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There, I said it.

Mike Leach is getting absolutely killed during tonight’s broadcast of the Alamo Bowl. Mike Patrick–Craig James’s usual broadcast partner–has become a de-facto advocate for Adam James and Bob Davie, who spent much more time preparing for the Texas Bowl, is using his status as James’s replacement to play off of Patrick. It’s like a bad buddy-cop movie broadcasting a football game.

The worst part might have been near the end of the first half when Davie said that it must be hard for Leach to realize that it’s over and that he was watching his own football team on television. Yes, that’s probably pretty hard to take, but my guess is that when Davie said that, Leach was in the bathroom puking in disgust from all of the James fellatio that had previously occurred.

ESPN did a great job of ignoring the topic in the first part of the broadcast, and I’m sure that the overtime Liberty Bowl helped. But once the second quarter was underway, it was open season on Mike Leach.

At the very least, ESPN could have clarified on numerous occasions that Craig James worked for the network. Instead, it acted as if that point was known by the viewing audience, while also acting like none of the details–with plenty of pro-Adam James commentary and sidebars–of the past week were known by viewers.

Despicable.