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  1. 4 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:


    He was starting to get better recruits when he was fired from Tech. At least in my mind. I can’t remember that far back and didn’t keep up with it then.

    Mike didn't play with spares at TT as much is the general belief   While he had his share, the 2004 class as an example contained 4 four stars and a 5 star.  The 06 class had 4 four stars and so on.  Nothing spectacular, just not quite the rag tag bunch so many seem to recollect

  2. 13 hours ago, Dirk X West said:

    So, Jett Duffey said he's grad transferring to Tulane, but it seems it fell through because his grades weren't good enough.

    Not sure I've ever heard of this before.

    Source: QB Jett Duffey not coming to Tulane; Texas Tech grad transfer denied academic admission

    True or not, don't know, but I've read Tulane has acceptance rate of 17%.  Read a post by a guy says his buddy was accepted by a number of Stanford, types, but denied by Tulane.

    That said, former TT RB, Cory Dauphine, transferred there and I'm pretty sure he was quite a ways away from being a Rhodes Scholar.  So who knows?

     

     

  3. 4 hours ago, Disco Strangler said:

    Lubbock, Corvallis, Starkville.  Leach definitely has a type.  

     

    4 hours ago, Cajun said:

    I'm not so sure it's Leach who has that type, more like that type has it for Leach.

    Yeah, lets pretend Lubbock, Pullman and Starkville are all the same and forget about the fact Lubbock is literally 10 times bigger than the other two.

  4. 5 hours ago, Iceman said:

    It is beyond me how people who supposedly study college basketball are surprised at what a Chris Beard team does on the court.

    The "picked 7th in the Big XII' last season was one mistake, but why would anyone ever discount what the fuck Coach Beard is going to get out of his squad.

    The cupboard was never empty.  It is regenerating even stronger now.

    I don't see how people are surprised... another fucking opponent taps out.

    Guy from The Athletic who, preseason,  picked Tech 9th in Big 12 race this year.  As conference play begins, he reassesses.  He starts out:

    Dear Chris Beard and Texas Tech fans,

    This is mostly for you.  I overreacted.

    https://theathletic.com/1505138/2020/01/03/reassessing-the-big-12-race-with-conference-play-looming/?source=shared-article

     

  5. The kicker is there's a chance Bowman might transfer as well.  Hello Maverick and Donavan Smith.  And there's  a better than decent chance TT loses a commitment this week end.  Pretty good player too.  All in all, things are going pretty well.

  6. 8 hours ago, DeadArmadillo said:

    I blocked butt fumble.  One of the reasons is that he fabricates stuff to draw attention to himself.  I almost opened on of his posts the other day.  I'm glad I didn't because when you quoted him I was again able to see him make something up and see if someone would believe him

    He's a true idiot.

  7. 15 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Then why are the Tech recruits rated higher?

    Let's not pretend shall we that numbers of recruits is not a significant element of the recruiting process. KK was criticized widely for nor not signing full classes.

    Also, KU's football program has long been synonymous at this point with football ineptitude.  As such, tough recruiting sell.  The fact they're recruiting better football players than Texas Tech currently is not lost on many.

     

     

  8. 36 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Well the KSU coach happens to be really good and he wasn't ever going to come to a place like Tech. It doesn't hurt that they also happened to return 10 of 11 defensive starters.

    Yeah, he would have never considered a place like Tech coming from the big time football factory that he did.  Your inferiority complex is showing.  TT pays top 5 money to the AD, basketball coach and baseball coach and we couldn't get a better football coach.  You're delusional.

  9. 3 hours ago, DonnyKerabatsos said:

    Tech lost to Kansas... color me shocked the crowds didnt show out loud and proud.

    Wells' believers and Kirby both should have been very proud of that one.  It was one of three wins for KU.--and they're still beating the hell out of Wells recruiting-wise.

  10. 5 hours ago, Dirk X West said:

    He had one mediocre hire at Miami, and his one bad one at Tech was the guy that 99.99% of all people involved with Tech in capacity wanted as HC at the time. 

    We have to wait and see what happens with Wells.  Believe or not, there have been many successful head coaches that had a losing season at the start of their tenure at a particular school.  There are two very good coaches in our league that are good examples of this, namely Campbell and Rhule. 

    That hardly constitutes a pattern that would allow a rational person to conclude that "Hocutt can't hire football coaches".

    And, yes, Tubby Smith rescued Tech men's basketball from the dumpster fire that started with Pat Knight, not BCG.

    I understand completely a single initial season is not the sole indicator of a coach's ability and a transitional phase is not uncommon.  

    Compare Well's season with that of KSU's new coach as an example.  There is no comparison.   There was just very little impressive about Well's first season IMO.  Hard for me to imagine how your view is that Hocutt"s pattern of football hires doesn't constitute a pattern.  This, when he's never made a good football  hire.

  11. 9 hours ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    I don't get anyone crapping on Wells after his first year.

    Recruiting at Tech has been awful the past 3 years.

    They could easily got a few breaks this year and been 8-4. The Baylor game was stolen from them on the road.

     

    Wells can coach, players love him and recruiting has picked up significantly. His blue collar approach will work with the kids all over West Texas, he just needs time to get enough of them into his system of doing things.  If your looking for a nine win team anytime soon, join the club.

    What makes you think Wells can coach?  Lots of losing the last 5 years

    He just needs time.  "Recruiting has picked up significantly".  What make believe world are you living in?  Rivals has them ranked 8th in the conference currently.  Makes a good story though.  And yeah, TT could have been 8-4.  Except they weren't .  They were 4-8.  This unlike KSU's new coach. 

     

     

  12. 15 hours ago, BluTechsan said:

    Re: the article(s) mentioned above about the fanbase. 

    I saw Tech travel to Morgantown, WV to play a 3 win team at 11:00am in front of a packed house. So, what's my opinion of Tech's fanbase? We suck.

    I think Tech has a solid 30-35k dedicated fans. We can opine about this that or the other about why that is but the bottom line is that a good chunk of the fanbase are band wagon jumping, social media instant gratification sheep (no aggy) that don't understand the nuances of the game or the sport - they actually started the wave, yes I said the wave, while Tech was on offense during the last home game - nor can they comprehend the simple fact that the bigger and faster team usually wins no matter how well the smaller, slower team is coached. 

    All many of them can remember is that Michael Crabtree caught a pass 11 years ago and that the Unversity should have been renamed the Mike Leach School of Pirates all the while completely forgetting that Blake Gideon dropped the game winning INT the play before. 

    It's been a strange decade.

    That dropped INT might have been the last gift from the football gods that I can recall. Tech has lost a bunch of close games but the ball just hasn't bounced their way. They have set records and can write handbooks on how to score 50 points and lose. Three HCs and countless coordinators, high scoring shootouts or low scoring snoozefests, big crowds or small, late arriving and early leaving - nothing mattered - Lady Luck no longer loves the Red Raiders.

    Kliff had a team slogan of "Fortune Favors the Bold"

    It didn't work out but I don't think he fully bought into it himself. Tommy T and Matt Wells have both been called "riverboat gamblers" for their willingness to go for it on 4th down. But truth be told, I think all 3 of them played it safe way too much. And all 3 suffered the cold hard fact of trying to play straight up vs superior talent - you just aren't gonna win those battles very often.

    Mike's stubbornness here is also his greatness. His ability to get inferior talent to play balls to the walls we give no fucks about norms football with an attitude is why he wins more than he does not.

    "Fortune Favors the Bold"

    That doesn't mean that the other guys aren't good coaches - it just means they need better players. Tommy quit and Kliff couldn't get better players so he didn't win. It remains to be seen whether or not Matt can get better players here but that's how he will be judged because he probably won't win much without them.

    But to answer Maximus' question, "Was I not entertained" by Tech football this season? 10 of the 12 games were one score games in the 4th qtr. Yes, I was entertainedand yes I think Matt Wells is a good coach and a good choice for Texas Tech football.

    Now Tech just needs to find another 20k just like me who'll be there rain or shine win, lose or draw.

     

     

    FYI, Mike's wins in season one here when getting things established and folks were calling his O "air sominex"

    New Mexico

    Utah St

    N Texas

    U LaLa

    Baylor

    Kansas

    oSu

     

    Tech"s attendance base is fine.  Averaged 58000 or so the last few years.  Even after a decade of ineptitude.  

    If you're a fan of close games, I'm happy for you.  You got them last year. Personally, I subscribe to the old Bill Parcell's  adage, you are what your record says you are.  And we're 8 game losers.  You think Wells is a good coach?  4 losing seasons in the last 5 tells you that? 4 wins this season tells you that?

    "It remains to be seen whether Matt can get better players".  Early returns are not encouraging.  Article today on the Rivals site had Tech ranked 8th in the conference.

  13. 6 hours ago, DeadArmadillo said:

    Just to be clear, Hocutt started at Tech in the Spring of 2011.  Hocutt brought Tadlock onto Porter's staff in the summer of 2011.  He fired Porter after the 2012 season and promoted Tadlock. Hocutt knew and was familiar with Tadlock from their almost overlapping days at OU 

    Exactly.  Hocutt came to Tech prior to the 2012 season as an asst.  He hired Tadlock as the head coach  prior to the 2013 season. You make my point,  hardly a genius hire.  Tech grad who was already on staff right there under Kirby's nose.j

  14. 6 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

    the defense is already 1,000% better with a pretty thin amount of talent

    the few transfers he brought in made real contributions

    he managed to extract duffy's head from his ass where it was deeply wedged

    I do not recall many if any 15 yard penalties for twerking in some offensive players face after getting a big stop on 3rd and 40 and thus giving the other team a fresh first down.....or flexing on them, or hitting them 12 yards out of bounds, or shoving their face, or humping on them on the ground.....shit you would see from a  kliff team sometimes more than once on the same drive

    false starts on offense are way down.....especially after times out and to start drives or after big first downs

    special teams can use some work, but was not a massive liability especially the kicking game

    the offense was able to make use of balance and run the ball effectively

    recruiting looks to be better than any time since Tuberville which was the best recruiting Tech has seen in a long long time

     

    the O and D lines need work especially the O line, but they are thin on talent because of a past coach that had to have 30 receivers on the team

    there should still be concern about that with the current recruiting, but there is time to correct that and even some decent to good JuCo players that do not have their head in their asses and that do not do stupid shit would be at least good and probably noticeably better than the current undersized and thin group....especially if they match the offense better 

    kliff recruited like shit the entire time he was at Tech from every aspect of recruiting and it got worse the longer he was at Tech so expecting a massive turn around especially once it was clear that Bowman probably needs to retire from the game was a huge reach......none the less anyone with their head not in their ass should have seen a lot of improvement in all areas and getting Duffy to not be an idiot and actually play well was a massive change in and of itself if that had happened sooner then Tech might have won that AU game and the season would look a lot different.....but it takes time to correct a guy from 3 years of someone that disciplines with more time to talk on cell phones and ice cream socials and pants off dance offs

    when you give a guy that is lazy, one dimensional, and too stubborn to correct glaring issues even after finally admitting way too late that they are issues 6 years to drive the car into a ditch and then hammer the gas and keep running down that ditch hitting stuff well it is not going to be an over night process to correct that

    and people are pretending like Tech had a lot of choices for a coach that would have been more popular or better

    Neal brown was not coming to Tech he knows how stupid a lot of Tech fans are and he wanted no part of that.....holgerson is a lazy moron and a chode and he sucks.....Les would have been a good hire, but Tech fans are not smart enough to know that......none of the shit hot AAC coaches were coming to Tech and most of the other MWC coaches were not proven enough or were not going to come or would be short term fixes as best because of age

    Littrel Seth Seth Littrell would have been a disaster he is falling apart in the crappy CUSA now

    coordinators are always a risk

    what really angers a lot of the vocal idiot Tech fans is that Kubbie made his own choice and he did not listen to their stupidity about this guy or that guy or paying homage to some guy that has won a lot of games against spares and that is about it

    "Anyone, without their head up their ass would have seen a lot of improvement? ". You are aware Wells won a grand total of 4 games are you not?  And that counts powerhouses Montana State and UTEP.  No bigger feather in a coach's hat than this, right?

    And it takes time after 3 years?  Hate to mention it again, but Wells has had losing seasons 4 of the last 5 years.  Time is not what he needs, he needs an ability to coach.  His current recruiting class is ranked 45th in the country by Rivals.  Very impressive..

    Sounds to me like you suffer from a university inferiority complex.  Woe is me, we just couldn't hire anybody who wanted the job--waaa, waaa.  How did that work out for Kansas State?

     

     

  15. 6 hours ago, Uncle Nate said:

    Hocutt deserves ample criticism for the KK hire.  He rolled the dice on someone that everyone was pot banging to be hired because he was the OC for Johnny F'n Football.  It was a risk to hire KK, but at the time he was trending up.

    No one then realized that KK just wasn't ready to run an entire program, recruiting and all.  Hocutt probably knew better than to roll the dice on KK that early, but if he hadn't and KK had gone on to success at another school, he would have been run out of Lubbock on a rail.  The Tech fan base, myself included, kind of painted Hocutt into a corner on that hire because Tuberville was such a polarizing failure of a hire (not Hocutt's hire).

    KK was a roll of the dice, and unfortunately we crapped out on that roll.  So I give Hocutt a pass on that hire for all the reasons I state above.

    I think it's too early to make a summary judgement on Wells & his staff.  Yes, there were some head scratching moments this season, but I wasn't at the practices, in the film room, or on the sidelines during the game.  And the defense, that was already pretty thin depth-wise, was decimated by injuries.  So I am going to give him and his staff the benefit of the doubt for this season.  But he needs to show real improvement next year before we decide Hocutt has gone 0-2 on football head coaching hires at Tech.

    Now, Beard was a no-brainer.  Even the worst AD in America would have known to go after Beard as soon as Tubbs left for Memphis, regardless if Beard just signed a big contract at another school two weeks prior.  The credit I give to Hocutt for the Beard hire was to not be resigned to the fact he was just hired by UNLV and to go after him anyway.  But I don't give him credit for the Beard hire in as far as he could see talent there that no one else could.  Hell, we all knew Beard was the guy to get.  I wanted him before Tubbs left and UNLV hired him...so did many others.  It was the no-brainer hire of all no-brainer hires.

    Head scratching moments to be sure.  In what was termed  up front a nationwide search, we get a coach who now has four losing seasons in the last 5.  He barely makes the top 50 paid football coaches in the country.  This at a school where the baseball and basketball coaches are among the top tier paid coaches in the country.

  16. 27 minutes ago, Iceman said:

    Buyer’s remorse from thickheaded Tech fans...

    Remind me... where have we seen that come to national exposure on nuclear meltdown level before?

    Now it’s Hocutt that sucks???

     

    lolz.  Again. Shaking my motherfucking head at you stupid motherfuckers. 
     

    Tech sports history is just chockfull of overachieving programs. Lolz.  Hocutt needs to go because if salary?  Fuck you people. 

    Oh, if only we could all be as smart as you.  Call everybody some more names.  It's indicative of quite an intellect.

    Fwiw, i have no buyers remorse.  It's hardly unreasonable to expect to get one's money worth for an employee who's paid 1.6 million.  The quality of his football hires speak for themselves.  Apparently you're not aware, it's the sport that pays the bills.

  17. 6 hours ago, Dirk X West said:

    I recall precisely 0 people calling for Beard to be hired at Tech before it happened.  Tubby was also a great hire, by the way - one that was criticized intensely, until it was obvious that he was doing a great job.

    Can you remind me how many football coaches Hocutt has hired?

    You might really want to look into cures for memory loss issues.  As others in this thread have attested, Beard was the chosen one by virtually everyone who had ever even seen a TTU basketball game. No brainer.  He had even coached at Tech long term.

    As far as Hocutt's football hires.  He hired the whiz that was kliff Kingsbury who, of course, sucked big time.  At the University of Miami his claim to fame was firing Randy Shannon only to hire Al Golden as his replacement.  Hocutt handled it so well, they both ended up suing the university.  

    What a guy.  So, by virtue of your question, I guess your defense is he hasn't hired many football coaches.  Yep, no experience, that's what you want in a top 5 paid AD.  And you liked the Tubby hire?  Hocutt slightly preceded the fiasco that was the Billy Clyde hire.  He's gold is what he is.

     

     

     

  18. 10 hours ago, Iceman said:

    We celebrate this week, the tenth anniversary of what Tech fans deserve... SMDH at  "deserve"

     

    as if Holgorsen was the answer.  UH took off this year, right? WVU was dominant under his watch, right?  I like the guy for who he is, but he wasn't the fucking answer for change Tech needed.

    Not necessarily suggesting Dana was the answer.   Everything about this year tells us to this point it's damn sure not Wells though.

    Shake your head all you please, but when I allude to what Tech fans deserve.  I just think it far from unrealistiic  if you're paying you're AD in the top 5 in the country that you have somebody who can hire a damn football coach.

  19. 21 minutes ago, Tommy Shelby said:

    I feel like the fallout from his firing would be more damaging than the amount he's making. I'll take winning basketball and baseball and have a below average football team, don't be aggy.

    Not being Aggie at all.  Football pays the bills.  Baseball and basketball do not.

     Hocutt is a joke.  We needed a new coach and he goes  out and hires, what was after his raise, the 51st highest paid coach in the country.  Hocutt didn't even try to make a good hire.  You like a football coach that's had losing seasons 4 of the last 5 seasons? A true  mark of distinction.  He should be very proud.

  20. 5 hours ago, Iceman said:

    I love Texas Tech.  I don't really give a rip about Campbell's beef with Hocutt.

    IT's hard to argue with what Kirby's done in the big picture with Tech athletics. The last thing we needed was another shot appeasing the fans of Leach, which I am admittedly a big one- but not with regard to Texas Tech's dealings going forward.  Holgorsen is hardly a dynamic enough coach to get me all excited about "what could have been."  As it is now, it's just big money throwing a tantrum.  Campbell has evidently become what a lot of us despise about our own school's GOBs.

    I like it that Wells is a clean break and am willing to give him time.  We've already pissed away a decade this December with rampant idiocy, so what's another shitty football season?  Let Hocutt do his thing- it kinda worked out on some non-football fronts.  Pigskin is a bigger ship to turn around.  Red Bull man was never the real answer.

    Complete and utter nonsense about it being tough to argue about what Hocutt has done big picture at Tech.

     Kittley was already on staff when Hocutt arrived.  So was Tadlock. Awful hire in Kingbury.  Wells has had 4 losing seasons out of the last 5.  Beard was an absolute no brainer in that he had previously coached at Tech for a good while and was the choice of every Tech fan in existence.  Hocutt liked Beard so much he tried his damnedist to keep Tubby, doing everything within his power to do so. 

    Being paid like he is, Tech fans deserve better.

     

     

  21. The next quality football hire Hocutt makes will be his first. Hocutt gets far more credit than he deserves for his performance as AD. He's something like the 5th highest paid AD in the country.  He deserves none of it.

    I think it's far from unreasonable to expect quality results from an AD paid that highly.

     

     

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