A damn thing that mans says.

But, I’m sure, I’ll believe if we start winning.

If I was Tubs, I would show replays of OSU, UT, Baylor, Mizzou and ISU games over and over and over. With no music to drown out the absolutely horrendous football being played.

I’m really trying hard to catch up today, but I also wanted to point out this article from the LAJ this morning:

During his rundown, Tuberville began and ended with a decidedly apologetic tone. He promised fans gathered at a rented ballroom just south of downtown he and the team are displeased about last season’s disappointing 5-7 record.

He said he and the team gathered recently for their first meeting of the new year, summarizing the mood with a quip about the team’s failure to land a postseason bowl game: "That’s the last time we want to sit at home during the holidays."

I’m encouraged by the tone and honesty. Still need to see results on the field, but this is the right step.

CTT is judging his audience and adjusting his message

Maybe Tuberville decides he actually has to coach this team in order to win. His rude awakening to the Big 12 hasn’t been what he planned. Here’s hoping we see and energized and engaged coach combing the sidelines in the Fall.

I have resigned myself to the fact that Tuberville will be the coach in the upcoming season. I am going to take him on the words that he has been speaking and pull for his, and ultimately Tech’s success. The best case scenario is that this ship gets righted this season. I don’t want to see another complete waste of a year.

If Tech doesn’t have a good start in conference play, I hope he is still praising his team, and not tossing the team under the bus like last year.

There aren’t too many folks who would argue that “…34 is just not enough” on most average Saturdays in most games. It was for US last year because our defense gave up an average of 39 points a game.

Our scoring touch, while off a small amount from years past and certainly not as “pretty” as we’re used to, was not the biggest issue. Giving up nearly 40 points per Saturday was, and we all recognize that. You drop that down to the high 20s or low 30s and we are back to 8-9 wins a year.

Can we do it? Who knows…but he’s right in that you can’t rely on having to lay 45 points up there every Saturday. It’s too big a burden in a very competitive conference. It’s a bonus when you can get that many in a game, but to HAVE to score that much in a game each week in order to win is unrealistic.

if we only put up 14 points and win or 40 points and win. A win is a win.

The key to consistently winning is for our defense to keep the other team’s offense off the field. More 3 and outs, and gaining turnovers, gives us so many more options on offense,as far as play selection and clock management. This also helps to keep the defense fresh.

We have the talent. Tubs and his staff just need to do their jobs, and the wins will come.

Position coaches and coordinator changes can make an immediate change in a program.

For an example look at what the Houston Texans did this year. Wade Phillips brought in some great position coaches.
The secondary coach is very positive, doesn’t harp on mistakes and knows how to teach fundamentals, something the previous position coach didn’t have.
They brought in 4 – 5 players via free agency and the draft that brought depth and athleticism to areas they needed.

But the best thing that was brought to the defense was an attitude. the players believed in Phillips and thus confidence rose immediately.

After watching the Texans for years and seeing bad to average defenses, coordinators who were buddies of the coach who had never been coordinators, this year was unbelievable. Worth the season tickets finally.

I know Phillips crapped out with the Cowboys , and I thank Jerry for opportunity to get Wade. It shows Phillips is a great coordinator……head coach? Who knows

I hope next football season Tubs shows he picked the position coaches, coordinators, and the players to make the Red Raiders successful as well.

The attitude is the biggest factor however. Do the players believe and want to play for a coach so they don’t disappoint him?

Where it’s due, he pulled a feat in keeping this class intact despite a putrid, and I mean putrid, showing in conference play this year. Despite that, I don’t feel at all confident that there will be improvement next year. It’s bothersome, because the last two recruiting classes should instill some confidence, yet, still I sit here no less disheartened than I was while watching the Ok St Cowboys destroy us, with our old offense no less, on my friggin BIRTHDAY! (Thank goodness for a great bottle of birthday wine, or who knows what woulda happened that day.) Most annoying, is I still feel like his rhetoric is one consistently TRASHING our previous staff and what was, BAR NONE, the greatest offense in the country over the course of a decade. The more I hear him speak about how you can’t do things the way we used to do them, the more I hope for a bowl invite (though I don’t believe for a second Tuby can win more than 6) into whatever bowl that pitted our “great” coaching staff squarely against none other than Mike Leach on the other sideline.

Anything is better than talking down about our team. Get cocky and channel that into some serious arse kicking.