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Might this years scout team be?

This program is heading in a great direction! The foundation is getting stronger day by day and I am looking forward to seeing the on field product. Billy G is doing the same in Bball. Tech has some very bright days ahead!

I am very excited about the quality of the recruits Texas Tech is getting LOIs from, as well as the “transfers”. It does help in some instances (Simmons & McRoy) that Tech already has a good friend or brother onboard, even if it initially doesn’t appear that way. I went back and viewed the McRoy highlights and they both are very fast. Javares does seem to have an extra gear that few have, even Ben, but they can both create a lot of havoc with their speed.

I like where Spencer is taking the baseball, but I sure hope he starts signing top pitching talent more often. Tech seems to always trail the top teams in pitching abilities and that needs to change for them to get better. The hitting has been good, but when they face good pitching, their own pitching just can’t keep them in the games enough times to help the team gain a win. The stadium upgrades could help attract better pitching, so that is comforting. In Tech’s loss to UT Friday, the Horns drew over 7000 fans. Tech is drawing only 3500 fans for conference games. Hopefully that will improve.

Courtney Linehan is given some good subjects to write about, but she falls short of actually completing her articles. Brain transfer is minimal with her and I really am not much of a fan for someone who just doesn’t seem to get IT. Of course, there have been other articles by other sports “analysts” on the AJ payroll that seem to be lacking in talent. Too often when I read one of the segments online I am left with a sense that it ends before it is finished, if that makes sense.

The NCAA has outlived its relevancy. Somehow, a lot of changes need to be made for that organization to regain the honor it should have. All they seem to do anymore is make complete fools of themselves by making and trying to enforce rules that are unrealistic. Someone at work mentioned the fact amateure (sp) athletics are not even close to where they used to be. Consider the number of professionals allowed to compete in the Olympics, where it was once completely non-professional. I know, there were countries, mainly Communist block countries, that actually used professional type athletes for years befor the US actually allowed professionals to compete. Anyhow, if the NCAA is to continue as a relevant guiding force for U.S.A. amateures, some changes seem required.

but the implications of the Simmons get are a lot more important to the program overall (assuming of course he makes it on campus, hope he got a good night’s sleep because Don Williams mentioned he’s taking the ACT this weekend). A huge part of why the 2008 team was nationally relevant was because of the starting defensive front 4: Brandon Williams, Colby Whitlock, Richard Jones, and McKinner Dixon. Starting in 2012 and into 2013 we have a real chance of putting together not just a starting unit, but an entire rotation that can outplay those guys, as good as they were.

It would be nice to beat tu in Austin

Go Tech!!!

Wreck ’Em!!

Last few moments of the 9th we almost lost it.

We let them get some hits. They scored one and then the bases were full. But Tech’s John Neely struck them out.

Good bats for Tech

We get a guard from the JC’s and not one comment ???

O.k. !! I do not like trying to build a Div 1 basketball program from JC’s as a principle. I have written at length about that positon…..

With a new coach, any new coach, I am going to sit back and see what he does with these guys as they come in and how they develop…that is the criteria…

Welcome to TTU, Ty Nurse, the Raider Nation hopes the very best success for you and for our basketball program.