Texas Tech has released an official statement explaining their termination of head coach Mike Leach in the bitchiest possible terms without actually coming right out and calling him names:
The coach's termination was precipitated by his treatment of a player after the player was diagnosed with a concussion. The player was put at risk for additional injury. After the university was apprised of the treatment, Coach Leach was contacted by the administration of the university in an attempt to resolve the problem. In a defiant act of insubordination, Coach Leach continually refused to cooperate in a meaningful way to help resolve the complaint. He also refused to obey a suspension order and instead sued Texas Tech University. Further, his contemporaneous statements make it clear that the coach's actions against the player were meant to demean, humiliate and punish the player rather than to serve the team's best interest. This action, along with his continuous acts of insubordination, resulted in irreconcilable differences that make it impossible for coach Leach to remain at Texas Tech.
Juicy! Read the whole smoking screed here.
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Tech Administration - What have you done?
My father who is 88 years old asked me to post this for him. He was a corporate executive here in Houston and all three of his children (me included) and one of his grandchildren graduated from Tech. My sister started in 1965 and my brother played football in the middle seventies under Carlon and Sloan. He is a great Tech fan, a very intelligent man, and is usually very calm (much more than myself). In fhis younger days he was one of boosters who helped the Tech coaches recruit prospects in the Houston area. As a side note he worked on recruiting Eric Dickerson but now knows they didn’t have a chance. I have never seen him so angry. Here is his post.
“Texas Tech has imploded and overnight become the laughing stock of rivals and the athletic world. As a longtime proud supporter, I am embarrassed, ashamed, and appalled by actions of a totally inept Administration.
Resolution of the complaint should have been delayed until after the Bowl Game contract was fulfilled. Instead it was hurriedly and vindictively engineered into a human and financial disaster of monumental proportions.
I now pray for a football coach, his devastated family, his assistant coaches, leaderless apprehensive players, and newly liberated recruits.
What a shameful and unnecessary WRECK.
L.P. Jones – Houston Texas
by TotalDef on Jan 1, 2010 3:59 PM EST reply actions
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