For all the malice and lies in the James’ heart, they were just pawns and an excuse for the politicians. Maybe they have “fat little wives”, so when Mike uses an expression that he heard used by others that made sense to him in showing the lameness of distractions to committed players, their sensibilities got “hurt”. I thought Mike did fine creating clarity on what he was attempting to do for the players in saying that after the A&M game. Mike didn’t fail to understand the politicians, it just wasn’t relevant to his job or his compensation for the success. But, for all their knowledge and learning they could neither understand or own him. He didn’t play their game because another game was his job. They are politically correct politicians. Mike isn’t. In our culture we don’t call people liars publicly. That’s too direct!. We call them politicians. That means that they lie in a culturally sensitive way. Mike doesn’t. He needs clarity, truth, and absolutes to get working leverage with players to turn them to think his way and create buy in to form a “team”. In the light of moral absolutes, politicians do lie, and it is OK in the USA. They aren’t punished for it, right? Image is everything because to them everything is an “illusion”. Hance, Bailey and Myers all have created the illusion of being fine upstanding citizens, and they have the documents and awards to prove it, but they are in fact “politicians keeping score”. Their “work” here is done behind closed doors, then they paint a public face for it and give it some “nice” framing. I honestly believe that at some near future point in time that the words politician and liar will be accepted synonyms in the dictionaries.

Craig James now wants to be a politician, at least he has given serious thought to it. So, we must see all that he says and does via ESPN media as practice for his next career. He will come to the aid of all the Adams in his sand box (he promises) and be a better parent to your kids than you, for a small fee. You and I will pay these fees in taxes.

Only one person was wronged here. He isn’t perfect, just honest enough not to sell that part of himself to be owned by his bosses perceptions or anyone else’s. It isn’t pride to refuse to apologize for something you neither intended or did, but today it is thought of as not being very “practical”. He’s just about something else. He knew how to keep his job; that is what to say and do. He wasn’t able to do that. Myers knew this. Leach is amazed that the truth and his intent was not clear. He believed that the truth about the person and the circumstances would be self-evident. But what he really wanted was for Adam to “get it” and change. Grow up. His daddy removed that possibility. It really is that far beyond him to be that way. He can’t compete with a James or Myers at their game. College Football and the success of his student players is the only trick he’s got with them. This is an aspect of him that too many are quick to dismiss as “real”. As far as work done against resources on hand . . . I give him a solid “A”. Why is Mike Leach wronged and more relevant than any of these others? For many of us dispersed Red Raiders, he brought us proudly back home to Tech. My college football following friends with other alma maters think he is an enigma, entertaining, but all of them are amazed that he did what he did with what he was given. My friends are embarrassed for me not because of him but because of the Hances, Baileys, Myers and James now in my corner of the college football world who use the sport for influence peddling and power ploys to enHANCE their own domains.

If I were on campus what would I do? I’d fly the Jolly Roger from every window I had access to. Little ones across the paths on campus that they trek. They would magically appear at all kinds of sensitive times for these politicians until each and everyone one of them has been removed from their post.

If I lived in a district where Craig James ran for anything, I’d write in for Mike Leach. I would not vote him in as “dog catcher”.

What I will do is write to each of these Administrators to be clear that in winning their war, TTU will suffer until they are suffered no more. If I get to attend a TTU game in Lubbock, I will where a bleeding black Jolly Roger shirt not in reproach of a new coach, but in reproach of the “Gang of Three”, specifically. When I feel well enough again to write a check to Texas Tech Alumni Association or Tech Athletics the endorsement will begin “Given with reservation until the associations of Kent Hance, Guy Bailey, and Gerald Myers with Texas Tech have ended. It seems that when these Administrators let their Guns Down, they are aways shooting us in the foot. Tier 1? Not with these, please! Maybe when we have an Administration that can both reward and own the success of others instead of being threatened by it. When Tech’s Administrative world can be as diverse as they want to proclaim their student body to be. Their was room for a Mike Leach at Texas Tech. Dust storm ions must allow at least allow it, even if it can’t be tolerated at the administrative echelon.

These are immoral men who demand apology on their authority and command alone to placate a sports talking head with a BOY who is squandering his opportunity to become a man given as a gift by the hand they now destroy not for a truth, but for their own selfish pride that isn’t grounded in anything real in their son to be proud of. I think this might be the “right stuff” for “politician”!

Good luck Mike! I know all has been made for you a matter for justice now, and that is where “fair” will have to be “played out”. You are a winner. They will leave the table before check comes! It will be hard to be a Red Raider for along time, maybe, but I won’t forget what you did for the Red Raider Nation diaspora. Win or lose, I longed for one more time in The Jones. I recovered my Double T pride because of you and the excellent carnage of a game you ran that builds such nice houses to be held in. Hance, Bailey, and Myers had nothing to do with that! You made it fun and enjoyable.

Why not report or ask James about:
1) reports by Adam James’ teammates about his piss poor attitude and the fact that he is a spoiled brat punk…ask his former Tech baseball teammates about him being a quiter/whiner/baby/dick-head

2) the fact that James asked for a release so he could transfer to SMU but was denied by Tech due to the fact that Tech (like most schools) has a policy of not releasing players to play for other Div I schools in the same state or conference….smells like some sour grapes James

I hope other college head coaches BLACK BALL Craig James and deny him any info or access for him to do his ESPN gig…surely they recognize the “punishment” (suspension and eventual firing) DO NOT fit the crime being forced onto one of their coaching brethren….BLACK BALL the M-F’er

Sure Leach is a “different” individual/coach and has a large ego himself…so was Bob Knight…he is the same coach you signed to a 5 year contract extension earlier this year…it is that same coach that brought this program out of mediocrity and gained it some national recogniction over the past few years…

Shame on ESPN….Shame on Tech Administration for letting their EGOS get in the way and set Tech FB back.

Shame on Craig James…his son was put in NO DANGER…if the reports of Adam James prima dona attidute are only half way accurate, Leach did nothing that hasn’t been done in countless gyms, fieldhouses, and fields today at the high school and college level. Grow some balls…..James used his position/influence at ESPN to make this a much bigger deal than it needed to be. Had this happend to any other player, the story would have never seen the public light.

Gerald Myers…you should be FIRED!!!!