Texas Tech Appeals Ruling On Leach Lawsuit

LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech is appealing a judge's decision to allow former football coach Mike Leach to sue for breach of contract.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office filed a notice of appeal for the school Wednesday.

District Judge William Sowder last month struck down Texas Tech's claim of sovereign immunity on Leach's breach of contract claim.

The school fired Leach on Dec. 30, two days after suspending him amid allegations he mistreated a player with a concussion. Leach denies mistreating receiver Adam James and suspects an $800,000 bonus he was to have received Dec. 31 was the reason he was fired.

James is the son of former NFL player and ESPN analyst Craig James.

Comments

[DevonTexas]

02:09 PM on 07/02/2010

" Texas Tech's claim of sovereign immunity "

They couldn't come up with something better than that!?! Fire the lawyer!

[FTAC 2001]

09:33 AM on 07/02/2010

Damn dirt monkeys

[REDSTATEREFUGEE]

10:13 PM on 07/01/2010

For those of you fortunate enough never to have resided in West Texas, football in that vacant region of the Southwest is virtually a religion. Many of that region's residents might not be able to locate Iraq and Afghanistan on a world globe or name any of the current Supreme Court justices, but can probably identify the first string starters on their local football team.

[j v t]

12:40 AM on 07/02/2010

I am a student at Texas Tech University and life-long resident of Lubbock and I find your comment a bit offensive. To stereotype the population of an entire region and to speculate that they are uneducated because of demographics is unfair. Yes, I can locate Iraq, Afghanistan, and any other country you want pinpointed on a globe and I can name all of the Supreme Court justices (including opinions and landmark cases in great detail). The point that I am trying to make is that I am a well-rounded, educated person, not a football worshiper in a small, Texas dirt-town, and there are MANY more like me. Football is important to our university, but what university doesn’t take pride in their athletes? Indeed, there may be football fanatics here, as there are everywhere else in the United States, but there are also those who actually care about more important issues, such as education, politics, public health, the environment, and humanitarianism. To stereotype people in this manner only makes you sound as uneducated as the people you are trying to put down. To be clear, I am by no means calling you uneducated, just that your comment can be interpreted that way.

[DevonTexas]

02:11 PM on 07/02/2010

is it a sterotype when it's true!? Come on! It's Texas! It's football!? Get Real! There are parents who hold their boys back a year from starting school so they'll be bigger and get to play football in Middle School, increasing the chance for High School and College football!

[VictorMature]

03:11 PM on 07/05/2010

As a Texan and die hard Texas Tech Red Raider fan, I wish that coach Leach was still around and none of this mess ever happened. From reading and re-reading what Adam James was subjected to, it is obvious that no harm was intended for or brought upon James in any manner that would warrant what Leach has been put through.

Coach should at least be paid the $800,000 that is rightfully his.