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Mike Leach: Just Another F%@ing Lawyer

Mike Leach is in a suing mood again; this time he is taking ESPN and Craig James to court, alleging "willful and negligent defamation" in the coverage of his firing last year.

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Leach is accusing the WWL of failure to "retract false and damaging statements" it made from "misinformation" James provided to ESPN. The suit also names Spaeth Communciations as a defendant, claiming James hired the firm for "purposes of creating public opinion hostile to Leach."

Meanwhile Leach's suit against Texas Tech over his firing last December moves on. Both sides have affirmed Judge Bill Sowder's ruling that the individuals named in the suit -- Tech Chancellor Kent Hance, President Guy Bailey, Athletic Director Gerald Myers, and regents Larry Anders and Jerry Turner -- could not be sued.

Both sides appear to be headed to a jury trial over the breach-of-contract issue. Tech fired Leach last December after first suspending him over his dealings with the son of ESPN analyst Craig james, walk-on Adam James. Leach was accused of isolating James in an equipment garage and a media room while he was sitting out practice with a concussion. When Leach refused to sign a letter from the school outlining new guidelines for dealing with players, he was fired right before Tech played in the Alamo Bowl. Leach was completing the first year of a five-year extention as coach of the Red Raiders worth an estimated $12.7 million.

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For everyone wanting the Pirate as our OC, please see this post and Scip’s re owning an elephant.

by stuckinmn on Nov 24, 2010 3:49 PM CST reply actions  

This is great news. If Cam Newton loses the Heisman vote, he should also immediately file suit on ESPN—-I don’t care what is eventually proven.

ESPN is the National Enquirer of Sports now and is out of control.

by Willow01 on Nov 24, 2010 4:01 PM CST reply actions  

I don’t know what’s more pathetic: Leach’s slide from high-functioning pirate football savant to tort reform poster boy or Tech’s delusion that they were a big boy college football program based solely on Leach’s success. For Kent Hance: tell me how Tuberville’s ass tastes.

by Salt Pillar on Nov 24, 2010 5:21 PM CST reply actions  

Enjoying yourself yet, Hance and gang?

By the way, how’s that record this year in the bigtime?

Hehehe…

by ghostofbevo on Nov 24, 2010 5:32 PM CST reply actions  

Anyone who wants Leach as our OC should have monkey experiments run on them while a chimpanzee adopts their identity and lives in our society. It will be a net plus for us from a breeding perspective.

by Scipio Tex on Nov 24, 2010 5:33 PM CST reply actions  

Scipio,
Hopefully the chimp replacements we’ll get can fly airplanes like in Project X so we can save money on our banner flyovers next year. And Matthew Broderick can stand on the sidelines to boost our rep with all the 2013 Jewish recruits.

by Salt Pillar on Nov 24, 2010 5:51 PM CST reply actions  

Yeah Scip…scoring 60 and giving up 20 or less every game with Muschamp would suck…I’m with you on this, horrible hypothetical idea to hire Leach as OC.

Your brilliance has handicapped you on this one.

by The Stos on Nov 24, 2010 6:00 PM CST reply actions  

I’m certainly no fan of the WWL’s ET angles, but what I find interesting about his suit is he was given somewhat equal billing on the 4 letter to convey his side of the story. Jimmy Buffet must be raising the rent……

by TXStampede on Nov 24, 2010 6:04 PM CST reply actions  

The Stos -
 
The Mike Leach faithful and dutiful OC you’ve created in your brain and the actual Mike Leach of self-destructive behavior are very different animals.
 
Leach on a Brown staff would be a horrible fit. I’d love to see that exchange when Brown rolls into Leach’s meeting and starts giving him directives.

by Scipio Tex on Nov 24, 2010 6:46 PM CST reply actions  

I am not in the camp that would welcome Mike Leach in any coaching position here.

I find The Pirate very entertaining for the most part, and as long as he’s someone else’s problem. I enjoy watching his antics. I’d like to really like him… but I still can’t forgive the pro-0u – or perhaps anti-Texas? – vote in 2008, so it’s just not in the cards.

But, honestly, if at the end of the Universe our choice comes down to Greg Davis or Mike Leach… I’m gonna hafta go with Leach.

Fortunately, our choices are not limited at all, so we don’t have to worry about that even a little bit.

I would love to see The Pirate some place where he can field teams capable of causing all manner of ruckus, hate and discontent, as long as it’s elsewhere (CU? Please?).

by Tex Long on Nov 24, 2010 6:57 PM CST reply actions  

Yeah Scip…scoring 60 and giving up 20 or less every game with Muschamp would suck…

You know what wouldn’t suck? The first time Leach insisted on going for it on 4th down inside our 30. Muschamps reaction would be worth the price of admission.

The idea of Leach as a OC — for anyone — is laughable. He was an Athletic Director’s nightmare as a Head Coach, and I can’t imagine any HC of an elite program wanting that headache on a daily basis.

Besides, after his tenure at Tech, Leach is like a Vampire who has tasted blood. There is no going back to the old life.

by srr50 on Nov 24, 2010 7:19 PM CST reply actions  

I believe SRR has nailed the Leach as Longhorn OC coffin shut, metaphorically speaking of course.

by TXStampede on Nov 24, 2010 7:50 PM CST reply actions  

“The Mike Leach faithful and dutiful OC you’ve created in your brain and the actual Mike Leach of self-destructive behavior are very different animals.”

Yeah, I find Leach really enjoyable, but only at a certain distance. I do like the lawsuit, however. I think that the behavior of the James father and son in this whole fiasco was thoroughly reprehensible. I think it would be enormous fun to get everyone involved on the witness stand with perjury laws applying and see what they had to say, and the extent to which it was different from what they were saying last December.

by billu on Nov 24, 2010 9:54 PM CST reply actions  

…get everyone involved on the witness stand with perjury laws applying…

I’ll just bet there’s a “F&%@ing Lawyer” or two around here, so maybe one of such can answer this question: if one of those involved gets on the witness stand and when asked “Do you swear to tell the truth” et cetera, what is the consequence of his answering “Why, as a matter of fact, no, I don’t”?

by Tex Long on Nov 24, 2010 11:10 PM CST reply actions  

TL: Presumably that witness is legally compelled to be on that witness stand, and therefore he’s legally compelled to give his true and accurate testimony. If he refuses to take the oath, the judge can throw his a$$ in jail for contempt.

by Gilberto Verde on Nov 24, 2010 11:33 PM CST reply actions  

Well, fine. But what job in college football can we give him? I can’t quit him.

by Sailor Ripley on Nov 24, 2010 11:49 PM CST reply actions  

There will never be a shortage of programs willing to make a deal with the devil to step up in class, take a shot at the big time, put butts in the seats etc etc.

Any school that has only occasionally flirted with mediocrity and can handle the eccentricity and general shitty attitude would consider it. Maybe a Kentucky, an Arizona State, one of the oddball directional Florida schools (Schnelly? Seriously?). I’d offer an NC State or a Clemson, but they’re not going to be in the market anytime soon. Schools like Indiana or Vandy just need to do something, period. If they can hold their nose long enough to do a deal, Leach might not look so bad.

by Black Scholes on Nov 25, 2010 2:57 AM CST reply actions  

Black Scholes said: Maybe a Kentucky, an Arizona State, one of the oddball directional Florida schools (Schnelly? Seriously?). I’d offer an NC State or a Clemson, but they’re not going to be in the market anytime soon. Schools like Indiana or Vandy just need to do something, period. If they can hold their nose long enough to do a deal, Leach might not look so bad.

Any reason why not Colorado? Boulder’s as screwy a place as there is – he’d be a good fit there, and I’d love to see him diddling Pac-X2 teams irregularly.

by Tex Long on Nov 25, 2010 12:39 PM CST reply actions  

Gilberto Verde said: Presumably that witness is legally compelled to be on that witness stand, and therefore he’s legally compelled to give his true and accurate testimony. If he refuses to take the oath, the judge can throw his a$$ in jail for contempt.

Yeah, but… if you’re [b]compelled[/b] to testify and [b]compelled[/b] to be truthful what’s the point in having an oath at all?

by Tex Long on Nov 25, 2010 9:55 PM CST reply actions  

I don’t want Leach as our OC. I’d love to see the discovery in his suit against Craig James, the PR firm, and ESPN, however. The hatchet job they did on him during Tech’s bowl game was irresponsible “journalism” only rivaled by the fellatio they performed on Greg Davis, last night. I’d love to see all those assclowns exposed in public.

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