Another Shameless Plug - Mike Leach; is B12 soft?

I thought I’d drop two cents. I agree with the commenter in the article that said there is a line that shouldn’t be crossed, and that if you can discipline your team right without crossing that line AND be a successful program (see Penn State football; shameless plug of my own), then you’ve found a way to be a college football coach. What some of these guys (to be fair, Leach’s is the only story I’ve really followed more that cursorily) are doing is past that line, and they should be punished as such. My hat is off to the TT administration for having a set and stating as such. If only the NCAA ran that way, we’d actually see ends to the Reggie Bush/OJ Mayo/Joe McKnight/myriad other athletes’ investigations.

different than the typical NCAA crap and in typical fashion they’ll go after Leach because he hurt someone’s feelings.

but you are correct, PSU is fortunate to have had JoePa for such an incredible run.

I think the major issue here is the fact that Texas Tech has taken the position that it’s not okay for a coach to tell a kid to “man up” and play through a concussion. That’s good.

Every year, every, single, year, kids die and sustain life altering injuries playing football. Some of them are fluky, but many are not. Stupid shit like doing suicides in 100 degree heat without water, and pushing kids with concussions back on the field need to stop. This game is dangerous enough, that it doesn’t need to dump stupidity on top of the already substanital assumed risk.

As far as the “your fat girlfriends” comment. Paterno has said stupider things during press confrences. Who cares?

didn’t he have someone locked in a closet or something. Wasn’t it the son of espn’s Craig James.

I do understand these are accusations and an investigation is coming.

Locking someone in a closet is cruel and unusal punishment for any sport.

http://www.doubletnation.com/2009/12/29/1223515/the-saga-of-mike-leach-former

January said the shed in which James spent practice on Dec. 17 might have been the most appropriate place to deal with his concussion, because it kept him out of the sunlight. January said he and his teammates on the offensive line often retreated to the same shed during practices to rest and escape the heat.

“It’s not like it’s some dungeon,” he said.

And, for those that don’t know, the TTU AD has wanted Leach gone…

He is being railroaded because Craig James can’t understand wh his little boy is not getting enough playing time so he can get him a highlight reel, news flash, he just aint that good, deal with it.

sporting shades and smarted off to the coach that ‘he couldn’t practice because of his headache’ and he was sporting his shades ‘for light sensitivity’ (even though he had been cleared by a Dr.) so the coach had him go do his ‘training’ which consisted of walking around, in a ‘shed’ that is as big a two car garage.

On the other occasion he was sent into the opposing team air conditioned press room to ride an exercise bike.

Actually he was taking it very easy on the kid because of the supposed concussion not vice versa.

or his spawn.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/316254-mike-leach-to-courtespns-craig-james-unhappy-with-sons-playing-time

I guess that’s what coaches should say nowadays.