2009 NCAA - Texas Tech
The Red Raiders were close winners in most games, but they were winners; the one exception being the 65-21 freight-train that hit them in Norman, Oklahoma to send the Sooners catapaulting over Tech and Texas to the Big 12 (and national) title game. An 11-1 regular season earned Mike Leach a contract extension. There are really no walkovers in I-A this season, as Leach scheduled Rice, Houston and New Mexico out of the conference in addition to the obligatory I-AA game to open up. With a trip to revenge-minded Texas on Sept. 19, the Red Raiders will find out early just how they can compete in the Big 12.
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Of great concern is breaking in a new quarterback - Tech is the only one of six teams in the division that lost its starting QB, and it was a good one, as Graham Harrell was a three-year starter, one of the few Leach has ever had. In steps Taylor Potts, who was capable in relief last fall. Potts also loses three O-linemen, but there is young talent there and at receiver, where someone's got to step up and replace all-everything Michael Crabtree. Defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeil has done well since taking over in the middle of 2007, but he'll have to turn a new group of defenders into playmakers, as two safeties and two DE's depart. But all of the veteran linebackers are back and the two corners are seniors. TT would do well to duplicate the 29 takeaways the defense manufactured in 2008. |
ASK the bookie? - Let's see what Leach can do for an encore. This team plays only four true road games, but unlike in past years (like last year, when you could pencil in eight or nine wins) there are only five or so 'sure' wins heading into the fall. The development of Potts and the new players on the OL and on defense will be instrumental in tacking on that total and being competitive in the brutal South.
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