Leach Fired

untStein · December 30, 2009

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UNTFan23 · December 30, 2009

This will almost certainly go to court and Leach will contest he was fired without cause.

I wonder what the fallout for the program will be? While Leach wasn't everyone's favorite coach, the fan base may revolt. The athletic program may lose millions of dollars.

Edited December 30, 2009 by UNTFan23

untStein · December 30, 2009

Good job, Craig James.

Quoner · December 30, 2009

What are screaming eagle 66 and that russell guy going to do without him? How will they replace all the conference titles and top tier bowl games he won?

NT80 · December 30, 2009

Wow! Good for Tech administrators; I admire them for it! Leach may be a good X's and O's guy but he is a PR nightmare for a school. It's no wonder another program wouldn't hire him. Once a pirate, always a pirate. :pirate:

Green P1 · December 30, 2009

Well shiver me timbers!!

Can't wait to see where he goes, I was tired of Tech as my 4th favorite team anyways.

PS. We need more threads on this issue.

Double PS. Anyone have the link for Tech's GMG.com? Huge. Quickly.

Edited December 30, 2009 by Green P1

Quoner · December 30, 2009

Leach may be a good X's and O's guy but he is a PR nightmare for a school.

Really? This might be a bit overstated. He's bold and brash, but only with schools he knows he is favored against, his players don't generally get in trouble, he graduates them well and I cannot recall a major scandal before this highly suspicious shed fiasco. If Leach is a PR nightmare, then so was 1990s Steve Spurrier.

TheTastyGreek · December 30, 2009

Really? This might be a bit overstated. He's bold and brash, but only with schools he knows he is favored against, his players don't generally get in trouble, he graduates them well and I cannot recall a major scandal before this highly suspicious shed fiasco. If Leach is a PR nightmare, then so was 1990s Steve Spurrier.

I propose we remake Scrappy again... Instead of Eppy, call him "Polly". Email Leach the Daffy Eagle logo design and tell him it's a parrot, and we'll have the mascot sit on his shoulder through each game and press appearance.

If we had a Diet Coke Boy for so many years, we can find a little person or a small child and put them in a parrot suit for a few hours a day if it means we could get Mike Leach to come here.

UNT90 · December 30, 2009

The 2 Tech alums/season ticket holders I know are furious. Good luck finding another coach who can recruit to the wasteland that is Lubbock, Texas. What LKeach did there is a minor miracle.

bstnsportsfan3 · December 30, 2009

Rick V....please go hire Mike Leach....

Thanks

Green Mean · December 30, 2009

Whatever relevancy Texas Tech had before it is all gone. Gerald Myers is an egotistical moron. Leach will go somewhere else and do just fine.

drex · December 30, 2009

Apparently it will take decades to cleanse the NCAA bloodstream of the corrusion known as Mustang Mania.

UNT90 · December 30, 2009

Craig James. Killing athletic programs one generation at a time.

Gerald Myers = dog meat after the alumni are done with this situation.

NT80 · December 30, 2009

Craig James. Killing athletic programs one generation at a time.
Gerald Myers = dog meat after the alumni are done with this situation.

Who said offseasons are boring? :blowup:

Quoner · December 30, 2009

Who said offseasons are boring?

Just our offseasons.

ipEAGLE · December 30, 2009

Thank you football gods. Stupid move on tt's part.

DeepGreen · December 30, 2009

Time to start scheduling Tech again.

AJR2010OX · December 30, 2009

Texas Tech fan reactions

UNT90 · December 30, 2009

I hope TD is on the phone to all of the Tech commitments that we had previously offered. Not that they will necessarily come here, but just to let them know the door is still open. Please start with the DTs and DEs.

FirefightnRick · December 30, 2009

Texas Tech fan reactions

This is off topic, but it's funny. I read over some of the hottest threads on that website and, I mean, for a Pirate ship program, where's the hijacking I was told a week or so ago that supposedly goes on everywhere else?

Rick

Edited December 30, 2009 by FirefightnRick

GBarksdale · December 30, 2009

Good luck finding another coach who can recruit to the wasteland that is Lubbock, Texas.

That sums it up right there.

MeanGreenSig · December 30, 2009

This is off topic, but it's funny. I read over some of the hottest threads on that website and, I mean, for a Pirate ship program, where's the hijacking I was told a week or so ago that supposedly goes on everywhere else?
Rick

oh the irony

you realize you just hijacked this thread right? lolz

NTSUEagle · December 30, 2009

I hope TD is on the phone to all of the Tech commitments that we had previously offered. Not that they will necessarily come here, but just to let them know the door is still open. Please start with the DTs and DEs.

Should be something Dodge and the other Recuiters should do. But I seriously think the overall ambiance of the Llano Estacado will win these recuits over. I mean, tortillas filling the lower Panhandle air, overlooking Eastern New Mexico from the Women's Dorm, and wundermidget Brian Jensen's Toupee Museum?! How can 'ya beat that? :w00t: