Mike Leach Statement and Farewell

I’ll be screaming loudest for you when you finally win the national championship trophy elsewhere.

also a link to Leach reading his statement on Fox 26

I’ll root for him wherever he goes and I’ll tune in to every press conference I can… I miss his crazy quotes already…

Go get them Captain!

There is a video of Leaching reading this statement…they said it was on everythinglubbock.com but I don’t see it. They played part of it on abc kamc28 Lubbock.

I wish him the best and I do believe he was railroaded by the administration after last years contract dispute. He was in the cross hairs the whole time. Hance being the politician knows what to say to the media and ESPN being on the side of James will make Mike out to be the villin. I hope coach Leach moves on and wins a NC somewhere. I have no doubt he will be a huge hire for an educated administration at a school with a will to win. I’m not sure how we are all supposed to stay motivated about our football teams future but lets just hope better days can be a possibility.

We fans all offer our thanks to Mike Leach for bringing Texas Tech football into the limelight. However, due to the unbelievably stupid, hateful and spiteful Texas Tech administrators, athletic director, chancellor, president and board of regents, the name and reputation of Texas Tech just took the biggest hit since SMU’s death. The sad part is that Craig James was at the center of both calamities. I will continue to care about the athletic teams and individuals at Tech, but will never, ever care for the peolple that are running this institution into the ground. They have set themselves up to take a huge fall from the top and if that happens the infrastructure of the college will suffer greatly. Should any or all lose their jobs, positions or affiliations at Texas Tech, they will have surely earned that. If they survive, the school will never again be able to say it is worthy of Tier-I status, as they have performed the most dehumanizing operation I have ever witnessed concerning school administrators. So sad to see Texas Tech return to the mediocrity it is bound to go.

and everyone else I cared about.
Hance and everyone else at Tech looks like anuses.
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That’s what frustrates me the most living SEC land! At least we had 16 years of bowl eligibility and 10 straight bowls and now the Admin. blew it all up. That’s what is so bad!!!! 6-6 is going to look real good I’m afraid.

our grandkids about when tech football was relevant….didn’t want to die before the BCS happened

wait we have one more bowl game to play.

Good Luck in the future Coach Leach

Something occurred to me this evening while fuming over the fact that all we’ve been getting so far from the media is a steady diet of the Craig “I’m just a poor victim” James version of events and those of the admins who are clearly circling their wagons by attacking Leach both personally and professionally.

Do we really know anything about this supposed concussion? It wasn’t reported until 2 1/2 weeks after the last game, so do we assume it happened in practice? Is it just a coincidence that it came on the heels of repeated punishments for dogging it during practice? I’m no doctor, but I was diagnosed once with a mild concussion sustained playing ball as a teenager. All of the objective tests the doctors gave me were negative but the diagnosis was made purely on subjective symptoms I reported (headache, dizziness, etc). In other words, I could have been lying about the whole affair.

I’m assuming that any football player today could name the unverifiable symptoms of concussion. In today’s atmosphere of super-sensitivity to head injury, any doctor hearing those symptoms would make the same diagnosis, even if it were just to err on the side of caution (and malpractice protection against a father everyone in the country knows will cheat).

I don’t have any evidence that Junior James made the whole thing up, but somewhere along the line my bullshit detector started going off. Blame it on 30 years of listening to whiny criminals make up excuses for their behavior. Funny how an entire country full of investigative reporters has swallowed the whole hook, line, and sinker.

CJames again claims he is only looking out for his son’s health but can we all agree that nothing Leach did hurt him in relation to the supposed concussion. It is Leach being Leach on the “shed” but where is the harm? So CJames just doesn’t pass the smell test!!!!!

and it smelled like shit.

Coach Leach, it has been an absolute pleasure to watch you transform the BIg 12 and Texas Tech football. I appreciate you commitment to the game, your intellect, and your quick wit.
I believe the thing I am most proud of with regards to you is that you are principled and will not kiss the ass of the elites. A true pirate, a blue collar, take a kid and make him a man kind of guy.
Thank you for your attempts to instill some of these same traits in kids you have coached and probably most of all thank you for your record setting graduation rate. Hopefully the young men you helped get an education and degree are a few of those I will not have to sponsor on some government handout plan.
You are entertaining as hell. Don’t ever change.

The Challenger explosion…the Berlin Wall’s fall…9/11…and now this. We will all remember where we were and what we were doing when we got word Leach was fired. It’s that big a deal to Tech fans.

Easier said than done. His agents are in Minnesota and his lawyer is “no longer with Smith & Liggett” according to the receptionsit (don’t believe her).

I am a Tiger through and through. I bleed black and gold.

But I also bleed a little red as well, or at least, I have since Mike Leach made his way to Lubbock in 2000.

I’m an offense guy, and I fell in love with Mike Leach’s style and system. The baiting of TAMU. The whole pirate thing.

He gave you guys an identity. He made your program national.

And your ineffectual AD and some good ol’ boy boosters have ripped your identity from you.

The timing is odd and curious. I am looking forward to the court case to see what comes out of it.

Buck up, fellas. I wish you guys the best going forward.

Guns up!