... season, Texas Tech University found itself in quite a conundrum.

Wanting to keep their head coach, but fighting to keep themselves from overextending a lucrative contract to a coach that hasn’t produced an outright Big XII South title, Big XII title or even a BCS bowl appearance.

Yet, Tech still wanted Mike Leach at an astronomical price, and Leach stated publicly he wanted to continue his program in Lubbock.

Outcries came from both sides though suggest differently; whether it was Chancellor Kent Hance’s stance that if Leach did not sign by a specific date he would be fired or by Leach’s departure during bowl preparations for an interview with the ...

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