Links!
- Star-Telegram’s Peter Dawson: From Last Chance U to preseason All-Big 12, Dakota Allen back at Tech to ‘finish what he started’
- Tulsa World: Big 12 Media Days: Kliff Kingsbury hopes to return Texas Tech to winning ways in sixth season
- Rivals’ Nick Krueger: Big 12 Media Days: Allen leading way for revitalized Texas Tech D
- YourBasin’s Erin Reynolds: Former Red Raiders Reflect On Texas Tech Athletics Success (Bradley Marquez, Jace Amaro, and DeAndre Washington)
- A-J Media’s Don Williams: Tech notes: Coaches envision leadership role for veteran receiver High
- A-J Media’s Don Williams: Kingsbury takes heart from past seasons with young quarterbacks
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The defense at @TexasTechFB is seeing a resurgence, and @dakota_allen40 has a HUGE hand in that!#Big12MediaDays | #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/Cl3vuJVXQE
— FOX Sports Southwest (@FOXSportsSW) July 16, 2018
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“I’ve been to to a bunch of weddings… Not my own yet.” – @TTUKingsbury
You hear that, ladies? #TheDose pic.twitter.com/ewVPJefqgH
— FOX Sports Southwest (@FOXSportsSW) July 16, 2018
Thoughts!
- This is always sort of a goofy day, not intended to be all that serious and most of the time I don’t think we really learn all that much as a result of the Big 12 Media Days. It’s for the media to get soundclips and photos and things like that, which is great.
- I wrote in yesterday’s Quote Board that Kingsbury really didn’t want to change quarterbacks, but it might not be real easy to make a decision about the quarterbacks. We know it’s down to three, McLane Carter, Jett Duffey and Alan Bowman. We know that with there’s this thought that some people may feel that Bowman being mentioned is an indication of where this is headed, i.e. there’s a reason why Bowman is being mentioned. Personally, of the three from the spring, I was least impressed with Bowman, but there’s a lot that I don’t get to see. The things I didn’t like was Bowman’s arm strength, which I thought was just okay and he was mainly going against the third team defense when he did play. I couldn’t gauge how he would do against tougher competition. However, I only get to see two scrimmages.
- It seemed that quite a bit of the focus was on Dakota Allen, and deservedly so. He’s a great story and one that I think we’ll all be championing this year.
- I was a little disappointed with the online content from the official site. I was expecting more video and tweets and things like that. Maybe that will happen today, give it a day to process that video and then turn it around. I know those folks work hard, so it’s no disrespect.