Texas Tech Coach Leach Suspended for Ill Treatment of Player

[EmpireWF]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls09/news/story?id=4776848

Leach suspended after player complaint

ESPN.com news services

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Texas Tech coach Mike Leach has been suspended while the school investigates complaints from a player and his family about treatment after an injury.

The school said in a release Monday defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill will be the interim coach and lead the team in the Valero Alamo Bowl on Jan. 2 against Michigan State.

McNeill will remain in charge of the team until the investigation is complete.
Sources told ESPN's Joe Schad that the parents felt the player endured harsh treatment because he was unable to practice after an injury.
The Red Raiders went 8-4 this season.

Leach did not immediately return a call or a text message seeking comment. A message left on McNeill's cell phone was not immediately returned.
There's been internal strife this season with the Red Raiders and Leach has resorted to some tongue-lashing.

He chastised players after a loss to Texas A&M in October for listening to "their fat little girlfriends," and thinking the Aggies were a pushover. And after the Red Raiders loss at then-No. 12 Houston in September, Leach suspended indefinitely starting offensive lineman Brandon Carter for violating team rules.

The loss to the Cougars was the second straight for the Red Raiders, who had fallen 34-24 at No. 2 Texas in an early Big 12 matchup. This season is the first since 2002 -- Leach's third season -- that the Red Raiders dropped two of their first four games.

That same week Leach banned his players from having Twitter pages after linebacker Marlon Williams asked on his account why he was still in a meeting room when "the head coach can't even be on time."

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

 

[Yawkey Way]

Mike Leach's tenure in TTU is closing quickly, didn't see this coming.

 

[SuperKevin]

First Mangino and now Leach. The Big 12 is starting to look like a bunch of crybabies

 

[EmpireWF]

From Joe Schad's twitter:

Mike Leach is alleged to have isolated a player in a dark closet for not practicing with a concussion

 

[SuperKevin]

I thought Katie Hnida graduated years ago? How come nobody told me there was another player with a vagina in college football?

 

[Sven Draconian]

The rumors are that it is craig james kid.

I'm not going to judge one way or the other until more info is availible.

 

[Nash]

Locking him in a dark room and an electrical closet?

:jonesy:

 

[JeremyHight]

Leach fucked up big time. Kid has a concussion and cannot practice, so Leach gets pissed off with him and has an assistant lock him in an equipment room for 3 hours. A few days later, he has him locked in an electrical closet.

And of all the guys to do it to, you do it to a Craig James' kid, who has immediate and influential media access.

 

[Derrville]

:jimshake:

 

[Sven Draconian]

If the locking in the closet rumors are true...that's usually a felony....

 

[ram29jackson]

If the locking in the closet rumors are true...that's usually a felony....

...I gotta go change a bowl pick haha

 

[SHOGUN]

I'd hate to jump to conclusions or classify it in the same class as the "OMG, coach yelled at me" cases that have been popping up lately, but this sounds serious. I've never heard of locking a person in a closet or dark room to cure a concussion.

 

[krulmichael]

LMFAO! Did anyone else have to re-read the electrical closet sentence over? I was in disbelief and I find it hilarious...but if true that's pretty fucked up. :laughing:

 

[Bear Pand]

GET IN THE CLOSET

 

[ram29jackson]

LMFAO! Did anyone else have to re-read the electrical closet sentence over? I was in disbelief and I find it hilarious...but if true that's pretty fucked up. :laughing:

pretty sad,.. all this talk of the science and knowledge of well executed football plays and coaches are still dumb ex jocks with no social skills

 

[JeremyHight]

What's crazy is that when Meyer was retiring, I had Stoops going to Florida and Leach going to OU where he won a national championship as an OC.

Now he will be lucky to get a head coaching job when this whole thing finishes up.

 

[Sportsbuck]

pretty sad,.. all this talk of the science and knowledge of well executed football plays and coaches are still dumb ex jocks with no social skills

Mike Leach has a law degree from Pepperdine, and never even played college football.

And no social skills? Yeah that explains why they are able to convince kids to choose their school for one of the most important decision they'll make in their life, as well as how they are able to convince kids' parents to send their children to be coached by them.

 

[JeremyHight]

Mike Leach has a law degree from Pepperdine, and never even played college football.

And no social skills? Yeah that explains why they are able to convince kids to choose their school for one of the most important decision they'll make in their life, as well as how they are able to convince kids' parents to send their children to be coached by them.

Being a glorified used car salesman for a college program doesn't mean you have social skills.

 

[ram29jackson]

Mike Leach has a law degree from Pepperdine, and never even played college football.

And no social skills? Yeah that explains why they are able to convince kids to choose their school for one of the most important decision they'll make in their life, as well as how they are able to convince kids' parents to send their children to be coached by them.

your not following what I am saying. if its true what he is doing, that ultimately means -no social skills- no ability to function normally in interactions with people in a positive healthy manor in society. Being able to lie to people is not a social skill ie a positive truthful thing. Its a psych problem that needs to be dealt with. Having a degree doesnt prove you are intelligent, it just proves you turned in homework. And the generality still holds for a great deal many sports coaches. Critical thinking is not something many coaches have. The next game is all they have in their tiny, overpaid lives.

 

[SuperKevin]

your not following what I am saying. if its true what he is doing, that ultimately means -no social skills- no ability to function normally in interactions with people in a positive healthy manor in society. Being able to lie to people is not a social skill ie a positive truthful thing. Its a psych problem that needs to be dealt with. Having a degree doesnt prove you are intelligent, it just proves you turned in homework. And the generality still holds for a great deal many sports coaches. Critical thinking is not something many coaches have. The next game is all they have in their tiny, overpaid lives.

So what's your degree in?