Even after Saturday, I would put Utah at the top. They don't want to be in the Big 12 and certainly act like the league is beneath them.
I would agree Big 12 needs to work on football officiating, but there were plenty of bad calls on both sides of the ball in the BYU Utah game. The fact that you let BYU drive down the field with little time to score a field goal is more on the Utah defense than the refs.

I hate CU but at least they want to be in the Big 12

That’s all. Can’t even stop a 4 man rush. This needs to be McGuire’s #1 priority on O.

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Wanted to give y’all some updated thoughts as I am through the first half of the offensive film, and honestly it feels like all I need to watch. I’ll finish it eventually but I’m getting frustrated and want to express some of that before I sit here and stew on it.

-Tech’s OL was atrocious in the run game. Gave you no chance. It was a litany of errors that just killed anything that Tech was trying to do.

-Tech’s offense was getting out-schemed at times. Tech had plenty of man answers to this point in the film, but lacked when CU went to a zone. Happened vice-versa as well, Tech had zone beaters on and caught man, which stalled a drive. Frustrating, but have to be better operationally.

On the offensive drives that stalled in the first quarter, it largely came down to a lack of execution from Morton and a questionable thought process from the coordinator.

The first one that stalled near the 40 and you took a FG, you get a man-to-man beater that is a winner on 1st down, but Morton is pressured, is hit as he throws and it’s incomplete. My bigger issue is the plays that follow. Tech goes inside zone and then ISO, both of which are blown up by light boxes. Issues upfront and CU’s LBs playing great. That was the theme of the entirety of the night, just nowhere near good enough to win with at this level on the OL. It was a disaster for every member in the run game.

The second one is the one that makes me concerned, and it’s been a larger scale issue for Behren all season. I’m sure that playing behind this line is not helping in this regard, however, Morton’s pocket awareness, and frankly his willingness to throw the ball down the field is inhibiting the offense.

1st down from the plus-15. ISO where the LB makes a great play to bring down Tahj, fine. 2nd & 8 is a wheel with dual ins attached, I don’t think that this is a great answer, but Morton turns down a throw to an open Kelly that probably doesn’t score but would be better than bailing and giving yourself a coverage sack.

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The 3rd & 16 play is the one that made me want to stop. Tech has a perfect call for whatever this is supposed to be defensively. I’m either calling it match quarters or cover-3 and Shilo Sanders is adlibbing. Either way, in a clean pocket, Morton turns down a throw to the post to Kelly, the #2 to the field, rolls and throws a contested scramble drill. It’s a tough throw, yes, one that would’ve taken some balls to get in there, but it’s year three in the system for Morton, it has to be thrown.

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I’ll have some more thoughts when I’m done, and will add the charting at some point, but I think I’m going to get some sun and run errands before I finish this.

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Other than his introduction of being from Texas State, it was a great podcast.

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29th essentially, as they are listed 4th in the "others receiving votes" section of the AP Top 25 College Basketball Poll.



Notables...

#1 Kansas
#4 Houston
#5 Iowa State
#8 Baylor
#10 Arizona
#13 Texas A&M
#19 Texas
#20 Cincinnati
#31 Kansas State
#35 BYU
#51 Arizona State

I could not care less what basic counting stats say about our offense and defense.

I watch the defense, knowing what they’re working with personnel wise, and I broadly think “wow, impressive effort and plan… giving us a chance.”

Then I watch the offense, knowing what they’re working with, and I broadly think “wtf? This looks disjointed, easy to defend, and wasteful. We’ve got no real chance with this”

And if I was responsible for this program and in a decision making role, I’d be really trying to find the answers to that “wtf?” question. It’s been the difference between a successful season and a disappointment so far.

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He’s paid a lot of damn money to recruit and find players. Time to start earning that salary with portal OL/DL

Head scratcher is really the best way I can describe the events that took place at The Jones last night.

There were so many things that went wrong in this game for Tech that I honestly think it was a miracle that it found itself with a chance to tie the game late. It’s 34-20 with around 10 minutes to go in the game and I thought to myself that there was no way this game could have become interesting again.

Another hat tip to the defensive side of the ball because going into this one, I really got the sense that they were already going to be playing from a disadvantage, and I thought DeRuyter’s unit rose to the challenge.

Plain and simple, though, Colorado beat the Red Raiders at their own game, through the air, at least. Shedeur Sanders only went 1-for-5 on passes longer than 15 yards down the field. One completed pass that went for a grand total of 16 yards. So where did they make their work?

In preparation for this game, we had the understanding that this Buffaloes wide receiver room was going to be the best that Tech had faced all season, with elite speed and playmaking ability. While I expected CU to be much more aggressive taking shots down field and trying to use its speed to its advantage vertically, the Buffs got theirs through the horizontal game.
The quick hitters underneath were there all night long. Then you talk about the screens, oh boy.

For as much hate as screens get in our neck of the woods, Colorado ran them about as effectively as an offense could.

Respect to Josh Kelly, Caleb Douglas and Coy Eakin, but I’m sorry, this CU receiving corps made the Red Raiders’ screen game look like a walk through. Unreal speed, and that’s only part of the story.

What ultimately burned Tech in the screen game was CU’s willingness to hold steady blocks, in particular on the Wester touchdown where Travis Hunter held a block for several seconds to give his companion a breakaway shot down the sideline. Tech’s inability to properly maintain outside leverage did not help the situation either.

I think the most frustrating part about the defensive situation last night was not even really anything that the unit did or did not do. It was well-established the kind of night the guys up front were going to have to have in terms of wrangling up Sanders. The effort there certainly can’t go unnoticed. I appreciated that Tech sent extra bodies– and sent them often – to try and throw him off.

When you’re sending 4, 5 or even 6 guys to try and bring him down, and you still can’t, I’m throwing my arms up in the air in the press box and just like, what can you even do at that point? At some point you acknowledge the talent on the opposite side of the line of scrimmage, and credit to the Red Raiders and the defensive staff for not bowing down and giving the team a fighting chance late into the game.

And here we go again with this dreadful offense.

Play the blame game and point at whoever you want, but this offense’s inconsistencies are really an amalgamation of everything that is wrong on that side of the ball.

This was without a doubt, the offensive line’s worst game they’ve put out and the numbers and the tape will back that up, 1000 percent. Six sacks and 10 TFLs tell the story.

There was one sack, in particular, in the first half where Behren Morton got drilled. Blame it all you want on Morton’s pocket awareness, but the edge rusher completely beat Caleb Rogers off the line that Morton stood no chance anyways. Hell, on the strip sack that ended the game on the final drive, Rogers got away with a crazy hold on Arden Walker, who still fought through to strip the ball.

Morton is at his best when he is making quick reads and getting the ball out of his hands in a rapid manner. Last night and maybe even more so against Iowa State, it just does not seem like the RPO/PA game has been used with much intentionality as the games wear on and this has not benefitted Morton in the slightest. The way this offense operates on the first couple of drives of the game to how it moves throughout the rest of the contests is night and day, and certainly not in a good way.

The complete inability to run the ball falls on the shoulders of the offensive line and also on the offensive coordinator. Tahj Brooks finished with 137 yards on 31 carries, so purely reading the stat sheet it doesn’t look like he did all that bad.

But 70 of those yards, more than half, came in the fourth quarter with CU playing purely for pass coverage by that point.

And I didn’t think the Buffs did anything spectacular in the run game either, maybe very early on they were loading the box a bit more to try and keep Brooks from getting established. But as the first couple of drives rattled off and Tech got going on crossers, CU had to respect that. Still, the run game was absolutely stifled through three quarters. The first takeaway in my article I posted last night was going to be about this until Brooks got it going late.

And the continuous beating of heads into walls trying to get it going between the tackles was horrific. The inability to take advantage of favorable fronts and the refusal to try anything other than something inside the tackles was a mistake. I love Tahj Brooks as much as the next guy, but plain and simple his brand of football was not working for three quarters and failing to try something different there was a missed opportunity.

I apologize for the long-winded thoughts here but man I am throwing whatever is coming to mind on this page. I made a comment in another thread last night that this team will probably finish 8-4. There’s going to be a divide of people who will take that for what it is and some who will recognize that this team had several chances to finish better than that. Given the state you’re in and some of the wins you’ve had this season, you might even be lucky to be 6-4 right now. Whatever side you end up falling on by season’s end, I think we can all agree that last night was disappointing for this program.

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If you can spare 3-5 minutes of your time on this fine Friday, my college roommate at Tech and myself own a hospitality group (Vandelay Hospitality) and our new-ish restaurant in Dallas, Drakes, is up for best new restaurant. I know another dumb online competition, but in this restaurant economy it would really help a lot to get your vote, and it should be a close competition between our first round match up.

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Surprised this hasn’t been posted. Happy Veterans Day everyone. A special thank you to those of you who have served.

Carry on

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Seems like this will be the first terrible idea to be attempted. Thoughts?

If this were to happen, business owners will simply fire whoever they can live without, forcing them to go on the government tit, and then raise prices to limit volume. This will simply end up hurting the consumer, particularly the poor as they won't be able to afford services. Absolutely terrible idea grounded in good intentions.

I don't really have another outlet to share this and I figured that it would be appreciated here.

Back in the summer, my son (7) said "Dad I want to go to a real Texas Tech Football game". I said "You got it", looked up the schedule, picked the Colorado game because it was a home game that wouldn't be hot and didn't conflict with anything. Booked the AirBnb and bought the tickets.

He had an amazing time. He loved the Tortillas flying around, he loved the swag surfing at the start of the 4th quarter, he loved yelling in the stands and feeling the shared excitement when Tech did anything good. I explained rules and strategy in real time and he ate it up. He got to eat candy and snacks and jump around, be loud, energetic, etc. It was very, very cool to get to share this thing I enjoy with him and create those memories.

I realize I may have damned my own son to a lifetime of frustrating and often disappointing fandom, but we had a great time regardless. And thats cool.

Also, as we were walking out of the stadium, he turned to me and said "Dad. I know what to do. We just need to get Patrick Mahomes back and Texas Tech will be really good!" Gotta say, I like where his heads at.

I've talked about Dycin Davis, but I received some more information about his recruitment this morning.

His best friend(s) and current DL teammates are planning on attending Tech next fall. All their stuff is in the process of getting submitted and accepted ASAP.

Dycin has gone of the record if they go to Tech, he wants to go as well. He will want to stay somewhat close because he has a young child and family in the Big Country. Tech was his first D1 offer and is in VERY good position.