It is such a boiling pot of pressure for football.
1. Year/Season #4 for Joey McGuire with good program stability, winning conference football records, bowl games, Top 25 recruiting classes, BUT zero rankings and 7.7 wins per seasons and 5.3 losses.
2. As a University we have pushed 99.9% of our resources into football and men's basketball so as to try and not get left behind by Texas, Texas A&M and the P2 conferences.
3. Traditionally strong programs like women's basketball and baseball are approaching or are at the bottom of the conference with no plan or resources to return to competitive status any time soon. While those fanbases are smaller they are still a part of the larger fanbase and it is having an effect on morale and expectation.
4. On name brand, this Big 12 is "weaker" without Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and the other two programs that departed for the SEC and B1G. While it may actually have more parity and be more difficult to win week-in and week-out, the perception is that it is easier.
5. 100+ seasons of Texas Tech football says that a 9-win regular season is rare, special, and our ceiling, but expectations have been raised above that because we have spent A LOT of money (for us) to the point that we may not be realistic with where we really are at the moment. It might not still be enough to push us over the hump and has only succeeded in catching us up to the bottom of the "Haves" group. We're about to find out.
6. We DO have a bunch of new to us players and two new coordinators to try and mesh together. It CAN be done, but WILL it?
7. We are starving for significance- as a University, as a Football program, and as a fanbase.
This will either be the most special season and time in any of our lifetimes, or it will be an Aggie-sized flame and burn.
We're all in. Literally. Will we be able to redefine "Typical Tech"?
I am genuinely excited to find out.
1. Year/Season #4 for Joey McGuire with good program stability, winning conference football records, bowl games, Top 25 recruiting classes, BUT zero rankings and 7.7 wins per seasons and 5.3 losses.
2. As a University we have pushed 99.9% of our resources into football and men's basketball so as to try and not get left behind by Texas, Texas A&M and the P2 conferences.
3. Traditionally strong programs like women's basketball and baseball are approaching or are at the bottom of the conference with no plan or resources to return to competitive status any time soon. While those fanbases are smaller they are still a part of the larger fanbase and it is having an effect on morale and expectation.
4. On name brand, this Big 12 is "weaker" without Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and the other two programs that departed for the SEC and B1G. While it may actually have more parity and be more difficult to win week-in and week-out, the perception is that it is easier.
5. 100+ seasons of Texas Tech football says that a 9-win regular season is rare, special, and our ceiling, but expectations have been raised above that because we have spent A LOT of money (for us) to the point that we may not be realistic with where we really are at the moment. It might not still be enough to push us over the hump and has only succeeded in catching us up to the bottom of the "Haves" group. We're about to find out.
6. We DO have a bunch of new to us players and two new coordinators to try and mesh together. It CAN be done, but WILL it?
7. We are starving for significance- as a University, as a Football program, and as a fanbase.
This will either be the most special season and time in any of our lifetimes, or it will be an Aggie-sized flame and burn.
We're all in. Literally. Will we be able to redefine "Typical Tech"?
I am genuinely excited to find out.
