Leach: Dead
Per ESPN -
The NCAA accused Texas Tech of major rules violations tied to recruiting on Friday, saying 16 athletics department staff members sent nearly 1,000 impermissible text messages sent to football, softball and golf prospects.
The NCAA said the school discovered the violations and reported them. It did not add punishments beyond the school's self-imposed two years of probation, recruiting restrictions and scholarship reductions.
The NCAA said the football violations occurred between August 2007 and February 2009, which would have come under former coach Mike Leach. The NCAA said the football coaching staff sent approximately 234 text messages to 45 prospective student-athletes.
So yeah...
January 7th, 2011 at 6:07 PM ^
Been riding for four days with several letters for one J. Harbaugh. Just arrived and got telegraph message. Condolences to the Leach family. RIP.
January 7th, 2011 at 6:13 PM ^
He would never have been a candidate anyway.
January 7th, 2011 at 6:21 PM ^
Mike Leach will be named head football coach at the University of Michigan on the same day that Glenn Beck is named dean of the University of Michigan Law School.
January 7th, 2011 at 6:54 PM ^
Thank God. Dude makes Les Miles look Lloyd-Carr-ethical.
January 7th, 2011 at 7:20 PM ^
in the land of Balamama and such where 8 scholarships does not really mean 8 scholarships. Hard to be clean and successfull in that conferance.
January 7th, 2011 at 7:56 PM ^
Mike Leach was never alive, was he? I mean after we ran an incredibly honest (except for stretchgate) coach who always (it would seem) had the welfare of his players at the forefront of his mind out of town for being too gimmicky and not Michigan-y enough, we were gonna hire Leach?
Yikes. Are some of you all right?
Get ready for Hoke, boys. I'm sure he's a fine man and a decent coach, but my vision of the post-RR era did not include a 53-year old MAC and WAC coach with a losing record. Unshakeable faith in the pimp hand of David Brandon now officially shaken like a bad martini.
January 7th, 2011 at 7:58 PM ^
Such a sensible, solid choice. I mean, I don't even want to think it because he would be so reasonable a choice.
DweeB seems like a nice guy, but the corporate world turned him into a giant CYA nerd. Doesn't seem very ballsy to me at this point. I doubt he'd hire Patterson, but I guess we shall see.
January 8th, 2011 at 9:51 AM ^
Was'nt Leach the same coach a while back who banned his players from texting?