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This won’t end up well for this Kyle Boone guy…

Texas Tech

Texas Tech has made four consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances (and would have made five if the 2020 tourney hadn't been canceled). The Red Raiders basically haven't skipped a beat going from Chris Beard to Mark Adams. I mean, seriously, who loses a coach of Beard's caliber, then builds a defense that rates No. 1 in adjusted efficiency the following season? It's incredible. I hesitate to call Adams a wizard, but I gotta ask: has anyone ever seen him and Harry Potter in the same room? Makes you really think, right?

Anyway, given that success, I'm obviously going out on a ledge here. Texas Tech has consistently been one of the best programs in the Big 12 over the last few years, and Adams has the program on an upward trajectory. However, there's also a changing landscape within the league that should be accounted for. Kansas will again be a force. Baylor will be Baylor. Iowa State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State TCU and West Virginia should all have tourney-caliber teams. The Big 12 is laughably loaded.

With Texas Tech losing Bryson Williams, Terrence Shannon and do-it-all guard Kevin McCullar — the team's top three scorers -- the road ahead for Tech is much tougher than people may be willing to admit. There's enough talent on this roster to make this prediction look foolish, and I'm queasy even at the thought of fading Adams, but there are a lot of new pieces that will have to fit together well. The process of fitting it together, as we saw last year at Texas with Beard, is a unique challenge that will be a battle Adams has not yet faced as a head coach. -- Kyle Boone

Sure seemed to have a good game today.
Love his speed back there.

Did he come back after he was shaken up?

Is what we were sold! I’m loving it, moving the ball around, mixing up the playcalling and keeping drives alive!

I was really hesitant to post this. Mainly because I want to respect Josh’s privacy, but I think this is a group of people here that will appreciate him. My church home is Josh’s church home. After the games this week he called and said he wanted to be here today to serve in childcare so he’s here this morning taking care of my 3 year old daughter and a few other kids.

This isn’t a religious post, it’s a humility post. I just wanted to shoutout a great kid. I’m proud of who he is. None of us should be to big to love and serve others so I appreciate who he is and the example he’s trying to set.

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Sitting here in Buffalo watching the Bills totally dismantling the Steelers

Good management is the difference in winning in the NFL

How Buffalo; the poorest, smallest market team, playing in a high school type stadium, located in one of the worst locations in the NFL has become one the best teams

While Dallas; the richest, best located , top tier stadium has won but a few playoff games in several decades

Reminds me of just how bad Jerry Jones is

Always nice to hear our school announced on SNF player intros.

I am really perplexed by all the negativity over the game yesterday. This young program continues to challenge everyone they face with less talent, experience and depth. The coaching staff has been together now for 6 games...barely time enough to learn much about one another or the players they coach.

We are starting relatively green players at many positions, and they are performing admirably if occasionally having inexperienced moments. We have a defense that plays hard and is a challenge for every OC we face. We have started 3 different QBs in 6 games, and the offense continues to move in spite of a spotty OL and injured and somewhat slow WR corps.

I was more than pleased with our performance yesterday. we came up short in spite of a tremendous effort against what is likely the class of the Big 12 teams while playing on the road. I am having a very hard time seeing why we have so many bitching posters. We know this is a team and staff that is still developing. Things ARE getting better. The open week comes at a great time. We will finish this season and move on to better times next year. As my leader always says, KEEP HOPE ALIVE, PEOPLE!!

Watched our game and Bama yesterday and can confidently saw I’d take Morton over Millroe. Both were 4* but Millroe was higher ranked.

Millroe looked like a faster version of Donavan Smith. He looked very limited throwing the ball and as a result atm was able to be very aggressive defending the run. He accounted for the 3 TOs to go with 3 TDs.

Mortons arm reminded me of Graham. His success passing opened up the field and his threat to run got us extra first downs. Overall he accounted for 3 TDs to go with 1 TO and over 400 yards.

Feels good to say I wouldn’t trade ours for theirs

Here's the situation:

Falcons are down 1 possession against the Bucs with about 3 minutes left. Brady takes a sack on 3rd and long, meaning they'll have to punt the ball back to the Falcons, who now have a chance to tie/win the game.

Except Brady gets up and yells in the ref's face, prompting the ref to throw a late flag for "roughing the passer".

IDK. You tell me.

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Love the throwback uniforms. Hope to see them again this season with the Red & Black home combo.

I’m not punting I’m just excited for the momentum it feels we might have after this season and two good recruiting classes ‘22 ‘23 in a row. My question is really who do y’all think will be back next year. Will enough of the defense be back to compete and win 8+ games or will it be a development year to get younger guys experience for the next year. Besides cole Spencer how does the oline improve does the guys we have out there now just get better or does a younger guy improve and take a spot. Assuming Morton is the guy which receivers are back? any young wr guys to look out for? Any wr in the pipeline that are burners or can develop into nfl caliber players who can be a go to? Just so many questions would love to hear y’all’s thought?

Very bad.

Where can it be found. Would like to watch it again.

If you haven’t seen this yet, do it. It was phenomenal. I have me a new appreciation for our teams and international ball.

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There should have been a poll

NM

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I get all the sunshine and rainbow thinking going on here, there is a lot to like from the game - we probably beat the #7 team in the country if our QB isn't playing on one leg.

1) We found our QB, BM is the real deal, the zip on his ball and accuracy and quick release is great (of course he gets hurt, we now have 3 hurt QB's and a crazy unlucky tradition of injured QB's going on a decade now)
2) Felt like WR screens were working better because he was getting the ball there so fast and he was making good reads over the middle to find open WR's
3). Defense played great for most of the game until they got put in terrible spots in the second half and got worn down by the offense's failures in the second half
3) Speaking of that, we did not adjust in the 2nd half late to what okie lite was doing defensively. We scored on 1 of our last 6 possessions after taking 31-23 lead. Okie Lite tried to hand us this game and we crapped the bed. so many 3 and outs and scoring on 1/6 possessions late is terrible. We didn't make any adjustments until it was too late. They were bringing the house and jumping our routes and we didn't do **** about it until too late.
4) I don't trust Wolff. His season 2 years ago was horrendous and missing crucial field goals 2 weeks in a row is bad. Doesn't matter that it hit the post, it didn't go in. He spiraled and lost all confidence 2 years ago and it could be happening again.

So many positives to take from the game and I love that our team fights their ass off and had the number 7 team on the ropes despite an injured qb and missing field goals and not adjusting to their defensive adjustments. Not into moral victories we lost the damn game but our team is fighting and close against all these top 25, top 7 teams.

Can't help but feel like Denny Green after this one though - They are who we thought they were, and we let them off the hook.

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So a bunch of idiots brawl after the UT/Tech game outside of a KFC in Lubbock and the video goes viral, endless discussions on our fans, behavior, safety….

OU/Texas fans get into it and it’s crickets. Twitter do you thing!

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Behren Morton is expected to play quite a bit today in Stillwater and has been taking the reps in warmups with the ones.

I heard rumblings earlier in the week that Donovan Smith wouldn’t be available for today’s game against Oklahoma State with a shoulder injury that he’s been playing through, and those were confirmed today via a report.

Smith is expected to play today, but it is Morton’s show.

Also out for the Red Raiders today are JJ Sparkman and Myles Price, two key pieces for the Texas Tech offense.

Price was rolled up last week in Manhattan and Sparkman is dealing with a hand injury that could be played through from what it sounds like, but they are being precautious with the bye week coming next week.

It also appears that Tyler Owens will start ahead of Reggie Pearson in the secondary. Pearson doesn’t appear to be injured.

Any further information will be passed along on this thread.

Hell let's get it started! What are you guys drinking (smoking, eating)?
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I am curious to hear thoughts on why we have struggled for quite some time at keeping QBs healthy? Is it a lack of O-line? Bad strength and conditioning? Just terrible luck?

This is new.

Florida State is punting from their own 25 or so.
Pressure on the punt causes the punter to take off running.
He makes the awful decision to punt it after he passes the line of scrimmage. Result is a 5 yard penalty and loss of down.
First down NC State on the FSU 20.
Leary injured and NC State has zero offense. Losing 17-16 in 4th quarter.

Is better than Myles Price! Dude is slippery and has great hands. Glad to see him getting targets in his new role and he's better than Price!