I’m trying to get a positive outlook on all of this stuff… but this one kind of ticks me off…
Would some of you sunshine guys please help me understand why this is a good thing…? Or even ok…?

Not cool and not happy about this at all. They better have found somebody better…… Not possible.

To the overall conditioning program Tech has been able to use the last several years to shore up one of the main reasons for a team’s success: strength and conditioning. There are other people out there that are capable, but Bennie is amazing, with few who would be able to come close to matching his intensity and guidance of young boys to become solid men. Every player, especially the footballers, at Texas Tech in all sports valued his leadership, advice and tutelage. This man will be sorely missed by every Texas Tech Red Raider, not counting those new guys on the block that we fans sure did not have a hand at inviting. It is clear the decision NOT to solidify Wylie’s position with the team was absolutely the worst one this new coach could have made. I question his motives here.

has helped establish this program as a place where players actually improve, and I’m not sure as to what the probationary period really meant. Maybe it was just to give Wylie time to find a new job or maybe Tuberville intended on having Wylie around for the long haul. I’m not sure that we’ll really know. I understand that this could potentially be a huge blow to the program, but I’d also like to think that Tuberville may have someone in mind that might be as good as Wylie or better or worse. This somewhat falls back to the discussion of the loss of Lincoln Riley, which some thought would be absolutely devastating (time will tell) and others thought that Neal Brown would do a good job. Again, it looks bad now but the truth is that until someone is hired and has the opportunity to perform, then it’s tough to make a call as to whether or not this is really bad, possibly bad, possibly good, or really good.

I don’t think we’ll see an upgrade at this position.

From this news…..

…all the coaches involved in the Adam James fiasco have now moved on with a helping hand from Tuberville. Didn’t both Lincoln Riley and Benny Wylie gave statements in support of Leach and calling out James on his lazy, entitled behavior?

I get wanting to surround yourself with coaches loyal to you, but given what the team went through, and publicly saying you weren’t going to clean house, you could have kept a couple of the coaches the players identified with and were comfortable with and who were highly successful in their positions.

I will support the team – I love my Red Raiders – but I am becoming more and more convinced that Tuberville does not “get” Texas Tech.

Looks like A. James may be starting this season at this rate.

;)

I honestly had no idea how close many of you are to the program. I had never even heard of this guy until a couple of weeks ago.

But let me play devil’s advocate for a moment. Is it possible we just lost an irreplaceable cog in the wheel? Quite possibly. But isn’t just as likely that he will be replaced by someone as effective if not better?

Question: in the next 30 secs, without using Google, name as many Div-1 football Strength & Conditioning Coaches as you can. Hurry, no cheating! If your list is not longer than 3 or 4, it is safe to say that given the 100 or so programs out there, you really have no clue whether this move is good or bad. Don’t worry, I’m in the same boat. What you can glean from this exercise is we should reserve judgment both positive and negative until we have a new hire, and he is given time to produce. I would argue this rational line of thinking we usually apply to all other parts of our lives, be used throughout this scary/exciting transition we are in.

Thank you for another great day in Double T Nation, and for the mediocre lunch my wife is about to prepare rather than let me go out to eat after church. Sweet baby Jesus, with your little balled up, pink, and wrinkled fists. Please forgive us cranky and stubborn Red Raider fans, we know not what we do…….but we know we hate change. Dear sweet Jesus, lying there in that manager, let us not prematurely become our fathers and grandfathers. Remind us that the stock market has actually sucked about every 4 years for the last 40 years, and we do not need to put our life savings in gold and bomb shelters. Remind us the Japanese never took over America, even after buying all that real estate in the 80s. Remind us that Cindy Crawford’s provocative Pepsi commercials of the early 90s did not signal the end of times. Further remind us that if our favorite football program, your own anointed Red Raiders, never changed coaches or philosophies, we would still be watching Nebraska run the option while laying 45 points on us at home. Give us your sweet baby grace to see that while change is scary, and sometimes bad, without it, your have proven……….we never grow.

TTUMAR – fix your own darn lunch instead of complaining about your wife’s mediocre lunch!!

I know it’s hard to accept and I personally thought Wylie was a great strength coach for Tech. That being said, I can understand a new head coach cleaning house. It’s never popular and will always leave people wondering but I’m glad he’s doing all these unpopular things now at one time rather than waiting. I sit by Benny Wylies wife and children at Tech games and have come to know them as great people. It sucks to see relationships break but all this started the day Mike Leach was fired and if you must blame somebody you can look to the bell tower for answers. This first year will be tough for all of us to accept and I’m certain Tuberville knew all of this coming into the job. Coaches have their own idealogy of what they think makes up a coaching staff. Maybe Tuberville has a strength coach he is comfortable with and feels is a better fit for the job. These are the things that happen with a changing of the guard. None of us have to like it right now but I would say expect more changes and realize this is a new staff and culture coming in. Time will tell if all this benefits our football program. Blaming the new coach and his recent methods are expected I guess but IMO are premature.

I’m gonna miss those shades.

So who is left from Mike Leach’s coaching staff?