Teresa Wilson was not the softball coach last season. She became pitching coach at Arizona for the 2009 season. Amy Suiter served as interim Tech softball coach in 2009.

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Notice how quickly the local media rats jumped off the Leach Ship when it began to sink and
jumped on board the Tubville ship. That’s normal for rats though.
Ch 34 Klutzman even ran a special report about the danger of Concussions.

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Let us do the same evaluation of the class and the restrictions? Don Williams proved himself a sell out, so why must any reader do any more than that?

Horse hockey

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United Cheese Eater,

I guess we all know that the media shouldnt report about the dangers of concussions ? None of us should support the new Tech coach? I havent seen one investigative negative story regarding Leach by the “media”. Were you hoping the AJ would take his side in his suit against Tech ? Everyone is a “rat” that discloses the dangers of a head injury, supports Tech’s new coach, or isnt hoping Leach leaves here with Tech’s athletic funds ? You must not be a Red Raider fan?

Lets see what the evidence and testimonies show in the pirates suit.
Lets support our new coach.
Lets not blame the media for reporting facts.
Lets stop calling everyone that we disagree with a RAT !!

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RAPID ssaid:
“I guess we all know that the media shouldnt report about the dangers of concussions ? None of us should support the new Tech coach? I havent seen one investigative negative story regarding Leach by the “media”. Were you hoping the AJ would take his side in his suit against Tech ? Everyone is a “rat” that discloses the dangers of a head injury, supports Tech’s new coach, or isnt hoping Leach leaves here with Tech’s athletic funds ? You must not be a Red Raider fan?
Lets see what the evidence and testimonies show in the pirates suit.
Lets support our new coach.
Lets not blame the media for reporting facts.
Lets stop calling everyone that we disagree with a RAT !!”

Everyone? Reporting is to sway opinion or gain favor? Wonder why.
I’m sure he was in grave Danger.
You say facts. I say Biased. Ever heard of ESPN?
“Tech’s athletic funds” that were generated by Mike Leach. Fired 2 days before $800,000 payday.
I’m an honesty fan. Hard to find in media.

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Cheese head,

If not settled this suit will go to trial and be heard by a jury, not by ESPN. The evidence and testimony will be in a courtroom, not on a bloggers page. Reporting facts is unbiased. ESPN had no malice towards Tech or the pirate. CH 34 is not against Leach.

You are not in a position to know anything about Kid James medical condition. I doubt very much if you are a medical doctor either. Many athletes have died from brain injuries. Coaches are not doctors. Leach has said his orders for the shed were intended to be both a punishment and treatment. This alone was not the cause of him being fired.

You left out withholding support of our new coach ! I assume you have no excuse or explanation for this.

You cant mean that Leach has been the only reason for Tech’s athletic revenues, or do you ? Trust me, Tech will continue to generate funds without Leach.

And—— You change your name every time you post. This is not so honest. Me thinks U R not sincere or a Tech fan.

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I think rapid is a red neck like Gerald Meyers and a sell out like Don Williams, what do they both have in common? They are both rats. I like cheese.

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Nah, you guys have Rapid all wrong. This is just another name used by Craig James and his running dogs.

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Gerald Myers …….a real bung!

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Why did Leach permit text messaging after it was banned? So the the pirate shirt has yet another stain.

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These blogs were much more interesting before Team Leach disbanded.

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USC pays Reggie Bush like $250,000 and OJ Mayo and others…Nothing Happens! TTU sends a few messages and we lose scholarships and visits…self-imposed, but still!

Do something about the NCAA already. They will always protect the Big Boys and ram it to the schools like Tech!

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Oh, my! Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn—

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Why is this news. This is just another personal attack on Leach by Williams. Brutal that the AJ lets this slop be published. Text messaging! Not hookers, cars, or money to recruits or families but text messages. The NCAA is a joke along with our Admin.

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rapid said

“Lets not blame the media for reporting facts.”

How about , Lets give the media credit for FAILING to report the facts. Lets also give them credit for reporting
the story in such a way as to absolve Hance & the Board of Rodents of any guilt or blame for the PR disas-
ter they created.

There has been one & only one mention of this PR debacle. It was generated by Coach T-ville, immed-
iately after his hiring when he stated he hoped to get all the fans back on board.

Mighty interesting to me that the TTU community can be dismembered to this extent, & no one in the local
media deems it newsworthy. Do you reckon they’ll be doing articles next fall questioning our loyalty, “Are
the fans going to show up”? Film at 10. Will they set-up in the Mall to interview passers-by? How many TTU
football games are you accustomed to attending sir? Will you be showing up to tailgate & support the team
this year?

Stipulate that Leach is guilty as Hell.
Stipulate that Adam & Daddy Jms are guilty as Hell.
Stipulate that espn committed no wrong.

Now explain, with facts, how we are where we are.

Someones rank had out-paced their ability………….BINGO……..YOU WIN THE PRIZE!!!!

KENT HANCE IS A DUNDERHEAD!!!

Yes, ladies & gentlemen, he has out politicked, out ranked, out moneyed, out maneuvered, his way into the
job of TTU Chancellor, only to demonstrate, to the entire nation, his inability to solve complex issues discretely.

This was clearly, only a well televised PISSIN’ contest between Hance & Leach. Hance thought he won when
he convinced the Board of Rodents to terminate Leach. That Hance or the BoR lacked the foresight to under-
stand the backlash they were about to experience is infuriating. This obviously establishes his lack of suitability
for his current position. Hance has done unfathomable damage to TTU, the likes of which we will only begin to
understand next fall when football season begins. espn already has all but dropped TTU off their radar, I am
told. I refuse to watch espn therefor I am unable to corroborate.

Only one course of action remains, Kent Hance should RESIGN immediately from his post as TTU Chancellor.
We’re waiting Kent, getting a little impatient, I might add. Actions have consequences. Your clumsiness &
crudeness are evident to all, excepting your inner-circle of course. Leave your “ivory tower”, listen to the majority
Kent. We are your judge & jury & we find you guilty. Guilty of misuse of your office. Did you have a personal ven-
detta to carry out on behalf of a former board member? Don’t forget we read he e-mail. Nasty stuff.

Tick,tick, tick…..DING! YO TIME IS UP!

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Time outs and text messaging… Ohhh the disgrace that has been heaped upon our stellar administration by the likes of the scurvy dog Mike Leach.

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You won’t find a school in the nation that doesn’t do this to some extent, plus other more serious infractions. It’s all about hiding it. Many years ago Tech had an all conference LB who would get phone calls from an unidentified source giving him answers to tests.
The NCAA is a joke. It takes eons for them to complete investigations and impose sanctions. Many times the sanctions affect players who were in HS at the time of the infraction. Coaches often move on before the sanctions are determined.

If the NCAA is serious about infractions, sanctions must be levied quickly and should follow coaches who try to run from them. I don’t believe this one will cost Tech much, if anything more.

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he he, cheaters!!! yet the ttwho fan base accuses the rest of the world of being dishonest and corrupt!!

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TT remarks wrt QB situation: points to Sheff as next years QB (leader of the team, vocal, coach on field)

“I told them, ‘We have no preconceived notions. The best will play,’ ” Tuberville said. “The quarterback has to be the leader of the team. Everyone looks up to them. They have to be held a little more accountable in terms of leadership.

“I want them to be vocal and be a coach on the field. Both have a chance to do that. Competition brings championships.”

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give me a break, bush received MUCH more than a quarter million. that was just the cash part that they know of. and yes, the bluebloods are untouchable. ut, fl, usc, osu, bama etc… have so many folks on these ncaa comittees that, btw, cover ea. others blueblood butts, that they are, essentially, bullet proof. but the rest of y’all better play by the rules or not get caught. that IS college football today, unfortunately…
WRECK’EM TECH/TUBS!!!

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roid, yes, like the mess mack brown left unc. don’t hear about that before or since.
gag’em wronghorns…
WRECK’EM TECH!!!!

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MJ, you sound like an aggie i once spent a year with one week…;>)

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Ok, let’s do this again.

The treatment as reported by Adam James was not contrary or harmful to anyone who had a concussion, mild or otherwise.

Had he been put back on the field, and risked being hit in the head again, that would have been dangerous. See all available medical reports, research and advice by physicians who treat head injuries.

Also drinking alcohol at anytime just before or after the head injury is detrimental.

Last time I heard NO ONE said Coach Leach put Adam James back on the field, in danger or forced him to drink alcohol.

Those are the facts as agreed to by both sides involved.

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I guess those that desire to completely believe in “the law” might be shocked to discover that “guidelines” of what will be allowed in as evidence (on BOTH sides) can and usually is determined BEFORE the trial begins–not an “unconditional disclosure” as many might believe. Just like the many prior convictions of a man for DWI (many out of state, though) in the injury of a 2 yr old boy after the man’s F-250 rear-ended the smaller car the boy and his family were in in Arlington. Kid in a legal car seat, in the rear seat of the car, seat-belted in. The rear license plate of the car was basically where the front seat seat backs were! All prior convictions were disallowed as they were misdemeanors, by the local judge.

To me, the NCAA sometimes seems waaayyyyy behind the curve in legislating how schools can contact athletic prospects. THEY should have made texting of the recruits illegal before it became an issue–period, not afterward. Did the recruits’ cell phone text charges get reimbursed to them?????

That Myers seems to have a little knowledge about the texting issue, but not apparently any specifics, again proves how he’s delegating things HE should be keeping better tabs on OR being more personally involved–period! He admits to knowing enough about it to inquire with Tuberville about it, but is that the limit of his knowledge of the issue, as AD?????

Tuberville has a fence-mending job to do, although the people he now works for destroyed the fence. There will be some Red Raider football fans that will support the team because it’s Texas Tech, rather than who the coach is. If the coach made fantastic strides forward and upward, as Leach did, so much the better for everybody (including university coffers!!!). For the others, they have “options” and know it, and will probably exercise them in the coming season. If they like what they see, they’ll stay, but they will leave as quickly as they came, especially after the handling of the Adam James Affair resulted in their favored and winning coach being fired, not for “mistreatment of a player”, but “mistreatment of a father who was acting like a ‘little league baseball father’ rather than an adult reacting to an “adult child”. The fact that nobody, other than Leach, seemed to recognize the “Little League Parent Syndrom” also tends to indicate just how out of touch the Texas Tech Administration and Board of Regents really are!!!!!

Yep, Support Tuberville because he’s tne new coach at Texas Tech Football. That’s all we have to do to hopefully continue the winning ways of what Mike Leach brought to Texas Tech with consistency–a consistency that eludes prior coachs for decades. Mike Leach did much to elevate Texas Tech Football to the national level it suddenly found itself in when the prior SWC was disbanded–a conference that was Big In Texas, but had little prestige anywhere else, seemingly. Mike Leach got Tech “respect” that was not short-lived in the “Big Boy” Big 12 conference, as it might have been under a different or more traditional coach, back then. Possibly, the Leach Legacy will continue to be Tuberville’s stepping stone to bigger and better things, although with many new coaches and more emphasis on certain strategies he brings with him.

To me, the fact that the key coaches in Leach’s team administrations have landed in “step up” coaching positions, they’ll spread the Leach Magic to other schools with football programs that are in need of building toward greater levels of greatness. Plus, it also indicates the many positives of what Mike Leach did FOR and at Texas Tech, although ONE IRATE “Little League Baseball Father” had issues with his own son’s “time in the limelight”–a father that obviously didn’t get any satisfaction with the Adults on the Tech Football Staff, so he went over their heads to a member of the Tech Board of Regents before somebody would listen to him . . . and act . . . at the perceived threat of a lawsuit if they did not do “something” to investigate the situation that suddenly went from an ant mound to the Rocky Mountains in size. Rather than stand behind an employee, the Tech Regents and Administration chose the wrong person to believe, although an IMPARTIAL inquiry would have been necessary to comply with the request.

Instead of an “impartial inquiry”, things went just the other way. The “complainer” got the benefit of the doubt, if there might have been one, as the inquiry was obviously greatly mis-handled by Tech’s operatives and administrators. Suddenly, the Tech Employee was “the bad guy” when that was not completely the case as it seems that an underperforming player might have been having issues with trying to admit that he didn’t like college-level sports (as his father was trying to make him like, after his father might well have motivated his son to greatness while he was in high school, at home, where he had control of what his son did or thought about) . . . which might well have fueled the son’s reported mediocre performance in Tech sports. Some kids and parents seem to forget that, although you might have been a “big cheese” in high school sports, when you get to the university level, there will be others that are more motivated and more capable of besting your prior best performances as “the slate is wiped clean” regarding past accomplishments and things start anew.

And then there were the University employees that suddenly started jockeying for position as they saw Leach’s ship being fired at. THAT proves their lack of professionalism and that they might need to wipe something from the outside of their noses. Trying to save their job, look good in the eyes of the Tech administration as “expert witnesses” with corroborating evidence, or whatever? Not to leave out the role in the AJ in its’ “reporting” role of the whole thing, either!

Certainly, we need to follow the lead of Ruffin and others who have moved onward and forward to greater things in their careers and life. We might not like the manner in which that happened . . . and WHY . . . but it’s happened for them and also for the schools they now work for–a better placed to be. We can’t change history. Leach will most probably not be back at Tech as football coach anytime soon–nothing we can do about it now–but we CAN thank him for what he did, remember his legacy and his contribution to Texas Tech Football History as NO Texas Tech Administrator or operative can change that history.

Still, the actions of Texas Tech administrators have been completely “wrong” in orientation, action, and content. Similar for the Board of Regents who might have been involved in the situation. For these indiscretions, their job performance can’t be deemed acceptable . . . “You’re Fired!” These operatives can possibly save face by openly supporting Kay Bailey H. or Medina for Texas Governor, though.

Regards,
MB74

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Tech should have received the death penalty in the mid 1990’s for infractions in 11 different sports.

Laugh at SMU if you will but Tech got very lucky in 1996.

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MB74,
You get an A in my books!

A long time ago I was wrongly accused of something. I received some paper work in the mail…took it down to a local attorney handed it to him and within about 5 minutes he said to me: “I don’t want to hear your end of the story now, I may at some point, but I think we got ‘em”

A long story short…Back and forth for about 6 months among attorneys my attorney posted a dramatic victory for me and to this day has never heard my end of the story. Sometimes what really happened really doesn’t even come into play during legal matters.

By the way, one of my attorneys during the matter is now a highly visible figure in Washington, but please don’t hold that against me.

I’m just an Old Feller, but I still care about what is going on.

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piratesRCowards,

Tech was given a near death penalty…They lost scholarships in basketball, baseball, and football. LOTS of scholarships and restrictions. I think it was up to 8 scholarships in football in the first year and tapering off over 4-5yrs each year after. That is pretty hefty. The football programs penalties were in affect up until 2003. The fact Leach was successful after inheriting the Tech penalties is just another testament of his abilities to do more with less. I think if you asked 50 people about those violations, you may be lucky to find a single one that knew they existed.

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I did not remember that! Thanks! They made a Big deal that Tommy was able to do such a good job while under sanctions at Ole Miss, but I think his record was only 25-20 and it appears Leach did much better here under similar conditions.

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we found a good reason to dump leach?? This looks like a GREAT REASON TO DUMP MYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jason55

A-J’s not letting us post…

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I hope everyone that has sense will remember the media coverage of all of this fiasco, it is one thing to report the news it is another to be biased, Espn, even with their admmision after the fact was biased in their coverage, channell 34, fox talk, Jeff Klotzman and his buddy, and the AJ and some of their articles, Kcbd in the only professionals around here, I dont like Tuberville shoved down my throat, maybe hes a good coach and maybe hes not we willl have to wait and see first,I dont like the idea of a cancer still on the team, I willl hold my judgement of Tuberville in the mean time, but I wont forget the Media coverage. it has ben biased .

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Fantastic post, MB 74, makes alot of sense to people that care.

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NCAA stinks. College players should:
1. receive a monthly $ stipend
2. be given full time credit for 9 hours per semester and 3 hours per summer session
3. be given credit for correspondence/on-line courses
4. be allowed to use specified amounts of performance enhancing substances under a doctor’s supervision
5. be allowed to communicate with whoever and however much they want.

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Stand by………….seems to be more to this story than reported!

Let’s wait and see when the real infractions surface, remember Leach does not like authority!

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Asked whether the pending case played a role in the decision to hire Tuberville rather than retain the majority of last year’s staff, Myers said, “No, because I didn’t even know (an estimated 10 football coaches) were involved until you mentioned it.”

We were under self-imposed NCAA sanctions and he didnt know who was responsible for it?!?!?!

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awww are the little teamleachers mad because the true side of who Leach really is keeps coming out? I have a question, do any of you losers actually know somebody that played under him? Thats what I thought, you dont, and you have no cluse as to everything that has ever gone on up there, and I am not just talking about the James gang fiasco, I cant wait until the end of January to get this over with, although I am sure all 5 of you are still going to be crying about it

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Jason55

A-J’s not letting us post…

That’s really too bad watchdog…… Team Leachers provided a lot of comic relief….

Too bad Team Leach disbanded before the next really big rally…. of maybe 200 people, most of which would be there waiting for goodies to be passed out……I think the Facebook Team Leachers have also gone away.

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Myers didnt know? surprise, surprise, and we have a losing womens basketball team and a mens coach who cusses out players because he cant coach, Myers know about that, he knows about the e- mais from Sowell, I would bet or railroad a coach. He knows about a coach that was supposed to sign his contract 3 weeks ago?

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PiratesrLosers said: -February 6th, 2010 at 12:17 pm

awww are the little teamleachers mad because the true side of who Leach really is keeps coming out? I have a question, do any of you losers actually know somebody that played under him? Thats what I thought, you dont, and you have no cluse as to everything that has ever gone on up there, and I am not just talking about the James gang fiasco, I cant wait until the end of January to get this over with, although I am sure all 5 of you are still going to be crying about it

Hey genius……..we are already past “the end of Janaury” as was your thread.

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jASON, A VIETNAM VET WANNA BE AND DINKY DOU,

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Reality,

They are in school to receive an education. They are not paid professionals so the locals can have something to do on Saturday.

Tech Alum

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We are using these young men to make money for the schools and coaches. They deserve to be paid. Don’t tell me they get a scholarship. That is pennies in comparison to what they are bringing in. besides today there are thousands of students walking around the campuses with “free” educations and they are not expected to practice and compete for an athletic team 40 plus hours a week. Pay them and reform this mess and get rid of the NCAA. The NCAA is corrupt.

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Just look at the reason that Tommy left Auburn and why no one would hire him in the Southeast. Seem like he had the same problem with the ad,dean and some alumi that going on with Leach now

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NCAA is a joke. The above post about USC is right on the money. As for ESPN and biased reporting, even their own ombudsman did an article on espn.com about how the reporting was in deed biased. It is still up on the site.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=ohlmeyer_don&id=4844048

Pretty interesting story.

As for these violations, they would just be a complement to a great coach, like Lane Kiffin for example. Of course, he also just recruited a 13 year old quarterback to play in 2015.

Seriously, I am glad to see the compliance department actually doing their job. Everyone should know by now, cell phone records will bite you in the buttocks if you are doing things you shouldn’t be.

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The question remains, why was Adam given a scholarship and why was he still on the team after breking a door and cussing out the coaches,? WHY did TT come here to Tech for a lot less money and under this cloud, why did he leave Auburn? The circumstances that we know of, boosters and etc, are the same where he came from, why go into the same scenario? Lots more than meets the eye, and the same place the e- mails came from maybe there is more evidence?

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to all the team leach haters: get a life, for once do the right thing and support the pierat!!!

this is a red herring from the tummy tupperware supporters…one time leach kook aid drinkers..

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So many of you want to fire Kent Hance because he fired a football coach. That’s such a tiny part of what he is supposed to be responsible for in his position as chancellor. I’m sure he would have much rather left the decision on Mike Leach to Gerald Myers, but knew Myers didn’t have the clout to make a decision like that (as the contract negotiations from last year indicated). The bottom line is that he is responsible for bringing in money for Texas Tech, either public grants or private research dollars.

If he brings in the dollars, he should stay. If he doesn’t, find someone who can. That’s what he should be judged on; not whether he fairly or unfairly fired a football coach who’s job it was to keep us entertained.

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Judge- If Myers is incapable of handling certain functions of his position, Why is he still in it?
And you feel if Hance brings in the money no matter what he should remain?
How about corruption, Judge?

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Pa Bear said:

NCAA is a joke

The most accurate start to any post!

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Bottom line who at TTU has over site and is in charge of making sure we follow the NCAA rules. They did not do their job.

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Cheaters. Hey future recruits consider Texas instead. We have more class there.

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Yea, Go to Texas where they have a 42% rate of graduating their players compared to 79% for Texas Tech. You are Meat on the Hoof @ Texas and treated like a person at Tech.

Enough Said

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CHEATERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GIG ‘EM

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Can’t wait til next fall to kick your cheating a$$ AGAIN… Hook’em

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Further proof that Myers needs to resign, looks like he isnt on top of things and hasnt been, further embarrasment for Tech..

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Hey 12th man you can gig Longhorn’s fan #1

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Looks like somebody not doing there job and getting paid well for it..

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Lets be honest, most likely the only way to recruit players to Tech is to cheat…

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Wonder if this is why TT did not keep more of the coaching staff.

On the Texas Tech Athletic site there is a whole list of staff ( I think 6) whose job is to assist in keeping TTU in compliance with the NCAA. A lot is geared to the student athlete. The question is who is supposed to helping and watching the Coaches.

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http://www.texastech.com/compliance/text-compliance.html

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………and you people wonder why you can’t play with Texas and Oklahoma………

I hate to be the one to tell you…… you never will be able to play with them…………

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I think Tech makes a better effort to stay in compliance then most places. It is almost impossible not to be doing something wrong. When you receive an athletic scholarship from an NCAA school it is like signing your life away into the hands of others for 4-5 years. Coaches, Schools, and the NCAA make tons of money from athletics and use the athletes. Investigate the NCAA!

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Very smart release of info by Tech! This will save Tech big money!

Leach and his attorneys can’t be happy! We will see a settlement quickly and NOT for what Leach anticipated.

The hint of violations under the Leach regime will be cost him money and force him to settle for less. I’m sure there are numerous skeletons in the Leach closet, just not those of his stupid Pirates!

Stand by, this is just the start!

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What? Brillant move By Tech to save money in the Leach case?

Give Me a Break

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Mike Leach is a lawyer………no way his coaches did something against the rules…….Leach is so smart !!

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more spin to save face in the Leach case. biased media.Just like the front page Sunday paper about concusions , never seen that before on a front page Sunday paper and then the Klotz follows up on it, what a bunch of b.s.

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HOOK ‘EM HORNS! leech and his loser followers lifetime 2-8 vs. UT!

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Kent Hance embarrassed me when he talked on national t.v. with that hideous accent. C’mon dude, I am from Texas (panhandle) and I have a basic comprehension of English annunciation. Guess I will start telling folks I am from CO or NM.

He also is a man of very questionable character. e.g.– Nuclear Waste, USDA money he did not do anything to earn, Failed Politician.

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BTW how obvious is their damage control?

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Personally I like Tuberville. If you want to look at the biggest problem he had at Auburn, look at Nov 24, 2008. When you lose to Alabama 36-0, you get fired from Auburn. This wasn’t againt the National Champ team either. But he was trying to implement a spread style offense (similar to Leach’s) during a year they had injury issues and also had just lost a few players to the NFL. Still, losing 0-36 against Alabama would’ve have resulted in Pat Dye getting fired years earlier.

As for the James/Leach issue … I always feel sorry for those who want to report on the dangers of concussions and look at the James/Leach incident as proof that coaches don’t have a clue. A US congressman (John Conyers, D-Mich) wanted the incident ivestigated and said the proper thing to do is send a player for medical evaluation or to a hospital. Many agree.

The problem is they think, based on the reporting, that Adam James suffered the concussion in the same practice he was punished as opposed to two (or three depending on which story) days earlier. For minor concussions, players are still expected to show up in team attire and do light work. James showed up in street clothes and sunglasses and complained about having to WALK around the track. But if you take the facts mixed with the way the congressman from Michigan wants things done, any player receiving any level of concussion should be hospitalized for days.

Frankly the whole phone video posted on youtube smacks of an attempt to go after Leach. Whether or not Craig James was in on it and encouraged Adam to do just that, I won’t speculate.

It will be interesting to hear what comes out of the trial. It probably would have been easier for Tech to just pay Leach and move on. This trial will likely cost them recruits, money (lawyers and court fees), near term success, and bowl money for years to come. Given the e-mail trail from last year where members of the Board of Regents all but said they’d find a reason to fire Leach before the $800K was due, Tech may still have to pay him … and lose a lot of face on top of that.

As for the texting issue … read up on it. It’s not that Tech contacted these players outside of allowed contact periods. Texting was banned by the NCAA b/c highschool athletes were complaining about the text fees. It’s that refusal to see the gray areas that defines the NCAA. Frankly a lot of student athletes have unlimited texting and may prefer to be contacted that way. No player complained about these text messages. It was found out when the school reviewed phone records. However, the NCAA – in their infinite wisdom – do not allow for players to specify that they’d prefer receiving text messages. Most teenagers these days will respond to a text message much faster than a voice mail (which is still legal) or an e-mail. That’s a fact of life in this day and age.

So if you want to believe TT coaches are cheaters based on this ridiculous infraction and that they should face stiffer punishment, then the SMU football program should still be under the death penalty that was imposed for actions that occurred when Craig James was playing there.

Move on. If you’re a Tech fan, support Tuberville. He’s the teams coach and the team is more the face of the school than the chancellor. He wasn’t hired in order to fire Leach, he was hired because Leach was already fired. That was never going to be undone.

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Kent Hance blew this thing up. There was no reason to do it except to find a way to fire Leach. “All (Leach) had to do was sign a letter of apology…” said Hance. That right there proves he was a dunderhead. He wanted Leach to a.) apologize for something he didn’t do; b.) put it in writing; c.) leave himself AND the University open for liable by doing so. I believe that Hance & Meyers need to go. They are an embarrasment. I don’t think Leach was a saint, but I do believe that, as a lawyer, he would not purposely put himself in a position to be sued. The idiotic way this whole thing was handled is a testament to Meyers’ incompitency & Hance’s stupidity. As for reporting on the NCAA violations…. it really would have been nice to see the same effort to report what really happened that fateful day in December. Its hard to believe that Don Williams is CYA-ing for Hance & Meyers, but it sure looks that way!

As for supporting the Red Raiders…. well, I for one find it very hard to get excited by the present situation. At one time there looked to be a small modicum of respect for TTU starting to blossom around the nation. Now, thanks to Hance, Meyers, Adam & Craig James, and ESPN we are the laughing stock. Its hard to root for the laughing stock. If Tuberville does any good, it will be because Leach left him the core of a great team. It will be years before we can get over this. Sad. Very sad.

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So I just read Hance’s “thumbnail scketch” of the incident. Are you kidding me?? Hance really thinks they did “all they could do”??? This is one classic case of wrong end of the horse doing the thinking!! I’m sorry that you were “cussed out” Mr. Hance, but I can imagine that most of the things Leach said about you were true. As far as I can see with your story, its seems as if you don’t even know half the things I KNOW about the incident!!! Not even HALF Mr. Hance!!!!!! How can you say that you really did all you could do??????

Don I have to say that your story is at best ill-timed if not totally unnessicary!

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PeeJay said

“They are in school to receive an education. They are not paid professionals so the locals can have something to do on Saturday.”

You don’t really believe that.
Again your government employee elitism shows by referring to the people of Lubbock, who pay your fat ass, as “the locals”.

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RAPID said:
“Reporting facts is unbiased. ESPN had no malice towards Tech or the pirate. CH 34 is not against Leach.”

First : ESPN was totally biased against Leach.
Second: It’s obvious that local media and business are dependent on Texas Tech.
Therefore the local media will not bite the hand that feeds them. They will cower and bow to the powers that be.
Business as usual. That’s why they are not believed or respected. They sell out to whomever is in power at the time
and have little interest in finding the truth.
They’s Jest Gud Ol Boys!

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wtf, please say you’re from new mexico. the word is enunciation. as for your sentence structure, it leads one to believe you’re from somewhere west of portales.

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One of the 1st signs of FEAR,

Attack the messenger for small mundane mistakes.

Question is , what are these rabid obnoxious attack dogs afraid of?

May have been reared by an unkind abusive master.

At the rate commenters are falling away from this site,

these fools will soon be posting under multiple names,

arguing BOTH sides. Now that IS desperate for attention.

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

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http://www.texastech.com/tickets/football-tkts.html

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KENT HANCE IS A SNAKE IN THE GRASS & ALWAYS HAS BEEN!!!…….RESIGN TODAY KENT

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