Rest in Peace, Sports
by Skin Patrol on Jan 1, 2010 6:13 PM CST
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PrintSports died unexpectedly Wednesday from an apparent suicide, when one of the last bastions of integrity in college football decided that contract price and opportunism were more important than graduation rates and success. Sports was as old as human history.
Texas Tech University, speaking on behalf of college football, stated Wednesday that battling entitlement was simply too challenging, because teaching kids about hard work is expensive. "We really wanted to get the message out," Tech said in a prepared statement, "that a kid having to spend two practices in an air conditioned room is too high a price to pay for graduating athletes and teaching boys how to become men." Fans were shocked that college football's capitulation would be announced from Lubbock, considered one of the toughest parts of Texas. "Well paint me [expletive] surprised," said Grizzled Badass West-Texan between bites from his hammers and nails filled omelet, "I guess I was wrong about college football being a man's game. Has women's basketball started yet? Here I come."
Sports had been engaged in a well publicized losing battle with chronic softness for years, a fight that has already taken the life of basketball. With the demise of college football, once thought to be sport's best chance of battling entitlement, doctors maintained little hope for sport's future.
"I'm really disappointed," said God, fighting back tears, "I went to a whole lot of trouble to provide a meaningful escape that also afforded you all an opportunity to learn about virtue, and now you've gone and screwed it up. Jesus Christ bananas, I'm out." College football was unavailable for comment, because it has nothing to say for itself.
There will be a service at the 2010 Alamo Bowl. Many seats are still available, and will probably remain so throughout the game.
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Adam James was only a pawn in all this. The University has made a grievous error, but the idiot and lazy Adam James was only a silly pawn that gave Gerald Myers and Jim Sowell the opportunity to carry out their plan against possibly the greatest coach Tech will ever have. I am in shock and dumbfounded. I don’t even know Sowell, but know that I don’t care for him. Gerald Myers has blood on his hand from the knife in Leach’s back. You should go Gerald Myers – resignation. We in Raider Nation know you will get honors when you leave, but you are now dishonored in my mind. Your 2. something million dollar coach was beating the 5 million dollar coaches every year the last few years. He was bringing in lots of funds for this University. He has brought the University to National Prominence. He did it by the rules. He leads the number one public school program for graduation rate. YOU FIRED HIM ON SOME BS REASON. Your pride or vanity or something clouded your judgement. You are fired in my mind. I can’t wait for you guys to be gone.
Adam James – he’s not smart enough to be anything but a pawn. Craig James – he’s a commentator, a puppet and an former athlete – so you know how smart he is. Neither of them is the reason this has happened and neither is smart enough to have a major role in this. Don’t give them credit where none is due – both are stupid athletes and just like the father, the son was able to ruin a great program…
Yeah, Craig James single-handedly brought down an SMU program that was paying it’s players to play a decade before he even showed up and another 3 years after he left. Adam James had as much to do with Leach’s firing as Tim Tebow did.
Most Tech fans are being amazingly short sighted about all of this. The two best players on this team ARE HAPPY HE’S GONE. Baron Batch and Brandon Carter both voiced their displeasure for the inbred pirate.
Just think, now that Leach is gone, you can bring in any one of his past assistants to be offensive coordinator, the system isn’t that difficult and you don’t have to pay him $2million a year.
Hang 'em!!!
by Screwface on Jan 3, 2010 12:29 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Well stated Skin Patrol
The Alamo bowl might as well be the Disfunctional Bowl since both schools have major issues with coaches(TT) and players(MS) heading into it.
What a way to end a season people!
"You've got to find your inner pirate" - Mike Leach
Mostly Mark May, although he released an statment through his laywer
“Doesn’t Texas Tech know who college football is I mean I played making it the greatest thing ever. Just like Pittsaburgh University is the greatest institue of higher learning because I went there.”
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: DIck Lebeau, Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Chris Carter, Kevin Greene and Jerry Kramer
"If you give Arians a fullback, he won’t use one. Instead, he insists on using Matt Spaeth, who probably doesn’t cast a shadow because it would require blocking sunlight." Cliff harris is still a punk with some very true words
I think it's about time we posted our obituary Damien......
Albeit, none of that National Newspapers thought it was something they could publish….
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Texass stands in Austin, Texas Tech in West Texas. Of course, Texass must use bail bonds more often than not to prepare for their bowl games. Texas Tech must use restraint from blowing up the admin office to ready for their bowl. All-in-all, football just ain’t an honest man’s game anymore….just too many crooks involved…….Craps, anybody?
TTpilk
The Texas Tech Administration
Texas Tech’s admin is no different, in a way, from that of other universities. UT has them. OU has them. OSU certainly has them-esp. one of note. The difference—-Tech’s admin is blatantly bad. While they strive to make Tech a nationally competitive and recognized university, they have taken the wrong path and performed in questionable ways that will actually demean the university in ways that will take time to heal.
Lubbock is isolated geographically speaking, to the rest of the Big-12 schools, aligning outside the general corridor of all except CU, which happens to be in the huge metropolis of Denver to combat any geographic separation.That does not mean Tech can not compete on an equal basis with the rest of the conference, or nationally, if the right people are in place.
Right now, Tech does not have the right people in place, as they have proven over the course of the last year or so. Somehow those people must be removed from power and "new blood" installed to take Texas Tech to bigger things academically and athletically. I am concerned that the present administration may make an errant choice when replacing Mike Leach, taking the football team, and possibly the university, down the wrong path. This could result in a long climb back into the national scene that may not happen if the present group remains in power. So, whatever course they hew over the coming months, let us all hope for it to be in a progressive way and not regressive.
I shall remain a Red Raider alum and fan, but my excitement for the school and its athletics has taken a big blow, as many of the DTN members have attested as well. Let us all stand behind the team as it plays in the Alamo Bowl and pray that all the players that play in the game will not only come away victorious but healthy. GO TECH!
TTpilk
I have been a fan of TTU ever since I was born accross the street at the former
Methodist Hospital. That being said, I hope Baylor hires Leach and kicks Tech’s ass every season until he retires or the current AD and Regents are summarily fired .
"Help, it's hot and dark in here and someone is laughing." Taco Bell
I hope Leach isn't in our conference.
I will still root for Tech if they play Leach, but I won’t be rooting for Leach as hard.
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