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Uncle Nate

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  1. Did he just throw that into quadruple coverage?
  2. In all that, I do not read an admission by Hance to want to fire Leach. Again, Leach was offered the money. He turned it down so he could take Tech to court. It blew up in his face. He.Was.Offered.All.The.Money. He.Turned.It.Down. I have first hand knowledge how it went down. You have the internet.
  3. Provide this Hance's own admission you speak of, otherwise you are the one who is completely full of shit.
  4. I'm not going to go through all of the posts above to confirm or dispute the many things said. But I can tell you what are facts (I have first-hand knowledge of exactly how it went down with Hance and Leach): Leach was the only one on the coaching staff who wanted to offer Adam James. NONE of the other coaches wanted him. I wish he had listened to them. Leach was job shopping the last two years. This is fact. This did not endear him to the administration or to the big cigar supporters, especially after he was given a very, very hefty contract. Adam James was a spoiled rotten brat and none of this would have escalated up to the Chancellor's Office if his dad hadn't gone on ESPN national TV to whine about how his son was treated. Hance wanted to get Tech off the headlines, and wanted to appease Craig James so that James would quit talking bad about Tech. He offered a letter for Leach to sign that was NOTHING. A true nothing burger. It literally restated what was already in his contract...that the safety and well-being of the student-athletes will be honored. That's it. That's all it said. Leach refused to sign it. Hance, however, should not have cowtowed to the James' family like he did. He just hated Tech getting bad press, so his solution blew up in his face. Leach literally, and by literally, I mean he said these exact words to Hance after refusing to sign the letter: "You and the Board of Regents can go fuck yourselves." I don't care who you are, you don't do that. In response, Hance suspended Leach for the Alamo Bowl. Leach turned around and sued. And it was his filing of the lawsuit that triggered his firing. If he had just taken his suspension, he would not have been fired. If he had just signed the damn letter, he wouldn't have been suspended. If he had listened to his coaching staff, Adam James would never had been on campus, and this whole episode would have never happened. All of this has one thing in common: Leach's stubbornness was his ultimate undoing. Leach WAS offered his pay and bonus. This little fact keeps getting dismissed. He was offered "everything owed to him" and refused because he wanted his day in court to air his grievances. Bad move on his part (and his attorney should be disbarred for professional malpractice). Again, Leach's stubbornness to refuse the settlement and go to court is what kept him from his payday. Once he said "see you in court", the offer was off the table. Here is my opinion and not fact: I think Leach wanted out, and this was a convenient way to make it Tech's fault. He just didn't count on losing in court. But you could tell the last two years he was more interested in testing the job market than preparing for OU or the bowl games or recruiting. It was obvious to anyone paying attention. The greater sin committed by Tech after this fiasco was hiring Tommy Tuberville and then Kliff and then the lump on a log Matt Wells. What they should have done was what they did when they hired Leach...hire a professional search firm that can find good fits for Tech, the level of talent Tech is able to get, and that fits where the program was in 2009. Tech screwed up on the post-Leach hires so bad someone should do a case study on it.
  5. Arrgh, sorry man...I posted on the coaching carousel thread before I saw you posted this here. My bad. I am excited about this hire. I think the bend-until-you-break defenses we've employed have been the worst pairing to the style of offenses we have used. I am looking forward to seeing an aggressive defense compliment our offense for a change.
  6. Tech hiring Tim Deruyter to be the new Defensive Coordinator. I think this is a great hire for us. Time to try a real attacking defense on the South Plains and rid ourselves of the bend-until-you-break styles we've been using for the past 20+ years.
  7. A team actually going to a bowl vs UT who is not. L.O.L.
  8. This always makes me laugh. KINDLY go fuck yourself. So nice and polite. Just once I would like someone to say, "You can go grudge fuck yourself as if you were Jodie Foster on a pinball machine."
  9. He bang the chairman of the board’s daughter? Because otherwise this is complete bullshit.
  10. Here's the irony of this whole thing. Most every Tech fan had moved on about the officiating by Sunday night or Monday, and no one anywhere in the media was even aware of the Tech broadcast crews' comments. No one was really talking about any of it after that until Bob Bowlsby decided he wasn't going to be shown up by some pissant radio crew (in his mind) and wanted to flex his muscle and show everyone what a big man he was by not only reprimanding them, but by also doing the unprecedented action of suspending them and then tweeting it out for the whole world to see. He could have done a private reprimand and warning and left it at that. But no, he wanted the whole world to see how powerful he could be so he decided to very publically suspend them, which has in turn put the spotlight on the officiating of that game when it was pretty much a dead issue three days ago. And NO ONE outside of the Tech fanbase even heard the radio call to begin with...now everyone has. Bowlsby is about as dumb as a bag of rocks.
  11. Fuck Bob Bowlsby. Never thought someone could be worse than Dan Bebee. I was wrong.
  12. In their defense, they were due. They had quite a storied history of hiring duds between Grant Teaff and Art Briles: 1993-1996: Chuck Reedy, Overall Winning %: 0.511; Conference %: .448 1997-1998: Dave Roberts, Overall Winning % 0.182; Conference %: .125 1999-2002: Kevin Steele, Overall Winning % .200; Conference %: .031 2003-2007: Guy Morris, Overall Winning % .310; Conference %: .175
  13. I've been asking this exact same question as a Tech fan looking back at 21+ years of really bad defense, minus one or two decent seasons (2008 being one). And it's not just Tech. It's not just UT. Look at OU under Riley...their defenses have been relatively shitty, too. Only thing I can think of is that college football as a whole has been putting their best athletes on offense, so the offenses overall are simply just better than the defenses. That's my theory...not sure if I'm sticking to it or not.
  14. Because WVU is bad. Even Tech beat them…at WVU.
  15. It’s coaching. Like others have pointed out, in a UT vs KU scenario, your second and third string players are going to be more talented than KU’s starters. Yesterday was 100% coaching. As a Tech fan, I’ve seen a difference in our team the past two games. Yes OU blew us out of the stadium, but the team played harder and better than they had previously this season. Yesterday was night and day different from the Tech team I watched all year. Same players. Only variable that changed was at the HC position. Coaching matters. Head coach matters.
  16. Big 12 officials are fucking corrupt.
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