Lady Raider Basketball
What an amazing time we had at the Special Olympics Basketball Tournament this morning! pic.twitter.com/LqVsMLZ8ip
— Lady Raider WBB (@LadyRaiderWBB) March 25, 2017
Texas Tech Golf
Recap | No. 24 #TexasTech in a tie for 7th after first two rounds at Henssler Intercollegiate.
📰: https://t.co/rH5wDRwyaA#WreckEm pic.twitter.com/Vy48m4le4B
— Texas Tech W Golf (@TexasTechWGolf) March 28, 2017
Texas Tech Baseball
An update as to Texas Tech’s current rankings:
- D1Baseball has Texas Tech 3rd overall, behind Oregon State and Louisville.
- Baseball America has Texas Tech 4th overall, behind Oregon state, Louisville and TCU.
A two-game series against Texas Southern starts tonight at 6:30:
Preview | No. 2 #TexasTech Welcomes In Texas Southern For First Time – https://t.co/uiHVCTphx5 #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/kdeq22tIkY
— Texas Tech Baseball (@TTU_Baseball) March 28, 2017
Grant Little was named the Big 12 Newcomer of the week:
Congrats to Grant Little on being named @Big12Conference Newcomer of the Week! https://t.co/1cow32wnKi #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/rc6OZh3beS
— Texas Tech Baseball (@TTU_Baseball) March 27, 2017
Texas Tech Football
Get to know wide receivers coach Emmett Jones and what he thinks about the guys outside:
As Frisco week begins, our position breakdowns continue w/ the outside WRs & the coach repping DFW harder than anyone, @TTU_Jones. #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/0xDoitnlmt
— Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) March 27, 2017
Pretty cool. Highlights of all of the former Red Raider footballers who are now in the NFL:
As we take the stage in an NFL facility this weekend, let’s look back at the successful year that was for #RedRaidersInTheNFL. #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/wbpzU3CpKt
— Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) March 27, 2017
CBS Sports has a 5 minute video about how Patrick Mahomes is working out as he gets ready for the draft. When you pull up the video it looks like a mug shot, but everything is cool, Mahomes isn’t in trouble.
SI’s Chris Burke has a draft profile on Mahomes and here are Burke’s weaknesses on Mahomes:
Weaknesses: All that said, Mahomes does indeed face the steep learning curve that comes with a transition from Texas Tech’s system to the NFL. He will have to adjust to working under center, at least on occasion, while digesting reads and coverages.
There should be a limit to how much his next team wants to clean up his mechanics—pushing Mahomes to be too bland would take away his improvisational skills. However, Mahomes’s mechanics can be scattershot, which is why he will thread a needle one play and then fire an easy pass into the third row the next.
On top of that, Mahomes offers the decision-making that comes with the gunslinger label. In other words, he will turn nothing plays into huge gains, but he’ll also try to strong-arm passes into nonexistent windows. His 2016 interception total of 10 could have easily been higher.
Miscellaneous . . .
- CBS Sports’ current mock draft has Patrick Mahomes going 13th overall to the Cardinals.
- Miami Herald’s Charles Trainor Jr. on the Dolphins’ desire for Jakeem Grant to do a better job of catching the ball this year and the Dolphins sent Grant and the punter to Lubbock to practice.
- Via The Flash Today, former Texas Tech DE Gary Moore ended up at Tarleton State.
- This has nothing to do with football, but interesting story from Texas Monthly on the internal corporate battle at Whataburger.