Thursday Night
Let's get the basketball out of the way first.
Coach Knight talks about how to remedy the USA national team (thanks from TrueHoop).
The DMN has a quick feature and a small article about the upcoming basketball team. MacMahon thinks that Knight won't get his win to break Dean's Smiths record until the regular season begins, and with the addition of 4 JUCO's, he's probably right.
Now onto football.
Hicks is expected to play and although no one has come out and said it or asked Coach Leach if it was his intent all along to keep Hicks out of the Baylor game to make sure he was ready for the OU game, I think it's true.
The LAJ has an excellent Q & A regarding the impressive group of freshman this year. The article also mentions the expansion of the stadium, however, this was the first I've heard about any potential plans for expansion. Don Williams also writes about the excellent job the offensive line has done all year. It's true, overall, I think they've done an excellent job, but that doesn't make me any less worried about OU's defense. I really don't think that Tech has seen a team as big and as fast as OU all year. I keep having flashbacks to the TCU game where it seemed that they just got to the quarterback so much quicker. By the way, this article quickly points out that Harrell has done a much better job of recognizing the blitz and getting rid of the ball so much quicker. He's also done an excellent job of just stepping to one side or another to avoid the rush.
After a couple of days off, Tim MacMahon gets back into the swing of things and has two Tech related articles. The first being about the disparity that OU seems to have against Tech's offense. Leach acknowledges that despite the fact that he was at one time employed by OU, OU does not have any more or less advantage than any other team who has seen Texas Tech for the last 7 years. The second article by Brad Davis focuses on the OU secondary and the rags to riches story for them this year. Obviously, last week, McGee isn't going to test any secondary so it's hard to tell how much they've improved.
ESPN has these numbers on Harrell in the last two games in what appears to be Between The Numbers weekly article: "1,002: While we're on the topic of ridiculous passing numbers, Texas Tech's Graham Harrell apparently has gotten a feel for the Red Raiders' offense. Harrell has thrown for 1,002 yards in the past two games. That's more than Air Force and Navy have thrown for combined all season and equal to Louisiana-Lafayette's season total."
Coach Knight talks about how to remedy the USA national team (thanks from TrueHoop).
The DMN has a quick feature and a small article about the upcoming basketball team. MacMahon thinks that Knight won't get his win to break Dean's Smiths record until the regular season begins, and with the addition of 4 JUCO's, he's probably right.
Now onto football.
Hicks is expected to play and although no one has come out and said it or asked Coach Leach if it was his intent all along to keep Hicks out of the Baylor game to make sure he was ready for the OU game, I think it's true.
The LAJ has an excellent Q & A regarding the impressive group of freshman this year. The article also mentions the expansion of the stadium, however, this was the first I've heard about any potential plans for expansion. Don Williams also writes about the excellent job the offensive line has done all year. It's true, overall, I think they've done an excellent job, but that doesn't make me any less worried about OU's defense. I really don't think that Tech has seen a team as big and as fast as OU all year. I keep having flashbacks to the TCU game where it seemed that they just got to the quarterback so much quicker. By the way, this article quickly points out that Harrell has done a much better job of recognizing the blitz and getting rid of the ball so much quicker. He's also done an excellent job of just stepping to one side or another to avoid the rush.
After a couple of days off, Tim MacMahon gets back into the swing of things and has two Tech related articles. The first being about the disparity that OU seems to have against Tech's offense. Leach acknowledges that despite the fact that he was at one time employed by OU, OU does not have any more or less advantage than any other team who has seen Texas Tech for the last 7 years. The second article by Brad Davis focuses on the OU secondary and the rags to riches story for them this year. Obviously, last week, McGee isn't going to test any secondary so it's hard to tell how much they've improved.
ESPN has these numbers on Harrell in the last two games in what appears to be Between The Numbers weekly article: "1,002: While we're on the topic of ridiculous passing numbers, Texas Tech's Graham Harrell apparently has gotten a feel for the Red Raiders' offense. Harrell has thrown for 1,002 yards in the past two games. That's more than Air Force and Navy have thrown for combined all season and equal to Louisiana-Lafayette's season total."
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