Wreck’Em Tech

Brother!!!

Potts is the guy with the ceiling to pull this off. Not, alas, Sticks.

This scenario has some big "if"s in it and the first one is The ’Stache sucking it up. I agree. If it plays out like that, then and only then will this unfold like you say. If not, we can start building for 2011…sigh.

I’ve always had high hope for Potts and am willing to chalk up his struggles to growing pains and lump-taking just like Harrell took in his 1st year as a starter when he got benched for throwing three 1st half picks vs. Mizzou. Potts, admittedly, was complicated by injury and a stellar performance by “Sticks”.

(rollng dice) C’mon…….baby needs defensive ends!!!

Love the idea…but it would take a 7,000 yard, 55 TD, 2 INT, 12-0 year for a Tech QB to win the Heisman.

5 Red Raiders have cracked the top 10 in Heisman Voting. 4 out of the 5 were Leach QBs or Recievers (Crabtree). We are on the way, and one solid win next week in Stillwater is where it all begins.

I am in no way denying the contribution Sticks has made, however I do believe it’s possible we have romanticised(sp) his efforts, to the detriment of our abilty to consider what Potts may be capable of. Fact in point is the Nebraska game, or the only real opponent Sticks faced to date. Consider the following offensive production stats of the Leach era:

Bad Offensive Games:
2009 NU – 259 total yards
2007 MZ – 388 total yards
2007 CO – 349 total yards
2006 OK – 281 total yards
2006 CO – 276 total yards
2006 TCU – 242 total yards
2005 UT – 468 yards
2005 OSU – 338 total yards
2005 AL Bowl Game – 329 total yards

As you can see, Stick’s game this year at NU ranks as one of the worst ever in the Leach era, and comes in second only to egg dropped against TCU in 2006. I am also not in the camp that Leach “got conservative” in the second half as it would be the first time ever, and thus more likely that NU made adjustments at the half, and Sticks and the offense couldn’t compete for 4 qtrs. This trend continued right int the A&M game. Sticks saved the season, but going forward he has not measured well against REAL defenses as I would argue Potts was able to against Texas.

I’ve tried to avoid the SS vs TP discussions thus far, so I’m only going to skirt around the edge here.

I never bought the ‘going conservative’ bit either re: the NU game. SS was running for his life most [all] of the 3rd qtr and definitely needs to learn that throwing it away is better than a 15 yard sack. But there are some other points that weigh in his favor from that game:
- 3 long drives for scores in the 1st half against a world-class defense
- NU held the ball almost all of the 3rd qtr and most of the 4th (no chance for stats)
- SS led a drive the length of the field when he needed to in the 4th
- Zero Ints or fumbles
The K.St. game speaks for itself. At UNM, 7 points before he came in, 41 afterward.

If TP can do what TTUMAR talks about the rest of this year, he would definitely go up several notches in my book. Hell, he’d be my favorite guy if he did all that. But so far, one good half against UT wasn’t enough to convince me he’s the man, even if I was to forget about the two turnovers that sealed the game.

What we are asking for here is a re-do. Not that we have a choice, since your the man by default in Stillwater, but I digress.

Let’s rewind 3 months starting next Sat. The tortilla flinging, frozen battery lobbing, Raider Nation, are imploring you to MAKE us forget Sticks was anything but a servicable back-up. PLEASE!

to circle back to the awesome Bull Fighting analogy found elsewhere on the boards (shout out):

“we are not saying we can do, what it is you are doing……..we just need you to do it better.”

You’re so bipolar.

Pass me a few more gallons of that Kool-ade brother!!!!! I’ll gladly swill it all down because I know that we have the talent and leadership to take us to the promise land!! I like the way you think!!!!!

I thought Potts would have played better than what I’ve seen so far. Specifically, he has thrown most of his deep throws off his back foot, stared down receivers and has an occasional hitch in his throwing motion.

Potts is not a leader. He is a sulker. Was it not just two weeks ago that he was the reason for downfall of the season? Jokes were being spread about the guy not being able to hit a house with eggs for crying out loud. He comes into the KU game where Batch does a majority of the work and all of a sudden you’re predicting Heisman and Championships. I’m sorry but I don’t see that happeining with Potts. Championship is most likely to happen with Sheffield at QB, however I see the typical Tech season around the corner. Just like 2008, make a decent run and collapse at the end back into mediocrity.

I’m not exactly a fan of the raiders. I could care less who plays QB for them. it was merely an observation. I’ve lived here my entire life and have been forced to follow Tech,voluntarily or not, because of where my allegiance lies.

This just follows the typical pattern, love em when they’re good and don’t care about em when they’re not.

I can believe ‘horn in our land’ being a horn fan living in Lubbock, as I am just the opposite. The biggest difference between us is that I do not go to a horn site and badmouth them regardless of their position. Nor do I feel ‘forced’ to cheer for the horns, even with a daughter going to UT. No, he (she?) is just like all other horn fans here in Austin. He says Tech is not a real rival to UT, but he will take every opportunity to speak badly about Tech. Typical horn bull….hey, I made a funny…horn.

The BIGGEST thing i saw about sticks is his connection with the recievers. kind of what graham had with crabtree, morris, and britton last year. forget about stats…sticks seamed to be on the same page with his recievers. something stats will never tell!