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 5:43 PM ^
Do not want
January 8th, 2011 at 9:02 AM ^
Thats strange, I thought cats liked water.
January 7th, 2011 at 8:44 PM ^
Golf? Really?
January 7th, 2011 at 5:43 PM ^
Uh, you may want to re-word this!
January 7th, 2011 at 5:45 PM ^
that was the basis
January 7th, 2011 at 5:49 PM ^
I mean... I don't know how old you are... but 234 text messages to 45 prospective athletes by one coach? I know people in college probably send and recieve at least 100-200 texts a day if not more.
Thats... 5.2 texts to each person? Over how much time I wonder? And some probably responded so there was a quick conversation...
To be fair... I'd probably say on an average day I send about... 150-200 texts a day? It's really not a lot at all.
I know it's illigal... but it's not exactly like texting is an obvious thing that Mike Leach would definitely know about, especially if it's only 234 texts by one coach. If that's the reason we didn't hire him I'd be concerned about our program/fan base/decision makers.
To cross anyone off for something like this is stupid. I'm not a Leach guy, but goodness... this is just stupid.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:51 PM ^
between ESPN and myself. but texting is considered a major violation in the same vein as stretching.
i disagree, though, that it crosses him off. texting was forbidden and they did it anyways. hiring a guy who's been self-reported for violations to a school on probation for... NCAA violations will NEVER happen
January 7th, 2011 at 5:54 PM ^
except at usc.
(note: i am too lazy to look up if this is a fair comparison. fortunately it's not important.)
January 7th, 2011 at 6:22 PM ^
I didn't mean to spew my annoyance about this at you... I copied and pasted that remark about the texting from another thread.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:49 PM ^
Ah totally missed it, i gave up on the main board and have been F5'ing it all day, since I can't post on Brian's posts on the main page.
January 7th, 2011 at 7:33 PM ^
Leach= Pirate version of Greg Robinson
January 7th, 2011 at 5:45 PM ^
Definitely this. I thought the pirates got him at first.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:44 PM ^
... even the smallest chance of mike leach being hired would give me nightmares.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:43 PM ^
....them coaches were serious attention whores!
January 7th, 2011 at 5:45 PM ^
Great Avatar.... I like to my party with my peeps....
January 7th, 2011 at 5:44 PM ^
Ahhh, excuse me, IM NOT DEAD!!!!
January 7th, 2011 at 5:50 PM ^
Gary Patterson please!!!!!
January 7th, 2011 at 5:55 PM ^
We have had a thread started about Leach, Jim Harbaugh (relieved he isn't coming), Les Miles, Hoke (Jesus, gulp), but no threads talking about pros and cons about Patterson. Someone with an iphone do it! The man needs some attention!
Update: Now Dungry too!
January 7th, 2011 at 5:55 PM ^
You sir are very much alive and would like to see you on the sidelines at The Big House.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:57 PM ^
Thanks for the compliment, but I meant Gary Patterson......
January 7th, 2011 at 6:01 PM ^
So did I.
But, if we got Patterson, I think I might have an OBE. I will make sure to call George Noory and tell him about it.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:45 PM ^
Title seriously made me think for a moment that Rick Leach had passed.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:47 PM ^
that a post mortem would be written a bit more respectful.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:50 PM ^
Perhaps. But this really is not a good thread title IMO. I bet I am not the only one to momentarily panic.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:51 PM ^
I think it would say "Leach: DEADT"
January 7th, 2011 at 5:49 PM ^
after watching how RR was treated here. Rick was a staunch supporter of RR and saw the potential while realizing that RR needed time.
January 8th, 2011 at 2:48 AM ^
The guy made a clown of himself over Rodriguez.
January 7th, 2011 at 8:18 PM ^
The title made me think that someone named "Leach" had pinched a horrific duece that stunk up the whole house.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:45 PM ^
Leach is a pirate hooker.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:47 PM ^
I posted this info in another thread. Granted, threads now have eleventybillion posts each.
Also, put "Mike" in the title. "Leach" on a Michigan site usually refers to Rick.
January 7th, 2011 at 8:10 PM ^
He was a Michigan QB too, and he played baseball as well, so he can be versatile in his offense... How's Wheatley doing at Syracuse? Ready to move on yet?
January 7th, 2011 at 5:46 PM ^
I didn't realize he was metaphorically alive any more than I was.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:49 PM ^
Don't want to start a new thread, but Rumeal Robinson was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison. I still love him, though.
http://www.annarbor.com/sports/um-basketball/former-michigan-basketball…
January 7th, 2011 at 7:24 PM ^
<sigh> free throws win championships
January 7th, 2011 at 5:49 PM ^
This isn't really news... Texas Tech is already serving self-imposed sanctions over this. This is just the NCAA accepting their sanctions.
All this over a couple hundred texts. Sounds like its about on the same level is stretching 20 extra minutes a week.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:52 PM ^
Great offensive mind, but I'm looking for something a little more....defensive.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:52 PM ^
How bout that Gary Patterson.
OMG can this be anymore obvious?
January 7th, 2011 at 5:54 PM ^
But of course the Detroit media, and therefore the average M fan, is only thinking: Hoke or Miles? I hope Brandon has more sense than that.
January 7th, 2011 at 7:54 PM ^
after the search is over if someone were able to find out who actually was on DB's short list.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:55 PM ^
January 7th, 2011 at 6:14 PM ^
I see what you did there.
January 7th, 2011 at 6:23 PM ^
January 7th, 2011 at 7:02 PM ^
It would be a disservice to the football watching nation to take Mike Leach away from his microphone .. some of the best (such a versatile word) commentary I've ever heard.
January 7th, 2011 at 6:00 PM ^
but I will still pine for the unintentional comedy that would've been every Pirate interaction with the bluehairs. His "fat little girlfriends" rant was one of the greatest moments in oral diarrhea ever.
January 7th, 2011 at 6:01 PM ^
Can anyone sum up how he went from a possibility some years ago, to really not even in consideration.
I am not interested in him as our coach, trying to understand how he went from near the top of lists to nowhere on them...
January 7th, 2011 at 6:13 PM ^
isn't exactly a resume booster.
Added to this resume in the top spot:
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/Playoffs | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indiana Hoosiers (Big Ten Conference) (1997–2001) | |||||||||
1997 | Indiana | 2–9 | 1–7 | T–9th | |||||
1998 | Indiana | 4–7 | 2–6 | T–7th | |||||
1999 | Indiana | 4–7 | 3–5 | T–8th | |||||
2000 | Indiana | 3–8 | 2–6 | T–9th | |||||
2001 | Indiana | 5–6 | 4–4 | T–4th | |||||
Indiana: | 18–37 | 12–28 | |||||||
Total: | 18–37 |
January 7th, 2011 at 6:02 PM ^
I nearly had a heart attack, I thought Ricky Leach had died...