SB Nation User Blog: TTpilk645

Tech adds defensive depth

TTpilk645 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:45:34 -0000

Texas Tech has gained the verbal commitment of Dartwan Bush, a DT for Clute Brazoswood, according to the AJ. He had an excellent visit at Tech along with a few other athletes this past weekend. Also, V.J. Fehoko, Sam's little brother, has strengthened his opinion of Tech and could soon make a committment. Bush, 6-foot-1 and 255 pounds, was selected by the coaches in District 24-5A as the league’s most valuable player, as he was probably the biggest single factor in this year’s charge by Brazoswood into the Regional playoffs. He had 81 tackles, 30 tackles for loss and 15 sacks this season.

Fehoko, whom we are all a bit more familiar with by now, also had a very good visit, being escorted by his brother. At 5-foot-11, 225 pounds, Fehoko could vie for the strongside linbacker spot if he signs, enabling him to play alongside his brother.

Concerning the football team's outlooks for next year, the AJ also has an article about theredshirt receivers for Tech. Apparently, the coaches have witnessed the new group, including plit end Eric Ward, flanker Derrick Mays, “Y’’ inside receiver Aaron Fisher and “H’’ inside receiver Ernest Celestie, who have built the expectations of the coaches.

All of this in the AJ. It is just enough info to whet our appetites as we look forward to next year. Go there and read, it will be worth your time and get you excited for our Red Raiders.

Post Season Nets McCoy & Suh multiple awards

TTpilk645 — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:35:59 -0000

Texas’ Colt McCoy and Nebraska’s Ndamukong Suh

Award winners

Texas’ Colt McCoy:
1) The Davey O’Brien Award at the annual college football awards at Disney World, given to the nation’s best quarterback.
2) The Walter Camp Football Foundation’s player of the year award for the second consecutive season.
3) the Maxwell Award honoring the nation’s best all-round player.
Nebraska’s Ndamukong Suh:
1) The Chuck Bednarik Award as the nation’s best defensive player.
2) The Outland Trophy for the best interior lineman.
3) The Lombardi Award as the nation’s top lineman.
4) The Bronko Nagurski Trophy as the nation’s top defensive player.
Cincinnati’s Brian Kelly:
1) The Coach of the Year award on the same day he told his team he was leaving for Notre Dame.
Stanford’s Toby Gerhart:
1) The Doak Walker Award for the nation’s best running back.
Tennessee’s Eric Berry:
1) The Jim Thorpe Award honoring the best defensive back.
Notre Dame’s Golden Tate:
1) The Biletnikoff Award as the best receiver.
UCLA’s Kai Forbath:
1) The Lou Groza Award for the best kicker.
Georgia’s Drew Butler:
1) The Ray Guy Award honoring the nation’s best punter.
Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich:
1) The Disney Spirit Award given to college football’s most inspirational figure (he overcame a rare form of bone cancer and is expected to return next season.)

As you can see, Texas Tech played against two awards winners who won an accumulated 7 awards. The only reason they could not win the other awards was because they did not play a position to win them or qualify for them in any other way. For those that forgot (I know you haven’t), Tech won one and lost one of those games. All-in-all, a very good year for our Red Raiders, considering they went up against such reverent company…………

The one award left is the Heisman, to be given away to, probably, Colt McCoy today in New York. That will make 8 total awards, 4 each by Suh and McCoy.

I for one want one award for my Texas Tech Red Raiders: the Alamo Bowl Winner’s Trophy, to be presented late on Saturday, January 2, 2010.

GO TECH! WRECK ’EM, RED RAIDERS!

A 5-foot-11, 230-pound linebacker Verbally Commits to the Red Raiders

TTpilk645 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:43:48 -0000

Fred Harvey, a 5-foot-11, 230-pound linebacker from way over in Memphis, Tenn., credited with 21 sacks last season, has made a verbal committment to Texas Tech, according to the AJ's Don Williams. He also had over 70 tackles. He had about 8 sacks as a sophomore, with just under 70 tackles. So who needs Fehoko's brother? If this kid is real, he could be the next Zack Thomas. I don't recall this name on any lists, so maybe Tech has gotten another "under-the-radar player. He looks like he may be the right size for a Middle LB slot, so he and Fehoko would be battling it out for the starting job. My guess is when he arrives he probably will not redshirt but be asked to contribute right away. I have not gone to Scout or ESPN yet to check him out but will do so now.

Blogging on DoubleTNation

TTpilk645 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:56:10 -0000

I wanted to say this separately from another entry. I really enjoy this blog site, especially with all of the differences of opinions that are offered, especially those that get me to maybe look at something just a bit differently. The below was posted as a comment on the other FanPost "Less is More?".

"When I visit other blogs, it is to shore up or obtain more information seen here. I am a member of a couple of other blogs only so I could make what I feel are quality statements, not demeaning ones. It serves me nor anyone else on other blogs for me to go there to be negative most, or all, the time. I enjoy a little banter, such as I have with a few of DoubleTNation’s bloggers. It is fun. But, there has to be a cutoff somewhere when someone gets way out of hand.

"I think most of the bloggers here keep withing the lines the majority of the time. If we do wander out, another blogger, or Seth himself, will set us straight. A place for us to go and vent a bit was never there for many years, at least not online. But it is opening up now. This site is one of the best. I can say that because I have visited other sites. I don’t make it a habit to go to other sites just to start something up because this is my team, not the others. I appreciate those backing me on this and hope we can all be contributors here for a long time. It sure makes the season a lot more fun. And as we like to say here…..WRECK ’EM!"

As said, I like this site and hope we all can continue to banter with good intentions as the '09 season approaches. If anyone from another blog, especially the ones in charge of the blogs, wants to come here and offer input, that is welcomed by us all, I am sure. But, some do seem to go a little overboard. Those persons simply need to be more civil when visiting, just as we Raiders try to do when we reciprocate. Thanks, Seth, for all your time and effort. Thanks, too to all those who are contributing editors. I appreciate it and look forward to the coming season.

LCU 11, PLU 8

TTpilk645 — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:19:04 -0000

Congratulations to the Lubbock Christian University Chaps for winning the NAIA Baseball Championship! The game ended about 12:15 a.m. on Saturday morning as there were 30 hits in this exciting game. Both teams really played their hearts out trying to win this championship. I know this is not a Tech team, butit is a Lubbock team; one with a great winning baseball tradition. This is the first championship since 1983 for the Chaps. They wind up with 52 wins on the year. This is the type season I am hopefull of that we will get to see from our own Red Raiders in the near future. All of Lubbock will be celebrating when they awake to hear this news and they will be hopefull also that Tech can follow up with one of their own soon. Again, congratulations to the LCU baseball Chaps for a job well done.

David Tairu Signs on Dotted Line

TTpilk645 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:07:06 -0000

From the Lubbock AJ online Texas Tech sports page:

"Coach Pat Knight has signed another recruit to a National Letter of Intent. The newest Texas Tech player is from Temple Hills, Maryland.

"David Tairu, a 6-foot-1, 180-pound guard from South Plains College in Levelland, Texas, will enter Texas Tech next season as a junior. David averaged 17.5 points and 4.4 rebounds per game in his sophomore season. He played 24 minutes per game, was the leading scorer for the Texans, and registered a season-high of 29 points."'

More to read at the site, but this seems to make it official. Now, if only PK can entice a really good BIG man of the 7-foot range to commit, this could e an amazing class.

A graphic of Ap poll prior to and after bowl games

TTpilk645 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:03:15 -0000

I was wondering just what the effect the bowls and whether a team won or lost had on the final Ap poll. So I listed the teams and then showed their regular season W-L record, their rank and the number of points the received. Then I took the results of the bowls and applied them to the teams. The highlighted teams in pink (Texas, Va Tech & Rice) moved DOWN after WINNING. The lone green one (Ohio State) actually moved UP when they LOST!

The Amt Moved is how far they moved in the poll up, down or sideways (only Florida in the Ap poll stayed the same). I listed the teams originally, by the way, according to their final BCS standing, prior to the bowls. I hope this works. It is interesting to see the positive influence you see in the AMOUNT of movement up or down depending very much on the teams conference affiliation (esp. SEC teams).

Just a way to whittle away the spare time. I hope you all enjoy this, or at least get a laugh, cry, scowl, shrug, or something, out of it.

BCS	Team	Season	AP Poll			Amt	Final AP Poll				Bowl
Rank	Name	W-L	Rk	Pts	Pvs	Moved	Rk	Pts	Pvs	W-L	Game
1	Oklahoma	12-1	2	1540	4	3	5	1391	2	12-2	L
2	Florida	12-1	1	1602	2	same	1	1606	1	13-1	W
3	Texas	11-1	3	1530	3	1	4	1478	3	12-1	W
4	Alabama	12-1	4	1410	1	2	6	1264	4	12-2	L
5	USC	11-1	5	1372	5	2	3	1481	5	12-1	W
6	Utah	12-0	7	1225	7	5	2	1519	7	13-0	W
7	Texas Tech	11-1	8	1193	8	4	12	916	8	11-2	L
8	Penn State	11-1	6	1259	6	2	8	1153	6	11-2	L
9	Boise State	12-0	9	1101	9	2	11	938	9	12-1	L
10	Ohio State	10-2	10	1069	10	1	9	1013	10	10-3	L
11	TCU	10-2	11	921	11	4	7	1193	11	11-2	W
12	Cincinnati	11-2	12	863	13	5	17	506	12	11-3	L
13	Oklahoma State	9-3	13	853	14	3	16	534	13	9-4	L
14	Georgia Tech	9-3	14	761	15	6	22	223	14	9-4	L
15	Georgia	9-3	16	599	17	3	13	903	16	10-3	W
16	BYU	10-2	17	477	20	8	25	137	17	10-3	L
17	Oregon	9-3	15	710	16	5	10	997	15	10-3	W
18	Michigan State	9-3	19	423	21	5	24	138	19	9-4	L
19	Virginia Tech	9-4	21	318	NR	2	23	713	21	10-4	W
20	Pitt	9-3	18	428	23	9	27	106	18	9-4	L
21	Missouri	9-4	25	150	19	6	19	435	25	10-4	W
22	Ball State	12-1	23	249	12	9	32	13	23	12-2	L
23	Northwestern	9-3	22	262	24	9	31	53	22	9-4	L
24	Boston College	9-4	27	95	NR	6	33	11	27	9-5	L
25	Mississippi	8-4	20	389	22	6	14	857	20	9-4	W
26	Oregon State	8-4	24	163	25	6	18	467	24	9-4	W
27	Iowa	8-4	26	104	NR	6	20	317	26	9-4	W
28	Florida State	8-4	28	13	NR	7	21	246	28	9-4	W
29	East Carolina	9-4	29	12	NR	7+	NR	0	29	9-5	L
30	West Virginia	8-4	30	12	NR	7	23	144	30	9-4	W
31	California	8-4	31	8	NR	5	26	128	31	9-4	W
32	Rice	9-3	32	6	NR	3	35	8	32	10-3	W
33	Nebraska	8-4	33	5	NR	4	29	64	33	9-4	W
34	Tulsa	10-3	34	2	NR	4	30	61	34	11-3	W
35	Rutgers	7-5	35	1	NR	1	34	11	35	8-5	W
NR	LSU	7-5	NR	0	NR	7+	28	95	NR	8-5	W
NR	Arizona	7-5	NR	0	NR	7+	36	4	NR	8-5	W
NR	Kansas	7-5	NR	0	NR	7+	37	2	NR	8-5	W