Comments on: Texas Tech Post-Mortem: Kansas – So You Wanna Be a Football School?

By: Stockard

Stockard — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:39:01 +0000

Hi all. Where facts are few, experts are many.
I am from Central and now teach English, please tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “Best lace wig adhesive: this war is explicitly intended on the clock king.”

Thanks in advance. Stockard.

By: dedfischer

dedfischer — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:41:16 +0000

It kind of made me chuckle a bit at the title of that Nebraska rambling, “Where do we go from here?”. This is where we went and that was only dated 2 weeks ago.

By: dedfischer

dedfischer — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:18:09 +0000

Batch will play from what I understand, but you could see him limping on TV Saturday between plays. It didn’t seem to affect him much, though.

I think Tech has been playing with smaller splits this year. Actually, they’ll take wider split on some running plays in efforts to spread the DL out and create some space. Mizzou had trouble because they couldn’t block Orakpo. Fortunately, we’ve got Rylan Reed. I think Orakpo is a hell of a player, but I don’t think he’s near the caliber of Chris Long and Reed will be able to neutralize him for most of the game. At least in pass protection anyway. Orakpo will clean Reed’s plow in the running game.

By: goosehorn

goosehorn — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:47:37 +0000

Excellent write up. Thank you for your consistently intelligent contributions.

I didn’t realize that Batch has had trouble with turf toe. Is he going to be anywhere near 100% heading into the Texas game?

Also too, on Hornfans a poster mentioned that against Mizzou, the Tigers changed their gameplan in the second half and tightened up their spread from being 2 yards apart to being more conventionally closer. Is it possible for Tech to take a page from the Mizzou coaching changes and have the line play tighter? Would this affect Harrell in making him take snaps in a system that he is not used to?

Personally, I think Tech should be favored by 1.5 given the game is at night in Lubbock.

By: Dr. Mark

Dr. Mark — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:44:39 +0000

I really enjoy your articles, especially the one after the Neb. game.[Batch's stats,Ruffins defense,etc.] It;s almost as though everything you touched on in the Neb. game was adressed in the KU game. I personally think the major keys to the Texas game is give Batch the ball [vs. Woods,] and the play of the defensive ends and linbackers.== Mark ‘79 grad

By: dedfischer

dedfischer — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:45:43 +0000

That’s our jet package, commonly known as the dime. We’ll usually sub out Duncan and Bird. Bring in Hines and Rowland, and play Marlon at MLB. Howard will sub in for Jones and play DE. Dixon will move to DT. B. Williams and Whitlock stay put. At times, we’ll play it with Dixon and Williams at DE and Whitlock at NG. Howard will be playing as a standup LB and executing some kind of stunt or blitz at the snap. It’s been very effective as Howard’s skillset is very well-suited for this role and allowed us to get a lot of pressure on the QB in 3rd and long situations. Probably the most significant factor in our improved 3rd down defense.

By: commish

commish — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:02:44 +0000

Ded,

What defense are we running when we line up with three down lineman and then a quasi-lineman that blitzes most of the time? We seemed to run that look a lot and it was effective. I don’t remember seeing it much (at all?) in the past, but then again I’m usually lulled to sleep by our base 4-3 and hardly notice if we run anything different. But it seemed like we ran a lot of different looks this game, and hot damn it worked.

By: Calhorn

Calhorn — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:47:58 +0000

My gosh, TTech looked formidable against Kansas. With ESPN Gameday coming to Lubbock, this will be the biggest game in Red Raider history. I’m wondering if the Red Raiders should not be favored, having the home field advantage, even though Texas is ranked #1.

By: I TT ON YOU

I TT ON YOU — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:10:00 +0000

Hey Ded, Great read as always!

How long has Batch had turf toe? I hear that can be a nagging pain in the ass.

Everybody knows Reesing didn’t throw well, but it shocked me how little he hurt us running the ball as well.

By: RRR

RRR — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:07:33 +0000

Thanks ded,

Really enjoyed the hit BWill put on Reesing in the option. I’ll take a few 10 yard runs off the pitch if BWill or Dixon get to put a lick like that on McCoy.

I was also really impressed with our ability to limit Reesing breaking contain. McCoy’s better, and he just killed us last year with it.

I’m really amazed to be watching our defense continue to improve, find its identity, and to think we might have three or four all-conference players.