Myers Statement on Leach Contract

I’m sure everybody is with me on this one. What an embarassment to our school. I’m officially done posting about it until we get the final conclusion.

It sounds like it’s time for a break for all the parties. Just shelve the discussions until after spring ball or the summer and then circle back to see what cooler heads are thinking. A little distance by all parties involved may save this – and keep it out of the papers.

Seeing all that was said and went on, I finally broke. I have an opinion now and that is that Myers has less negotiating ability than a lab monkey.

It’s like he doesn’t even understand what contract negotiations mean. There was no reason for this statement to be made publicly.

Fire them all.

I hreally enjoyed watching the Red Raiders under coach Leach. He fielded an exciting football team and it was the greatest season ever this past year. I no longer believe Leach will stay on as football coach. Sadly, tomorrow I am going to return my season ticket renewals with a note expressing my disgust with this sorry affair.

This “negotiating?” has been one of the most attrocious things I think that has ever occurred at Texas Tech, especially with it being so publicly exposed. I am a long-time supporter of Texas Tech and feel Gerald Myers has been one of their finer AD’s. However, this fiasco has not been a good one, especially on his part. I understand the school wants the loyalty of the coach, but where were their loyalties when Leach was hired to replace a deposed Spike Dykes? Where were they when James Dickey was run out of town to make room for Robert Knight? If they want loyalty, then they must start showing some themselves. Noboby should have to inform a present employer if they have been offered a similar or better position elsewhere, in business or in sports. Those extra provisions are examples of insecurre people trying to verify their own existance in the system, not trying to keep a present coach from having a wandering eye. I have become a totally supportive fan of Mike Leach and whatever he decides to do is OK with me. Tech and, especially, Myers and Hance will just have to suffer the consequences, and those will hurt Tech much longer than anything they do will hurt Mike Leach. Now, I will continue to support Texas Tech athletics, but I hope Texas Tech University understands who was responsible for this rediculous mess to start with, and take appropriate action. That is the last about this I will write, as well, because I am just too weary of it to keep up this banter. Bye for now. When things clear up and the future is more visible, I will reemerge.

And now that he has shown it by ‘rejecting’ the counter offer, Hance is to blame also. Gerald wouldn’t be acting like a douchebag if Hance didn’t give him the slack in his leash to do so. I am not to the point where I am going to stop discussing it, in fact I want to hear what I can do to let the friggin’ admin at Tech know how pissed I am.
Gerald is not the man to analyze the future of Pat and the men’s hoops team….he is too invested in Pat’s daddy. Gerald is not the guy to analyze and react to anything Tech Football, he has shown he has a hard on for Mike.
When you are not helpful for Men’s basketball and football, you need to get your ass out of Dodge. I don’t care if it looks like the reason he is gone is because of Mike’s agents……get over the ego trip and get the only thing/person that is standing in the way of getting this done out of the way. Does anyone doubt that this would get done ASAP if Gerald was out of the picture? Tick tock…..we are waiting.

The biggest Red Raider Club booster is Jim Sowell:

http://www.sowellco.com/principals.html

Kent Hance’s e-mail address is easily guessed @ttu.edu.

Let these guys know how you feel about all this.

why they can’t all agree on something. I wish Leach just wanted to stay here forever and accomplish what many people think is impossible at Texas Tech, and I wish the administration would cooperate.

should say “don’t” get

the bad blood being generated between the two parties. You can play hardball in the negotiating room, but when it filters out into the public sphere, egos start getting bruised, and that sort of thing can’t be taken back. There’s no question that Leach will stick around for next year, and depending on how his annual job hunt goes he might even serve out the final year of his contract, but at this point how can he realistically be expected to sign a new contract given the way this round of negotiations has played out? People who respect each other do not behave this way in a professional setting, and a working relationship without respect is unattractive, to say the least. At this point I can’t help but feel like Tech’s administration should look forward to an inevitable hunt for a new coach, and should think very hard about how this fiasco will be viewed by potential hires.

Is the post screwing up for anyone else? I can’t read what it says because the sentences overlap one another.

What makes me sad is that Myers and Hance have now started misdirecting blame, and pointing our eyes to the two clauses that can and should be negotiated.

The other two clauses are the real reasons Leach CANNOT sign the contract!

Buyouts and salaries and numbers can and should be worked through. For Myers to state that they cannot proves that they want Leach gone, at all costs. They are done with Leach and will not listen to reason.

We will lose the winning-est coach in our history for three reasons:

Back. Door. Politics.