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Usually after a game, no matter what, I go back and look at the opinion piece from Don Williams, more or less to make sure I didn’t miss anything. I tend to get pretty blinded by what I write. After a game, I don’t get on Twitter and I don’t read anything other than the box score and the quotes. I think it’s usually best that way because I think we tend to get biased from what I read.
Avalanche Journal’s Don Williams write about the self-inflicted mistakes:
Tech came in the least penalized team in the Big 12 and was flagged 11 times for 85 yards. Red Raiders coach Matt Wells even picked up an unsportsmanlike conduct for leaving the sideline to protest a penalty called on his team that he thought should have been called on the other guys.
Sooners safety Tre Norwood intercepted two passes that bounced off receivers, and linebacker Bryan Mead nearly made it three tipped-ball picks. Even center exchanges were no sure thing. Henry Colombi dropped one that was on-target and Sooners defensive lineman Isaiah Thomas recovered.
The two interceptions and the fumble led to points in the first half, which ended with OU up 48-14.
“Three turnovers on our side of the 50 — I think a couple of them in the (OU) red zone — those were all self-inflicted,” Wells said. “We didn’t play well on defense coming off of that, and it’s a credit to them, and stuff that we’ve got to address and get better at. We got a little shell-shocked, I think, there in the second quarter. We dug ourselves way too big of a hole.”
There’s is still this talk on Twitter about Art Briles and my guess is that some money donors are wanting to pull the trigger on the head coach that watched his program go down in flames because he did nothing when he was notified that players gang raped a girl. I mentioned in my Ten Things on Sunday morning that I would just no longer cover Texas Tech football with this blog if Briles were hired. I know this does nothing to dissuade those that do want him hired, but I can’t do that in good conscious. I think that if Briles were hired, it would mean that there would be a significant change at the athletic department. I think Briles was a serious candidate when Matt Wells was hired, and because he’s available and he used to coach football, then why not. That’s a long ways from happening and is getting the cart before the horse.
There’s just people online (whatever that means) that are clamoring for Texas Tech to hire Briles. And the clamoring for this (I like using that word) is one where if you like what’s happening now, then you must have loved Tuberville and for me personally, I can state without hesitation, that I don’t like what’s happening now AND I was so happy to see Tuberville jump out of a window in a restaurant to leave Texas Tech for Cincinnati AND I don’t want Texas Tech to hire Art Briles. Those are not “if-then” statements, they’re just all true statements for me. Regardless, it’s weird to want to hire a coach that knew of gang rapes and did nothing about it, but that’s just me.
Here are some tweets.
A rough ending, but the return of King and a great effort by White are some of the positives we took away from tonight ⤵️https://t.co/rWzlB55FzJ
— Texas Tech Soccer (@TexasTechSoccer) October 31, 2020
Kiprotich and Ka led the way in Lawrence today as we closed out our fall campaign at Big 12s ⤵️https://t.co/cpBYRfnRec
— Texas Tech Track & Field (@TexasTechTF) October 30, 2020
Meet Nimari Burnett.
He’s heralded, confident and humble. He’s built for this.
🔴#4To1 | #DefineYourself⚫ pic.twitter.com/myxwlbt9zR
— Texas Tech Basketball (@TexasTechMBB) November 1, 2020