the Tech leadership handled the situation. Not surprised, however, but still furious. And yes, I’ve canceled some support.

Asking Tuberville to publicly call for Myers’ resignation or Hances firing is as stupid a thing as I have ever read coming out of Tech/Lubbock. Again, not surprising, but just flat stupid.

It’s idiocy like that that also helps keep our program one or two tiers down below the great programs.

Have fun at your rally–oh, and while you’re there, see if you can get Leach to say a few words. . .

Oh wait! You mean he won’t be there?

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Will Leach be at the rally Thursday to publicly apologize to his coaches and their families for costing them their livlihood? They have little hope of finding work anytime soon.

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JamaicaBeach,
Listen carefully, i’ll try to explain….Texas Tech is in Lubbock Texas which is in West Texas. Now, i’ll be the first to admit, West Texas gets a bad rap in that it is way away from civilization and the dust and wind blow out here daily. Lubbock is also not as large a city as Austin or Oklahoma City and could possibly be perceived as less desireable in the eyes of a 19 year old athlete.

Well, JamaicaBetch,
A decade ago, enter Mike Leach. Mike Leach since has taken Texas tech to bowl games every year and his UNIQUE style offense quickly gained national acclaim. Approx 3 years into his term, higher quality athletes began coming to Tech. The national exposure grew and finally blue-chippers DID INDEED appear.
Five to six years ago with Tech winning as much as losing to the power houses like Texas and Oklahoma and A&M it became that….ALL the QUALITY high schoolers who were coming to Texas Tech, were coming SOLELY because of Mike Leachs’ Unique, high powered EXPLOSIVE offense…WOW We have national recognition and are as apt to beat TEXAS or OU as not!!
Tuberville openly admits he’s not an offense man, rather a defense oriented coach…………Do the math Jamaican B

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Some ttu fans said this: Just stating facts. I like both Leach and Tubbs

I think Tubbs will have more success at Tech than did mike. I think other Big XII teams are worried because Tubbs can recruit.

breaking news…down at DKR, we are trembling…lol…have you all checked who is Number 1 in BB? and who dropped out of the polls?

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opps it is suppose to be bonger…good stuff

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They won’t get a dime of my money until the 3 bums that crucified Leach are GONE!!! Tuberville is simply a politician and that is what Tech wanted. Well, they got it and have lost alot of fans and $$$ due to their greed, poor judgement and dirty pool tactics. I hope they all get put on the stand and perjur themselves – Leach deserves every penny he gets!!!

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David, FYI the population of NORMAN which is where OU is located is 101,719 for 2009. Lubbock’s was 199,564. So as far as comparing those 2 places, Lubbock is not a hick little town.

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Sorry, David…should have directed that to JamaicaBeach

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http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/james-hired-swift-boat-firm-before-going-public-27593

TEAM LEACH!!!

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garymount & watchdog….seriously guys- get a life. The deal with Leach is done. EVERYBODY know you 2 dont agree with leach firing, get over it! Its done and guess what…..Leach isnt coming back. Not only that…theres no way in hell leach is coming back. He might not even be able to coach in college again.

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There, it posted that time!…I assure you if i had a son and was worried about his safety, i would ATTEND to his being safe before i took the time to do this……..I’m telling you, this was staged!

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maybe craig james might be available to speak at the rally? he can apologize to texas tech …….and while he’s at it SMU too!!

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sally, he won’t apologize to anyone……………….yet

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I do not understand any argument that states that Tuberville’s selection was about race. Ruffin is a very elequent, inspirational coach that produced average defensive results for 2 1/2 years. Tuberville’s record speaks for itself. When I read posts that state “I heard a lot of big donors called Myers and said they will pull all of their financial supoport if a black man was hired” I shake my head in disbelief. Why would anyone believe that statement? It is probably coming from the same crowd that said “I overheard Gerald Myers in a bar say he would get Leach if it was the last thing ever did”.

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It is not T-villes’ job to unite the fan base & he best not try. It will be seen as an attempt to help 3 Stooges

In their P R Campaign. The fan base will reunite when Kent Hance & Gerald Myers RESIGN. The sooner

the better. If T-ville is so foolish as to get between the ANGRY HOARDS & these Adm idiots he will live

to regret it. He needs to get busy learning about Lubbock, the team, get his staff in place etc., etc., etc. In

other words he needs to be WAAAY too busy to get involved in this controversy & he should say this publicly.

We are the local populace, who have witness an injustice that none of us would wish on our worst enemy.

We will NOT be told to move on , get over it, it’s in the past, bla bla bla. The more we hear this, the more

determined we become. T-ville has to walk a very fine line until this fiasco is settled. He should also hope

that we will be behind him, in the same way, after he has proven himself to us after a few years at TTU.

As always I remind everyone,

KENT HANCE IS A SNAKE IN THE GRASS & ALWAYS HAS BEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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David, thanks for the geography lesson. (by the way, I graduated from Lubbock Monterey back in the 70′s, joined the service and came back to Lubbock to attend and graduate from Tech. Came back five years after that to get my MBA. I’m sort of familiar with Lubbock and the Lubbock mentality.)

Anyone here ever been to Purdue? I remember when they used to have a very respectable sports program. What about Louisville? Talk about a stinking, nasty, backwards town–yet their basketball program is otherworldly. Baton Rouge? Not what I’d call a mecca for ANYONE, let alone a young person going off to college. Bryan-College Station? Not exactly Texas meccas either. Nebraska simply isn’t fit to live in, yet recruits from all over head there to play football. Ever been to Manhatten or Lawrence, Kansas? They’re about the size of Plainview on a good day (slight exaggeration, but hopefully you get the point). Columbia, Missouri? Just a boring little stop on the road a haul from either Kansas City or St. Louis.

Stop trying to blame geography on lack of recruiting prowess and start placing the blame where it belongs: A program shallow in tradition. No doubt that Leach was beginning a tradition of winning and of exciting football and of getting tongues wagging. But he’s gone.

We have two choices–we can either continue to build upon success and do with a swagger in our walk and a chip on our shoulder, or we can fall back on the old Lubbock idiom of always blaming someone else and something else for our lack of success.

I know what my choice is. It’s also clear what many others here’s choice is. Too bad.

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Dykes and his staff made us winners. Leach and his staff brought us prominence. Let’s get behind Tuberville, staff and players and finally become champions.

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we are doomed to go back to 6 and 5 seasons. Maybe we can beat rice if we are lucky

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Hey David! don’t show your ignorance. You have probably never traveled out of Lubbock or at the most never out of the state of Texas. Have you been to Tuscaloosa, AL, yes the little town whose school has one more National Championships than anyone else. Jamaica Beach is right. It’s been a tradition with people in Lubbock and former coaches have fed on this inferiority complex to blame it on Lubbock. I have been to far worse hell wholes called college towns that don’t have any problem recruiting. You give the example of Austin and Oklahoma City. Well how many towns the size of Austin have powerhouse college football programs? and I am not aware of any powerhouse program in Oklahoma City, they reside in the little town of Norman and a far inferior specimen of the same lies in the little village of Stillwater. The reason that we did not have good programs was because our AD was not capable of hiring good coaches and co-ordinators, either intentionally or unintentionally, the inept coaches fed off this as ready made excuses for their not being able to recruit in Lubbock. All that changed, once Leach and Knight came and suddenly Lubbock was not an issue and we started getting recruits. The floodgates have now opened and we will have good recruiting classes from now on. If you have not been there, please have a visit at College Station Texas, and you will realize why Lubbock is better destination.

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And pardon my grammar, David infuriated me so much with his ignorant remark about Lubbock, that I forgot to edit my rant before sending it out.

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Team Leach, that is so funny. You guys are cracking me up, pretending not to know anything about football tooooo funny. I hope team leach is just code for a party because if anyone is really going to a team leach rally…. well that would be like you have nothing else going on in your life, right. So it’s a joke right. Seriously, get on board with the program; TT is at Tech, leach is gone, and he did not have all the success that someof you seem to think. His latest recruiting class that is touted as his best is NOT RATED IN THE TOP TWENTY-FIVE, and is number 7 in the big 12. And for the person that seems to think tech is a second rate school? I had other options when I went and chose it. Apparently you did not. I believe we can recruit to Lubbock (see Ames and Lincoln), and should. For those of you too young to know we were ranked in the top ten before and then settled on an assistant coach and dropped back to obscurity. We can rise again but Leach was not the guy. He got us to this point now we need to go the next step. Hope I spelled this correctly because I gotta go. Wreck ‘em

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VOICE OF REASON SAYS IT BEST. I AM BEHIND TTU AND COACH TT NOW. BUT NOT THE ADMIN. GET’EM TEAM LEACH.

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Thank you dear God for Tommy Tuberville. I think this shoe is gonna fit and it is the right time! Here’s hoping he signs up that east coast spread offense kid, Neal Brown,30, as OC and of course the new stud James Willis DC at ‘bama , 7 yrs LB in NFL! Getting these two here will be huge.

They say build it and they will come. YES! What a challenge!! With Coach Tuberville and the coordinators he is going after it will be built all right!! It will stand about as long as it wants. We may need some more trophy room space really soon. Good luck coach , and…………

May God bless us EVERYONE!

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Anyone want to tell him he’s holding up the OSU gun…..Tech’s goes to the side…..

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@Jamaica….Ty for the Bio! I guess you do not know where SE Asia is. I havent been myself , but I have been to SW Asia, just to finish our last conversation!

second point-how is CTT gonna build on Coach Leach’s success, when he plans on overhauling it? Hes not building, hes changing!
ask Auburn fans about the last 2 to 3 yrs of CTT recruiting, they will respond :LAZY!!

third point- Team Leach isnt about not backing our program, its about making changes with the good old boys, so TTU in the future, will be a college that will not repeat its mistakes!! People think were just mad that we might lose a football game, but we want change that is for the better!!

and lastly, I didnt graduate TTU.I ets’d out of the Army after two tours of Iraq, I attended two years at TTU and went back in the Army, when they couldnt find people to keep going back for deployments. (And Im still in)! One thing I have learne in the Army that I guess they didnt teach you was Loyalty!

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Flah Light,
You’re delusional and your batteries are dead. If TT is serious about keeping the “air raid”, he’d hire Riley since age is not a consideration. He has no intention to keep the air raid permanently, but only until he can recruit his players and run a balanced offense. Just look at the box scores of Troy U. and note the 25-35 runs per games. He’s always had an issue with being totally honest and it continues at Tech. Bye-bye air raid and Tech identity. Hello mediocrity in Lubbock. He’s only had a few good years. The others were mediocre.

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Craig James did not do anything wrong up to and including libel and slander. What he reported and related to the press and public Leach admitted. You haven’t seen Leach suing ESPN and Craig James. Leach is still too busy playing with his Pirate regalia to realize he is responsible for his coaches losing their jobs.

I heard Lubbock authorities are expecting at least 50 people for the Save Leach rally.

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Guys as sad as it is Leach is not coming back.

Tubberville seems genuine; let’s give him a chance. At least promise me that you will all be there for kickoff of the first game to support the team and set aside your hatred towards this situation and how it was handled.

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Hey TTUFAn, you must be a great fan because you make your statements based on emotions and not facts. Each of the statements you have made is either delusional or false:

Your myth: TT is overhauling offense

Reality: No he is not, he is bringing one of his own guys in, but he is not doing anything to change the Air Raid, atleast that’s not what his hiring of Neal Brown (who played at Kentucky under Leach and runs a version of the offense at Troy would suggest).

Your second myth: Tuberville was lazy according to Auburn fans

Reality: I don’t know which blogs you are looking at, but if you look at the rank of Auburn recruiting, it has been consistently in the top 20 for as long as Tuberville was there, also, the Auburn fan blogs still have only good things to say about Tuberville, unlike your caustic remarks.

Three: You still went to Tech for two years, that’s as many years as Crabtree was a red raider, so you are a red raider pal, and you sure like being one, or else you wouldn’t be on this blog would you? :)

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Relax MORONS….Why do you think there is no tradition here, JamaicaBeach? It’s because of Tech Admin. You say we can continue to build our tradition and do it with a swagger in our walk and a chip on our shoulder, but we can’t. WE CAN’T. When we get started good, tech administration pulls us back. RIGHT back to the same Lubbock idiom!

Team Leach is AT LEAST trying to accomplish something. Trying to do something about the corrupt administration! We can’t just keep on saying…”It’s over, let’s move on: if we EVER want to get that tradition built!! They fired Leach because of money…period!

It doesn’t matter if it’s Tuberville or who it is, if we don’t make changes in this administration, we WILL NEVER get that tradtion built and this viscious cycle will NEVER end!

We need a more modern administration, one that, when we get a good coach, they will LET him coach and PAY him competitively and perhaps he will WANT to stay here and we could develop! Any other administration would have told a parent that they would investigate any complaints! Because of tension, OUR administration didn’t take that avenue and WON’T take it in the future!

We had a GREAT coach who was JUST on the edge of beginning to recruit TOP NOTCH players and we NEED TO BE SURE WE CAN KEEP THE NEXT ONE

southernbillionairees be quiet…i’ve lived in Lubbock as long as you and have been everywhere! I was expressing my opinion to JamaicaBeach and trying to prove a point !

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regardless of who coaches tech, UT will own you all for eternity. get a life…move on.

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Eloren
You can’t possibly be serious unless you know absolutely nothing about the situation or you have some other motivation for posting.
James has a long history of interfering with coaches trying to do their job:

Adam James’ high school coach said that he was never so glad to have a player graduate. He said the team had 2 head coaches one for the team and Craig James for Adam. One of the reasons he was not widely recruited was because his high school coach wouldn’t recommend him.

At Tech Craig James was constantly taking up the coaches’ time at practices and calling them on the phone to tell them that the best receiver was on the bench. Coach Leach reported that Craig James took up more time than all of the other parents combined.

Craig constantly left voicemail messages and at one point the coaches threaten to start playing them in team meetings if they didn’t stop.

Adam James was a cancer on the team and when showed up late for practice, out of uniform, hat on backwards, and wearing dark sunglas$es claiming he had a concussion, he was asked to walk back and forth up and down the field. He made a joke out of that by taking baby steps and that was when he was put in timeout.

If Craig James was so concerned about his son why was his first call to a PR firm with instructions to as$as$inate the character of Mike Leach. His second call was to the Board of Regents to demand the firing of Mike Leach and more playing time for Adam.

I could go on and on about the James Gang but I doubt this will help you.

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Adam James is a Liar….end of story

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Craig James still has a job and Leach, along with the coaches he backstabbed, don’t.

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Have some of these people like been in a coma or something and JUST this instant woke up and decided to get on here and type the first thing that comes to their wharped minds?

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well said, cash….there are always a few who just don’t get it and never will!

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Tradition?

hahaha. oh yeah, ttu has plenty of it.

1. tortilla throwers
2. voted worst fan base in the big 12
3. openly revolt against the new coach before his first full day on the job.

that’s tradition all right.

tradition of a loser. david/dog/ttrr/gary, you must be one person. and you obviously don’t have a job. i’m not sure how you can continue to blog about the “real world” when you don’t live in it.

and go ahead and continue to blame the 21 year old. you bet, it was all his fault. the foul-mouthed, mumbling, bumbling lawyer had no part in this.

you sir are a moron and a jacka**

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for everyone who says “hello mediocrity” what would you call leach if you look up mediocrity in the dictionary there’s a picture of leach with that stupid look on his face wondering who farted. get a life people, anyone can win 9 games a year when you schedule powder puff U for the first 4. Leach was a disgrace and so are the team leach people. hope yall have fun at memorial circle dressed up for halloween having a big circle jerk.

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Cash, with two “degrees” some might think you could put coherent sentences together to form a rational thought.

Are you sure they weren’t from South Plains and ITT Tech?

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So which is it Team Leach guys? Is Tuberville totally mediocre and going to lead us back to 6-5 or is he just going to use our success as a stepping stone? (At least pick one rant and stick with it!)

Also, how about we let Tech run one play (JUST ONE PLAY) or even a practice (JUST ONE PRACTICE) before we pass final judgement on what our offense is going to be or whether we are doomed???!!!

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Eloren

Are you sure about that, I hear he is looking for a new career in politics. His job at ESPN is or will be done soon.

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Big Truck – little ???????? Go home tough guy.

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Not a tough guy just calling a spade a spade juaquin can’t wait to see how may idiots actually show for the drunk pirate rally. what a joke juaquin

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i’m waiting to see how many of the morons get thrown in jail.

you know they’ll work themselves into a frenzy. add that to a few beers before the rally and poof! jacka** in jail.

i can’t wait for the 10:00 news!

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2010 Charmin Toilet Bowl
2011 Desenex Athlete’s Foot Bowl
2012 Tum’s Belch Bowl
2013 Immodium $#!+ Bowl
2014 TT takes job at Arkansas after he says “they’ll have to carry me out of here in a pine box”

Hope you enjoyed the past 10 years, because TT will take this program south.

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Which is it? Will TT take us to mediocrity or just use the success as a stepping stone? (at least pick one rant and stick with it!)

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BTW…can be run JUST ONE PLAY or even JUST ONE PRACTICE before we pass judgment on what our offense is going to be?

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bowl committee you a moron. go hit the bong couple more times

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What is the point of the Thursday rally? To get Leach back? To fire the entire superstructure of Texas Tech? To wear pirate outfits? What is it?

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Here is a first-person account of the “timeout.”
From The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:
Pincock said Leach was “upset and concerned about James’ appearance and attitude. Leach said he did not want him loafing while the players were working. Leach told me to place James in a dark place near the practice field. Leach further said something to the effect that he wanted me to tell James that I was to lock his f—— p—- a— in place so dark that the only way he knows he has a d— is to reach down and touch it, which I repeated to James. Leach further told me to have him stand in the dark during the entire practice. He did not want James on the field, and he did not want James in the training facility. He did not want to see James. He wanted James to be uncomfortable.’’
Pincock said James was taken to the “sports medicine/athletic training shed,’’ and that objects were removed so that James could not sit or lie down, in keeping with Leach’s orders. Pincock said when practice ended two to three hours later, he let James out of the shed and apologized.
“I told James that I was sorry for having to place him in a dark shed but that these were Leach’s instructions. I do not agree with this form of treatment for anyone, and I discussed this with James.’’
Pincock said James reported Dec. 19 wearing appropriate attire and that Leach instructed that he should be returned to the same place. Because the practice was in Jones AT&T Stadium and not at the team’s grass practice fields, trainers found a closer area – a room that media use to interview visiting teams after games.
Pincock said anything a person might sit on was removed from the room except for two tractor tires. A student trainer monitored James to make sure he was standing the entire time, Pincock said.
“The media room was very dark and cold,’’ Pincock said.

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Hey bowl committee that looks just leach’s bowl wins: gallery furniture, insight, houston, o and the tangerine bowl. Yeah leach was a genious until he played OU UT OSU then he couldn’t beat his own meat

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Raider Fan I think its to look as foolish as their coach

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The over-all Pirate population is down, ALL Pirates loose battles, Leach lost this one!

The Pirate act was old, it was time to go!

Welcome Tommy, your professionalism is needed.

L

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Cant we all just get along

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This might be better than a Star Trek convention!! We can have Team Leach conventions!! Guys who live in their parent’s basements can wear pirate gear and try to get Leach to sign plastic swords. We can sell drinks in the concession stand called “Peach Leach” and “Fruity Booty” but for this convention, there has to be alcohol! We can have speakers such as Hal Mummy and Derek Briggs (“and total domination!”) We can sell copies of Leach’s contract and his legal paperwork and postcards from the Alamo Bowl. This will be awesome!!!

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Raider Fan that was probably the best blog i’ve seen in a while Kudos sir

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get on the ground rodney!

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TT didn’t look like a “top-level” team against Ole Miss – a mid-level SEC team.

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Eloren…drinks?

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I am in Orlando, FL for a meeting, not the coaches conference, but do plan on having lunch with a few folks who should be able to give me some insight. Hearing NB is hesitant about the OC job, but considering it. I don’t know much about him, other than he runs much more than Tech fans are accustomed to seeing. Another candidate is in the mix, but I can’t get a firm answer. Hearing all kinds of names from A-Z and Lincoln R has a shot only if others don’t work out. One thing for sure, Tech will continue to pass the ball; however, I doubt it will be the air raid.

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wait…..

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Raider Fan,

The point was to protest in hopes Tech would rehire Leach. Now its pointless and shameful.

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Did people actually think the administration would fire, then see all the pirates revolt, and then re-hire that idiot?

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For those who think that Leach Trek conventions are too lame, I’m gonna start a website called Leachapaloosa. We are going to hit the road with Korn, Pete Rose, Mark McGwire, Axl Rose, Courtney Love, Tiny Tim, Spinal Tap, and the children of Ted Williams. We will be coming to a town near you! Be sure to get there early so you can get by the main stage. We may add Dustin Diamond for an encore because we can put Screech and Leach on the same stage.

Oh…sorry, the tour was cancelled because I just got sued.

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Big Truck,

I will dude. It helps me understand your ignorance and insecurities.

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People leave TEAM LEACH alone. They have said they are behind TUBS. This is not about Coach is about AD, ADMIN, the REGENTS and the handling of Coach Leach’s firing, the unanswer questions and the embarrassment they put on TTU. Could they( ad admin & R) have handled any worse – NO!

It is AMERICA they have a right to assemble. They are very passionate about their issues. people in this country have forgotten how to use their voice, march etc. Their passion speaks volumes on how many feel about Leach.

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Dont hit me I have Attorneys

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I have an attorney written statement…

“While I admit that preparations may have been made for “gathering” of pirate-loving basement-living americans and for a “celebration” involving a number of colorful and quirky americans, I take issue with the insinuation that this was a geeky Trek-like convention or that Leachapaloosa was a side show carnival-like concert for profit. I did not plan to put people in a dark room but rather a well lit convention hall. At the concert…I mean “celebration,” we did not intend to make fun of these colorful americans but rather gain wisdom from their musings.

I am very disappointed in my actions and hope that every red-blooded Leach filled pirate loving minimum wage making patriot will plot incessantly until my administration is removed from myself.”

All semblance of intelligence and self-respect has left the building.
Thank you and good night.

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and a video camera

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The Morons are going to pay Leach double what they would have if they would have just left him alone……..HE DIDN’T mistreat James, don’t start that crap!

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Here is a first-person account of the “timeout.”
From The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:
Pincock said Leach was “upset and concerned about James’ appearance and attitude. Leach said he did not want him loafing while the players were working. Leach told me to place James in a dark place near the practice field. Leach further said something to the effect that he wanted me to tell James that I was to lock his f—— p—- a— in place so dark that the only way he knows he has a d— is to reach down and touch it, which I repeated to James. Leach further told me to have him stand in the dark during the entire practice. He did not want James on the field, and he did not want James in the training facility. He did not want to see James. He wanted James to be uncomfortable.’’
Pincock said James was taken to the “sports medicine/athletic training shed,’’ and that objects were removed so that James could not sit or lie down, in keeping with Leach’s orders. Pincock said when practice ended two to three hours later, he let James out of the shed and apologized.
“I told James that I was sorry for having to place him in a dark shed but that these were Leach’s instructions. I do not agree with this form of treatment for anyone, and I discussed this with James.’’
Pincock said James reported Dec. 19 wearing appropriate attire and that Leach instructed that he should be returned to the same place. Because the practice was in Jones AT&T Stadium and not at the team’s practice fields, trainers found a closer area – a room that media use to interview visiting teams after games.
Pincock said anything a person might sit on was removed from the room except for two tractor tires. A student trainer monitored James to make sure he was standing the entire time, Pincock said.
“The media room was very dark and cold,’’ Pincock said.

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ON THE GROUND RODNEY!!!!

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yeah whatever david he didn’t talk about pigs and chickens after a loss to texas either. after going 2-8 against mack brown i guess he had to start blaming somebody besides his own dumba**

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that is nothing.. I had it much worse

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truck, they’ll be GIVING season tickets away, get some for you and your fat little girlfriend and enjoy the game

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where’s my stick?!?……Rodney, i’m tired of telling you!!!

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I will have my daddy call kent hance

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Adam has him on speed dial, just ask Adam for the #

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YALL GUYS BETTER STOP MAKING FUN OF ME OR IM TELLING MY DADDY. MY DADDY IS BIGGER THEN YOUR DADDY.

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@Voice of Reason

Tuby was never fired, he stepped down from the head coach position at Auburn. Check your facts and cheer your team.

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TT fans(?) such as garyount and watchdog 113 don’t have the inclination or intelligence to research the facts. If’s hard to see clearly with only one eye.

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This is our team? Then keep Lincoln and Ruffin.

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“I think people will look at Craig and say this is a guy who puts principles over everything else,” Baile

“We’re going to go forward. We’re going to be positive about it,”

Propst said Franklin told him head coach Tommy Tuberville never provided a “major reason” for the dismissal Wednesday, other than it was time to go in a different direction.
“He’s made his philosophy change and hires Tony and gives the guy six weeks to do it?” Propst said. “Let’s see how these next six weeks play out. He says he’s going to be more involved offensively. That’s a huge mistake because he doesn’t know anything about offense. … Maybe they fired the wrong guy.”
Propst, who now coaches at Colquitt County High School in Georgia, said he spoke with college and high school coaches throughout the day who were criticizing Tuberville for making the move three days before a game.
“I think it could hurt them in recruiting,” Propst said. “There’s no offensive identity there. Why would you want to go there? There’s definitely reasons why coaches have left Auburn in the last six months. There’s some major unrest going on down there, no question.”

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I’m a Tech alum and a Red Raider fan. Not sure about the rest of you but I attend several sporting events, not just football. I am not telling you not to support the football team, so stop telling me TO support them. It’s not about Tuberville; it’s about fairness and justice, and in MY HEART, not yours, BUT MY HEART, I feel an injustice has been served by not hiring Ruffin!!!! I will never spend another dime on Texas Tech football under the current regime….

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AND HERE IS A REALITY CHECK FOR ALL OF YOU WHO THINK TEXAS TECH’S FOOTBALL PROGRAM IS HEADED TOWARD ELITE STATUS: Check out the front page of the college football section on espn or any other sporting news channel or publication – THE TALK IS NOT ABOUT TUBERVILLE!!!! As a matter of fact, Texas Tech appears NOWHERE! FAce it, Ruffin could have done just a good of a job as Tuberville will do the next 1 to 2 years, at best (6-6) and possible (7-5) with a little luck…..

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I agree he was the most logicall choice to succeed Leach, well liked and backed by his players and the AJ, also, Im afraid they may lose a lot of recruits because of him leaving, especially defensive players, it wasnt a smart choice in my opinion but the boosters and the Regents may have made that decision to hire a high profile coach?

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Ok then why are we sitting here fighting and arguing over alot of pure B.S. I am a red raider fan From Australia and until last season never really followed College football more interested in the NFL. A friend got me going for Texas Tech and I am now a huge fan. Leach is gone Long live the captain I was listening to the Houston Game and though we should win this and we lost it I was mad at Coach Leach for not going for the field goal. When I heard he was sacked was shocked but then I thought the must be a reason to it.
I am support the team and Tuberville seems to me to be a man of his word he is committed to Texas Tech and the Air Raid why change a good thing. He wants to tweak it well that works run the ball a little throw the ball alot. If you want the best recruits you want the best coaches. Winning will get recurits and coaches will get recruits. We need to get to the BSC championship to recruit the best players

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I’m not buying

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I’m going to say” i told you so”……I’m going to sit here and wait ( how ever many years ) i have to wait until YOU people realize that we need to make changes in administration so that we can get a good coach and keep him……….i am so sick of hearing ” he’s gone, just move on” “Leach is gone, let’s get behind the new coach” “it’s time to move forward and support tech”………..keep that attitude, KEEP it……NEVER make changes, we will NEVER have a team, just keep turning the other cheek!

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Is there a reason why so many posts by so many people have been deleted?

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hahahaha

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HEY, gerald looks like you stepped in another pile ofd.s. today with your sec almighty save the world coach, is he , Hance going to bail you out again??

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Jason55 why don’t you and Hance and Myers just type all the messages and put whoever’s name on them that you want and it will look the way you all want it to look? Hahahahahaha

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Myers has plans of stepping down in May….hopefully after Mike has his day in court, Myers won’t make it to May

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He maynot make it to this wekend after whats happened today..

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I watched the press conference Sunday and was disappointed to see an Athletic Director who appears to be in the early stages of dementia. This was just another example of the good old boy system continuing to function by hiring a coach they can control. I live in central Texas and gladly acknowledge that I’m Red Raider, however, I was truly also disappointed to have a Chancellor sound like a country bumpkin on ESPN. West Texas has to step up and be more progressive and hire the best fit for the program; Tuberville was not the best fit. You had a team that openly lobby for McNeil and played hard for him and you brought in a token coach. I’ll continue to support the kids in the program but not the administration.

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David, Gerald and Kent are very intelligent people. I’m sure they can type their on messages. They’ve both been good fo Tx Tech.

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James Willis (former Auburn LB, current LB coach @ Alabama) likely to be named DC.
Neal Brown (current Troy OC, played @ Kentucky) likely to be named OC.

excerpt from ESPN.Go
“The irony of this situation is that Tuberville has been down this road before.

He hired former Troy offensive coordinator Tony Franklin to be his offensive coordinator at Auburn in 2007. That relationship lasted less than a season as Franklin was fired midway through 2008.

Since then, Franklin, who completed a successful first season as the offensive coordinator at Middle Tennessee, has been outspoken about Tuberville, his coaching practices and his interactions with the Auburn staff.

Brown played for Franklin at Kentucky and Franklin brought Brown with him to Troy. Brown replaced Franklin when he left for Auburn and the two still talk regularly.

It will be interesting to see if Franklin’s experience will play into Brown’s decision should he be offered the Texas Tech job. “

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Greetings All,

All this talk about not supporting the team is bad folks. I really liked having Leach as our coach, but he is gone now and will not return.

Not supporting the athletic program only hurts the student athletes that are playing for Tech.

Tubby will do good things with this program and we will WIN many many games.

Think about the 18-21 year old kids that are coming to Tech to learn, play sports, grow as individuals, have some fun, develop a solid love for Texas Tech and obtain a first rate education. If we as fans and alumni pull our support we only hurt those young kids currently at Tech or who are coming to Tech.

It is fine to be angry about Leach being gone, but it is also time to know that Tubby is here and he is staying.

Let’s don’t get caught up in angry in-fighting and look like silly school kids to the rest of the country. Love your university and think about the future for those who have chosen to make Texas Tech their University of choice.

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Did Tommy Tuberville step aside to let someone else have a chance at coaching Auburn as he stated in his introductory speech at Texas Tech or was he fired?

“I’m a Salesman” as Tuberville introduced himself may have an issue regarding telling the truth which has been a trait of his in the past.

Numerous media accounts, articles and interviews clearly quote Olive Tuberville, Tommy’s mama, and she states that Tommy told her he was dismissed and Olive said he did not retire, but he was fired. His contract provided for $5.1M if he was fired and $0 if he quit and he was paid $5.1M to leave. Olive also stated that “heart problems run in the family” and she was concerned about Tommy’s stress.

Ears said he was dismissed, his mama said he was fired and his contract provided for $5.1M if he was fired and $0 if he quit.

There are numerous reports and stories that document these facts. You need to do your homework if you are capable and you owe me an apology for being doubly wrong.

By the way, Olive also stated that heart problems run in the family and there are numerous other stories about Ears’ family regarding alcohol abuse and infidelity.

http://www2.oanow.com/oan/news/local/article/inside_the_tuberville_home/49483/

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Think the players and coaches will be able to trust him? Humm a drunk or a lier? Thanks Myers….

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i have been an auburn fan all of 41 years i have been alive.ttu just got an awsome coach.i loved tubbs he was great for auburn.under his leadership he beat bama 6yrs in a row.his undoing was going to the spread.this time next year the red raider nation will be happy with tubbs.look chizik took most of tubbs players with a very young defense to a respectable year at 8-5.i promise you will all be happy you have tubbs.to coach tubbs we love you n miss you.good luck coach.

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by the way how many times has leach had teams finish in the top 20.has leach ever beat urban meyer or nick saban or miles or richt nuff said tuberville smokes leach.

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red raider quit crying tubbs is a great coach who was ousted because of a certain high powered loser booster.his name is bobby lowder.

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you said it paul ringer

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I thought players played the game? Now your saying it’s the coach? I am so confused reading your posts….

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did leach win the big 12……..did leach goto a bcs game……..noooooooooo ………welcome Tommy T. it is time for change

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So why did Tech give him an extension last year?

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you people are so lucky to have tubbs.if lane kiffin had pulled this before ttu hired tubbs it would be a different story.tubbs would be at the other school.count your blessings red raiders tubbs will have you in the top ten real soon.

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Tommy Tuberville claimed that he wanted to get former players involved. These reporters should have mentioned that Zach Thomas, one of the two most successful former Red Raiders in the NFL, declared that he wants no association with Texas Tech because of Mike Leach’s termination, that he wants the university never to mention his name again.

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It’s so puzzling to me that if you could win ALL the fanbase, ALL the alumni, All the boosters and community back over to your side and all you had to do was go to court and prove leach is lying….why would you file sovereign immunity?

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