re: Why isn't Mike Leach considered for more jobs?

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constant job shopping while at Tech.

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Over the next two hours, James remained alone, standing in the darkened media room. At one point, unbeknownst to anyone else, he entered the electrical closet, closed himself inside and used his phone to record a short video of himself. "I'll turn the lights on real quick," he said into the microphone on his phone. "So I got to be . . . I got to be fast." When asked later why he made the video, he responded, "So I could show my friends."

Early that evening, Craig and Marilyn James had just sat down for dinner at a restaurant when Marilyn got a call from Adam. She asked how things went at practice. He reported that he'd been confined again. This time she put her foot down.

"This will stop," she told Adam. Craig looked on.

"You're an adult," Marilyn continued. "But you are still our child. We are going to put a stop to this."

Craig agreed. "We never dreamed he would put him back in dark, solitary confinement," he said.

They decided to approach Tech's chancellor, Kent Hance. Earlier in the season James had met Hance briefly after a game, but he didn't know how to reach him. However, Marilyn had a connection to the vice chairman of Tech's board of trustees, Larry Anders. She called a friend, and within thirty minutes Craig received a call from Anders. He was at a wedding reception in Dallas at the Belo Mansion & Pavilion for Texas governor Rick Perry's son. Kent Hance was there, too. James told Anders that his son had been mistreated twice and he wanted the chancellor to put a stop to it.

After speaking to James, Anders cornered Hance. "We've got a problem," he began.

Hance said he'd handle it. He ducked out of the reception and called Leach. He explained that the James family had made a complaint. The idea that Craig James had gone to the board of regents set Leach off. He decided he'd had enough of Adam James. "I'm going to kick him off the team tonight," Leach said.

"You can't do that," Hance said.

Leach rattled off a series of issues with Craig and Adam James, including the time Adam broke a door at the coach's office.

"Well, hell, you should have kicked him off the team back when he did those things," Hance said. "But you can't do it now."

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