I can't imagine anyone being interested in anything this woman has to say. Read her depostions in the Leach case and you will clearly see she is a total moron. Someone in Congress is trying to make a laughing stock out of Tech.

Since when is a lawyer qualified to testify about a medical condition or the treatment thereof, unless he/she is a medical doctor. And why would anyone be testifying to Congress about this case anyway? I would think there is plenty more important things Congress should be doing. Did Congress move its offices to New York City from Washington, D.C.?

I was kind of wondering about why a lawyer who dealt with one concussion, that I know of, would be giving testimony before Congress also.

About the only thing I can figure out is that it has some arcane link to the TTU/Leech debacle. Someone, somewhere, with some political pull must think that her testimony will impact things somehow.

Now, before anyone jumps on me, I wouldn't give my least favorite rodent's rectum for either side of the Leech/TTU bruhaha, but I can't figure out any other reason for her being invited/called to testify.

Maybe she's done lots of concussion investigations that I don't know about.

I don't think so! Where did this story come from? She may have been sent to a NLF meeting on the east coast but once any panel sees her qualfications they'll be hopping mad, which only further denigrates TTU - which also puts us here in the South Plains in the classification of "fools" on a national level.

Isn't Bingham the one they send out on all sorts of miscellaneous missions? I do think so!

Yes, just like the congressional committee hearing held in Lubbock last week at the Museum. They're called "field hearings."

This one was in New York. As the attorney said. This is the first time somebody has really pieced together the sworn testimonies in the case that demonstrate the discrepancy between what the events were at the time, as recalled by the witnesses, versus what Leach is saying now" .

This from the ESPN story on the hearings: "Anders' response states that despite being told explicitly by trainers that Adam James had suffered a concussion, Leach thought James was faking the injury, head trainer Steve Pincock said in a sworn testimony.

"Now, in this lawsuit, Mike Leach is trying to reconstruct the events to say that he did believe there was a concussion and what he did to Adam James was some sort of bizarre form of treatment for Adam James' light sensitivity," Rasch said. "We think the sworn testimony makes it very clear that Leach, by all the questions he asked and the statements he made, thought Adam James was faking it, he treated it as if he were faking it, he tried to punish and humiliate him by making him stand in a dark shed for several hours during football practice."

At Leach is getting his name in the press.

So is Congress going to decide this case? or ESPN?

I quote: "Texas Tech acted swiftly and appropriately in December when it suspended and eventually fired former head football coach Mike Leach for mistreating a player with a concussion."

Boy, do I feel better knowing that our congress has nothing more pressing to worry about than keeping Tech's football players safe from harm. . . They've certainly got their finger on the pulse of this country, so we can all rest easier at night . . .

Another sucker punch from the rear by Tech. Any and all tactics allowed when you take on the State .

I almost think there should be a law against people commenting on something they don't know enough about to comment on.

Those who went to law school, but not medical school, and have no medical license should not be making medical treatment decisions... Didn't Leach go to law school, but never went to medical school, and NEVER received any valid license to practice medicine in Texas? Is a declaration that someone is "faking" a concussion a medical diagnosis?

At least while congressmen are spending time on this issue, there are a few minutes that they can't be damaging our health care system, raising our taxes, or trying to create laws that would violate the First Amendment to the constitution by restricting people's comments.

The more Leach keeps up this charade, the more people find out what a jerk he was and how many different ways and times he screwed up.

Knowing how much Leach loves reading his own clippings, he's probably happy he's still in the news, even though he gets crucified the more the facts come out.

Who'd thought Leach's misgivings would be discussed by Congress. Too darn funny that Leach is getting raked over by everybody. Good riddance to him.

Thank you Kent Hance and regents for ridding us of this fool.

More bad publicity for the ol' Pirate new By CommonSenseRedRaider | 05/25/10 - 11:04

Thank you Kent Hance and regents for ridding us of this fool. --------------------------------------------------------------------

CommonSense, thank you for pointing out what we should all be saying after reading that article. Thank you, Hance and Co.

We now have a respected coach at Tech, and one who is selling more tickets, signing more recruits and raising more money at this point in time than anything Leach ever did in 10 years. Awesome. Go Tu[filtered word] Go Tech!

Screwed up. Got fired. End of discussion.

What I got out of this article was..not much but that is beside the point...the 'hearing' was about head injuries in football, a widely known hazard when you hit something or someone with your head. Then it goes on to say that Adam James had a concussion with light sensitivity...(seems as though, and I dont have an MD, just an EMT-P and a PHD in motherhood, that if the light hurts your eyes, you stay out of it)...then....that Texas Tech did the right thing by firing Leach. How did we go from one to the other? If the hearing was on head injuries....surely Tech is not the only school to have its players suffering head injuries. Why was Tech brought up in the first place? Sounds like Charlotte was trying to drag Tech before the nation...keeping the pot stirred up lest we forget how stupidly Hance and his cronies acted then and are now trying to cover their tracks.

I also find it breathtaking that we have a Congressional forum about concussions in football (a very generalized phenomenon across the country) that seems to be serving as an uncritical stage for TTU to present its side of the Mike Leach/Adam James story. It comes across as a paid infomercial rather than an investigative forum.

I find it ironic Leach supporters discredit Bingham's concussion report, and support Leach's concussion report, even though both have the same expertise as a lawyer. Clinicians should make clinical decisions.

As intelligent as Leach is supposed to be, he made quite a few bad decisions and dug his own grave. He could not accept the fact he had to answer to superiors. Too bad.

I had a sub arachnoid brain hemorrhage and my room/ICU area was kept dark. This doc is full of it.

Mojo, You gave the idiot too much credit. He didn't even have to be smart. If Leach had any some common sense, he wouldn't have directed the staff to "tell the doctors no more concussions around here."

Leach isn't smart, and more folks are seeing that. As evidence you can see the positive results in ticket sales, recruiting, donations, excitement, etc. To deny the obvious only confirms the hilarious TeamLooney agenda to ignore facts and reach for any conspiracy theory to throw out there.

FAIR PLAY OR POWER PLAY? YAY LEACH

Seems to me that Bingham testifing about Leach before congress has some legal ramifications since it is an on going legal case here in Lubbock. Congress has been told TTU side of the story. The facts are not really know yet until they come out in court. I appears Hance is trying to sway his Washington buddies.