OT - Leach interview on ESPN

what comes out of the law suit, what's going to come out. Seems like the gloves are off, and there's a lot of animosity from a lot of parties.

Curious why you think Craig James should get fired? Has he said or done somthing that would give ESPN cause?

a polarizing guy, but I'm going to be very interested to see what actually comes of this. Some of the players said conflicting things about Leach, but look at our situation and some of the guys that left compared to the other ones buying into the situation. Ultimately how do you fire a guy who made Tech relevant and still has continuing success. It sounds like a case of big egos in the school's administration/athletic department.

To see a coach vindicated for the slander laid on him by a college kid who seemingly has a vendetta against him. Let's hope that can happen in Ann Arbor.

Everyone around here is making a big deal about leach telling Adam not to sit or lean, if you sit down in a dark room your more likely to fall asleep, well If you supposedly have a concussion your should not sleep at all because you could slip into a coma. I'm not exactly sure but doctors usually tell you to stay up all night. I'm not condoning anyone in this case just merely stating.

and everyone down here pretty much believes Leach. All of my friends that like Texas or any other school in Texas are pumped because they feel as though Tech will no longer become relevant in football anymore.

The New York Times(per Yahoo News)has emails from TT admin
that shows there were people within the admin that have been working for Leaches firing for a year.
This is going to have some twists and turns.

I have a feeling that we will never know the "truth" about this whole situation but I swear, if I have to read the bottom ticker on ESPN saying that he was trapped in an electrical closet I am going to throw my remote at the TV. That is the farthest from an electrical closest I have ever seen.

I always felt craig james was a know-nothing douchebag, I'm not surprised that his kid is a lazy/spoiled brat. You've got his teammates and his position coaches talking about his character and defending leech. I'm sure leech stepped over a line with his 'punishment' but I think it was overdue for this kid. And in the end I'm betting leech lands on his feet and this kid never plays football again.

I'm not fond of Leach. I'm not going to lie, I did giggle when he got canned. I have waited to find out the facts first before seeing who was right and who was wrong. They're both clearly in the wrong, but Mike Leach is so unbelievably stupid the he deserved to get fired.

First of all lazy or not. Garage or not. Ice bucket and fan or not. You do not lock somebody inside a dark room with someone standing out front checking on them because they have a concussion and you "want to keep them close to the team." You DEFINITELY do not do those things when the freaking kid's dad works for ESPN! I mean seriously, what the hell did Leach think was going to happen from this? Get good press on ESPN?

Craig James, wrong. Mike leach, insanely wrong. Adam James? I tend to give him a little leeway because he did indeed have a concussion. No matter if he's lazy or not, concussions are serious and still not fully understood. So many former NFL players suffer from life long injuries thanks to concussions. So just for somebodies long term health, a player with a concussion needs serious attention. Locking a kid in a room and saying it's ok because he had ice was not that kind of attention.

I thought it was again interesting how ESPN shaded this situation during the halftime presentation that they did tonight of the most recent events. It is SO obvious that Leach is a lawyer by the way that he's said things and set things up in this situation. That point is obviously lost on ESPN (or they don't care), as evidenced by the way that they described the team physcian's affidavit. Nothing in that affidavit as they presented it contradicted anything that Leach said in his interview. That was obvious if you listened to Leach and read the affidavit (or even the words that ESPN put on the screen from the affidavit), but that's not how the anchor explained it. According to the anchor the affidavit directly contradicted Leach's statement where Leach said that he did not place James in the shed (i.e. the anchor said that physician said that Leach said put James in the shed), but that's not what Leach said. He said put James somewhere "dark". Someone else decided where the dark places were, not Leach. Which is exactly what Leach said. It's also funny how the affidavit explicitly says that James was told not to go into the electrical room, yet according to Craig James that's where Adam was and that's where Adam James shot the cell phone video from, which proves that either (1) Adam James was lying or (2) Adam James can't follow directions when it came to being in that room. Of course ESPN didn't mention any of that, though...