Texas Tech coach fired before MSU bowl game
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Texas Tech will play MSU in the Valero Alamo Bowl on Saturday without head coach Mike Leach, who was fired Wednesday amid allegations that he mistreated a wide receiver with a concussion, the Associated Press reported.
Earlier this week, Texas Tech officials suspended Leach for the bowl game pending an investigation into claims by wide receiver Adam James that Leach confined him to a small, dark room twice after he was diagnosed with a concussion. The AP reported James’ account of the alleged mistreatment.
Following the suspension, Leach filed a restraining order that would
permit him to coach in the bowl game, the AP reported.
But prior to a court hearing Wednesday regarding the restraining order, Leach’s lawyer was given a letter from the university that
said Leach was “terminated with cause effective immediately,” the AP reported.
Leach’s firing is yet another storyline for the Alamo Bowl. The Spartans will be without 14 players who were either suspended for the game or dismissed from the team following a fight last month at Rather Hall.
The Spartans and Red Raiders play at 9 p.m. Saturday.
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caren
(12/30/09 2:38pm)Report
Wow, Adam’s mommy and daddy are still wiping his butt. Some things never change. Kid’s a spoiled brat.
Richard from Texas
(12/30/09 3:15pm)Report
I hope you guys kick TT’s butt, just to help prove a point.
meg
(12/30/09 3:40pm)Report
so we’ve got suspended players, they’ve got a fired coach. Wow, two stellar teams that have earned their way into a bowl game.
ANITA
(12/30/09 8:50pm)Report
spoiled brat nothing if my child he mistreated he wouldnt have to worry about his job its his ass he would have to worry about these are young men and they should be treated like one not like a slave doing what his masah say we are a different breed than our ancestors we bite back
Charlie
(12/30/09 10:47pm)Report
Good riddance you bastard.
I swear, the insatiable desire to win can be so corruptive to ones character.
stephanie
(12/30/09 11:14pm)Report
So much more behind closed doors was happening. This was just the “icing on the cake.”
His actions were not appropriate and the school knew they had more to think of then just a “coach”..There are many
great coaches that can and will possibly fill his shoes. The players are what is important here. They are the ones out busting
their bodies up and giving it all they have. The coaches aren’t out there. They give the coaching, the plays, etc…but those players deserve respect! Good going TT.
Mike Leach
(12/30/09 11:56pm)Report
ANITA, you do know that Adam James is white right??? Everything has to be about race when it comes to black people. Get a life.
Lucius
(12/31/09 10:35am)Report
Perhaps they should rename this game “The Everything That’s Wrong with College Football Bowl”
Grant
(12/31/09 4:21pm)Report
CAREN, Your comment about Adam being a spoiled brat is ridiculous. Are you aware that a concussion is a brain related injury? Penalizing a player is for suffering a concussion is totaly insane! Bravo to Texas Tech for firing that idiot of a coach.
Tate
(01/01/10 4:28pm)Report
Adam should have been kicked long before he got a concussion in a bar fight…..we have players suspended for like actions
tate
(01/01/10 11:49pm)Report
Charlie
Charlie said:
12/30/09 @ 10:47pm
Good riddance you bastard.
I swear, the insatiable desire to win can be so corruptive to ones character.
Charlie your a idiot………takes more than desire to win… and the bastard is Adam which they have not got rid of yet
Bill Ewing
(01/03/10 9:30am)Report
The people who think Adam james is in the right here are the same people who went to school after corporal punishment was removed from schools. Adam James was the biggest cancer you can have in any organization, sports or otherwise. Mike Leach was fired over Money and thats it. Believe the spin ESPN has put on this and keep going through life with blinders on.