http://www.theeagle.com/stories/100806/local_20061008003.php
I didn't know the Cass family at all, but I know Tim Cass did a lot for Texas A&M, and not just with the tennis team. I found this kind of upsetting.
If that's the case, then local political stuff cost A&M a good coach.
I didn't know the Cass family at all, but I know Tim Cass did a lot for Texas A&M, and not just with the tennis team. I found this kind of upsetting.
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As District Judge Rick Davis was being served with papers last month charging him with using his office to carry out vendettas against his enemies, former assistant district attorney Laura Cass was beginning to settle in at her new home in Albuquerque, N.M.
Cass had left College Station days earlier, joining her husband - former Aggie tennis coach Tim Cass - after weeks of staying behind to close out her private law office.
The move came, she said, after five years of being unwillingly cast in the spotlight as one of Davis' "enemies," five years that included being compared to a Nazi, labeled a racist and accused of flirting with a judge who once sided against Davis.
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Cass said she and her husband first started considering a move in earnest about eight months ago, when she stopped taking court-appointed cases and the two found out there was going to be a change in administration at the University of New Mexico, their alma mater.
During his 10 years at A&M, Tim Cass led the tennis team to win 70 percent of its matches - a program best. The team's fan base grew to record numbers for the school and was considered by some to be one of the best in the country.
In New Mexico, he was recruited to serve as senior associate athletic director, a job he started this summer.
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That made accepting the job and giving up her practice, despite all their ties to Aggieland, the right choice, she said. No doubt, the new opportunity is exciting for the couple, she said, but without Davis' antagonism there wouldn't have been much reason to leave the area.
"Tim had a great job [at A&M] and he loved the people he worked with," she said. "There was nothing about his job at A&M that made him want to leave."
As for her career, Cass said she isn't yet licensed to practice law in New Mexico, but she plans to take the bar exam in February. Starting from scratch with a new practice and no legal contacts will be a daunting task, she said, but it's something she looks forward to.
She's especially excited about the opportunity to operate a private practice unencumbered for the first time, she said, from the constant accusations of a judge.
"We're going to be happy here, but it would have been nice not to have to do this," she said. "I'm glad that they're going to file charges. I guess I'm just frustrated that it's taken so long.
If that's the case, then local political stuff cost A&M a good coach.