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  1. Nothing quite like the recruiting game. McIvor cancelled his USC visit this week end and will instead be in Lubbock. His initial meeting with the new TT staff must have gone pretty well.
  2. Maverick McIvor cancelled his visit to USC this week end and will instead be in Lubbock.
  3. Seriously considering the new TT staff as well if we're to believe the guy that originally brought us this news. Virtually all of his high school coaches are TT fans and certainly tend to point him in that direction. If it matters a whole lot to anyone here at this point, decent source at Permian suggests anything could happen but if he had to bet, Powell ends up at UT.
  4. Actually, all but 2 coaching positions have been named and have been working the recruiting trail this week. The two vacancies are on the special teams/defensive side of the ball. Powell's friend and teammate, Landon Peterson, a former Baylor commitment, is believed to have committed to the new TT staff this week. They had both taken several recruiting trips to TT together. Perhaps that might have had some impact on Powell's change of heart if, in fact, he's even had one. i personally will believe it when I see it.
  5. Right, that's why you're apparently reading and participating in it.
  6. Not to quibble, but actually Beard could be considered elite at this point in his career. Winning % of coaches during first six years of NCAA career: Roy Williams .779 Jim Boheim .762 Chris Beard .723 Bob Knight .671 Dean Smith .634 Bill Self .560 Mike K. .555 Jim Calhoun .540
  7. Absolute unfactual, bullshit. Any number of TT coaches have proven by any objective measure that Lubbock can be recruited to very successfully. The fly them in at night thing is completely absurd. Tim Tadlock has been to to the CWS 3 times in the last 5 years and tied last year for the most MLB draftees in the country as an example. You think he's doing that with smoke and mirrors?
  8. Could definitely happen, but the jury is still out IMO. Visiting USC this week end and supposed to meet with the new TT staff Monday I think it is.
  9. Don't believe it was me, but LA would definitely be a shift for him and seemingly inconsistent with his past non football interests and hobbies as I understand them. That said, there are those who have suggested he was far more committed to Kliff than he was the school. He does seem to have a pretty strong Tech ties though. His mom, with whom he's close (parents are divorced), is a TT grad. Grandfather and uncle are huge TT fans, and grads, has 2 cousins currently at Tech, talked about having TT wallpaper in his room as a kid that sort of thing, so beats me. Supposed to meet with the new staff Monday I believe it is, so unless USC just blows him away this week end and he commits, the new staff will at least get a shot at getting him back in the fold. Wouldn't necessarily be the tragedy it would have been pre Wells in that they're recruiting another kid who seems to have as good or better an offer list than McIvor and is far more mobile. Plus, his knee injury was really bad. McIvor also chatting it up with a number of other coaches including Richt at Miami.
  10. Granted, I'm a TT fan, but truly I don't say this in a biased, rah rah, go team sense, but objectively, many folk tend to make far too much of the whole Lubbock location/recruiting issue. Folk like Tim Tadlock (3 cws in last 5 years and tied for most MLB draftees in the country last year), Marsha Sharp (national women's hoops title), and regularly nationally ranked track team coach Wes Kittley have clearly demonstrated that. Chris Beard is killing it on the recruiting trail. The fact that TT had eight teams or some such finish in the country's top 8 last year seems to very much fly in the face of the can't recruit to Lubbock mantra. Perhaps, not your own personal cup of tea, I understand completely, but it's honestly not the barrier so many believe. Really wasn't a big fan of the Wells hire. I'll spare you the details, but what he's done from a recruiting standpoint thus far is pretty impressive. Will it continue to work out nicely, who knows? Btw, what the hell is Peyton Powell up to? I certainly don't expect him to flip, but visiting Baylor this week end and meeting with the new TT staff (per Orangebloods)? Just bored or what?
  11. Gibbs is apparently headed back to UH. Here's a video I posted earlier on the football board with the two new TT coordinators. Patterson, the DC, has had some decent experience serving as DC at Pitt, WV, and Arizona State. He's on the 2nd half of the video and has some interesting comments about how defense should be looked at and measured differently now than it was not all that long ago.
  12. Latest has Kingsbury possibly going to LA, but with the Rams. https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/video/1386575427687 Los LosLos
  13. I know, I know, always with the jokes about KK's social life, but he's got a girlfriend that might that just might make the west coast his personal preference.
  14. The KK saga seems to get more complicated as time evolves. Aside from ESPN reports he could considered for head coaching jobs in the NFL, if the Packers hire Josh McDaniels, he could potentially be the Pats OC. He knows the organization well as they drafted him out of college and he's remained close with both Belichick and Brady.
  15. As has 3 star DB Keeyon Stewart and and 4 star DE Steven Parker as well. Coaches to see them and others Wednesday.
  16. New Texas Tech offensive and defensive coordinators met the media today. Each talks about the scheme they'll run and come with seemingly really good backgrounds. Both talk a good game anyway. Some interesting comments regarding playing defense in today's game and secondly how their offense is run.
  17. Bowman being interviewed by the media today. You have to wonder why KK wouldn't let anybody talk to him. He does a really nice job for an 18 year old kid. Appears Wells won't be nearly as secretive and guarded in allowing media access to players and staff. Kliff wouldn't even let the coordinators speak to them.
  18. That one is not over yet. If KK goes to USC maybe so, but there appears to be something of a fly in the ointment with Kliff's situation.
  19. Yost actually has a better than decent offensive background. Coached at Oregon, Washington State with Leach, Missouri and Utah State. Definitely a passing game guy.
  20. KK's class currently is ranked 36th by Rivals with 2 four stars, certainly nothing to throw a party about, but in the top third of the country. Really not too bad.
  21. Makes for a good story if you don't like Tech, but like just like a whole lot of this thread, a complete and total misconception. TT already had a neutral site game this year, ole Miss at NRG earlier this season. Nice try though.
  22. Fwiw, Venables and Hocutt have remained good friends since their college days together at KSU.
  23. As it relates to KK's coaching future, Hocutt was in Midland today talking to the Double Eagle guys.
  24. Not saying in the least that it's going to happen, but he and Hocutt are very, very tight.
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