ESPN OMBUDSMAN SAYS ESPN COVERAGE OF LEACH TROUBLED HIM

Good God, not Exhibit D! I thought that column was going to be buried in Sub-Section 17, Paragraph GG, Sub-Section Sub-Paragraph XIV.

We need Barry Zuckerkorn, fast.

Wait, did EDSBS really get referenced in the suit? If so that’s awesome.

Can we get one of the Group Fivers (Lone Star division) to post the complaint? Even if Orson was making that bit up, I’m sure there’s plenty of comedy in the filing.

Controversies lurk around every corner, and conflicts are troublesome for any company. Of course, they’re particularly dangerous if a large part of your business relies on being perceived by an audience as factual, fair and credible.

The perception of impartiality went away long ago for tWWL. Seriously, who still thinks tWWL is factual, fair or credible?

I don’t believe any of that BS.

Bob Davie never spoke english that well.

Ignorance is Not Bliss Dept:

Though not a popular opinion around here, I am glad Leach was fired for being an idiot, in addition to being a !@#$. Yeah, he is colorful, but the arrogance of not taking concussions seriously, even if they may have happened to a bratty player is stupid, to say the least.

Not a fan of Craig James, by the way. He used to take jabs at USC all of the time. Sort of like this year, with the bald, effeminate and fat Tim Brando of CBS, who earlier this season was attacking USC with glee.

The latest “Brain”, Tenn Vols new coach, recently slapped some numbskull upside the head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjvODj6O3dM

Memo to Dooly Stooly Pigeon:
Avoid more smacks to the head, if you want to keep your job at UT.

Safety Dan, iirc, page 42 had a screen shot image of a google search of “mike leach” or something similar, and the 2nd or 3rd hit was the EDSBS post that talked about Mike Leach’s “fat little girlfriends” remark.

Are turbo-WASPs typically Jewish?

“”http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ve4PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OI0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5740%2C6241053" rel="nofollow">Ohlmeyer, who has sleepy good looks suggestive of the late Elvis Presley before the singer went to fat…"

I’m putting on Herb Alpert’s “Rise” and taking a sexy nap, now.

It’s taken them this long to get the James family’s collective balls out their mouth, or they would’ve published this column sooner.

InTheBleachers @ 5 – You’re absolutely right on that. Bullet Bob is just concerned about FOOTBAW GUYS BEIN TREATED BAD BY THEIR FOOTBAW COACHES AT FOOTBAW PRACTICE.

By the way, has anyone here ever heard the tale of Bob Davie and the 7-11 Hot Dog Machine?

1. He’s very good.

allsome – love the month later-after-the-fact-admission-through-deflection from the BooYah Network

SKLM: If you still think Mike Leach doesn’t care about concussions, then you have watched too much ESPN (I tried to fit sheeple in there, but I just couldn’t do it).

I hear thepriatebay has gotten wind of Capt. Leach’s predicament, and avast, they be on the port horizon! Something about the First Amendment right to embarrass little shits.

In other news over at Doc Saturday, I see Congress has congratulated Alabama on its National Champeenship. I wonder which member of Alabama’s congressional delegation will pick up the baton (and choir robes) so ably carried by the Congresswoman from Florida (name escapes me) in her raving appreciation of last season’s champion.

Corrine “Them the Gators Don’t Take No Jive” Brown

ohiodawg: The gusty speech by Rep. Brown gradulating Corch Meyers is superb to any, since we are the best academic school, but also the athletic school in the country.

ESPN Sucks Dept:

@ #14, Tanner: Actually, I do not watch ESPN’s awful “shows”, just stick to the actual games, if they are any good. Believe it or not, I would rather surf the web than watch their abominable shows.

Are Bob Ley, JJ Jackson, Keith Olbermann and Martha Quinn still “anchoring” ESPN shows?

@ #1 If you put Adam in the electrical closet, just give me a tap on the fanny.

SKLM: I think I heard Keith Olberman does something with “news.” Although I kidded about the ESPN stuff, there really is no substance to the “Mike Leach hates functioning brains” stuff I’ve heard. First, look at his pattern of behavior. Has he mistreated players due to concussion before? No, quite the opposite. On the other hand, has he taken radical action with seemingly minor infractions of team rules in the past? Yes, see the kid who did his homework on the sideline.

The issue here isn’t that he abused James, it’s that he embarrassed him. The kid thought he was untouchable because of his condition, and then broke team rules. Leach then found a way to punish him which accounted for his condition, and it embarrassed him. I still can’t figure out what method of punishment would be acceptable to those unhappy with Leach. You can’t make him run. You can’t make him study, watch film, or do anything else with his brain. You can’t kick him off the team (Leach kicked James off the team for having a concussion… I can hear it already). What can you do to punish him?

You may not agree that he broke the team’s rules, but that is not your decision to make, it is the coach’s. However, for argument’s sake, say that James had cursed out Leach. What punishment is acceptable and does not get Leach into the present situation?

Maybe I missed it (I probably did) but somewhere there has/needs to be a remixed video of R. Kelly singing “Trapped in A Closet” starring Adam James.

@ Tanner:

Reminds me of a teacher I once worked with who had a student shooting spitwads in class. Her punishment? She got a Dixie cup and made him fill it up with spitwads. It was brilliant.

Then, of course, she was reprimanded because the student’s mother complained that he supposedly got dehydrated.

#4,

Sadly, most people who haven’t read this or at least don’t agree with it.

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/?p=1406

Even sadder that represents a majority of the population, in which I have lost all faith.

Big Jon -

That was the post that I always think of when ESPN is brought up. This latest episode from them is like putting a headline on a site or paper proclaiming guilt in 72 point font, then printing a retraction in agate type on page 3 a week later. I wouldn’t trust Ohlmeyer’s O.J. loving ass as far as I could throw him.

@20 – Leech could have handled kid James easily. If kid James complained about a concussion, he should have simply sent him to the medical staff and as soon as they cleared him to play, he would be allowed to practice like everybody else. If Leech felt that kid James was slacking off after medical staff cleared him, then a simple suspension would have done the job. During suspension, let him know he was not cutting and let him know his scholarship would not be renewed and to start looking at junior colleges. That’s it, no need for Leech to go ahole on the kid and cost his stupid self millions.

NO Excuses Dept (well just a little one):

yes, the grammar on my last post was terrible. Try writing while doing a few other things almost at the same time!

ESPN coverage troubled my household; we wanted to watch the game not hear how wonderful Craig James is.
Some may have forgotten but Craig James got caught taking money while a player under full scholarship at SMU. The School received NCAA’s death penalty and destroyed the football program.
I remember like yesterday when a 25 year old James responded “Everybody’s doing it”; that’s how he justified taking cash from booster members…
James hired the same PR Firm that swiftboated John Kerry to handle damage control – two weeks before Coach Leach was fired…check that out….
There was definitely a plan in place and the Chancelor, James, Regents, Coach Tuberville were in the know..
Leach was set up.

SKLM: He did have him evaluated by the medical staff, and he was supposed to be with the rest of the medically sidelined players. Those players players are supposed to dress out and not act like twats. James didn’t dress out and did act like a twat. If you don’t feel this is punishable, like I said before, it doesn’t really matter, since you weren’t the coach. I still really have no idea what recourse Leach has for players who have injuries. You said if he acts up once he’s uninjured, you can suspend him, but that does not adress the problem at hand. Also, if he were to suspend or pull the scholarship of James while he is injured, how does he avoid Craig James’ accusation that he did it because of the concussion?

(all grammar errors are ignored, I am typing this on an iPod and I think I’ve used a run-on, horror!)

ESPN handled the story well they presented both sides Leech’s lawyer and him have been on at least half a dozen times, ESPN has a bunch of commentators who are left-wing shitheads contstantly out racing each other to a new level of pussiness. Every network has that when you have that much opinion and commentators its mostly well opinion. Leech’sstatements were read and the opponets were read to sure the coverage I believe should have had a bit more of the Leech side but all in all it was an okay reprentation fo the facts.

@23 – 1372 comments and counting (the newest from today) on a piece from 2005. Stunning. And if nobody hires Leach, then dammit, I am going to hire him as a twat destruction enforcement officer and empower him to roam the Mississippi River on a steamboat fueled by the boiling blood of whiny, entitled people and destroy offending twats with a pine cone cannon. Does anybody have his number?

JFK has been assassinated, Michael Jackson is still dead, and ESPN’s coverage of the Texas Tech/Mike Leach breach of contract conspiracy was a typical example of what we’ve come to expect from the boys from Bristol. No need to read the sadly measured opinion of the dickless “Ombudsman”.

Saw it all live, considered the source.

@28 – Tanner – For some reason I am not with the majority of the people on this one, defending the TTech Admin, over the coach. Even my best friends side with Leach. How about Leach going to the Raiders! All of his eccentricities would fit right in with these mercenaries.

SKLM: Fair enough, but you know that Leach wants to stay in the college game so that he can give lobotomies to promising young athletes and feed their entrails to his scurvied crew. Of course, on second thought, he could probably lobotomize Russel and no one would notice, so you may be right. We be a Raidin’. Arrrghh

Le Anne Schreiber wouldn’t have pulled any punches.

Am I the only person who finds the most troubling aspect of this is that Orson thinks Norm MacDonald is funny? Norm MacDonald? The man who’s idea of comedy is, when his jokes inevitably bomb, simply to repeat the punch line over and over as if the problem was that you didn’t hear it? Seth Meyers isn’t funny, but Norm isn’t funny AND a prick.

@29 mosdog…

ESPN did NOT present both sides well. They had anti-Leach comments from one player stating we are better off without him on their screen crawler for two days. Meanwhile, ESPN never even bothered to mention the letters written by credible current and former players in regards to the trouble Adam James caused.