A little update on The Matador Club...Things are going really well!

We now have over 2,500 individual donors, which is amazing at this point - but still doesn't scratch the surface on our potential (we have 300k living alumni).
Publicly we are still keeping our fundraising totals close to the vest (for competitive purposes), but I will say that we are well on track to compete at the very highest levels in NIL.

Football and Men's Basketball are still the largest areas of competition in NIL, as you all know. With our momentum, we will be able to significantly increase our payouts for next year, and as long as everyone keeps supporting the effort, we will have no issue staying ahead of the competition. We are miles ahead of the rest of the Big 12 in terms of our organization and the professionalization.

We are working on deals with the women's sports, baseball, and non-revenue sports. Some large donors have recently stepped up to help underwrite our NIL programs for those sports. Stay tuned!
We will also have some exciting announcements related to organizing our efforts with "corporate" deals, which we expect will multiply our size and reach.

We have some great Matador Club "swag" on order, and will be rolling that out soon (hopefully before the UT game). I'll post here when it's ready to go.

I'm not sure that anybody really believed it when we got started, but we've said for months that Texas Tech will be a national leader in NIL, and that NIL will be a huge competitive advantage for us. This prediction has certainly come to fruition. We have the most passionate fans in college sports, without a doubt!!

I would like to once again thank everyone for your generous support, and would encourage anyone who hasn't given to get online and help however you can - matadorclub.org
Crowdfunding is key to making this program sustainable, and every little bit counts - Please tell your friends, family, co-workers, etc.

Guns Up!!!

I usually just retweet these, but I guess I'll bring some to the board. I'll add to this thread when I find new stuff.

This is the first year I can recall analytics being used so much. Or perhaps this is the first year Ive payed attention to it. Could someone explain the history of it being used and how the numbers are crunched? I find it fascinating. Makes me wonder if someone doesnt have an AI just for football somewhere lol. Thanks

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When the hell did this become a thing, and why the hell does it have to be an animal? Can't you just admit that as an adult you need your blankie like a toddler?

For the life of me, how can so many people become such fruitcakes/scaredy cats? This was not a thing when I was growing up, and I do not remember hearing about it but in the last 5-7 years.

According to the TTU basketball roster, Malik Ondigo is no longer with the Texas Tech Basketball team.

Ondigo played two seasons at Texas Tech from 2017-2019 and then transferred to Rice for two season where he did not play. This summer he decided to come back to Lubbock as a walk on but has now left the program. Ondigo had also been dealing with a ankle injury for a lot of this offseason.

They slotted Mark Adams in the 4th Tier…ridiculous. Some names ahead of him:


Tier 1

Team 2A


Tier 2B


Tier 3

I live in enemy territory here in Austin, and I just got back from a lunch where Jay Hartzell, the president of UT spoke. Upon being asked about UTs switch from big 12 to SEC, he said “college sports have become a business and there’s a movement in college football where all the biggest brands are going to play each other and the have and the have nots are going to be separated, Texas is a have and they are always going be a have”. Lol like UT isn’t the one that started this all. Time ran out after this question but I was going to ask him who the have nots are.

In 48 minutes instead of 4 hours if you’re into that sorta thing.

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I'm curious to know what our stats look like when we have a big play...we usually hurry to the ball and get a quick play off. Is it me or do we seem to always be behind the chains when doing this? I'm sure there's some analytics behind it but I feel like we stumble more than not after a big play. Any of you stat guys have some data? Just curious

I've been one of those screaming at my TV to fair catch the ball all season rather than give up yards and start the drive on our 17. Joey's explanation that we were going to keep returning them because we wanted to be aggressive didn't make sense to me until this past Saturday when we went for it on 4th down about a baker's dozen times, including some when it seemed obvious that we should be kicking. I think the dude is culture building. He really does want the team to believe they can take it to the house every single time. He wants to go for the throat and have a team that does the same.

It absolutely looks to be working. We are used to things falling apart when games start going like Houston did. This team got it done. Against NC State, that could have snowballed but the team kept fighting and it was competitive to the end, despite all of our turnovers. I've seen us find ways to lose to Texas more times than I can count, but the team believed they could win and did.

He has the team buying in that if we keep throwing haymakers, eventually they other team will break. It goes back to the interview with Pearson before the season that with the previous staff, there was a sense going into some games they were going to lose but with the new staff they legit think they are going to win every game,

Killing it tonight, 2 HR all 5 Rbi’s

Georgia Tech, Nebraska and Arizona State already looking for new coaches in September.

Feels damn good knowing we nailed it last year. In my scarlet tinted glasses sure looks like we started a trend to get ahead of the traditional coaching searches and to hopefully save the recruiting class.

Like a wise man once said, CFB goes through Lubbock

We will update this post as more come in.

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SI has never followed college football very closely so their writers have always been knowledge-challenged like your ex-girlfriend who pretends to follow football because she knows Alabama and Ohio State are good.

So of course it's not all that shocking that they are jumping on the Jayhawk bandwagon to get attention by predicting KU will play in a New Years Day 6 bowl. I had to go back and look at who KU has played when I saw that. They've played a decent schedule for sure with UH, WVU, and Duke, but none of those three appear to be all that good. Duke's best win is a 7 point win over 1-3 Northwestern.

It's pretty telling that in their bowl projections they cover the CFP games and NY 6 bowls, along with "Other Key Bowls" that aren't key at all -- they're just four random bowls that are pretty much the other SEC bowls. I'm pretty certain that almost anyone on RRS could cover college football better than SI.

College Football Bowl Projections: Playoff Field Changes After Week 4​

We update our forecast for 10 key postseason games.

• RICHARD JOHNSON
• SEP 26, 2022

There were not many changes at the top of the major college football bowl picture this week, though we did have a move in one of our CFP semifinal projections.
In Week 4, USC looked mortal in a win over Oregon State, and Oklahoma fell to Kansas State. But speaking of the Sunflower State, let us welcome Kansas to the picture as the 4–0 Jayhawks spend this week as the Big 12’s representative in the Sugar Bowl.
Here are Sports Illustrated’s post–Week 4 bowl projections for the College Football Playoff, New Year’s Six and a few more.
All times are Eastern.

College Football Playoff​

Peach Bowl, Atlanta (Dec. 31, 4 or 8 p.m., ESPN)
CFP semifinalist vs. CFP semifinalist
Georgia vs. Ohio State
Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, Ariz. (Dec. 31, 4 or 8 p.m., ESPN)
CFP semifinalist vs. CFP semifinalist
USC vs. Oklahoma State

New Year’s Six​

Orange Bowl, Miami (Dec. 30, 7:30 or 8 p.m., ESPN)
ACC vs. Big Ten/SEC/Notre Dame
Clemson vs. Tennessee
Sugar Bowl, New Orleans (Dec. 31, 12 p.m., ESPN)
SEC vs. Big 12
Alabama vs. Kansas
Cotton Bowl, Arlington, Texas (Jan. 2, 1 p.m., ESPN)
At-large vs. at-large
UCF vs. Penn State
Rose Bowl, Pasadena (Jan. 2, 5 p.m., ESPN)
Big Ten vs. Pac-12
Michigan vs. Utah

Other key bowls​

Dec. 30​

Arizona Bowl, Tucson (4:30 p.m., Barstool)
Mountain West vs. MAC
Eastern Michigan vs. Air Force

Dec. 31​

Music City Bowl, Nashville (12 p.m., ABC)
Big Ten vs. SEC
Minnesota vs. Ole Miss

Jan. 2​

ReliaQuest Bowl, Tampa (12 p.m., ESPN2)
Big Ten/ACC vs. SEC
Texas A&M vs. Wake Forest
Citrus Bowl, Orlando (1 p.m., ABC)
SEC vs. Big Ten
Kentucky vs. Michigan State

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Slow start but we could be starting on a tough opening stretch of holes (scramble). Hate to see Jack Wall sart the round off with a triple.

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What’s more notable to me is that none of the FS1 games or showings were even close to our numbers this season. Only one that came close is whichever primetime game FS1 carried.



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We have talked a ton about JM and his leadership, culture, etc.

We need to definitely talk about the job our coaches are doing developing the players they inherited. Week 1, DB's were crushed on here as they allowed several plays to get behind him. Since that week, we have only had a few breakdowns and the DB's have been HUGE. OLine has gotten better every single week.....every single one. Special Teams are getting better and better with practice and changes. LB's are setting the edge and turning things back in better than I have ever seen at Tech. QB play yesterday compared to the previous two weeks has been night and day.

1) It is nice to see players being developed and start to maximize their abilities
2) It is even nicer to see adjustments and growth from game to game....even from a 1st half to a 2nd half
3) It is ever more niceier to see coordinators out-adjust their counterpart across the field.....honestly can't remember the last time it happened in all 3 phases like this

Last thing, Bear and the rest of the S&G Staff are really starting to prove their worth. The better conditioned team won yesterday, period. That is as much on the S&G, nutrition and training staff as it is on the coaches.

I certainly don't want to look ahead past this season, but I can't help but get excited about what this team is going to look like 2-3 years down the road.