re: What’s the story with Craig James and the hookers?

Craig James killing five hookers is only repeated on sites like these because Jim Irsay is paying to distract from the fact that he killed at least a dozen hookers while playing for the same SMU football teams. That said, Craig James killed no less than seven hookers during his time at SMU

Craig James the guy that allegedly killed 5 hookers?

Mike Leach was a coach at Texas Tech. He had a guy on his team, Adam James, who claimed that he punished him by putting him in a shed, and putting him in an electrical closet when he had a concussion.

We say "claimed" because under further investigation, the following facts came out.

1. It wasn't a "shed" and a "closet" it was a "garage" and a "media room"

2. According to Adam's high school coach, he had a history of slacking off and blaming others for his problems.

3. At this point in the story, this isn't a story about an abusive coach, it's a story about a whiny kid who isn't putting in a full effort.

4. Enter Adam's dad, Craig James, an ESPN analyst and former SMU football player.

5. Because of Craig's position at ESPN, his son's version of the story was very widely spread, damaging Leach pretty heavily and eventually requiring him to resign from his job at Texas Tech.

Most casual sports fans thought that Leach went overboard with the kid and that his firing was appropriate... because all that came out on the story in the in the mainstream news was Adam/Craig's side.

Looking more into it, it seems like the whole story was the kid hadn't been putting in much effort, and you ask the other kids on the team, you ask the other coaches, you even ask the kid's doctor and nobody has a problem with what happened. But Leach lost a good job where lots of people liked him, and it came close to ending his career.

The more-serious sports fans--the ones you find on message boards in the off-season, have looked at the whole story and understand this isn't about bad-guy Mike Leach, it's about Craig James damaging Leach's career by spreading exaggerated and poorly-founded allegations. Someone, somewhere, decided the appropriate response would be to make up an allegation about Craig James, and start spreading it.

This started years ago, and at the point where it is now, there are probably many who, like you, don't really understand where it came from.

The Mike Leach Firing: Testimonies and Videos that Show Leach Is Innocent

Will I ruin the fun if I mentioned this may or may not have been before google realized that message board bars could manipulate their trending search topics?

I have a theory that Craig James (the one who killed five hookers) came up with this convoluted story about leach (the guy who did not kill five hookers) because the fact that Craig James killed 5 hookers was about to become national news. In order to keep the world from knowing Craig James killed 5 hookers at smu Craig James (yes, the one who killed 5 hookers) had his son Adam James (the son of the guy who killed five hookers) get leach (the one who did not kill 5 hookers) fired.

Come on, we call them sex workers these days.

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Someone, somewhere, decided the appropriate response would be to make up an allegation about Craig James, and start spreading it.

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I was(n't) attending TTU at the time of the Adam James controversy. He and I often did (not) cross paths. He told me many times when we did(n't) hang out that his father, Craig James did in fact kill at least 5 hookers.

Allegedly Craig James allegedly killed 5 alleged hookers while at SMU allegedly.

Is that signature real? My Lord, that is awesome!