Yup, the prick brought this on himself. I haven't bothered reading much about the whole situation but from what I've seen/read he got what he deserved.

I'd hope if he tried something like that with one of my boys they would have told him to pack sand up his ass.

What confuses me, is how can you fire someone over allegations? Seems to me, the investigation hasn't concluded, evidenced by..."while the school investigated allegations."

Let that be a lesson to everyone, don't lock people in electrical closets.

Because they have to pay him 800k.

If the allegations are true it's pretty hard to believe how people stick up for Leech. Not only what he did was stupid it was also a crime.

Boy, I'm glad I wasn't around in those days.

He wasn't locked in a room. He was told he had to stay in the room, which is right off the practice field, so he would be near the team while they practiced. He wasn't locked in the room. He was told if he left the room and left practice he would be suspended or kicked off the team. The reason the room was dark, I don't think it has been clarified how dark, was because James claimed to have light sensitivity issues, so he was told to go into the equipment room rather then stay out in the Texas sun. The guard was a graduate/training assistant.

Also, Craig James is a slimeball that got paid tens of thousands of dollars to play football at SMU. He was one of the reasons their entire program got the death penalty.

After the contract negotiations and contentious relationship he had with the school and the girlfriend comments earlier this year etc., this was always coming.

TT was just waiting for something else to happen so they could deliver the killshot.

Similar to Bobby Knight and IU...all they did was wait for something, anything to get rid of him and voila.
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It's no problem. Kids will always fall over themselves to go to Lubbock, TX. Who wouldn't?

Have you got a link for this information?

How are you possibly capable of pretending that there is no comparison possible between Bobby Knight and Mike Leach. Knight reportedly did all of the following in his career:

• Punched and choked IU's Sports Information Director
• Assaulted a police officer in PR
• Fined for various game outbusts including throwing the chair, hitting a phone on the scorers table, pulling his team off the court duing a exhibition game
• Told rape victims to "relax and enjoy it" on national TV
• Kicked his own son (or his chair) during a game
• Head-butted his own player
• Choked his own player during a practice
• Physically threatened his own AD
• Phsically threatend and threw a potted plant at his own office assistant
• Threw his own assistant coach out of his chair
• Grabbed a random student shaking him for saying "what's up knight" or some such
• Was restrained by police to keep him from going after a heckling fan (while at TT)
• Fired a shotgun toward a hunter he was arguing with

Mike Leach is far from having the ugly record that Bob Knight had when he was hired at TT.

Locking someone in a closet is a crime? My brother should have gone to jail several years before he actually did. Stupid, yes, but a crime?
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I have read it from about ten thousand different sources over the last few days. I am not going to go to the trouble to dig it all up. A local news station even did a segment on these tiny "closets." That is online as well.

This looks a lot more like an easy excuse to do what the AD wanted to do last year. That's fine. But let's not make this into something so abhorrent (even in the worst possible scenario) that TT can't employ someone who has that history of behavior.

A kid doing it to another kid is not remotely the same as a person who is an authority figure over you doing it to you.