Like the rest of you I have spent way too much time thinking about this situation....flip flopping from one side to the other.  Being a Tech alum my loyalty remains deep through thick and thin.  Being a fan of the lead Pirate I have enjoyed the limelight he has brought to our university.  Both sides have been incredibly inept during this process.  There is enough blame to go around.  However, I have come to the conclusion that there is no way out of this situation because there is no trust for the other party from either side.  If Leach signs a new deal he will still have no trust toward Texas Tech's administration.  If Leach signs a new deal the administration will have no trust toward Leach and his agents.

This conclusion is painful to admit but I think that it is time that Captain Leach is bought out.  He will be owned 40% of his remaining two years.  That would be around 1.6 million for two years.  But you would also save the $800,000 bonus due the end of this year and I believe another $200,000 at the end of his next season. Not a great deal of money for Texas Tech to be out.

I would hate like the devil to not have him at the helm, but if he does not leave I think we are only putting off the inevitable down the road.  I truly feel in my heart that if Leach had gotten in a room with Kent Hance that this thing could have been hammered out but Leach let his angents try to big dog Texas Tech.  Let me tell you from personal experience that NOBODY big dogs Kent Hance.  He is from Tech, he will do whats best for Tech and when he dies he probably wants to be buried in memorial circle.  Can you say that about Mike Leach? The captain has been given a bit of a pass nationally because....well....that's just Mike Leach.  Texas Tech has been made to look like a little country school that can't handle the spotlight.  Truth be told there is.....and will not be ...any winners from this situation.  Again I repeat that bottom line is No Respect from either party for the other one.  I think tommorrow the BOR will approve the expenditure to buy out Mike Leach and Kent Hance will roll out the plank.

From there we find a person who bleeds red and black and wants to build on the wonderful stage of our development.  I believe if this is not done then we are headed for another situation where it takes us many years to recover.  See Jim Carlen and Steve Sloan departures.  The Captain will find another job....although it won't be as high profile as you might think.  Not many D-1 major programs will allow his "quirkiness" and refusing to hob nob with the fans or money people in their program.  Should he have to do this as part of his duties?  See Mack Brown, Bob Stoops, Jim Tressel and Pete Carroll for the answer.  Texas Tech?  Get your butt to Waco or Houston or Arizona and get a "Tech Guy" and don't miss a beat.  Will it be easy?  Nope! But we have alot to offer if we don't shrink back into our shell.  Can't get a great coach you say?  During the Carlen-Sloan-Moore disasters we were turned down by a pretty fair country former Texas Tech guy, and then we turned around and turned him down for the job.  How would those lost years have been if we had hooked up with Grant Teaff?  We will never know!  But there are other guys out there that will build trust from both sides.  Having put thoughts to computer I think I will go barf!  God Bless Texas Tech but I really do think I'm gonna be sick and throw up!