Ask Mike Leach any question and and there’s a good shot he’ll end up circling back to all that money Texas Tech owes him. WSU’s head football coach continued his assault on his previous employer’s integrity Thursday, in an interview with Jim Rome.
While Leach is known for his off the wall answers, he was in fine form yesterday. Rome pointed out how many of Leach’s former assistants have had successful careers and asked what the coach looked for when selecting subordinates.
After discussing a few characteristics and praising his proteges, Leach seamlessly transitioned to the subject of his 2009 salary, without any input from the interviewer. It doesn’t matter what you’re talking about, if Leach has something on his mind, he’s going to bring it up.
The case he made on the show was very similar to what he was saying on twitter earlier in the month. That Texas Tech refused to pay him $2.5 million it owed him in 2009, the last season he coached in Lubbock. Since then, the institution has avoided going to court through sovereign immunity.
He didn’t keep it all negative as he described TTU as a “tremendous place with tremendous players,” but honed his attack on Kent Hance, the Chancellor at the time of his firing.
Leach called Hance “a liar, a cheat and a thief,” and a “very power hungry man.”
My only analysis of this mess is that we all need football back in our lives. Mike Leach needs football so that he has other things to be mad about than getting screwed 8 years ago. And the rest of us need football so we don’t need to hear/read about this for another 12 months.
You can listen to his comments about Texas Tech below, and the full interview can be found in the links.
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The Pirate talks Luke Falk, Lincoln Riley, and goes in on Texas Tech's former Chancellor Kent Hance.
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