Leach case update
The lawyers are doing battle in Lubbock now that Mike Leach has filed his breach of contract and defamation case against Texas Tech University. One of the claims is that the administration’s conduct was so much mis-conduct, that the state statute that caps the university’s liability should be inapplicable. Also, Craig James has refuted a letter written by TT’s associate general counsel to the Texas Attorney General claiming that James threatened his own lawsuit against Texas Tech if they did not take action against Leach for allegedly abusing (and we use that word loosely) his son Adam.
On top of all that, the ESPN ombudsman, Don Ohlmeyer, to whom we lodged our complaint of the network’s reporting of this mess, has agreed that ESPN botched the Leach story. In a column probably too lengthy for a television networks’ executives to read, Ohlmeyer calls the ESPN treatment more biased than balanced. See his remarks here.
Meanwhile, Leach has moved to Key West and his sunning himself there. Which is what pirates do in the off-season.
-Mike