Leach's lawyers: Ex-coach fired over $$

Attorneys for Mike Leach claim in new court filings that a day after signing a new contract last year a top Texas Tech administrator and two members of its board of regents "secretly agreed" to fire him before the school had to pay him an $800,000 bonus.

Information in the documents filed Friday came from depositions and electronic communications between university officials that Leach's attorneys have gathered in his lawsuit against the university.

Leach was fired Dec. 30, two days after he was suspended following a claim from the family of receiver Adam James that the coach mistreated the player after he got a concussion. Leach has denied he mistreated James.

The filing also adds Craig James and several university officials and regents as defendants.