re: Leach fired!

When someone reaches a certain age their dad needs to stop fighting their battles, Adam James is a grown arse man that still runs to daddy. He is a D-1 football player he is more than capable to stand up for himself.

frick that Adam James kid. I hope people never let him forget about this bullshite.

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Adam James is a grown arse man

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clearly, this is not the truth.

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If Tulane wouldn't hire Rich Rod because he is Mexican

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his family is from spain, messicans ant that light skinned

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his family is from spain, messicans ant that light skinned

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Many are

I just got done reading through the contract and as we all know, Leach stands to receive an $800,000 bonus if he was still the head coach as of December 31, 2009. No where in the contract is there anything stated about if Leach is the coach within a certain amount of time around the 31st that he will receive such a bonus. The argument Tech is trying to make is that they fired Leach "with cause" which would be grounds for immediate termination of the contract without any further compensation. Leach's side is claiming he was fired "without cause" which as stated in his contract he would receive $400,000 for every remaining year on his contract which amounts to about $1.6MM to be paid in a lump sum within 30 days of his termination.

In other words.....Leach is fired and it sounds like he wants his $800,000 bonus and his $1.6MM. This will most likely go to court and turn into a he said she said between Leach, the James family and Texas Tech and a jury will decide whether Tech fired Leach with or without cause which will determine whether or not Tech has to pay.

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No where in the contract is there anything stated about if Leach is the coach within a certain amount of time around the 31st that he will receive such a bonus.

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I still haven't read the contract, but I did read the blog article that discussed it at length. I understood the blog article to say that there was a cure period in the contract, which is common in service contracts, although not as much in employment contracts. Usually, the provision will say that if there's a default the Tech party will notify the Leach party and give him 10 days to cure the default. If he fails to cure, then he can be fired. In the type of situation we have here, it is likely that the Tech party would say that Leach could not cure, which people always say. I've been on both sides of the argument and can see the view of both sides. But a 10-day cure period is kind of odd in a personal services contract. The Tech lawyer who let that in the contract is the one who should be fired.

EDIT: I guess I should add that Leach is probably saying that he can't be fired until 10 days after the "notice" of the default, which means he can't be fired until after December 31, and, therefore, he's entitled to the $800,000 bonus.

Damn the Texas Tech DT went off on Mike Leach.

Yeah there is a cure period which Tech should be contractually obligated to follow:

V. Termination

A. FOR CAUSE

The University specifically reserves the right to terminate the Agreement for Cause. “Cause” is hereby defined as: Coach’s violation of any material provision of this Agreement, provided however, that if such violation is capable of being cured, University shall allow Coach ten (10) business days to cure such violation, provided, however, that if such violation can be reasonably cured, but cannot be cured within ten (10) business days, Coach shall have a reasonable period of time to cure such violation.

In his affidavit Coach Leach states that he was unaware of any violations he had made, nor was he made aware of them in his suspension letter. It sounds like you were right and Tech will probably say Leach couldn't cure the situation but that reasonable time clause opens back up a window.

The Texas Tech Center agrees with the firing as well.

Doesn't look good for Leach.