Texas Tech Tuesday Morning Notes - He's Going To Be Back Edition

rumor: Mike Leach’s current contract hang-up is over the contract prices for his assistants.

I have been thinking that as much as we love Capt. Leach, and as much as I want him to stay and I think he will stay, is it possible that his persona has really become a detrament to other possible coaching jobs? Is he type cast now as the “mad scientist” and that his “interesting” behavior really only plays at a place like Tech? Don’t get me wrong, it seems that maybe afte all this stringing along we get to keep him and that in the future( at least the next 5 or so yrs.) we will not have to go thru all this “stuff”. Anyway, Capt. please sign the contract and let’s get on with this great recruiting class and beating Ole Miss so that we can finish in the top 5 of the BSC!!!!
Wreck’em Tech Keep Leach

….since before the season began.
The unfortunate thing about going through the process this way is that it just continues to degrade the relationship between Leach and Myers. And puts too much uncertainty around our ability to get to that ever elusive “tipping point”….

…he is still under contract and this is only an extension. He probably doesn’t feel a sense of urgency in getting it signed nor see it as a show stopper if he decides to leave after next season.

Whatever happens, I am quite sure that many Tech fans will never look at Leach the same after this. I personally lost a lot of respect for him – not that I originally had a ton to begin with – over his flirtations this year. He’s done it in the past, but this season he was open and brazen about it. Clearly, it was in relation to his contract extension negotiation, but I still don’t like it and won’t shed many tears if/when he leaves.

I put too much time and too much money into the university to be treated like that. Meyers didn’t win my affection with his delay of the offer; but he did make a VERY fair offer.

I take nothing away from Leach’s ability as a coach. He’s proven he’s good. But he’s also proven to be someone who isn’t afraid to show reckless disdain for his employer. Not a great character trait in my book, regardless of who you are or the strategy behind it.

It is very interesting how Leach handles his schedule. As we learned from Don Williams this is the 6th yr in a row Leach has been awol after our last reg. game. He has apparently allowed his coaches to continue to recruit like gang busters. I guess I had a good feeling about Leach staying when I realized that the coaches were out following our recruits and on to new ones. They had to be telling the recruits Leach was staying and to disregard any word otherwise. But, it still seems odd even if he has done it in the past, for Leach to just fly under the radar for about 10 days. Anyway, I hope this all gets done this week and we can move on to beating Ole Miss! Wreck’em Tech Keep Leach

Like it or not……..everybody hates the business side of football…and college football is BIG business. It is the ugly underbelly of the sport. We just need to accept it, hard as that is. The coaching issue will work out and all will be well in Raiderland. I don’t see any reason to believe that Captain Leach will not be back.

Besides, for those of us that were here in 1986, how could ANYTHING…. and I mean ANYTHING be worse than the David McWilliams coaching debacle. Up until the past two weeks (BCS and Heisman snubs) nothing has EVER made made me madder about college football (ut in particular). I’d bettter stop now because I can feel the blood pressure increasing and a rant is not far off……so………That’s all I have to say about that .