Let's Talk About: Texas Tech

by Texas Techsan on Jun 21, 2008 11:19 AM CDT Comment 8 comments

Burnt Orange Nations take on Texas Tech this year.

The general consensus seems to be that Tech will probably be better this year than they have been since 2005, they're still Tech: that weird school with the weird coach that upsets a better team every year and loses to inferior team every year.

Did I read that correctly, someone from Austin just called Lubbock and Tech WEIRD? What? Really, from a school that has T-shirts printed with "Keep Austin Weird"? Austin and UT is one big commune and A&M is one core member away from being a cult but we get labeled weird, go figure. Mike Leach being weird, I can't really defend the fact that our coach does some unusual things.

Texas Tech has beaten OU twice and Texas once under Leach and has a 6-2 record vs. A&M. And he's fairly consistently challenged Texas even in the losses. And he's doing this with a TERRIBLE defense. Imagine what his teams could do with even a mediocre defense. If Tech held Texas to 35 points a game, Tech would win more than half the time, most likely. If Tech had a good defense, not even a great one, I think they could be a top 10 team every year. And I tend to think that it's not impossible for that to happen.

I agree with this comment, which I didn’t see coming. The beginning of his posts bashes everything Tech and then he pulls a 180 and says that we could be a Top 10 program every year.

Now, does that mean that Tech can compete for the national championship this year? Probably not. The defense isn't there yet, but it's a whole lot better than it used to be. So can they win the Big 12? Absolutely. Will they? Who the hell knows. The only problem I have with Leach's system is that it's like the knuckleball of offensive systems. When it's working, it's practically unhittable. When it's not, well, it just hangs up there waiting to get hit out of the park.

Again, I have to agree with some of his comments and I like the knuckleball analogy. Overall, this was a pretty interesting article but this doesn’t mean I have forgotten about him calling Lubbock and Tech weird.

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of Double-T Nation's writers or editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of Double-T Nation's writers or editors.

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tech is pretty weird. just not weird in the same way.

by kayakyakr on Jun 21, 2008 5:29 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm there.

Go register. Or else.

by Skin Patrol on Jun 21, 2008 11:25 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I wrote that article

And I’m confused at to how exactly you thought that in it I “bash everything Tech”? The “weird little school” thing was a summing up of what other people had said, as I made clear. I think everything else was an even-handed assessment. I’m actually a big fan of Tech and Mike Leach. I’ve written positively about the program before. Hell, the tag on the article was “i will defend mike leach to the death”!

Anyway, it’s not a big deal, but I wanted to set the record straight regardless.

by billyzane on Jun 22, 2008 11:40 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

i really enjoyed the writing. just so ya know

by kayakyakr on Jun 22, 2008 4:06 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I just finished

reading that post and I’ve got no negative commentary. I swear that I’ve written something similar about athletes and defenses before in reference to Texas Tech, but I haven’t taken the time to look (at least not tonight).

And I would agree that Lubbock is quirky, at least from the outside. Those of us who have lived there think nothing of it.

If anything you prompted a hell of a discussion. Kudos.

Go Raiders . . .

by Seth C on Jun 22, 2008 9:59 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Billyzane,

Thanks for the objective evaluation of the Tech Football program. Some of us are so used to being bashed that we don’t see the compliment sometimes. As far as Tech being "that weird school", I was invited by my T-sipper brother to a Texas/Ohio St. tailgate party a few years back. It surprised me that many of the people I talked to weren’t exactly sure where Lubbock was. One young woman actually thought Lubbock was west of Dallas somewhere and most thought Lubbock and Amarillo were the same city. No question that Lubbock is off the beaten path, but weird only to the extent that most people in Texas have never been further West than Ft. Worth or San Antonio.

by 10forTech on Jun 22, 2008 2:23 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs