Former Kay staffer Matt Mackowiak made a tweet today that got me remembering something (link). His tweet...
Wait, why did Rick Perry fire Mike Leach??
Mike Leach of course if the Texas Tech head football coach... or was until today... he was fired. Kay's former staffer was actually RT-ing... known as retweeting... something another anti-Rick person TXFrontiersman who strangely uses Rick's campaign manager as his profile picture (link)... he claims his name is Danny Bennett, but Rick's campaign manager is named Rob Johnson... many people have pointed out how weird and stalkerish that is but he persists in using the image of his enemy... pretty odd if you ask me.
I seem to remember Rick tweeting out a picture of himself with Mike Leach at one of his campaign events but I couldn't find it because the twitter search is so bad, and it is hard to go back and look for old tweets manually as well... I am fairly certain I remember this being tweeted though...
I did a few more searches and found the picture from the top of this blog of Rick and Mike Leach together from Flickr (link)... I also found Mike Leach on Rick's finance leadership team list which means that the picture was probably taken at one of Rick's fund raising events (link)...
Back to the original question... a lot of Texas Tech fans are really mad about Mike Leach being fired... knowing Rick and Mike Leach are buds, will politics come into play in the blowback? A lot of people are calling for the Texas Tech athletic director's head right now, but maybe tempers will cool down after a while... football is a big deal though and it currently looks like Texas Tech's A.D. is messing with their big football hero so they didn't have to pay him 800,000 dollars at the end of the year...
By all accounts Mike Leach was the best coach Texas Tech has ever had or could have and he was fired much too hastily even if he did act insensitively toward a player who was injured. Expect major major ramifications for this... as Texas Monthly sez, the pirate is under attack and people are not happy (link). Excerpt follows...
But a pattern of abuse like what Kansas head football coach Mark Mangino is alleged to be guilty of? There is no evidence at all for it. Not only have many of Leach’s former players already come forward to defend him, but testimonials popping up on the Internet are running roughly 100 to 1 in favor of Leach and against his bosses, Texas Tech’s athletic director Gerald Myers and Tech Chancellor Kent Hance. (This estimate is, of course, highly unscientific.)
Based on what I have observed it is more than 100 to 1 now that Leach has actually been fired... maybe more like 5,000 to 1... people think Mike Leach got the shaft and are more than just a little bit angry about it...
Matt Makowiack? Isn't he the guy who said he represented Michael Williams and then their campaign had to vehemently deny it? If he says he worked for Hutchinson, can you believe it?
ReplyDeleteI mis-stated the position that Myers held but fixed it just now...
ReplyDeleteMisleading headline. You make it sound like Rick Perry had something to do with Mike Leach being fired, instead of the opposite, which is that they are good friends. Anything to get readers I guess.
ReplyDeleteKAY BAILEY HUTCHISON WAS SPOTTED AT THE ALAMOBOWL GAME TEXAS TECH VERSUS MICHIGAN STATE IN A LUXURY SUITE WITH KENT HANCE AND GUY BAILEY!!!!!! I THINK WE KNOW WHO IS WITH THEM, AND WHO IS WITH MIKE LEACH. RICK PERRY IS ON MIKE LEACH'S SIDE. SENATOR HUTCHISON IS ON KENT HANCE'S SIDE!!!!!!
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