Texas Tech Wednesday Morning Notes - Involve Everybody Edition

by Seth C on May 28, 2008 6:12 AM CDT

Double-T Nation News:

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True Hoop on infantry hoops in Iraq playing basketball.

Texas Tech Football:

ESPN's Tim Griffin did his wrap-up on the Big 12 Meetings and I didn't catch this in any of the other reports:

Rumblings have been heard during recent months about the Big 12 testing the waters on a potential "challenge series" for football. It would be tailored along the lines of the one developed for Pac-10 basketball.

The idea would be to match most, if not all, 12 teams from the conference against a similarly configured conference like the ACC or SEC.

Stoops has championed the idea of such a series several times in recent seasons. And Leach said that he was intrigued by the concept, although he hasn't heard anything specific about it.

"I think it sounds like a pretty good idea," Leach said. "The key thing would be to involve everybody."

Really? How great would that be and wouldn't this absolutely wreak havoc on the BCS, with high-profile teams with a legitimate non-conference loss.

Kevin at fanblogs.com answers the questions posed by Rivals.com's Mike Huguenin and is predicting failure for your Red Raiders (the following quoted text is just Kevin's answer):

In a word... NO. Texas Tech will go through much of their schedule guns blazing, but... as we've seen time and time again, Texas Tech will struggle to play wide-open against a more athletic (and this year, more prepared) Texas defense. Listen, Oklahoma is the class of the Big XII this year (with Missouri in a distant second), but the Red Raiders will be lucky to finish third in the Big 12 South. Honestly, I see TTU behind OU, UT, and (maybe) Texas A&M in the Big XII South.

The only games where Texas Tech struggled was Missouri and Colorado, and the Red Raiders still managed 26 points against the Buffs despite 4 TO's. So Texas Tech struggled offensively one game and I don't think the Red Raiders even remotely struggled against UT this year and I doubt that the changes in athletes is going to be that significant. With more athletic players to counter-act the UT's and OU's of the world, I think Texas Tech is playing on a different level. And I won't even get into my feelings on the Aggies finishing above Texas Tech.

Behind the Stripes' Dave Matter has an in-depth look at Big 12 schedules for 2008.

Fox34 is taking a look at every game last year, and last night they reviewed the SMU game (don't be thrown off by the Renegade highlights, stick with it).

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sounds like that “Kevin” has personal feelings regarding Texas teams.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

by ayleein on May 28, 2008 10:51 AM CDT 0 recs

Worried

Dave Matter brings up a good point in his article on Big 12 schedules. I have this gut feeling that Tech is going to get screwed this year because of its non conference schedule. If going into the end of the season if Tech is in the hunt for the national championship with zero or one loss there will be a large group of people screaming that Tech doesn’t deserve to play because of playing two FCS teams. I just know something like that is going to happen. That is why it is crucial that Tech doesn’t lose a game it shouldn’t or we have no shot for a BCS bid.

"Once in awhile, a pirate can beat a soldier"

by crabtreeforheisman on May 28, 2008 11:17 AM CDT 0 recs

Tech can't make it with 1 loss.

Tech can’t not make it with zero losses.

That’s how I see it shaking out, though I’m extremely skeptical that we can escape an entire season without any losses. I think we’re getting ahead of ourselves with that kind of talk.

Go register. Or else.

by Skin Patrol on May 28, 2008 5:12 PM CDT up 0 recs

as optimistic

as I am trying to be about this season, I’m not sure that TT can run through the season undefeated. Winning at OU is going to be really tough, unless one of Bradford’s teammates can knock him out again, I’m real worried about that game.

Go Raiders . . .

by Seth C on May 28, 2008 7:51 PM CDT up 0 recs