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  1. 7 hours ago, slorch said:

    Tech has one player who started fom last year’s squad in Sophomore Jarret Culver... and is poised to win no less than a share of the Big XII title that has belonged to Kansas for over a decade and a half, after the Red Raiders were picked to finish 7th in the league...

     

    and Scott fucking Drew is their pick for coach of the year?

     

    Fuck Baylor.

    TT lost 71% of its scoring from last year.

     

  2. 6 hours ago, Gut Wagon said:

    I'll crawl out on a limb and say that if you're 6-3, 225 as a freshman in high school, safety isn't your most likely position in college. 

    Can't argue with that.  Truth be known, their new defense has a hybrid DE/LB position that also drops back in pass coverage on occasion and that's where he's projected.  Who knows though how he develops physically in the next 3 years.

  3. 7 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    The biggest difference between last year and this year is that there isn't an obvious Final Four candidate in the Big 12.  I could see 4 squads making the second weekend, but there's no one that's a legitimate Final Four squad without a significant upset paving the way.

    It's down, but not to the extent jhawk says.  

    Fwiw, Vegas'  Superbook yesterday had TT as having the 9th best odds in the country for winning a NC.  This at 25/1.

  4. TTU got a couple of commitments the last couple of days.  

    Got an athlete out of Bishop Gorman (Donovan Smith ) who fancies himself a dual threat QB but played WR last year.  At 6-4, catching passes is likely to be where he ends up I'd guess.  He's the TT  RB coach's son and will now move to Lubbock to play his senior year..

    Dont know where else to put this (please, nobody say I'll tell you where you can put it), but they also got a commitment from Lubbock Cooper freshman safety Kobie Mckinzie.  Already at 6-3, 225, he's likely to be a 5 star type as he already had 6 offers including one from Oklahoma State.  

    That said, I refuse to give a lot of thought to a commitment who hasn't even completed his freshman year in high school yet.  Life long (as short as it's been) Tech fan who's been around the program a good while now.

     

     

  5. 11 hours ago, MoJames said:

    As if Tech fans have any say in their coaching changes.

    If it was up to them they'd still have Leach.

    You got that right.  Even very deep pocketed boosters don't get a voice.  A couple of Midland guys who played for Leach have made a fortune in the oil business.  They wanted Holgerson when Kliff was fired.  Using their own plane and working with Dana they had made all the interview arrangements.

    Also, they were willing to make to make a very sizable donation to the football facility renovations.  Hocutt passed.

     

     

  6. 17 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    Pigmeat..... tough result for Wells first recruiting class.  Wells better really step up his recruiting game for 2020 Class or Tech fans won't keep him around long recruiting worse than Kansas and K-State.

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    Not sure why Matt Campbell is taking the risk with this player...... maybe MC's connections back East have provided enough intel, but this seems like a big risk:

    "Isheem Young, former Penn State commit who pleaded guilty to Wawa robbery, to continue football career at Iowa State"

    https://www.mcall.com/sports/college/psu/mc-spt-isheem-young-commit-iowa-state-20190206-story.html

    You're absolutely right about Wells better be ready to step up his recruiting game. After the Kliff recruiting experience, the patience of TT fans will pretty short when it comes to poor recruiting.

    Of course Wells will have a strong ally in Hocutt who won't want to appear to make two consecutive poor football hires.

     

     

     

     

  7. 40 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    He definitely deserves a full cycle before judgement but I have my doubts based on what he did in the Mountain West. 

    '18 (9th best class in the MW/#109 nationally)

    '17 (9th best class in the MW/#104 nationally)

    '16 (8th best class in the MW/#92 nationally)

    '15 (5th best class in the MW/#96 nationally)

    '14 (9th best class in the MW/#111 nationally) 

    I know it's Utah State but he was getting worked in the Mountain West. He was a bottom tier recruiter in that conference and now he's at the big boy table. I didn't even realize his recruiting numbers were that bad at Utah State. 

    Man....Tech replaced one shitty recruiter with arguably an even worse recruiter. 

    Your point is definitely well taken regarding his MW track record.  As a Tech fan my hope is that a couple of new additions to the staff especially have recruiting chops as advertised.

    KERRY COOKS COACHING EXPERIENCE
    2019-Present – Texas Tech Assistant Coach (Safeties)
    2016-Present – Oklahoma Assistant Defensive Coordinator (Defensive Backs)
    2015 – Oklahoma Assistant Coach (Defensive Backs)
    2014 – Notre Dame Assistant Coach (Defensive Backs)
    2012-13 – Notre Dame Co-Defensive Coordinator (Defensive Backs)
    2011 – Notre Dame Assistant Coach (Cornerbacks)
    2010 – Notre Dame Assistant Coach (Outside Linebackers)
    2006-09 – Wisconsin Assistant Coach (Defensive Backs/Asst. Special Teams)
    2005- Minnesota Assistant Coach (Defensive Backs)
    2004 – Western Illinois Assistant Coach (Defensive Backs/Asst. Special Teams)
    2003 – Kansas State Graduate Assistant

     

    Paul Randolph

     

    Coaching History

    • Texas Tech 2019 - Defensive Line Coach
    • Memphis 2015 - 2019 Defensive Line Coach (Memphis)
    • Arizona State 2012 - 2015 Associate Head Coach (Arizona State)
    • Arizona State 2012 - 2015 Defensive Coordinator (Arizona State)
    • Pittsburgh 2011 - 2011 Co-Defensive Coordinator--Pitt
    • Pittsburgh 2011 - 2011 Associate Head Coach--Pitt
    • Tulsa 2007 - 2010 Co-Defensive Coordinator--Tulsa
    • Tulsa 2007 - 2010 Defensive Line Coach--Tulsa
    • Rice 2006 - 2006 Defensive Coordinator--Rice
    • Alabama 2003 - 2005 Defensive Ends Coach--Alabama
    • West Virginia 2002 - 2002 Defensive Line Coach--West Virginia
    • Toledo 2001 - 2001 Defensive Line Coach--Toledo
    • Illinois State 2000 - 2000 Defensive Line Coach--Illinois State


     

  8. 3 hours ago, texasstrong12 said:

    Last in the Big 12. I don't think Wells has much recruiting juice. 

    You may very well be right. He did a seemingly lackluster  job with the class this year.  That said, I'm not sure it's entirely fair to make any hard and fast recruiting judgements about a new coach and staff who have been on the job six weeks or whatever it's been.

    His focus seemed to be on kickers, punters, walk ons and 2020, even 2021 offers.  Wisely or not, they really made a lot of future offers.  Coachspeak perhaps, but he talked a lot today about not being willing to sacrifice quality for 2019 numbers.

    We'll see what happens next year. With Kliff being such a poor recruiter, Wells will catch more than his share of shit if he doesn't improve things next year.

     

     

  9. If it matters, there's some major misconceptions here about Steven Parker's recruitment.  To begin with, he committed to TT in early May of 2017.  His very hard Tech commitment of over a year and a half certainly significantly impacted recruiting intensity and number of suitors as he formerly lived in Lubbock and had both a grandmother and aunt with whom he was very close still residing there. He was very close to some of the staff as well.

    Didn't take the time to look at 247, but Rivals shows him with 30 offers.  As far as supposed lack of interest from in-.state schools, Baylor and TCU we're both very interested and offered.  He even visited TCU maybe 3 weeks ago or so.  UT certainly didn't offer, but neither did they indicate complete disinterest either as they had some conversation with him.  He visited Neb. some 8 days ago.

    Parker's KU commitment is completely about one thing and one thing only, that being coach Emmett Jones getting a job at KU after having been let go when Kliff got the axe.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  10. 11 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

    EDIT UPDATE:

    Kingsbury, who won the Sammy Baugh Trophy as the country's best collegiate QB while at Texas Tech in 2002, has coached Kansas City's Patrick Mahomes, Denver's Case Keenum, the Giants' Davis Webb, the Chargers' Nic Shimonek and former Browns first-round pick Johnny Manziel. (Don't' know why they left out Baker Mayfield, but they did.)

    http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/25715541/arizona-cardinals-hire-kliff-kingsbury


     

    SIX NFL QBs, though Cocaine Johnny is not exactly in the NFL.

    "QB Whisperer"

    Plus fwiw, in an interview after he was fired, he said Alan Bowman was going to be the best of all of them.  Who knows if it turns out that way or not, but just thought it was interesting considering the company he was in.

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  11. 4 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

     

    If you gave good head like Kliff does, you would.

    Fox Sports Holly Sonders finally made she and KK's relationship public today on twitter.  It's been a not very well kept secret for a while now.

     

    Always will! He’s the best. And we are a little past the crush part

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  12.  

    "A tipster sends along the following email, which was originally sent from Stephen Spiegelberg, a Texas Tech alum and proprietor of Lubbock clothing store Chrome, to Joe Parker, the deputy athletics director at Texas Tech. According to the tipster, the message was bcc'd to a few of Texas Tech's regents. The email seems to be a followup message after a lunch meeting between Spiegelberg and Parker. It contains a detailed list of ideas about how to get Texas Tech's new head football coach, 33-year-old Kliff Kingsbury, into the media spotlight."

    There"s likely value in being mindful this story is 6 years old at this point and not a person in the entire world, much Lubbock, took it seriously....other than perhaps the writer.

     

     

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  13. 6 minutes ago, shakahorn said:

    I don't see how that would change the substance of the conversation.  Brady might be more polite about it but the message would be the same.

    IMO, the substance of the conversation would be changed substantially.  It would be my suggestion that perhaps you're not aware of the exact nature of the existing professional relationship.  Of course, like any coach and an established NFL veteran star relationship, there wouldn't be a "son, I'm going to teach you how to play QB" approach, but there are elements to the Pat's offense KK could make significant contributions in.

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