<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Is this a case of déjà vu?</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of the December 30, 2009 edition of the Christian Science Monitor at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ycaybl2">http://tinyurl.com/ycaybl2</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-----------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="head"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mike Leach fired: Texas Tech coach's methods seen as cruel</span></font></h1><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mike Leach, the most successful coach in Texas Tech football history, was fired Wednesday after being accused of punishing receiver Adam James for not playing through a concussion.</span></p><div class="podStoryGal"><div class="thePhoto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/1230-leach-coach-texas-tech-fired/7167848-1-eng-US/1230-leach-coach-texas-tech-fired_full_380.jpg" alt="Temp Headline Image"><br>Fired: Texas Tech coach Mike Leach said he looked forward to playing in the 2010 Alamo Bowl against Michigan State during this press conference at the Club at Sonterra on Dec. 10.<br>(Kin Man Hui/Newscom)</span></div></div></div><div><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The summary firing of <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Texas+Tech+Red+Raiders+(Football)" target="_self" class="inform_link">Texas Tech football</a> coach <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Mike+Leach" target="_self" class="inform_link">Mike Leach</a> Wednesday for allegedly punishing a concussed player by isolating him in an equipment room for hours shows that even today’s highly-paid collegiate coaches can expect swift justice if they overstep their bounds with players.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Leach is the winningest coach in the history of <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Texas+Tech+Red+Raiders+(Basketball)" target="_self" class="inform_link">Texas Tech</a> and succeeded in bringing a measure of glamor to the football program in <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Lubbock" target="_self" class="inform_link">Lubbock</a>,<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Texas+Longhorns+(Football)" target="_self" class="inform_link">Texas</a>, through a blitzkrieg offense that routinely leads Division I college football in passing. The Red Raiders have qualified for a bowl in each of Leach's 10 seasons and have won five of the past seven.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Firing him is a potential civic catastrophe in football-mad Texas.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">True, there has been some ill will between Leach and <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Gerald+Myers" target="_self" class="inform_link">Texas Tech Athletic Director Gerald Myers</a> as Leach began demanding more authority over the program. But the speed with which Leach was fired is striking.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Leach was suspended Monday as the school investigated complaints from a player, <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Adam+James" target="_self" class="inform_link">Adam James</a>, that the coach sent him to sit alone in an equipment room for not playing through a concussion. The room was originally described as a dark shed, but reports have since suggested it is a decent-size storage room.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When Leach filed a lawsuit trying to overturn the suspension so he could coach in Saturday's <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Alamo+Bowl" target="_self" class="inform_link">Alamo Bowl</a>, the school fired him.</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a name="eztoc7167307_1" id="eztoc7167307_1"></a></span><h2><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Old school' coaching or new anger?</span></font></h2><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Leach firing comes a few weeks after <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Kansas+Jayhawks+(Football)" target="_self" class="inform_link">Kansas University</a> football coach <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Mark+Mangino" target="_self" class="inform_link">Mark Mangino</a> resigned amid accusations by players that he physically and emotionally abused them at practice and during games. Mangino was college football Coach of the Year in 2008. Leach was 2008 <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Big+12+Conference+(Football)" target="_self" class="inform_link">Big 12</a> Coach of the Year.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unlike coaches such as <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Rick+Neuheisel" target="_self" class="inform_link">Rick Neuheisel</a> or <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Mike+Price" target="_self" class="inform_link">Mike Price</a>, who were both fired in 2003 for off-campus issues (gambling and allegations of indecent behavior with a stripper, respectively), the two recent examples point to coaching techniques that verge on cruelty.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I think it's almost comical, if it weren't so serious, that too many parents and too many coaches kind of treat players and children like dirt during the week, and then on the weekend when the game comes up, they tell them, 'Okay, now go out and be great,' " <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Fred+Akers" target="_self" class="inform_link">Fred Akers</a>, the former Texas Longhorns coach, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/23/AR2009122302208.html" target="_self">told the Washington Post</a> last month.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Modern players both in college and, to a greater degree, professional sports have changed, and many are less willing to take the tough, confrontational style epitomized by the late Olympic hockey coach <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Herb+Brooks" target="_self" class="inform_link">Herb Brooks</a>, who often berated players for perceived weaknesses. Yet coaching, too, is exhibiting a personally vindictive turn, some say.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Whatever happened to extra running as motivation to play better, or punishment for missing assignments?" writes Fanhouse’s senior national columnist, <a href="http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/12/29/theres-no-excuse-for-abusive-coaches/" target="_self">Kevin Blackistone</a>. “Are the stadium stairs no longer available at the end of practice?"<br><br>“This isn't about not being able to do it the way old coaches did it,” Blackistone adds. “No, this is about abject stupidity, and there shouldn't be any quarter for it in institutions of higher learning. Abuse isn't a part of pedagogy any more than it is a part of anything else.”</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-----------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br>On Nov 13, 2012, at 11:19 AM, Joe Campbell <<a href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com">philosopher.joe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Not that I want to defend the practice of importing known abusers but I do think it may be too early to lynch Leach. I'm willing to wait out the investigation. He's not going to kill anyone and they are not going to win very many games this year whether he stays or goes.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Art Deco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com" target="_blank">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<h3><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/pac10/post/_/id/49123/pac-12-will-review-wilson-allegations-at-wsu" target="_blank">Pac-12 will review Wilson allegations</a></h3>
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<cite>Ted Miller</cite>
<p>Washington State and the Pac-12 will both review allegations made by
former Washington State star receiver Marquess Wilson that first-year
coach Mike Leach and his staff were abusive to players. The school
announced that Wilson was suspended last ...</p>
<span><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/pac10/post/_/id/49123/pac-12-will-review-wilson-allegations-at-wsu" target="_blank">Blog</a> | November 12, 2012</span>
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<h3><a href="http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8623286/pac-12-investigate-allegations-washington-state-cougars-coach-mike-leach" target="_blank">Pac-12 to investigate allegations against Washington State Cougar...</a></h3>
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<cite>Brett McMurphy</cite>
<p>The Pac-12 has agreed to look into allegations made by former
Washington State receiver Marquess Wilson of abusive behavior by coach
Mike Leach and his staff, commissioner Larry Scott said Monday.</p>
<span><a href="http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8623286/pac-12-investigate-allegations-washington-state-cougars-coach-mike-leach" target="_blank">Story</a> | <a href="http://espn.go.com/ncf/conversations/_/id/8623286" target="_blank">Conversation</a> | November 12, 2012</span>
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<h3><a href="http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8620247/washington-state-cougars-review-marquess-wilson-allegations" target="_blank">Washington State Cougars to review Marquess Wilson allegations</a></h3>
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<p>The president of Washington State University has asked the athletic
department and the Pac-12 separately to review recent allegations about
the football program in Pullman.</p>
<span><a href="http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8620247/washington-state-cougars-review-marquess-wilson-allegations" target="_blank">Story</a> | <a href="http://espn.go.com/ncf/conversations/_/id/8620247" target="_blank">Conversation</a> | November 11, 2012</span>
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<h3><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/pac10/post/_/id/49005/marquess-wilson-fires-back-at-washington-state-staff" target="_blank">Wilson fires back at Washington State staff</a></h3>
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<cite>Ted Miller</cite>
<p>Washington State receiver Marquess Wilson, suspended from the team
this week, accused coach Mike Leach and his staff of abusive behavior on
Saturday. From the <a href="http://ESPN.com">ESPN.com</a> story: "This was going to be our year. My
teammates and I were aspiring to be ...</p>
<span><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/pac10/post/_/id/49005/marquess-wilson-fires-back-at-washington-state-staff" target="_blank">Blog</a> | November 10, 2012</span>
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