My .02 cents. Great coach and a Lawyer.
Currie and Davenport will not be the smartest people in the room with Leach. UT administration may well get their comeuppance if they tangle with Leach. Look forward to this hire, didn’t think Currie had it in him to hire “The Dread Pirate Leach”.
Suspension:
http://www.espn.com/college-football/bowls09/news/story?id=4776848
Lawsuit:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...-texas-tech-washington-state-coach/440102001/
Emails:
• From Sowell to Hance, on December 18th, 2008: "Maybe it's because Leach is a lawyer, maybe it's his agents, maybe it's just greed - I don't know, but I'm tired of the "Mike Leach Contract Soap Opera" every few years...He won 11 games this year - big deal - two other Tech coaches did it before him and it didn't take either one of them 9 years to do it...In spite of being named Big 12 Coach of the Year, he is NOT a hot commodity. If he was, he would already be gone."
• From Sowell to Hance, on December 30th, 2008: "...a buyout keeps you from getting blackmailed into giving Mike a raise when next year his 2 Jerry McGuire wannabes [Leach's agents at IMG] get him another phantom interview to put pressure on you to give Mike a raise...I promise you our prospects for getting a better coach are much higher than Mike's prospects of getting a better job."
• From Anonymous Leach Supporter to Hance, on February 8th, 2009: "Regardless of what you think [Mike] has feelings and is sensitive...Mike is doing it again, but, he is not a 'good ol' boy', he's a quirky intellect who is a football coach. Love him or hate him, you guys should not be bowing your necks and running him off because you can't get along with or relate to some city slicker Yankee agents."
• From Hance to Sowell and others, on December 30th, 2008: "Don't share any of these with anyone."
Bottom line - the Texas Tech folks had to go to the Supreme Court of Texas for a ruling. Texas Tech lost on the merits but didn’t have to pay because of the “Sovereign Immunity” loophole.
Currie and Davenport will not be the smartest people in the room with Leach. UT administration may well get their comeuppance if they tangle with Leach. Look forward to this hire, didn’t think Currie had it in him to hire “The Dread Pirate Leach”.
Suspension:
http://www.espn.com/college-football/bowls09/news/story?id=4776848
Lawsuit:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...-texas-tech-washington-state-coach/440102001/
Emails:
• From Sowell to Hance, on December 18th, 2008: "Maybe it's because Leach is a lawyer, maybe it's his agents, maybe it's just greed - I don't know, but I'm tired of the "Mike Leach Contract Soap Opera" every few years...He won 11 games this year - big deal - two other Tech coaches did it before him and it didn't take either one of them 9 years to do it...In spite of being named Big 12 Coach of the Year, he is NOT a hot commodity. If he was, he would already be gone."
• From Sowell to Hance, on December 30th, 2008: "...a buyout keeps you from getting blackmailed into giving Mike a raise when next year his 2 Jerry McGuire wannabes [Leach's agents at IMG] get him another phantom interview to put pressure on you to give Mike a raise...I promise you our prospects for getting a better coach are much higher than Mike's prospects of getting a better job."
• From Anonymous Leach Supporter to Hance, on February 8th, 2009: "Regardless of what you think [Mike] has feelings and is sensitive...Mike is doing it again, but, he is not a 'good ol' boy', he's a quirky intellect who is a football coach. Love him or hate him, you guys should not be bowing your necks and running him off because you can't get along with or relate to some city slicker Yankee agents."
• From Hance to Sowell and others, on December 30th, 2008: "Don't share any of these with anyone."
Bottom line - the Texas Tech folks had to go to the Supreme Court of Texas for a ruling. Texas Tech lost on the merits but didn’t have to pay because of the “Sovereign Immunity” loophole.
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