WTF this has got to be a bad joke right?

Curious who this player is. Hopefully this is just a silly claim that goes away quietly

leach must of pissed somebody off, ie president, chancellor or board member…

not good. I forsee a resignation.

this is football not patty cake.

ESPN should not allow him to be the analyst on the Alamo Bowl

You don’t suspend a coach unless you have a REALLY good reason to do it. This is not good at all. Could care less about the bowl game, but recruiting will be an issue (potentially). Other coaches will use this starting…now…

Just taking advantage of their position and going on a witchhunt. I pray this is nothing to worry about. I like Leach and don’t see him as the type to be overly authoritarian.

Myers must be loaded on something. I don’t see Leach leaving, but what the hell is going on?

Paraphrasing the announcer of the Independence Bowl (not Ron Franklin but the other guy) after the announced Leach suspension, “If that’s true, I’d be surprised if Leach is the coach at Texas Tech next year”.

“…and if this allegation is true, you should be surprised to see Leach coaching at Texas Tech next year.”

This makes absolutely no since. You know how college kids are. There is no way in hell that Leach mistreated this kid to the degree that his “medical condition” was worse than it used to be.

Here’s what I think happened…

Adam’s dad is a hotshot ESPN announcer. He probably thinks that because his bigshot dad is proud of him that he can do whatever he wants. Everyone knows one of these kids. He wears shades to practice and Leach tells him to take them off. James had a concussion early in the year. This seems to have happened recently. Anyway, James mockingly states that “I have a medical condition, my doctor said I should wear them.” Leach has no tolerance for this immaturity and makes him walk the track during practice, like the kids who acted up in elementary PE class. James puffs up and acts even more immature, so Leach tells him to make a fort out of the equipment boxes. James gets pissed off since Leach humiliates him for being an immature prick and tells his dad. Craig is in the media, so he twists the story to make it seems like an unfortunate story about a young lad in college with an unfortunate medical condition being bullied by big bad Captain Leach.

Effing ridiculous. If this crap, among other stupid crap (I’m talking to you, Gerald Myers) causes Leach to leave Tech, I will personally have a vendetta against our illogical and unreasonable athletic director. In fact, I refuse to call Gerald Myers the athletic director. He’s more of a talking head who somehow found himself in the position he’s in right now.

Just our luck. Right as we were about to turn the corner, Myers picks us up and throws us off a cliff.

Wouldn’t expect Tech to take such a drastic step without some solid proof of the allegations. If there is ANY truth to the information quoted above, I can see the administration moving quickly to manage the situation. We all feel frustrated and upset over this, but let’s not be hasty until more is known.

Yikes. What crappy timing for Mike ‘Mangino’ Leach.

We can’t afford to buy Captain out. But I would personally chip in to get rid of meyers

Whoever started this will be on my blacklist for a while. I can’t imagine a player complaining about such things anyhow. He must really be a pw’d kid…. oh yea, his dad is pw’d. I wondered why he was kind of negative during Tech’s last game he called. Funny that he and his diaper wearing kid waited until one week before the bowl game to make this accusation. So much for thinking positive about him even though he never showed much while at Tech. If he had a concussion, I do hope he has recovered, but this is beyond reason. Take it like a man. Jeesh! As mentioned by some others, I hope our recruits do not decide to bail because of these rumors. If Leach is cleared, the Tech big whigs had better crawl on their knees and beg forgiveness for dragging Leach, the school and all the players through this. If true, Leach needs to do the same. But, he should never have been suspended until a thorough investigation is completed. I really don’t see this keeping the team from winning the bowl game, though. Just the opposite. I expect them to come out angry and demolish MSU.

I am soo tired of reading about the adults on campus acting, allegedly (hat tip to Seth), like drunk frat boys. And we wonder why people don’t take us seriously…we can’t stay out of the headlines for stuff that is 10th grade. Ugh…

How could this thing possibly have a good ending? It’s either very serious, warranting a bowl game suspension, or it’s nothing, and Leach has been humiliated and embarrassed, nationally. Football program vs. administration. No winners.

It sounds like James had a diagnosed concussion and Leach thought he was faking it. What an arrogant fool Leach has a propensity to be. Even if this is much ado about nothing, he still thumbs his nose.

Don Williams is reporting in the AJ that Leach doesn’t dispute the facts. He was given until the weekend to apologize to the James family but he refused, so they felt they had no choice but to take action. How can a guy be so stupid??

I hope all of this is greatly exaggerated. But it sounds like Leach will be gone soon.

Is there anyway Ruffin can coach the team well at the Alamo Bowl and become head coach if Leach leaves?

Apparently the James family. He should transfer to ut with all his kind

Am I having a nightmare? If Meyers tries to run Leach then they’ve seen the last of my RRC money!

The family released a statement Monday explaining why they filed the complaint but refusing to speculate or provide additional information out of respect for the investigation.

“Mr. and Mrs. James took the step with great regret and after consideration and prayer to convey to the Texas Tech administration that their son had been subjected to actions and treatment not consistent with common sense rules for safety and health,” the statement read.

can be an arrogant fool, but this is ridiculous. It makes no sense. There has to be more to this. Can’t they just realize that the kid acted up and was put in timeout? Even if a kid is put in a closet for 3 hours that doesn’t warrant firing Leach, especially after all he’s done for the program and university. Gerald Myers is an even bigger fool, but we already knew that.

An attorney for Leach said that while James was secluded twice, the circumstances were not as portrayed in that account.

Read more here

And survive if we lose a few recruits…..sorry kid that your dad was something and you are not. No trophy for you, no special treatment.

Give me a f***ing break.

Gotta stay positive, even though it’s tough.

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And this will not be sorted out over night… So we are looking at probably post super bowl resolution at that as this gets dragged around in media talk shows etc…

All of this is absolute horseshit. FUCK MYERS!

Looks like we better kiss Scotty Young, Kadron Boone, Shawn Corker, and all those other badasses goodbye.

http://www.redraiders.com/2009/12/28/leach-suspended/

A source told the A-J Leach did not dispute the facts, brought to the university’s attention by the player and his parent.

Leach had until Monday to write an apology and when he did not, the university felt it had to take action.

"This was not taken lightly," the source said, adding that Leach did not show any signs of remorse or did not say he wouldn’t do it again.
The player suffered a concussion at practice on Dec. 16 and Leach thought the player was faking.

I see this playing out as a take no prisoners scenario. I don’t think Leach or Myers or Craig James is going to settle this quietly.

for me and my support of Tech athletics. It starts and comes full circle with Myers but Leach isn’t Bear Bryant. Come back down to earth and exercise a slight amount of decency and convince me that you belong at Tech. It’s something each and every freakin’ off season and it’s WAY past old. Furthermore, he should be smart enough to know that putting the son of an ESPN analyst in a closet could easily come back and bite him in the arse. Send his sissy ass home, but don’t put in in a closet under guard. It’s always something.

His atty isn’t going to push for a retraction of the suspension if there is something more serious here, especially given that Leach didn’t see the need to apologize as well. I see a principle here that Leach feels he needs to stand by. This kid was being disciplined and his behavior was probably much more than initially reported. It appears to me that
the admin pushed the button here way to fast
and Leach is fighting this all the way. The admin could have taken a “stand by the coach” position and do an internal investigation until they were satisfied, allowing Leach to coach. Something more is going on here. Or should I say wrong.

How in the hell can you make this kind of accusation and not have substantial evidence? What happened to “innocent until proven guilty”? Why in the flying f*** would they do this before a bowl game and not have some sort of internal investigation?

That the administration at Tech has taken this action NOW! The coach-player thing should stay on the field. Nobody was hurt by whatever was done, but the administration has taken it upon themselves to destroy any progress made by football program, maybe even all programs at Tech, over the last 10 years. All this because the son of an ESPN announcer was “mistreated”. Oh, boo hoo. Leach has done some odd things, but even this can’t be construed as bad. He was helping the guy stay out of the light to protect his eyes. But the guy cried to daddy that he was made to stay in a dark room….without any lights on…to protect his eyes…a—-l——o—-n—-e….Ooohhhh, booooo hooooo………… All I can say is regardless of the outcome, I hope he transfers somewhere else, preferably SMU…they really love his dad there. Leach? He will land on his feet and make the team even stronger, despite our really stupid administrators and board members. How DUMB can they be? And this is happening above Myers’ head, believe me.

Even though people are innocent until proven guilty it’s fairly common in the HR world to suspend someone pending investigation. It’s a way of allowing time to gather all relevant info and interview the parties involved. All that said…I have a bad feeling about this. I don’t want to lose Leach but life will go on either way. I just hate that it happened when recruiting was starting to improve dramatially.

On a brighter note, tamu is getting manhandled.

Who wants to start an Irish rugby SB Nation blog with me? We can cover the national team and club levels, all while promoting a fantastic sport at the same time.

Seeing the news about the apology demand clears up a lot for me. Leach is obviously not going to “comply” with anything Myers demands him to do.

That much is clear from him wanting full control of football operations back during the offseason last year.

Seems to me that Myers and most involved probably already know this. He is too prideful to write a freaking apology letter, especially when he doesn’t think he did anything wrong.

Myers is a dumbass if he thought a letter was being drafted by coach Leach at any point. If they wanted to resolve and keep it from suspension, then they should have gotten the James family in a meeting with coach Leach and Myers in the same room and has this shit out. Could have avoided all of this.

Who will win??!?!?!?!?

MSU’s team, riddled with suspensions…
TTU without their head coach due to a suspension…

i think the half time shows should involve the bands performing on suspension bridges or something punny…

are starting to get outta hand now, lol

This is fun . . . right?

Why can’t our AD and University heads act in the best interest of our University. Suspending your head coach before a bowl is bad publicity for our University. Ladies and Gentlemen I was in school when Jerry Moore was coach and I tell you going to games with Leach at the helm has been very enjoyable. I wish our Administration would reach down between their legs and get a hand full of hair and pull their a**es. Best of luck to Mike and his family at this time.

FAT LITTLE AD’S & FAT LITTLE MOMMAS!!!

If Leach gets booted for this, BRING iN FRANCHIONE!!!!!!!!!

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls09/news/story?id=4776848

This is the same board that was going to walk on Leach during contract negotiations until cool head Hance stepped in and made the “deal of the decade” for Tech. This is also the same board that had issues with another rebel named Knight. These guys need to quit “rubber stamping” an athletic head who will not put his ego away. At least these 2 coaches have put thrs on the line for these kids and this university time and again.

To all the fathers out there – who hasn’t had a kid sick who regardless had to be disciplined for bad behavior. Just because he’s sick/injured doesn’t excuse him from consequences if he was behaving badly. As a father or leader or whatever your authoritative role you are put in positions to discern these things all the time. At minimum Leach should have been given the benefit of the doubt by the LEADERS of our school UNTIL the investigation was sorted out and completed. This smacks of petty ego and jealosy from old timers that can’t stomack a popular and eccentric leader they are not.

I just read the James’ statement and it seems that are concerned about safety issues with concussions. I understand that, but Adam was in a dark room and isolated. What real danger was there in that related to a concussion? Now if Leach had made him practice then it would be real bad, but it appears that this really is a discipline issue. Don’t forget Leach has done similar discipline before…..Britton having to do his Class/homework in a desk on the sidelines during practice and a snow storm! It all seems like a power struggle to me. Can Leach be arrogant and stubbon? Yes but if Myers was the one who wanted him to apologize then I understand why he didn’t. It is time for Myers to go, eventhough I’m a Myers BB supporter! WreckEm Tech

What could end up being the death knell is the court of public opinion. Listening to ESPN tonight, they are coming down on the dark side of this (possible firing). ADs and President’s are business people. If this thing steamrolls a bit, they may feel they have no choice but to let him go to save face. Then the lawyers get to work and try and find “cause” so the buyout is null.

For the record…I am NOT anti-Leach. I love what he’s done for the program on the field. I AM anti-Leach antics that continue to paint my university in a bad light. For several years we dealt with his flirtation with other jobs. This year we had the incident with Twitter, then we had his fat girlfriend comments, and now this. It’s his off the field stuff that drives me nuts more than anything.

I hope this all blows over very quietly, but it doesn’t look like it will what with a crawl across the screen every two minutes.

has happened or what will happen but for now it’s all speculation. In the morning things will be much clearer after all the lawyers and media have their say. For now I would suggest everybody filter information carefully. As we all know Leach looks bad for now mainly because the James family has ESPN on their side. I seriously doubt that things are as bad as they sound at this point and I do believe Mike Leach will be the coach at Texas Tech in the fall. Last season it was about contracts now it’s player related issues. I just want a bowl season without the drama for now. We’ll all know soon enough how this this thing unfolds.

with some subjective and rambling thoughts on the entire situation or just go to the front page.

But this screams 20 something, I grew up getting a trophy for everything. If his last name wasn’t James, the headline would be: Tech’s 12th best receiver in Leach’s doghouse. If you have migraines, are you not suppose to go to a cold, dark place? Is there a correlation to concussions? The fact leach wouldn’t apologize does NOT make me angry…regardless of consequences. You can nor back him into a corner if he believes he’s right.
My “fire Gerald meyers” campaign started before the Internet was created by AlGore many years ago.