redraiders.com - 12/5/2008
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By Don Williams l Avalanche-Journal
Since he’s been on campus just five months, Texas Tech President Guy Bailey should have gotten to spend some time in the kiddie pool, don’t you think? No such luck. As fall-semester finals roll around, he’s going about the business of choosing a provost, ...
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simononsports.blogspot.com - 12/9/2008
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It's the last poll of the year, so
the USA Today kindly gives us this beautiful interactive...
chart featuring all of the coaches who vote. Let's have some fun looking at some of the more ridiculous and random outliers. My Team is Better than ...
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Fun with The Coaches Poll Outliers
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Mike Leach Watch: Day 3
Double-T Nation —
... LAJ's Don Williams editorializes on quite a challenge for the new university President, Guy Bailey, but at the end of the story is this note (emphasis mine): ...
Leach: A Pirate in Search of a New Port
The Wiz of Odds —
... Recent public statements by Hance and Myers both seem to indicate the university is now willing to come up with a contract extension and higher salary." On Friday afternoon, Tech came up with the offer, with Hance — not Myers — making the announcement. Hance said he hopes to have the deal finalized by next week. It will be interesting to see if there is a buyout clause in the contract. How deep is the divide between Leach and Myers? This nugget from a column by Don Williams of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: "Athletic director Gerald Myers ...
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blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com 12/4/2008 — I had an inopportune time to have some mechanical difficulties.
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redraiders.com 12/20/2008 — By Don Williams | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
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redraiders.com 2/17/2009 — Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach appears prepared to let today’s 5 p.m. deadline come and go without signing a new deal. Beyond that, Leach said Monday he has no forecast for what will happen next.
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