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The trouble with Mike Leach

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The mess in Lubbock is unfortunate. Mike Leach was always a guy who was accountable to no one. That’s never a good idea when you’re dealing with college athletics. There are, I’m sure, two sides to every story. I grew up during a time when coaches grabbed face masks, gave swats, kicked desks and threw chalkboard erasers at sleeping players. If you want mistreatment of college athletes read “Meat on the Hoof” sometime. That said , there just isn’t room for the kind of antics Leach employed at Tech. They are antiquated and kids today don’t respond to that kind of approach. This was good fodder for a sports cartoon.

Just a side note. Today’s cartoon was drawn completely on computer on a tablet called the Cintiq. It’s amazing what technology can do.

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4 thoughts on “The trouble with Mike Leach”

  1. Good Morning from Omaha,

    great toon drew. and all on a computer?

    you are indeed a renaissance man, on the edge of technology.

    and there are 3 sides to every side of a story. your side, their side and somewhere in between, the truth.

    strive for excellence, nothing but you best.

    Gene

  2. Wow. Here comes Drew again thinking he knows all of the “antics” Leach played out during his time at Tech. Though his cartoon wasn’t funny, it is funny to me that ESPN and the media at large seem to believe the words of a punk kid and meddlesome father, a couple of his friends on the team, and team staffers who supported Leach up until a couple of days ago (assuming jobs were threatened by administration).

    I think all parties are at fault here, but I question which methods Drew knows of are “antiquated”? I’m fairly certian programs like Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, USC, and others practice seemingly “antiquated” discipline methods, but I wouldn’t expect a cartoonist in Colorado to understand what big time programs are like.

  3. jhan,

    Snarkiness is really futile. Let me ask you this. Have you heard one single player come forward to say that they loved playing for Mike Leach and his firing is the fault of some “punk” kid and a few trainers who feared for their jobs? (For good reason I might add)

    Mike Leach was one loss away from loping off his ear and mailing it to the Texas Tech president. Better they fired him now than to wait for his inevitable Woody Hayes meltdown on national TV.

    Not even Bobby Knight stuck a player in a darkened shed. A few members of the media maybe, but that’s a whole different story.

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