Taking a Breath :: Looking Ahead to the Texas Tech Offense of 2010

I think this guy might be a huge impact player next year. Has very good speed and is built like a football player not a track star.

this is an awesome snap shot of what we have coming. Eric Ward along with Boone and Corker could be really special if those guys all hit the field in 2010. The running game couldn’t be any better either. The O-line has so much depth that I worry little about who fills in. At QB we are loaded and I agree that Karam’s traveling with the team this season can only mean Leach wants him ready and has big plans to get him in the rotation. Awesome!

One last thing: Get out and vote for Proposition 4 today Red Raiders. Our Tier One status rides on this.

I happened to be reading the Dakota game program (paper was not there yet) this moring and pondering the roster. Not very many seniors…We are a very young team this year and should have a very bright future. I will be sorry to see the seniors go, but they have served the Raider Nation well.
Looking forward, we have loads of talent, and after this year a huge amount of experience at all postions.
Probably the most disturbing slot will be the DE and linebacker area. (Note: not worried about the offense at all).
oh, and regardless of who the starters are next year, I will not boo them.

The ‘year’ of players in the 2-deep chart is what they will be next year. (Had to check myself)

We ought to have a good offense with lots of young talent that will carry us for several years. Just hope they gel in a hurry next season. We have TCU and UH in weeks 3 and 4. Those weeks were no fun this year (UT and UH).

I guess we’ll be looking at defense in the coming day/week. We lose quite a few starters there.

I hope this post goes through, unlike my first. SBNation is awful quirky lately. It has been really slow and locks up on me the last week or so, from home or work computers.

is very important/significant as a metric. I have always used effieciency or effectiveness, but it is the same even if written from the negative side of the equation. The graduation rate is written from the positive side of the equation ~80%. That number reflects good students, the wins / loses / well-played games reflects the athlete’s develpment, coaching, and execution. Finding guys who can do all of that, at a pretty high level, seems to be core to this staff.

I am wondering who is developing as a center. The O-line is really young (as we can see from this year’s execution and depth). This season we lost the left side of the line, next year, we lose the right side. Maybe we are better prepared for that, I still see a young group over all.

I will be very, very suprised if next year’s qb’s are anyone other than Potts and Sheffield…given no health issues. Doege is playing only because circumstances demand it…with continued injury, we would see Karam. None of this is particularly good, although, true enough, Doege is getting a world of experience. Air Raid qb’s develop fastest when one is named and gets the lion’s share of the reps. That has been the formula.

Expectations for either Karam or Young need to be essentially zero. There is way too much talent ahead of either of them. I saw Karam in HS, he was very impressive on the field as well as on the sideline. There is no doubt that Young is of similar ilk.

Ward at receiver is pretty interesting, he came in with alot of attention and high hopes, but was not able to adapt quickley enough. Perhaps Corker and Boone will be more able to do so…each one will have much to over come just getting from Florida to Lubbock, from home to dorm, from hs to a university, etc. The step from HS football to Big12 football is huge. I am looking at the current freshmen who are RS first, remember they were all well thought of when they were recruited as well.

The rb depth is sweet, very sweet. We currently have a 3 deep that is going to be incredibly difficult to crack.

all of this information all laid out in one place. Thanks for the effort Seth!!

I have high hopes for the WRs coming in next year. But I wouldn’t be shocked to see them redshirted. Obviously if they come in at a level they can contribute that’s great, but we only lose Britton this year and I have been happy with the overall performance of this year’s corps.

I’m more excited about the guys we have redshirted right now coming out of the fold and making an impact.

Sadly : (

With the way our recruiting has improvedin the last 5 years, the next 5 years could see us signing the type recruits across the board that will acclimate and be ready to play much sooner than now and in the past. Our 4-stars will fall into that catagory, so those ahead of them will have to work extra hard to keep their position in the depth chart sewed up. I think Tech is at the edge now of being able to compete with the elite every year. To compete every game of every year, they MUST get by the old Tech rule-of-thumb (it seems) of losing one BAD game a year. Hopefully next year is that time.