Double T Nation needs to make a stand...

I have emailed Myers. His statement today (which was entirely unnecessary) forced me to pick a side.

Of note, I haven’t received a response from Myers in the previous times I’ve tried to email him. I have received responses from Chancellor Hance. I’m certain that all three of the AD, Chancellor, and President are being hammered with emails at this point.

May be worthwhile to mail Mike Leach (snail mail, he doesn’t respond to emails in a timely manner, I have heard) if you feel that you have something worthwhile to say to him as well. I think that the only thing worthwhile to tell Mike would be something about firing his IMG agents.

to email him twice but I always get an automated response right back immediately that says to call someone. Do you know what email to reach him at, kayakyakr?

The men’s basketball team

because no one is talking about how poorly we’ve played this year or how we need to improve to get back to the March Tourney.

Quit taking shots at each other. We are a lot of things, collectively. Aggy is not one of them.

I was on awesome basketball, baseball teams in school, but our football team had a tradition of Detroit-esque loosing(I was on that team too) one thing I noticed as a young buck though…On our good teams, when things didn’t go our way, we’d band together and figure a way to win. We had the attitude that we were the best and we would pull it out and win. On our bad football team, we would start bickering amongst ourselves. I want to be on a winning team here and I think we should show respect to each other in this trying time.

1) We want “loyalty” from Leach because we don’t want to worry about losing him or him deciding that he wants to go somewhere else. So our strategy in dealing with this concern is to push him out instead. Because we don’t want him to leave, we force him out. Sounds brilliant…

2) This expection of “loyalty” assumes we can find someone else who is “loyal.” So we expect we can pull someone else in here and they can become the most successful coach we’ve ever had, but they would never be interested in any other opportunity. What’s the reality basis for that expectation?

I see several people mention Art Briles as a candidate to replace Leach. Personally, I like Art Briles as a person and as a coach. But it’s a fact that he has not yet achieved success on the college level comparable to Mike Leach. I think everyone assumes, since Art Briles graduated from Tech, he would be more “loyal” to Tech. Art Briles PLAYED FOOTBALL FOR UH FOR 3 YEARS!!! The “loyalty” factor didn’t work out too well for them. It’s not a knock on Art Briles – I’m just trying to put some factual basis around this expectation of “loyalty.” Really, who are the candidates that are going to be more successful than Leach, but not ever be interested in any other opportunity? Who’s going to be more successful than Leach, but never be targeted and tempted by some other big name program?

I agree that Leach’s contract should include some provision to notify Tech about interviewing for other jobs. In fact, Leach’s agents have indicated that they/he are in agreement with that principle. They have only stated that they can’t agree to the condition as it is currently stated in the Administration’s offer. That means they are willing to negotiate the condition. Is the Tech administration willing to negotiate it?