Remember the movie about Iowa farm and baseball. He got a message......Ease HIs Pain.

Last night for the first time ever in 77 years, I could see it was going to be a hard night without the best RB in College Football, and late into the game I Turned it off. So I called my wise old cousin and he said he did the same.

It looked it was mist up there. We dont see much rain in Lubbock, so not used to it. But we all just carry on. To make it worse UT goes to Mich and does a job on them.

Changing subjects, I have posted about the famous Carswell Airbase 3 miles to my west in Ft. Worth, and its part in Roswell Deal. Also Carswell was number 3 on Russian target list if a war started.


My friend said he was told, Oppenheimer and Werner Von Bont came to Carswell at lease 2 times getting ready for the A bomb! Guns up !

Our strength coach is a joke.

The only man who can save us

From best to worst.

I’d go Kliff, Matt Wells and then Joey McGuire.

Seems like each hire is worse than the previous one.

Shame on the Cowboys (or the system as some will point out) for paying a third tier qb as if he is the best player in all of the NFL!

Should have let his ass go and try to actually draft a 1st round qb in the next couple years.

I can't f****** believe its been 15 years since Leach was our coach. Worst damn hangover I ever had for sure.

I think he was messing with us last night. We need him to smile upon us now.

TSO we love and miss you! How bout a little help up there buddy..........

He's probably telling God a story rn about the latest book he read on Dragonflies.

We need that magic!!!

Abilene Christian beat West Georgia yesterday 38-24 yesterday, which means we now have a Transitive Win over West Georgia!!!

2-0 against FCS schools baby!!!

It’s time to end the pain & suffering. Joey needs to fire Kittley to save his job and possibly this season.

There is absolutely 0% nothing that gives me any sort of hope that Kittley can prepare and execute a decent offensive gameplan. He flat out is ass my dude. He sucks beyond bad.

As much as Joey, Kirby, and the big money donors may like Kittley, he has to be replaced immediately.

Each loss is only setting this program back more and more. It will take years to fix this f***** up mess.

Ideally I’d fire Kirby and start there but that won’t happen.

Firing Kittley right now is not only feasible, it should be rightfully exoected.

I hope Joey will do the honorable thing and replace Kittley today.

I did not come up with the name but how fitting is it for Joey and really our entire coaching staff. Hard to digest how poorly coached this talented team is. We deserve much better.

Watching that video that @codycc64 posted on the tweets was beyond nostalgic and so awesome. I dearly miss that insanely fun Era. I dearly miss Mike himself, RIP.
The players, the culture, the rabid fan base, the winning…all of it. I said in the game thread, under Mike we had an absolute chip on our shoulder. An edge, an attitude under Leach. Players and Fans alike. We embraced the underdog role and the fight you in an alley mentality. Been almost the opposite culture since.

It’s now been 15 years since the Captain Leach tenure was locked up in a shed. FIFTEEN.

Mike coached 10 seasons here
10 straight bowl games
This program has been to 8 total bowls in the 15 years since

Mike won 8 or more games 8 straight years in a row 02-09. He won 9 or more games 5 times (half the seasons he coached here)
We’ve won 8 games a grand total of FOUR times since and we’ve never once hit that 9 win mark (even with a guy named Pat Mahomes at QB)

Tuberville, Kingsbury, Wells, McGuire, hasn’t mattered…

In comparison to simply other Texas Tech programs… in that same 15 year span:

Tech Basketball: Big 12 champs, 3 Sweet 16s, 2 Elite 8s, Final Four, Natty Appearance. Has become a legitimate brand in college hoops.

Tech Baseball: 3 Big 12 titles, 8 tourney appearances, 4 CWS trips and one of the elite brands in college baseball

Track and Field a couple natties, Tech soccer a Big 12 title… and so on

I don’t even really have some deeper or even metaphorical point here. We suck at playing pigskin. Like a lot of you I’m just numb to Tech football. We’ve been good to elite in the majority of our other programs for an extended period. Yet Tech football just continues to flatline. Okie State, Baylor, TCU, K State etc. doing their thing. Tech Football… Weekend at Bernie’s and after the first two weeks of 24, no life in sight. Frankly embarrassing. Big shiny stadium with nothing to show for it.

15 years of this… I’m fine embracing Tech is just not a football school. But also tired of knowing what Leach showed us we can be as a program. My younger self misses that Pirate era immensely. Current reality tells me just embrace what we are as an athletic program, it ain’t coming back.

On the bright side…Tyler Shough seems to be healthy and has overcome his struggles from last year. Unfortunately, Morton sure looks a lot like the 2023 version of Shough. I can’t seem to put my finger on the issue.

1. Let’s go get the top assistant from Georgia and see what happens

A geologist I work with some pointed out something of interest to me and I want to pass it on to Tech folks in case it is of interest.

New active gas well in Mongtomery area. North of house at Hwn 149 to Hwy 105 Montgomory . Galloway Energy, Field Dobbin ( 11740) 17000 ftm / API 3 393044,

This popped up on my Twitter feed today. It describes perfectly our football program.

The reality is that my son is 16. He was born in 2008, and can’t remember a Tech team that was worth a crap.

Sobering…

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We lost a weird game, mainly because of field position. I think if we tee it up again 20 times, this would be the only one that played out this way. BUT THIS ONE DID. I also think we should have beaten that team.

So on to the suggestions: We seem confused and not fully engaged on offense. I think it because we try to do too much, and because the game Kittley calls is kind of a grab bag of plays from his vast playbook. We need to simplify and execute. We need a game plan that is connected, where one play leads to another and there is a unified purpose. The passes to Jordan Brown late in the game are a perfect example...we could have done that all night long...we could have used our TEs in pass routes as well.

We need to get away from trying to invent plays that trick the defense. It puts the wrong thought process in the players heads. We need to lineup and kick some ass. We need these young players to get mean and nasty. And we need them to know that we are serious about eliminating dumb mistakes.

On defense I see some growth in the secondary and along the line. I saw Rigsby, Cofield and Nedore and few others rising to the occasion. Isaac Smith is beginning to get his feet back under him. But Rodriquez is struggling as is Baskerville. The young CBs and Ss seemed to be playing better this game than the last. It would help them a lot if the other team has more than 50 yards to go from the beginning of a drive.

The entire team needs a "be smart, get tough and play football" message. And that shouldn't just be in a speech before or after practice, but every coach needs to be hammering it into their heads all practice long. You make your own luck...you will never trick your way into winning football.

I miss Sonny

2nd and 1 and we need to run the clocK and he had to throw the ball. It would've been great if we had run two QB sneaks for a first. Take 3 knees and kick a field goal.

Texas Tech v Washington State OVER 65½

Would you feel better if we closed it out in regulation with a 49-42 win?

I certainly would still not feel good about it. But if we had managed the play clock better and scored a TD at the end of regulation and left ACU much less time to force OT we would feel better about the outcome. We would have won and the game would have been much less in doubt. As it stands we were all petrified we were going to lose to an FCS team.

I went back and reviewed the last 5 minutes of regulation. Why in the world would anyone substitute your starting QB for a D2 sophomore walk on for a 3rd and 1 in the red zone with 2:45 left in a tie game.


I now see there is a dedicated thread to the final drive. Carry on.

The last 4 minutes of the game went down like this:

On a 2nd and 1 with 3;49 left we run Taj for 8 and get a first down and burn some clock.

The next play we snap the ball from the 17 with 3:22 left. There were :13 seconds left on the play clock!!!!

Pass to Conyers for 9.

On 2nd and 1 we snap the ball at the 2:48 mark with :16 seconds on the play clock. And what do we do? We throw an incomplete pass to stop the clock at 2:45.

We should of given it to our stud RB and run some clock. But what did we do in crunch time when we need a yard to get a first down? We sub in a D2 sophomore walk on at QB. And what happens? The center gets flagged for a false start. How in the world does a center false start?????

Now a 3rd and 6 produces another incomplete pass that stops the clock. BRILLIANT!!

We end up kicking a FG and leaving them 2:39 on the clock. That is an eternity.

If we run Taj on the 2nd and 1 and snap the ball at the 2:20 mark(proper play clock management) and get the first down/touchdown. Worst case, you get stuffed and kick the FG at the 1:45 mark and leave them with almost 1 minute less on the clock. ACU did not get in FG range to tie it until :24 seconds left.

Total mismanagement from the 3:22 mark on.

…is like a Titanic survivor complaining about the food service. You may well have a point, but with so many other bigger issues, it would take to Wednesday to get to Kittley.

For a respectable program, 45 points —32 in the first half — would seem to be a nice performance considering what other offenses were doing against FCS foes and it being the first game. Win like 45-13 and go on.

What 60.000 witnessed was a horrid defense, athletes that looked no better then ACU, a culture of a team that was not ready to play and serious big-picture questions in year 3 of this regime.

This falls on one man, the head coach, in which a fan base continues to give him pass after pass because they want this to work so bad.

Reserve the public floggings for Tech’s favorite whipping boy for later. There are plenty of issues before getting to him.

To be our head coach and run a collegiate program. We got what we bought and what evidence did we have to suggest we were getting anything different? I wanted to believe it could work, but the on-field product looks exactly like preparation from a high school coach, at best.

I think Joey was offering him his next gig after the game, whispering in his ear.

All this fan base wants is to see Hudson, someone you hyped up and said from week 1 would be massively involved in the offense. He is the biggest recruit in our history and you are from what I can tell intentionally keeping that from happening.

Of all the coaching blunders and bullshit you spill, this might be the maddest I’ve been with you.

Fire Joey and clean house.

I’ve been a big fan of McGuire and wanted him to see success here. Truly believed in him. But he’s not the guy. Time to start over again.

You’re high school snake oil sales pitch will not be missed.