Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Mike Leach: "My Biggest Regret Was Not Cutting Adam James..."

((HT: SI.com))

Former Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach's new book is out...

"Swing Your Sword" could be a metaphor for a lot of different things, but obviously, the biggest story that Leach could tell in this one was the run-in with the James Gang and how the whole Adam-and-Craig against Leach element came to be...

From the book...

As a coach, you want it to work out. We invested a lot of time in coaching Adam James. We worked hard to try to rehabilitate him to make him a working part of the team. We thought he may have simply been the victim of his dad's little-league father tendencies, and that he'd eventually find a way to be his own, independent person. But that didn't turn out to be the case. I should've cut my losses, but I was really hoping that he'd improve and stuck with him.

Here's the video that Adam cut that started everything...
((HT: scottsterdotcom))

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