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The Morning Stake | 2020.04.21

The Morning Stake
Seth C

The Morning Stake | 2020.04.21

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Want to go to Army Ranger school? This OutsideOnline article is terrific as a former graduate goes back to observe:

To be functional enough to report the story, I’ll adopt a schedule similar to the Ranger instructors, shadowing the class 24 hours on, 24 off—earning me some good-natured jibes from exhausted and famished students when I arrive to greet them some mornings, well-rested and well-fed.

In addition to the chance to observe this ordeal, something deeper is driving me back, and it isn’t easy to articulate. In the words of Adam Hurley, a Ranger graduate and former Special Forces officer, Ranger School is “a unique laboratory that administers a self-aware serum.” Another Ranger graduate says, “I had a preconception of what kind of man I was, and Ranger School cut through the fluff and showed me who I was after I had been stripped down.”

My own experience trying to earn a Ranger tab for my uniform was humbling. A lifelong athlete, I reported to Camp Rogers in excellent physical condition, but I struggled to graduate. Ranger School almost broke the competitive drive I’d had my whole life. During Mountain Phase, I failed a knots test, and I ended up getting marooned at Camp Merrill for around five weeks, doing menial labor until I could “recycle” into the next class and try again. Eventually I made it through, but after that first failure I wanted to quit.

Somewhere deep in my psyche, that memory still haunts me. I feel a need to revisit a past that continues to exert a hold on me, and perhaps banish a few demons.

In men’s basketball news, Georgia Southern head coach Brian Burg has hired Tim MacAllister from Texas Tech. Burg, as you already know, was a key assistant this past year for head coach Chris Beard, but Burg was hired by Georgia Southern in March, and now Burg has hired MacAllister, who was Texas Tech’s chief of staff for Texas Tech.

CBS Sports has a NBA draft prospect rankings and although you may not believe he is ready, Jahmi’us Ramsey is ranked as the 16th best prospect. He’s a lot better than you maybe think or give him credit for. Obviously not perfect, but consider what he did as a true freshman and his improvement from his high school year, where he had almost no outside shot, and this year where that was maybe the best part of his game. He’ll be good and he won’t be ready for regular NBA minutes, but he’s a heck of a prospect.

CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander ranks the coaching hires from 2016 and believe it or not, Texas Tech got an “A” for hiring Chris Beard:

Without debate the best hire of 2016. All Beard’s done in his four seasons with the Red Raiders is take the program to its first Elite Eight in school history (2018) then follow that up with its first trip to a Final Four and national title game the next year. Texas Tech took Virginia to overtime in one of the better national championship games of the past 30 years. In 2018-19, Beard’s team also played a major role in ending one of the greatest team streaks in sports history: Kansas’ run of Big 12 regular-season championships was halted at 14 when TTU and Kansas State tied atop the league standings. TTU’s 84.1 defensive rating at KenPom for 2018-19 is the stingiest defense in the history of Pomeroy’s ratings. Beard was the CBS Sports and AP National Coach of the Year in 2019. Beard is 94-44 (.681) in four seasons with the Red Raiders and, once Jahmi’us Ramsey is drafted later this year — likely in the first round — will have cultivated a first-round pick out of Texas Tech in three consecutive seasons after the school had only one draft pick in the previous 20 years.

Dallas Morning News’ Brice Paterik predicts the players who will get drafted from Texas Tech, with linebacker Jordyn Brooks getting picked in the 2nd round, offensive line Terrence Steele getting drafted in the 6th, and defensive lineman Broderick Washington in the 7th round. CBS Sports has the top 250 players and they believe that Brooks is the 100th best player and Steele is the 230th best player.

Houston Chronicle’s Jon Poorman talked to Texas Tech junior receiver KeSean Carter about his time at Texas Tech:

“I like it a lot,” Carter said. “I have track and football workouts, and it’s two different things, so you just have to adjust to it pretty much. When you tell people you play two sports, they ask how you do it, and I just tell them I have to work hard every time.

“I love the atmosphere. I love the school, really. It’s been my dream school since I was young, and now that I’m here, it’s a dream come true. But the next dream is the NFL, and I feel like Tech is the best place for me.”

Here are some tweets.

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