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DENNIS DODD RIPS TEXAS TECH’S MIKE LEACH OVER MEDIA POLICY
http://www.sportsline.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6270202/9463227
If it’s Big 12 Media Day time, it must be time for some national writer to lament, bemoan and otherwise bitch about Texas Tech Head Coach Mike Leach and his media policy. This time it is CBS Sportsline writer Dennis Dodd who is upset that he went all the way to Kansas City and didn’t get to talk to Tech QB Graham Harrell and WR Michael Crabtree. Dodd can’t fathom the idea of coming to Lubbock and quite frankly I don’t think Lubbock is too keen on whether Dodd makes the trip out or not, as we’ve got enough hot air blowing around here as it is in July.
Dodd nearly goes to the point of threatening not to consider Tech players for national awards because of this slight and tries to make a case for other coaches to negatively recruit Tech by saying you can’t get pub in Lubbock. Hmm, that really seemed to hurt Belitnikoff winner Crabtree last year, didn’t it?
Tech fans will get pissed and rightfully so with some of the comments but by now they should come to expect that with Leach’s policy there’s going to be some of this. Win and it won’t matter. Don’t win and it won’t matter either whether Harrell or Crabtree made the trip to K.C. as they won’t be in consideration for any awards anyhow.
It boils down to a national writer basically exposing himself and his buddies by saying they’ll cover stuff if it’s convenient to them and if they are catered to they’ll consider that school for awards, but if it doesn’t work for them, screw the kids and the schools and in reality, the readers and the fans. In the end, it’s the fans that lose out ‘cause they get less information about their favorite team.
Get ready for more of the same stuff though Tech fans as the season goes along. National media took pot-shots at Bill Snyder and Kansas State when they were winning for his policies and they’ll do the same this year to Mike Leach and Texas Tech.
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