Whitefang Does anyone here understand the Leach firing?[/quote wrote:
To me the incident seems like grounds for, "Hey, coach, do you really think this is the best punishment for X?" Where X is the player's actions. The whole situation seems very weird and it's always possible there's more than meets the eye.
So is it PC ways gone amok or does everyone think this was a serious offense?
In this case, it wasn't punishment that the coach was giving out. But put them in place after Adam James was mistreated by Leach after suffering a concussion.
Yes a concussion can be serious thing, but from what I read and there is a video of the said rooms that James was put in and it was nothing what the James family said it was.
I will try to post the video later, when I can. This came down to a coach said, vs player said.
From my take, Adam James has been a lazy jerk that felt that he should have got more playing time. I think he ran to this daddy for help in trying to get it or James look at this to get back at Leach for not letting him play. Since his dad works for ESPN, it was a clear way to go after the coach and use his dad and the company that he works for to go after Leach.
I really don't think this was a PC thing, but more like crap hit the fan kind of deal.
It may be that Myers may feel that paying Leach $20-30 million down the road if they lost a lawsuit in court is better than possibly having to pay the James family $100-200 million in a lawsuit over what may or may not have happened and possibly losing $200-500 million in endowments and the like from people who either are anti-sports or who think sports are overblown, even if it means losing SOME booster money over this.
I think that if this happen to a player that his dad didn't work for a sport news company, it would have went away. I think that the James family would have use ESPN as gain to throw whatever they could to make the coach look bad.
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