Thats the NE portion on the East Side. Just about the goal line. I can't make it this weekend, so please let me know if you're interested. The seats are on the isle, and about 4 up rows from the concourse.

Great Seats. Season Tickets. Behind the Tech bench. Close to the action, but not too close. Section 104, Row 12, Seats 24, 25

What they cost me - $100 each

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Big 12 faces better competition this week.
85k bitch for 3 hours about their early kickoff while watching Bama rout UT.
Big game for TT but bigger for UH as they'll be favorites the rest of the year.
Iowa State faces rival Iowa.
BU has a tough one in Provo vs BYU.
KSU meets neighbor Mizzou.
OSU versus Az State.
Toads face perennial powerhouse Tarleton.
OU malls Kent State.

KU goes to WV to open the Big 12 season. WV looked better than expected in losing to ranked Pitt in a game they gave away. KU looks to keep taking baby steps forward.

I don't watch much College GameDay like I once did, but I know it's a Saturday morning staple for many of you.

It looks like Pat McAfee is a permanent addition to the show, and I'm sure reading the tea leaves, will be in line to replace Corso soon.

From Sports Illustrated:

Just two weeks into the 2022 college football season, ESPN’s popular pregame show has made a significant addition to its lineup.

ESPN’s College GameDay has reportedly added former NFL punter and popular multimedia stat Pat McAfee to its permanent lineup, according to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post. McAfee is expected to make his debut on Saturday when the show travels to Austin for Texas’ matchup with No. 1 Al
McAfee, 35, hosts a daily talk show on YouTube and will continue to do so, as well as make his regular appearances on WWE’s Friday Night SmackDown on Fox. McAfee also has a deal with FanDuel, which reportedly will pay him $120 million over the next four years.

McAfee has called games for ESPN2’s alternate broadcasts in years past and will continue to do so. He tweeted about the College GameDay deal Tuesday evening.

“It’s an absolute honor 2 have this tweet tweeted about me,” McAfee wrote. “GameDay is a show that I’ve been a fan of FOREVER. So many moving parts including real cool conversations w/ the fine folks from WWE .. all moved quickly. DUMBEST LIFE OF ALL TIME.”

But I found this tweet to align with our recruitment going forward
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Have 8 tickets together:

Sec 121
Row 13
Seats 35-42

Tickets are $40 a piece face value but I just want them to be used, text me 512-633-3413.

Sorry if I missed a discussion about this, but is he playing this week after his injury last week?. @M. Clare posted a picture of him on twitter and his knewas wrapped up pretty good.

@deanstrong

https://www.kmbc.com/article/patrick-mahomes-andy-reid-week-one-press/41107963#
13:37 mark

I didn't want to write up a formal article piece so I decided to just post this on the board. I've rewatched the game against Murray State and here are some thoughts:

- Donovan Smith was the clear No. 2 in my eyes. Behren isn't far behind though and showed flashes of good football. As always, I think he throws the hardest pass and has the quickest release of the three QBs. I think the collective third-string group mixed in with some backup second-stringers didn't play well around him. Last six drives of the game were punt, punt, touchdown, punt and interception. There were times where Behren tried to make some plays on his feet but the o-line didn't hold up too well or he just held on to the ball too long. One of his biggest strengths and coach Kittley has said it before too is his ability to throw on the run. I wonder if he was more of a pocket passer if those drives would've ended differently.

- The starting offensive line and defensive backs flipped in my mind because all offseason the worries were around the o-line. The strongest, most experienced group is the DB room. That didn't look the same come Saturday night. The starting five upfront surprised me with how gelled they looked for most snaps. The transition from playing with Tyler to Donovan was so smooth. I really enjoyed seeing that starting group on Saturday. The one group, DBs and especially the starters, shocked me with how many times they were ran by. The Murray State QB, DJ Williams, was damn good. He sustained a right knee injury that they'll learn more about when they get an MRI done. But, nonetheless, his receivers were getting by the DBs but luckily enough the front seven were getting pressure on Williams. Photo proof below...

EDIT: Forgot to add this quote from Dennis Wilburn - “I honestly didn’t even know he was back there,” Wilburn said. “He came up to me and was like ‘It was a great pocket back there,’ and I was like ‘Bro, I didn’t even know you was in the game.’”



- The Texas Tech run defense stood out to me. Murray State combined for 95 gained yards but lost 45 per the stat sheet. 50 gained yards on the ground is pretty, pretty good. Now, -21 of those were on sacks but still a solid performance from the defensive line. The grades for Jaylon Hutchings, Tyree Wilson, Phil Blidi, etc. were jumping off the page in the PFF grades. I'm a huge believer in Blidi. He is great people along with his family. It's hard not to root for him and Saturday was fun for me to watch. (@DThompson)

- Okay, so on to the Texas A&M thing. I arrived in Lubbock from Big Spring in the fall of 2014. I was accepted into TCU and Tech. Once I arrived for my visit on campus I was sold. It wasn't far from home (an hour and a half) but also I could still do my own thing with my parents not visiting every weekend. Fort Worth was just busy to me. But mainly it was the classic West Texas feel aka home. Oh, and Dr. Jorge Iber. He allowed me as a freshman to enroll in his upper-level Baseball in America class. My parents loved him from the day we met him. But, anyways, during my time (and now) I always knew about the Aggie rivalry. But I never got to experience it in person. Fast-forward to today and one of my roommates is an Aggie. He's one of my best friends. But, damnit if I don't hear about A&M football, Manziel or that damn dog daily. It's all in good fun but I now know how easy it is to dislike the Maroon and White. I'll keep y'all posted on my first trip to College Station as he is insisting on me visiting for a game one of these days. Shoutout to Keith, but there's not going to be a national title in Aggieland this year.

I have no real opinion on the thought, but I thought most of the comments were pretty level headed for a Twitter thread.

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Finally! Per Evan Grant.

What do y'all think? How close will the game be?




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I’m not the first who has said it, and I won’t be the last, Saturday at The Jones felt different. The “buzz “or “excitement” for the 2022 football season has been discussed quite a bit this offseason, but there was almost some kind of communal cathartic release from the entire fanbase once the pregame festivities began. The analogy is almost overused at this point, but it really did feel like we (the entire fanbase and players themselves) completed the Andy Dufresne sewage crawl and we stood there, collectively, with our arms outstretched, staring into the football heavens, basking in the glow of running a flea flicker on your first play from inside your own ten yard line.



Who knows what next week, or this season will bring, but I think we can all agree, Saturday felt good.



So, the first thing I noticed from Saturday actually ended up being much more impactful than I really considered. Notice in the clip below (sorry for the skip, thanks ESPN+) the first person, not on the field, to celebrate with Loic after he scores. Donovan Smith. That says a lot to me about a guy who finished last season as the MVP of a bowl win over an SEC opponent but lost his job anyway. He played so well coming in unexpectedly because he wasn’t sulking over on the bench, but he was actively engaged and celebrating his teammates’ success.

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This next clip, the announcers touched on it a few times during the game, but I was a big fan of the different looks the defense was giving the Murray State offense. Now, these aren’t drastically different (I wouldn’t want to show that against Murray State anyway), but they are different enough to make the Oline and QB think a little longer about their assignment. Mixing up looks, while keeping assignments simple, is something that DeRuyter is known for and I’m glad to see that already working its way into the scheme. As for the plays themselves, I mean c’mon, when was the last time we’ve seen the defensive line and linebackers that aggressive? There will be times that it backfires, but I’ll live and die by that.

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This clip has the most frustrating, of the several, secondary blunders. I slowed them down to help spot the problems. The Red Raiders are playing Cover 1 or Man Free in the first two plays. Basically, everyone is manned up except for a deep safety who is playing centerfield. You see this coverage a lot when the defense is sending pressure, which Tech did a lot of on Saturday. In the first clip, Malik Dunlap is lined up over the #2 receiver and they are running a Slot Fade, which is a great play and a difficult cover. Even though the pressure is impacting the quarterback, Dunlap is slightly slow to react while providing very little resistance in allowing the receiver to go exactly where he wants, away from the safety. That negates the pressure because the QB can essentially just throw it up. Tyler Owens, the deep safety may garner some criticism, but watch the #1 receiver on the right, he gets a free release and is running right at him, I don’t blame him for being slow to the sideline.


Next play is a lot less defensible; it is just very badly played by Frye and Rabbit. Not only is Frye too easily beaten off the line, Rabbit is too slow to help considering there is not another deep threat. To compound the mistakes, I don’t think the ball could’ve been played any worse by those two and Frye was injured. As the great Pete Campbell exclaimed, “Not great, Bob!”


In the final play, the Red Raiders are playing Cover 0, straight man across the board, and Murray State runs that damn slot fade again. This time Rabbit has the slot, and does a solid job disrupting the route, unfortunately, again, plays the ball about as bad as possible. I sit very close to where this play took place, I was already celebrating an interception when the ball was caught, so you could probably hear me on the broadcast express my displeasure for the actual result.

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I would have lost any TE prop bet heading into week one. Who plays the most snaps, who catches the first pass, any of them. The more I think about it though, Teeter’s role makes sense, and I should have seen it. We are going to need him to effectively run the football, which means he will play a lot, which also means Kittley will keep the defense honest with his usage. This play is everything I love about what Kittley does, get the defenses’ eyes moving, their body weight shifting with the motion, and then throw it up the seam to the vacated space. He’s like a boxer the way he sets up his opponent just to throw a haymaker.

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This next clip has a couple of the RPOs I liked from Saturday. I’m a big fan of these because they are free yards, if the offense executes, the defense cannot be right. In the first play, Shough is reading the play side safety, the moment he moves forward to help with the run, Shough pulls the ball and throws it to that vacated space. Easy money.


This is how effective RPOs are, this play isn’t really even executed that well (throw behind Price, bad block by Sparkman), but it still results in a good play. Donovan reads the outside linebacker over Price, the moment he is stagnant, while Price runs the bubble, Donovan gets it to Price in space. Kittley gets his dudes the ball in space, that’s all you need in an OC.

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I’m going to be honest; I’m worried about the run game. The offensive line generated very little push against this Murray State unit which, I would guess, is going to be the weakest one we see all season. Take a look at the first play in this clip, just zone read, who’s winning their block?


Next clip, the offense is running Dart, backside tackle pulls around and leads for the back. Great adjustment by Thompson, but he has to do that because of Tharpe’s “block.” I really hope this area of his game does not keep him from playing. Otherwise, this is blocked pretty well, not counting Rodgers grabbing a chicken sandwich from Chic-fil-a on his roundabout pull to playside.


The last play in this clip is how Tech is going to have to run the ball. Block down and kick out, I’m not sure they are good enough to win blocking zone schemes. This is a counter variation or GY, where everyone blocks down, leaving the end man on the line of scrimmage. The backside guard kicks him out, and the Y, in this case, leads to playside linebacker. This is a thing of beauty, and I bet we see more zone schemes like this moving forward. Especially considering, with Donovan, the guard can leave the EMOL to read. Then if Donovan pulls it, he has a lead blocker around the outside.

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I am worried about our secondary, although I think we will see more zone moving forward. And I am worried about our running game, even though, Hamby really is a pass pro savant. The protection was immaculate, and Kittely is so good at what he does, do we even need to run the ball?


Even with those worries, I think it’s safe to say our excitement was warranted, and I cannot wait until 3 on Saturday.

Has turned into a dirty 6th crowd, when did this happen?

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I read this article this morning and thought this was so cool. Kliff is my favorite Red Raider, and I love seeing that he’s still really invested in our program. I think it says a lot about both him and this current staff to have a fired Head Coach super excited about our future!

Debuting tomorrow per multiple sources:

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Just hammered it.

Fug UT.

I hope they call the game at half.

Thats all

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