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Listener: Pratt on Texas
Category: General
Date: 30 Dec 2009
Time: 22:33:11 -0700
Remote Name: 70.242.183.106
COMMENTARY:
We have to give full recognition to leaders at Texas Tech for ending the year on a bang. I’m just not sure whether the gun was pointed outward or inward on this deal.
From what we know from court briefs and press accounts, Tech football coach Mike Leach did nothing but bruise the ego of a football player with a well-connected and somewhat well-known father. The idea that someone is well enough to attend practice but somehow is not well enough to stand in the shade during practice is preposterous. And did you take a look at the so called shed? It’s nicer than most of the world has for their permanent housing!
The idea that Leach should have signed an apology just to get past the whole thing is not only ridiculous, could it not open him up to legal liability?, it is an example of how little integrity bureaucratic institutions have. No evidence is presented that anything done by the coach was in violation of anything, or harmful in anyway, but he is asked by Myers and other taxpayer subsidized bureaucrats to apologize - anything to get the issue to go away, even it if means turning your integrity card in at the front door.
No doubt the well-funded-by-taxpayers group at the University will offer up some series of explanations to justify their behavior. But, nothing they can say can change the fact that they handled this situation unfairly to coach Leach, the players, and the fans. They ordered him to apologize with no reasoning offered as to why he should; suspended him with no semblance of due process, and; didn’t even have the guts to face him in court. Instead they terminated him just before the court hearing was to happen.
It’s all another lesson why you shouldn’t let a university, sports team or program, or anything else, become a demigod in your life. Like all false gods, you are doomed to regret it.
Pratt
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