One More A. James Question

Seems like you’re encouraging people to just find unique ways to insult him for sport. I know and can appreciate that there’s a ton of passion/venom wrapped around this kid. But the hypothetical question is relevant to absolutely nothing, especially since you’ve made it about something totally and completely unrelated to the team or games.

In many cases, hypothetical questions have a place. I just can’t for the life of me figure out how the question you’ve posted does…

I’m horrified that he’s a RHIM major – that is what my degree is in – OSR too I think or his wife maybe (correct me if I’m “misremembering” OSR).

I’ve worked for 23 years since I graduated (yikes that is a painful realization – although I think it’s important to add that I graduated in 3 1/2 years – I feel much better now!) and only a little over 3 of those years were in my field of study. The other 20 have had nothing to do with my major.

Finally, I would recuse myself from any interview process with #82 due to my strong negative opinion based on character issues. However, if the company I worked for was seriously considering hiring him & I would have to work with him regularly I would at that point insert myself in the process & interview him with as open a mind as possible to see if he had grown through life experience.

I think it’s an interesting question you’ve posed.

I’m confused….

My times to visit:

1: Leach’s scholarship meeting for nancy’s offer.
2: Sept 10, 2001
3: November 1, 1969 various dealerships to order a Road Runner Superbird with 440 and a Dodge Charger Daytona with the 426 Hemi and maybe a Barracuda convertible.
4: places where I said something stupid.

I travel weekly for work sometimes East Coast, sometimes West Coast, sometimes in between and I find myself telling the whole Leach VS The James Gang story soup to nuts at least weekly. I am always astounded that so many people know so little about something that has meant so much to me and my brethern. I have actually caught myself thinking “Wow! Adam & Craig could walk down the street in this town and nobody would care one way or the other!”
 As for me I still remember, now go ahead and make a bunch of yards and score a few TD’s I will cheer for my team, but don’t expect me to swap spit with your sister or shake your hand your not my friend. I heard they are hiring in Topeka, Wala Wala and maybe Chicago that would probably be best for you, ‘round here I don’t think we have any openings.

My opinion is my opinion. I don’t like the guy, but he did have a good game against OU and for that I am glad. I still do not respect his or his dad’s judgment, or their personal lives. He can play his heart out and help this team and I will be glad that he is making plays, but I will not respect him as a person.

Without exception, most of us are forming our opinions about Adam James character based upon what we have seen or heard from the news (tv, print, internet), some reliable sources and some not so reliable.

Because I do not know him personally, I have a hard time understanding how I can realistically form an educated opinion about his character based on only the negative words that I’ve heard from 2nd hand sources or the group hate that seems to exist toward him or his father. Most people of this opinion seem to think that because Mike Leach was the most successful coach we’ve had (at least recently), that he was beyond fault and would never do anything wrong. I believe that there are many sides to this story that we will never know that could change our opinions toward any of the characters involved for the good or the bad.

Knowing that, I prefer to look at the people who know Adam best and observe how they have reacted to the situation.

1. The team largely supported their teammate over their coach!
2. Baron Batch, Stephen Sheffield and Alex Torres all stood up and strongly supported him. http://lubbockonline.com/zuvie/2010/01/14/teammates-say-they-support-adam-james
3. Tommy Tuberville must see some football talent or he wouldn’t be on the field.
4.. He didn’t run away from the hate and vitriol that occurred because of the Leach fiasco.

I’m not writing this post to defend Adam James but to defend the idea that this country has of “innocent until proven guilty”. I understand that this is a legal concept applies in court but I truly believe that it should equally apply in the court of public opinion.

We are all certainly entitled to our opinions about everyone involved in this mess. I have mine, you have yours. Sometimes they are the same…..sometimes not. What we all have in common is that we are Red Raiders! Much like marriage…for better or worse, we love Texas Tech University and all that comes with it.

Adam, I am a TTU graduate and whether I wanted to or not had to follow your time on the football team. Based on the information I had you appeared to be a child of privilege with an over involved father. My opinion of you was that you did not finish a job, was not a team player and unsupportive of leadership. You allowed your coach to take heat for something he did not do. Bottom line, I had a very low opinion of you. That was 2009, it is now 2015. Tell me why that opinion was wrong and/or how that behavior has changed. What did you learn from that experience? ……….. If he gives me an explanation that everyone was picking on him unjustly and he could have his dad call me to explain, the interview would over and he would not get the job. If he could convince me that was childish behavior, that he has personally apologized to Leach and I would never see evidence of that behavior in my organization, then I would move on to questions about his industry knowledge and experience. ……. Right now I detest Adam and even more so Craig, but people make mistakes. If they learn from them I am quick to forgive. I am not sure Craig will let his son learn. I feel he will teach him to work around it pulling whatever strings that need to be pulled. It is why I do not like/trust Hance.

we can all agreed that craig has never denied killing the hookers in Dallas, right?

He’d look good hoeing cotton. Or shoveling shit at a feed yard. Or scooping grain out of a bin. Or digging up irrigation risers by hand. etc.

Man it will be nice to put the James issue to bed.

it seems to me that outside of Texas he may not have much of a problem job wise. sure, people may know who his dad is, and the controversy did make national headlines, but at the same time, we here in LBK and TX, will hold on to the ridiculousness that happened much longer than those outside of TX. and of course, he had his daddy, and mommy, for that manner to coddle and protect him. inheritances…this that and the other, etc.

he gets a job at ESPN. huge corporation, lots of jobs to be had, and he knows people that work there. so you know, good for him, or whatever