re: Favorite unfounded rumors and conspiracies in sports

Love when this thread gets bumped.

I was hanging out with my uncle from Lubbock over the holidays, and he claimed several people told him that prominent Texas Tech boosters were working on bringing Mike Leach back after the 2020 season.

Tech fans were already fed up with Matt Wells, and Leach was having a rough first season in Starkville, so the big money guys believed they could smooth things out between Leach and the university enough to make the move.

No clue if Leach showed any interest, but the rumor supposedly sparked the reports in November 2020 that Wells could be forced out soon. Kirby Hocutt or someone else at Tech caught wind of all this, and shut it down before it went any further.