Let's be honest, Adam James and his dad will never be able to go anywhere now without being harassed. I love it!!! Helicopter dad and a spoiled bratt. I betcha he would like to be locked in that electrical closet now.
Mike Leach directed a cursing dialog at Adam James, according to a new video that has surfaced. There is much controversy surrounding Mike Leach and Adam James, as James claims that Leach mistreated him after suffering from a concussion. Texas Tech went on to fire Leach after an investigation. The former head coach maintains that there was no mistreatment of the football player and that he was not left unsupervised after his injury. Click here to see a video of Mike Leach cursing Adam James out.
Adam James is the son of Craig James, an ESPN employee. This could possibly be why the controversy has mushroomed as much as it has.
As with anything, there are two sides to the story. Was Mike Leach really a caustic personality, or is Adam James a spoiled brat? Comments on Internet forums across the country have revealed that there are those that feel that it's really an overreaction.
Some - particularly those that played high school or college sports -say that coaches act like this. They curse at their players they get mad at them - it's their way of motivating their team.
On the other hand there are those that think that players should be treated with better respect than this. They think that somehow this is uncalled for, and the punishment fit the crime so to speak.
What is it? There is indication that Leach may file a wrongful termination suit against Texas Tech. It's highly likely that we haven't heard the end of this story. However, there are Leach fans that think he's a fabulous coach and will be able to find a job elsewhere.
We will see.
Texas Tech beat Michigan State at the Alamo Bowl this weekend in a Mike Leach-less face-off.
Tech fans deck the Alamodome for Leach; Tech players less sympathethic
By Matt Hinton www.yahoo.com
Texas Tech gave interim coach Ruffin McNeill a warm reception after Saturday night's Alamo Bowl win over Michigan State, but -- despite ESPN's best efforts to keep them off the game broadcast -- the very visible, very vocal pro-Mike Leach contingent in the crowd weren't nearly so kind to the would-be villains in Leach's controversial ouster, athletic director Gerald Myers and receiver Adam James:
Texas Tech receiver Adam James was loudly booed as he left the field at halftime of Saturday’s Alamo Bowl. James is a key figure in the controversy that led to the firing of Tech coach Mike Leach three days before the game.
James, wearing his No. 82 Tech jersey and a stocking cap, left the field in the company of a few teammates after most of the Red Raiders had gone in. Fans next to and above the Alamodome’s southeast tunnel rose to boo him. He showed no reaction.
James was accompanied by body guards throughout the night, but the booing was quite tame compared to the anti-James signs, t-shirts, pirate flags, bumper stickers and window-soaping in and outside the Dome, much of it the work of Team Leach, the group that's already picked up more than 41,000 followers on Facebook in the name of supporting Mike Leach against the university. (As well as made an alarming number of videos featuring members filming themselves inside of closets.)
Tech players, though, who were already steering clear of Leach's corner throughout the week, continued to show much less nostalgia for their former coach. Freak show offensive lineman Brandon Carter told reporters after the game that Adam James is "part of our family," and that his charges against Leach were "just the last straw. Sooner or later, something was going to come out." Quarterback Steven Sheffield was even more blunt: "I looked up in the stands and I saw signs about Team Leach. Bring Leach back. Leach ain’t coming back. That’s how it is."
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