Week in Review (10/19 – 10/23)
Red Raiders ready to bounce back
Kliff Kingsbury
- Le’Raven Clark is day-to-day, looked to be moving around fairly well in the training room this morning
- “Clark is one of the better tackles in the country”, Kliff said and when he went out the guys up front didn’t handle it well
- “They’ll be highly motivated going into OU”
- “As a head coach it’s on me to get them motivated and play your best and we didn’t get it done” Kingsbury said about game against Kansas
- “I think they’re embarrassed, when you watch the film there’s a lot of embarrassing things on the offensive side of the ball” Kingsbury said about Kansas game
- Kingsbury says Baker Mayfield is playing at a high level, Mayfield is older and more mature and they are playing well
- Kingsbury says the whole Baker Mayfield thing is made too much of, it happened two years ago, 21 months ago according to Kliff
- Kingsbury is tired of talking about Baker and him transferring, avoided questions during teleconference and same here
- The Oklahoma defensive line is going to be one of the best they have seen since the Baylor game, commends Mike Stoops on his offense
David Gibbs (Defensive Coordinator)
- The goal all season has been to finish a game, got some turnovers which was positive, could have had a couple more
- “Didn’t play very good, didn’t play very smart but they played hard.”
- “When things start rolling bad around here guys like to do their own thing”
- When Gibbs looks at Oklahoma’s offense he sees Baylor and TCU
- Gibbs seems to believe that eventually the game experience will kick in for his young defense, definitely no coach speak here. Gibbs is very honest on how he feels.
- “We can’t fluster anybody, we fluster ourselves. We’ll try, we’ll come up with something.”
Eric Morris (Offensive Coordinator)
- Says they felt like they could go out there and roll over them, got hit in the mouth on the first drive against Kansas
- “We’ve got to compete with these people in the last half of our schedule, that’s something we haven’t done for the last two years”
- Morris says Dylan Cantrell is getting better, but trying to keep the redshirt barring any injuries
- “He’s a kid that likes the big moments and the bright lights … It’ll be loud, it’ll be rocking and he’ll be ready to go.” – Morris on Mahomes
Recruiting Roundup
- The Texas Tech coaching staff has put a lot of emphasis on the defensive line class for its 2016 class. The Red Raiders have eight defensive linemen on the commit list, and the first to jump aboard was El Dorado (Kan.) Butler C.C. defensive tackleMychealon Thomas. Thomas is the lone junior college recruit on defense for the 2016 class, and the three-star lineman has a lot of ties to the Red Raiders.
Thomas was offered by David Gibbs and Co. when Gibbs was at Houston and Thomas was a senior defensive lineman at Skyline High School; he also played at Skyline with current Tech commitsDa'Leon Ward,Clarence Henderson, andJoseph Wallace. Thomas talks with Tech coaches Mike Smith, David Gibbs, Zac Spavital and Emmett Jones on a regular basis and has enjoyed what he has seen from the Tech defense so far this season. - See more at: https://texastech.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1815620&PT=4&PR=2#sthash.OwcYoqGH.dpuf
- Duncanville (TX) athleteTre Siggers, a 2017 graduate, still has time before he comes to a decision on where he will play his next few years of football at but the Red Raiders are already in the lead. Siggers recently made a trip to Lubbock for the TCU game, which he got "pumped up" at from just the fans and atmosphere alone. As far as his junior season, Siggers says he is having a breakout year, while continuing to improve on his vision as a running back and wide receiver. - See more at: https://texastech.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1811252&PT=4&PR=2#sthash.M98S2s6R.dpuf
- Texas Tech may still be looking to add another offensive lineman to its 2016 recruiting class, and one prospect that is squarely on the Red Raiders' radar is Lackawanna Community College offensive tackleKendall Calhoun. - See more at: https://texastech.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1816180&PT=4&PR=2#sthash.LymyPyEU.dpuf
- Texas Tech has recently begun to show interest in Frisco (Texas) offensive centerDawson Deaton. The 6-foot-5, 270-pound lineman visited the South Plains this summer with his teammate, friend and Red Raider commitJack Anderson.
Lee Hays evaluated Deaton in person earlier this month before the Red Raiders played Baylor in Arlington and came away impressed with what he saw. - See more at: https://texastech.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1816458&PT=4&PR=2#sthash.eW7W2JoF.dpuf
Stories to Read
- Breakdown: Johnson reads QB
- Notebook: Back on the OL market
- Hays disappointed with soft play against Kansas
- Nwangwu is an option
- Picone flying under the radar
Red Raiders ready to bounce back
Kliff Kingsbury
- Le’Raven Clark is day-to-day, looked to be moving around fairly well in the training room this morning
- “Clark is one of the better tackles in the country”, Kliff said and when he went out the guys up front didn’t handle it well
- “They’ll be highly motivated going into OU”
- “As a head coach it’s on me to get them motivated and play your best and we didn’t get it done” Kingsbury said about game against Kansas
- “I think they’re embarrassed, when you watch the film there’s a lot of embarrassing things on the offensive side of the ball” Kingsbury said about Kansas game
- Kingsbury says Baker Mayfield is playing at a high level, Mayfield is older and more mature and they are playing well
- Kingsbury says the whole Baker Mayfield thing is made too much of, it happened two years ago, 21 months ago according to Kliff
- Kingsbury is tired of talking about Baker and him transferring, avoided questions during teleconference and same here
- The Oklahoma defensive line is going to be one of the best they have seen since the Baylor game, commends Mike Stoops on his offense
David Gibbs (Defensive Coordinator)
- The goal all season has been to finish a game, got some turnovers which was positive, could have had a couple more
- “Didn’t play very good, didn’t play very smart but they played hard.”
- “When things start rolling bad around here guys like to do their own thing”
- When Gibbs looks at Oklahoma’s offense he sees Baylor and TCU
- Gibbs seems to believe that eventually the game experience will kick in for his young defense, definitely no coach speak here. Gibbs is very honest on how he feels.
- “We can’t fluster anybody, we fluster ourselves. We’ll try, we’ll come up with something.”
Eric Morris (Offensive Coordinator)
- Says they felt like they could go out there and roll over them, got hit in the mouth on the first drive against Kansas
- “We’ve got to compete with these people in the last half of our schedule, that’s something we haven’t done for the last two years”
- Morris says Dylan Cantrell is getting better, but trying to keep the redshirt barring any injuries
- “He’s a kid that likes the big moments and the bright lights … It’ll be loud, it’ll be rocking and he’ll be ready to go.” – Morris on Mahomes
Recruiting Roundup
- The Texas Tech coaching staff has put a lot of emphasis on the defensive line class for its 2016 class. The Red Raiders have eight defensive linemen on the commit list, and the first to jump aboard was El Dorado (Kan.) Butler C.C. defensive tackleMychealon Thomas. Thomas is the lone junior college recruit on defense for the 2016 class, and the three-star lineman has a lot of ties to the Red Raiders.
Thomas was offered by David Gibbs and Co. when Gibbs was at Houston and Thomas was a senior defensive lineman at Skyline High School; he also played at Skyline with current Tech commitsDa'Leon Ward,Clarence Henderson, andJoseph Wallace. Thomas talks with Tech coaches Mike Smith, David Gibbs, Zac Spavital and Emmett Jones on a regular basis and has enjoyed what he has seen from the Tech defense so far this season. - See more at: https://texastech.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1815620&PT=4&PR=2#sthash.OwcYoqGH.dpuf
- Duncanville (TX) athleteTre Siggers, a 2017 graduate, still has time before he comes to a decision on where he will play his next few years of football at but the Red Raiders are already in the lead. Siggers recently made a trip to Lubbock for the TCU game, which he got "pumped up" at from just the fans and atmosphere alone. As far as his junior season, Siggers says he is having a breakout year, while continuing to improve on his vision as a running back and wide receiver. - See more at: https://texastech.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1811252&PT=4&PR=2#sthash.M98S2s6R.dpuf
- Texas Tech may still be looking to add another offensive lineman to its 2016 recruiting class, and one prospect that is squarely on the Red Raiders' radar is Lackawanna Community College offensive tackleKendall Calhoun. - See more at: https://texastech.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1816180&PT=4&PR=2#sthash.LymyPyEU.dpuf
- Texas Tech has recently begun to show interest in Frisco (Texas) offensive centerDawson Deaton. The 6-foot-5, 270-pound lineman visited the South Plains this summer with his teammate, friend and Red Raider commitJack Anderson.
Lee Hays evaluated Deaton in person earlier this month before the Red Raiders played Baylor in Arlington and came away impressed with what he saw. - See more at: https://texastech.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1816458&PT=4&PR=2#sthash.eW7W2JoF.dpuf
Stories to Read
- Breakdown: Johnson reads QB
- Notebook: Back on the OL market
- Hays disappointed with soft play against Kansas
- Nwangwu is an option
- Picone flying under the radar
