Hey team, there does not appear to have been any media availability for football yesterday, but we did get basketball. I did a quick (and I mean quick) non-transcript as head coach Chris Beard talked about the release of the schedule, Terrence Shannon, Jr. and Mac McClung.

* Could not comment on the schedule until contracts were signed and things aren’t 100% accurate. The schedule was confirmed 2 minutes before Wes released the schedule. Known for a month that we have a 27 game season.

* Non-conference is to become the best team you can, and get that NCAA Tournament resume. This year, it was to get reliable games geographically, teams can bus, and needed to be flexible is the most important thing. Picked teams with coaches we have relationships with and in-state. Don’t like playing Houston, not a better friend than Kelvin Sampson, and have a lot of respect for Sampson.

* Terrence Shannon, Jr. has come on in the offseason, he looks different than the last home game. Mentally, he’s growing and studying the game and getting more experienced. We threw him and Kevin McCullar into the fire last year. He’s matured, but a work in progress. Consistency is something he’s really working on, and ultimately is if he can put back-to-back games together. He’s a dribble-pass-shot guy and challenged him defensively.

* Mac McClung is here to be one of the best players in college basketball and accomplished a lot at Georgetown, and needs to impact the team winning. Individual role and him impacting the team so the team wins under his watch.

* When you are as talented as Mac is, you’re looking for perfection and you keep chasing it, with Mac we’ve talked about consistency, defensive effort, decision making, shooting, it is consistency. It is proven he can play at the highest level, the question is if he can be consistent.

* Now I am laser-focused on the season at hand. I appreciative of the Womble, but not focused on that and when we can move across the street, we will.

* Our strategy is to be daily-driven, not look too far ahead or not too far behind.

As noted above, Texas Tech released their non-conference schedule and it’s generally in Texas, which is great. As Beard noted, opponents being able to bus to games was important, it’s more cost efficient for those opponents and these programs get some income along the way.

11/25 Northwestern State
11/27 Sam Houston State
11/29 Houston (Dickies Arena, Fort Worth)
12/3 St. John’s
12/6 Grambling State
12/9 Abilene Christian
12/12 Texas A&M – Corpus Christi (Comerica Center, Frisco)
12/29 Incarnate Word
1/30 @ LSU (Maravich Center, Baton Rouge)

Not the toughest non-conference schedule. Because there’s only 1 @ symbol, every game other than the LSU game is at home, or as noted, the Houston game is in Fort Worth and TAMU-CC is in Frisco. Not ideal, but it’s flexible and that’s what’s important.

Here are some basketball tweets.

🚨 We have some results 🚨

The schedule is done. pic.twitter.com/VWKn9kVqo7

— Texas Tech Basketball (@TexasTechMBB) November 4, 2020

Should we call him Dr. TJ? 😏#ErvingAward | @Hoophall pic.twitter.com/fLOIPZVyKR

— Texas Tech Basketball (@TexasTechMBB) November 4, 2020