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Dirk X West

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  1. LOL. It's Lubbock talk radio, for god's sake. They don't have a fucking clue. They'll find out when the rest of us find out.
  2. Antoine Wesley declares for the draft. Not too surprising.
  3. I assume because it's NDSU. When it comes to the relatively less popular sports in the US, whether it's soccer, women's basketball, lower division college football, ESPN always seems to think people only care about seeing the biggest name team(s), not the best matchups.
  4. Your theories are about as plausible as Bohls's tweets, and while he may have had some inside knowledge, you undoubtedly have none. You think coaches never leave jobs right after really successful seasons have just ended? Really? You think coaches never leave coaching at their alma maters for greener pastures? Ever heard of Rich Rodriguez? Tadlock could have left if he wanted to; he didn't. No one would have been shocked if he took the UT job then, outside of maybe some Tech fans. We're talking about the most prestigious and storied program in college baseball, are we not? Whether or not Tadlock had any serious interest in UT doesn't matter anyway, as the discussion here is, "can UT get any coach from Tech they want?" The question is, did UT have interest in him? Certainly, no one seemed to think the idea of UT hiring him away as of late June 2016 was improbable at the time, and all the info you just cited was all publicly known at that point.
  5. So you're acknowledging the non-compete clause excuse is bullshit?
  6. If that makes you feel better. http://1340thefan.com/texas-longhorns-set-their-sights-on-texas-techs-tim-tadlock/ "In May, he agreed to a six-year contract extension with Texas Tech that includes a non-compete clause. However, the contract extension doesn't take effect until July 1, potentially giving Tadlock two-and-a-half days to leave the Red Raiders without penalty. https://twitter.com/kbohls/status/747842986554204160"
  7. Yeah, I tend to think if and when Beard leaves Tech, it'll be for whichever blue blood BB school job he covets the most, not to "come home" to UT.
  8. Tech just pulled a Utah State alum from USU to be our football coach. I'm not trying to suggest that the difference between Tech and Utah State isn't bigger than that between Tech and UT, but the point is, Tech is a far better job than Utah State, and it was a good career move for Wells, so he took the job. Being an alum has nothing to do with it.
  9. David said any job at UT is better than any at Tech did he not? That's what I was responding to. As I recall, many on the old shag didn't think Tadlock's being a Tech alumnus wouldn't present any problems as far as hiring him away - and then it didn't happen.
  10. Then why couldn't UT hire Tim Tadlock away from Tech? UT baseball is far batter than UT basketball.
  11. I'm not getting the "Kliff could just step in as HC" thing. If Kliff had, say, won 8 games this year and hadn't got fired at Tech, does anyone think he would've been a likely HC candidate for USC in 2019?
  12. #tadlock
  13. Firing a coach who had four losing seasons out of the last five and three in a row is a bad move in your estimation?
  14. Alan Bowman now says he’s not going anywhere.
  15. He knows how to recruit to the wastelands. That's one reason why he got hired.
  16. The teams that you have indicated were underrated were not teams (with the possible exception of Baylor) anyone thought we beat even before we found out that they were underrated. My point, which is quite simple, is that our schedule didn't turn out to be as tough as expected.
  17. And we lost to all those teams, but we still could've won 7 games if Tech hadn't packed it in after losing to OU and UT. Most people were saying before the year that Tech might not win 4.
  18. Yeah, Ole Miss too. That one, along the K-State and Baylor games, were the losses that ultimately cost Kliff his job.
  19. I'll reiterate: OSU, TCU, K-State, even UH, were all overrated.
  20. Counting wins and losses is always an exercise in futility in college football, but particularly so 9 months in advance. Everyone thought Tech's 2018 schedule would be a killer, but turns out, it wasn't. OSU, TCU, K-State, even UH, were all overrated. I'll wait and see how 2019 plays out.
  21. I'm actually gonna agree with you this time, BF.
  22. Big splashes are a bit overrated, imo, as they last all of one off season and then the season starts and the coach either wins or loses. I think what people are failing to see is that Utah State is a lot like Tech, but on a smaller scale: relatively remote location, fewer resources than their competitors, underdog mentality, etc. Wells did a lot with little at USU, and that experience will serve him well in Lubbock. Not unlike Leach and Dykes, he has consistently coached low rated recruits into very good college players. He also grew up in a tiny town in Oklahoma, so there's not going be any culture shock for him.
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