thewizofodds.com - 12/8/2008
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Much has changed in the past 24 hours on the coaching front, and once again it centers on Mike Leach. Yesterday we detailed how Leach has been trying to get out of Lubbock for the past couple of years. Now comes a report by Lubbock TV station KCBD that Texas Tech athletic director Gerald ...
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Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt met with his
athletics director and the university chancellor Friday morning. That...
meeting occurred with the backdrop of Auburn taking a look at Nutt to replace Tommy Tuberville. The News reported Friday morning Auburn is...
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Auburn is considering Houston Nutt, but not Leach
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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Bevo's Daily Roundup 12.08.08
Burnt Orange Nation —
... , a five-year deal worth a total of $12.1 million. This may take away some of the pain of living in Lubbock. The Wiz of Odds has some more on the pirate soap opera going on in The Hub. ...
Breaking: Mike Leach blows his deadline, and nothing happens
Dr. Saturday —
... this morning -- but not for any specific end. Unless the bottom falls out of the on-field product, on a steady rise over the entire course his first nine years, Leach is the coach. Presumably, however poorly the two men get along with each other, Gerald Myers is the athletic director. Literally, nothing has changed, except that the process will have to repeat itself sometime before 2011. ...
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redraiders.com 12/6/2008 — BY DON WILLIAMS
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Texas Tech’s likelihood of hanging on to Mike Leach took a turn for the better on Friday. Tech sent Leach’s agents a five-year, $12.1 million contract proposal, and an Alabama newspaper reported that Auburn was not ...
Leach, Washington discuss coaching job
redraiders.com 12/3/2008 — BY DON WILLIAMS
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Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach was in Seattle on Tuesday to discuss with University of Washington officials that school’s soon-vacant head coaching job, The Avalanche-Journal has confirmed.
“As of now, he hasn’t ...
Is Leach worth it for Tech?
blog.kir.com 2/8/2009 — A fascinating dispute between Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach and Texas Tech University highlights the tension in the relationship between the business of big-time college football and academia. According to this Examiner.com article (a ...
Hance talks contract with agents; Leach optimistic
redraiders.com 12/20/2008 — By Don Williams | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance said he visited for about a half hour to 45 minutes Friday with agents for Mike Leach, but there was no indication how soon a resolution might be reached on the Tech football ...
Is Leach coming back? And more coaching stuff
blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com 12/4/2008 — I had an inopportune time to have some mechanical difficulties.
But I'm back on-line and have seen and heard rumors and reports that Mike Leach may be back in Seattle for a second interview with the Huskies.
I can't confirm them in the sense ...
Leach Is Latest to Interview at Washington
thewizofodds.com 12/3/2008 —
Turns out it was Mike Leach who was aboard Alaska Flight 601 from Las Vegas to Seattle on Monday. A passenger aboard the flight alerted Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times that he spotted Leach on the flight and Condotta and Don Williams of the ...
Clock running down on contract
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.
“I don’t know,’’ Leach said. “I’m excited about ...