52-30 Texas A&M Crushes Tech Post Game Thread

WHEN DOES THE HURTING STOP

Sorry Seth, you are not allowed to go watch TTU again.

Last time I saw you at a game, we were on our way to a similar game as tonight in the Cotton Bowl.

I can only assume that Lonnie Edwards’ knee is hurt very, very bad.

I wish that was his only flaw

Leach needs to return this year’s salary to the university. He is big on his own PR but his coaching is as inconsistent as he is a person—a roller coaster ride. Can he ever win two big games in a row??? No, he wins big, i.e. Nebraska, then he slacks off. This I blame on ole jut jaw Leach and Ruffin McNeil. In the future, keep Potts on the sidelines. Too bad “Sticks” was not well. He does a better job inspiring the team than any of the Tech coaches do. We need a coach with consistency. Receiver were dropping passes like they were playing to lose in order to win a bet. It was hard to listen to on the radio, honestly. I turned it off before game over.
This one is tough on the players and the fans. This was about pride. This was A&M AT HOME.
I will continue to support the Raiders always but Leach is a Goof Ball.

I am pissed because now I have zero argument for anyone when the typical Tech argument comes up. It will take at least two years to get the media to buy in to us after this, and I don’t think that’s an exagerration. We can’t ask for, nor receive, any chits in the national respect argument until we run a table.

I don’t know what frustrates me more…the horrible radio signal, the horrible defense, or the fact that I’m out of beer.

Who were those guys tonight? How can we have such a major letdown? This team is so spastic is drives me crazy. I can’t remember having such an up and down season. I guess Doege is our guy for now but we really need Sticks back.
What was up with the dropped passes and poor tackling? Ahhh….I could go on and on.

So, is 7-5 really a good goal to have for the year? I see a loss to OU, OSU and maybe KU. We may be lucky to get seven wins.

But this one hurts…..he has to dress down the players and coaches. Not ready to bring it

Like I said, I could not listen to it on the radio with a bad signal but it was a good thing this was not on TV. Leach shooting off his mouth to everybody bit us in the butt. The Aggies came prepared to play—give them that—and Leach gives them plenty of incentive with his smart aleck mouth. Raiders were too full of themselves and that is where Leach fails them miserably. His gambling, his lack of focus, his ADD, will never work toward consistency.

Talked to a Aggie friend mid-3rd qtr. He watched the KState v atm game online during the week. Said KState was busting thru their O-line like they were “swiss freaking cheese”.
Can’t understand how our defense can be so inconsistent. This one will hurt for a while. I can take OU loss last year. But this is simply rediculous.

This game should have been set up perfectly for a freaking BLOW OUT! And by that I mean Tech blowing aTm out of the stadium. Holy crap!

I feel like Clark Griswold in Christmas Vacation when he gets the Jelly of the Month club bonus. Totally blindsided. “Where’s the tylonol.”

Next week’s game will tell us everything we need to know about our choking I mean coaching staff. I’m tired of being on the cusp of greatness but I’m not going to give up on our team. Where do we go from here? Only time will tell but this one really stings. The big 12 is a mess right now other than TU. Let’s just secure a bowl game and winning record so that we can prepare for next year.

I’m not trying to be pessimistic but are we sure Sticks is going to be ready to play in a few weeks after having ankle surgery? I sure hope so. Time to pray for a speedy recovery.

I think Sticks is definitely the starter once he returns. Also, Eddie “Hands” Britton needs to go, way too many dropped passes.

Okay, the sky has not offically fallen, but the cables are fraying. This season has been a wild, wild ride through seven games. We look like world beaters one week and wife beater’s the next.

Our defense isn’t near a competent as the horrible Neb offense would have led us to believe. We aren’t that bad, either. Just a typical Tech defense that will get eaten alive by teams who know how to move the ball. Teams like Texas, Houston, aTm, OSU, OU and Kansas. I hope, HOPE, we can get by either OU or OSU and KU. I know we can’t win all three (and don’t tell me I am not a good fan for that). This team has done nothing to prove we can stop the good teams.

Can we score a lot? Yep, when we aren’t getting in our own way. But through more than half of the year, we do that more than we don’t. I know this…if we come out and destroy a team, I certainly won’t read a lot into it this year.

Did the crowd boo Potts and/or the team during the game?
How did the Freshman do after the Putz… (I mean Potts) get benched?

Wow, you don’t really hear coaches use such stark imagery about their own guy…
"I don’t think Potts ever got in a rhythm," coach Mike Leach said. "I don’t know if he tried to make too much happen, but he looked slow and statue like."

from Red Raiders.com

The Texas Tech fans couldn’t have been clearer as the second quarter drew to a close.

"No more Potts," their chants rose from Jones AT&T Stadium. The sometimes quarterback had just thrown his second interception of the half, a pass from the 17-yard line that Texas A&M’s Terrence Frederick picked off in the endzone for a touchback.

1. We attempted a comeback
2. A&M won’t win in LBK for a long time. We weren’t really a threat to go to a BCS bowl game, so it’s out of the way.
3. Potts won’t play again
4. Potts definitely won’t play again
5. Potts won’t play again before Leach suits up and takes the helm
6. Kansas is coming to town next week and Jones will be rockin’
7. All the planning we did for KU this week will pay off next Saturday
8. We only need one more win to make a bowl game. A&M needs 2.
9. We should get Sticks back before Okie State
10. Doege will start next week
11. There’s nowhere to go but up
12. We’re gonna kill aTm next year in College Station.

Here
http://www.redraiders.com/2009/10/24/coach-leach-potts-never-got-in-a-rhythm%e2%80%99/

and here
http://www.redraiders.com/2009/10/24/aggies-take-out-16-years-worth-of-fruustration-on-tech-crowd/

I am still wondering why we have Ruffin. I know a lot of folks are on his side of things, and that’s okay. But we look decent against garbage offenses, and get skewered against any offense with a heartbeat.

I have never been a fan of his and have never felt Tech would contend with a bend don’t break mentality. Well, we broke. And for the third time against the only three teams with a real chance to beat us. Time for a change after the season. Not now, but after the season.

Until we get a defensive coordinator who does more than sweat and chest bump his players, we will always flirt with this kind of result. I think Ruffin is probably a great guy and I am sure the players love him. But they love Jim Zorn in Washington and that’s not going real well either. I don’t want the players to love our coach, I want them to fear and respect him so much they will sleep on hot coals for him. I don’t think our guys have that fire.

That said, I also don’t think our talent on defense is all that much to write home about either. That is probably just as big a problem. We got pushed around, punched, kicked and spit on by the Aggies. And did nothing about it. Puke.

I know you can’t put a loss on a QB.. but, I like Ruff! I think Ruff is the best thing that’s happened to the defense in many many years. I’m a big believer in momentum. I think Potts killed any momentum for the team.

I won’t feel good about another game this season till Sticks is back.

A part of me feels bad for potts. He has stuggled a lot but I remember at least two 4 interception games by Graham. Chanting “no more potts” seems pretty harsh. Let’s see what Doege can do with a full week of preparation with the first string.

Just got back to my room. Can’t believe I drove 400 miles for that.

Utter and complete domination by their O-line. No pressure, no contain, no tackling. I saw one sack and maybe 2 passes defended. That’s it.

Potts looked exactly like he did against UNM. Open men he didn’t see, throwing balls right to defenders. The two scores he got were 5-yarders with excellent effort by the receivers for YAC. I saw Von Miller line up against Waddle several times and he got nothing. Winn waved him by a couple of times and also committed two major fouls in the 1st quarter.

Overall, just disgusting. Good thing we’ve got Baylor so we can win 6. Maybe

Obviously Potts had a bad game. But the nasty yells at him from the bleachers probably made his game 10X worse. I feel sorry for the guy. Yes, we need Sticks. But yelling at your own player is terrible. I was ashamed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSazaSqTqis&feature=related

I’m ready to move on. The Aggies did what Tech couldn’t do….tackle and execute ball security. Congrats to them for finally playing up the their talent level.

Can we officially close the book on the Taylor Potts experiment and say that Michigan was probably a better choice for him.

I got a good night’s sleep, went to church, and made this list of my thoughts…
1)Defense: Ruff’s stock took a hit last night. I would be surprised (but not shocked) if Ruff survived another opponent hanging 500+ yards on Tech. It would be less surprising for the D to play poorly the rest of the year and Ruff to be fired in the off-season. However, I fully expect this to be fluke with the D keeping Tech in the game from here on out. After all, we don’t really know what’s happening behind the scenes. Maybe the whole team (starters and backups) had the swine flu, SARS, and the avian bird flu. My gut instinct is that Ruff is still the best option. As for replacing him, are you going to pay the next guy in ‘Both Feet In’ merchandise? I was under the impression that funds were tight.
2)Doege: I read on the game thread that Doege was getting his ankle looked at before that last series (that I believe ended in a fumble). I guess Doege and Sheffield being hurt would be the only reason to play Potts again.
3)WR Drops: I can’t blame the receivers because Potts was on the other end of the pass.
4)Potts: My theory is that he hasn’t been the same since that H2H hit by Sergio Kindle. Arguing otherwise brings Leach’s ability to select a QB into question. I’m not saying that Potts was concussed for the past month. Maybe he adjusted his approach to the game (for the worst) after that hit. My hope is that his problems weren’t visible during practice. I’ll always error on the side of whatever is pro-Leach. We could lose every game (except Baylor because I paid a lot of $$$ for those tickets) and I’d be okay with where he’s brought us.
5)Fans: Please go to the Baylor game in Dallas. You already paid for the tickets. In short, don’t be a fair-weather fan. If you don’t know what that looks like, look for the sudden influx of TAMU golf shirts at work on Monday. You will be just like them if you don’t go to the game. Thanks.
6)Leach Haters: You suck.

and now back in Plano thank the lord I can tell you Tech had little fire going in to this game. The crowd seemed out of it also. Definitely one of the most boring game day atmospheres I’ve seen in a long time. I don’t want to take anything away from the aggies because they flat out kicked our asses from go. Our coaching was horrible in word and we have very little play makers on this team offensively and defensively. This season will be tough finish at 7-5 but lets just look at it as we had no QB and defense. Leach has to step up his game plan and try to introduce new plays that mean running the ball more. Our receivers are just okay in my opinion. No real stars or play makers anywhere on this squad. I just can’t keep from thinking about how Leach selected Potts to be our QB in ‘09. What did he see in this kid’s skill set? This is a hard loss to swallow but we will prevail and hopefully we learned something from it. No consistency at all with this team. Sad day.