DTN Daily Diatribe | Texas Tech News, Notes and Links | 2011-07-26

for Taylor Potts. The guy has been through hell and back for this university, and now he is finally getting his shot.
Also, Lyle Leong > Roy Williams.

I hope all the Tech players make their NFL rosters.
Looks good for the program.

From Richard Justice’s column:

Fans want an independent voice, and the only place that can be found is from journalists and commentators without financial ties to ESPN or the Longhorn Network.

I think he’s giving fans way too much credit, and the success of an SB Nation seems to belie his conclusion. He posted at 11:10AM yesterday and has three comments. Seth posted 20 hours later and already has 9 comments.

He’s got the attention of a lot of folks in Pittsburgh. I wish him the best!

Those recruiting rankings make no sense. Cal is #17 with only 4 recruits. Sure 3 of them are 4-star, but beyond that they don’t have anything. I’m assuming the writer believes this class has a lot of potential and they will continue on their pace of 75% 4-star recruits, but that will not happen. AtM is only one slot ahead at #16, but they have 20 commits and 6 4-stars. Hmm…which is a better class at this point? This list is full of examples like this. They need to decide if their list is what has actually happened or how they think it will end up. Or just make 2 lists altogether.

The point of early rankings is to rank what the teams have done to that point, not rank what they have done and assume about the rest of their class. Otherwise it just ends up being another popularity contest for the bigger name schools and traditional powerhouses to see their name highly ranked on another meaningless list.

I think reflects Hocutt’s approach to running the Athletic Dept. ……I love it because as was pointed out the AJ has not even kept up with anything this summer……With so much other media out there like twitter, facebook, and youtube then just use those to your advantage!!!! Anyway, even in the midst of the most unbelievable/disappointing coach situation(Capt Leach) that the ADMIN has put us through they somehow made a great hire IMO for AD……Wreck’Em Tech

http://www.big12sports.com

From Ubbs:

Weakest gesture: Tommy Tuberville, Texas Tech
   These are crucial days for the Big 12, and the league unveiled its branding initiative early Monday evening by introducing each of the Big 12 coaches and a slogan around the Big 12’s new tagline, “How We Play.”
   Tuberville, however, was the only coach in the league not present. He was at a golf event elsewhere in the metroplex with Texas Tech alumni. Texas A&M is the central figure in the most recent Big 12 dustup, but the league could have used a truly united front. "

Wow. Weakest gesture for not showing up to some half-ass “branding initiative” and awesome new tagline “How We Play”? For our “new” conference that has been around for over a decade? And a “truly unified front”? What the hell is he talking about? Is UT truly unified with us with their new network? Is aggy unified with all their threats of leaving the conference? Was Mizzou unified when they tried to throw us under the bus last year and unsuccessfully whore themselves out to the Big 10? Give me a break, Ubbs.

I thought it was a pretty strong gesture that Tubbs actually cares more about the school’s alumni than schmoozing with the conference that slobbers all over UT any chance they get. In fact, I’m surprised the new tagline wasn’t “We Are Texas…I mean the Big 12”

Ubbs is a teasip and way to South Plains Drifter……I just hope we can somehow snag an invite to Pac 12, it’s a lonshot but here is to wishing!!!!! Wreck’Em Tech

When asked about dropping TCU from the schedule, Tubberville said “That’s not the type of team we want to play now.” I guess we want to play more teams like Texas State, he may want to drop Nevada as well, they win few games here and there.

give us a home/home and The South Plains Drifter did slightly referenced that but he should have made a bigger deal about the horny toads not wanting to come to the Jones…..Also, being in sec land I think it is highly unlikely that more than 2 teams from the big12-2 would be invited in……that means ou and atm……sec really seems to want in the Texas market…….but also a local sports station here had the ou rival’s guy on the other day and he indicated the ou fan base seems to be split with a good % wanting to go to be in the Pac 16 and be the big dog not just coming to the sec and having to fight it out with alabama/lsu/florida……will be interesting to see what transpires…..also, new season, a time to give Scotty Smith a new start (especially with Rumph/Coleman defections) and TSPD needs to lay down the law but allow Smith the chance to start the year on the active roster…..So “Free Scotty”! Wreck’Em Tec

Isnt the game a fullfillment of a contract of Home and Homes ? They played in Lubbock twice and we played in FtWt once ?

and the 70-35 game in the Jones was a stand alone game…..we fulfilled our home/home and remember that was one Harrell’s worst games….but the frogs have deceide to treat us like Texas state so to me it wasn’t about winning or losing but their attitude….I will say if TTU would join the big east with tcu then I’ll play them every year for the bsc, i mean bcs bid!!! Wreck’Em Tech

Mike Leach will be in studio with The Hardline on The Ticket in Dallas today. I didn’t catch what time he would be on….If any out of towners wanna hear it just go to the ticket.com and click the listen live link. :)

but I am sure the majority of the Tech students hate UT. :-) But, I will give my opinions anyway.

The big dustup by AtM over the LHN is typical of the ags. I will give Tech credit that they seem to be non-plussed over the network. I find it amusing that AtM considers themselves to me more significant than Tech and more of a desired program, by the SEC.

I dont see it myself – I will say they are the biggest bunch of whiners the country has ever seen.

Also, I think 15th in the recruiting ranking is a bit low. Tubs has done a great job of recruiting and is hauling in a damned respectable class, in my opinion.

And why is that? If Tech had the opportunity to have a “TTN” would you feel the same?

that I would agree as far as high school is concerned – but only if the games were a straight ESPN promotion of UT prospects. I would also submit, if UT coaches were using LHN, as a recruiting tool, that it would be tantamount to oblique cheating and I would be against it.

Look, nobody in thier right mind should object to ANY college cutting deals like UT has done – anyone of them would jump at the chance should they have one. Texas Tech would be no exception. As long as it is on the up and up – so what?

The problem has been two of UT’s most hated rivals boo hooing because THEY weren’t canny enough to do it themselves and if they can’t have it, they don’t want UT to have it either. Socialism at it’s best.

Furthermore, UT is NOT the program director for this network – ESPN is. This whole thing has not even materialized yet and AtM is frothing at the mouth and stamping their feet and wanting to take their football and run. What is the old saying, “when the going gets tough….?” Ah well – it’s a pattern.