Good commentary

by Dub Parks 88 on Oct 31, 2008 8:02 AM CDT

About more than TTech, but here is the TTech excerpt:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/big_12/Across_Texas_opportunities_are_fleeting.html

Few things in sports can be quite so cruel as time, and examples of this run rampant across Texas. As Duncan's body wears down, so does Terrell Owens' patience. And in Lubbock, the legacy of an offensive mastermind 47 years in the making could come down to four hours this Saturday night.

Leach, the head coach of the sixth-ranked Texas Tech Red Raiders, never has had a team as good as the one he has now, and there's a decent chance he'll never have another to match it. His best two players — Graham Harrell and Michael Crabtree — likely will be gone next year, along with at least seven other starters. And in a playoff-less college football world, in which whimsical outside forces can affect who gets an opportunity to play for a championship, there's no telling when the stars will align for Tech like they do now.

If the Red Raiders beat No. 1 Texas on Saturday, follow that up with a victory over a Top-10 Oklahoma State team, then knock off Oklahoma on the road and Missouri in the Big 12 championship game, they will play for the national title. Having climbed through their first window like the Spurs did a decade ago, they will find others — ones with increased exposure and recruiting cache and real national respect — awaiting them.

But if Tech loses? Unfairly or not, some will portray it as Leach's defining moment, and it won't be flattering. A loss will confirm a skeptical contingent of poll voters' doubts about his system, and it might take years to win them back.

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Great insight.

I think you are spot on in your analysis. This game is a defining moment and I have always looked at this season as Tech’s most favorable ever. Guns up!

by faunchin on Oct 31, 2008 9:55 AM CDT reply actions

Not so sure about that.

Yes this is a more favored year so far. But there are players who are damn good waiting in the wings because they are Freshman and the level of talent we currently have make good players look average until they “Break out”

Harrell was a good QB coming out of High School. But he is not the best QB we have recuited. Doege is by far the best QB we have recruited for the Spread. As all our QBs have pointed out, it takes about 2 to 3 years to learn Leach’s concept of Offense. Which is why the Pollsters and pundits are lost and speak so badly of Leach.

The truth is that they do not want to admit how dumb they really are in trying to understand the Leach offense. Even Dr. Lou with ESPN made himself look like a fool trying to explain the Leach offense which by the way he got wrong!

I laughed my butt off when Lou went to the Chalk board and screwed up the alinements and put the wrong formations in for the play. I do not claim to know the offense but I do recognize a few plays.

Just as any program who loses the important pieces of the team in any given year, its up to who we recruited to fill the shoes of those who left.

People said that Leach never would find a QB to surpass Kingsberry when he graduated. Yet Here is Harrell surpassing him.

There is nothing more powerful than having a person like Reed to see a high bar as an offensive linemen both on the field and in the weight room. His presence this season has raised the bar significantly and make our future players inspired to be way more than they thought possible. All the OL have set new records across the board from the weight room to the 40 and shuttle.

I do not see this as doom and gloom for the future. I see it as an extention of the growth of the program to be way better than it was.

So No I have to disagree with this analysis.

by Pablo M on Oct 31, 2008 1:50 PM CDT reply actions