Three Things We Want to See in 2021 | 23 Personnel Podcast – 217

Intro

Football

  • Realignment update?
    • Possible alliance of Big 10, ACC & PAC 12 reported by The Athletic
      • Don William’s with Hocutt’s Response: “not please” & “not happy”
      • Interesting tidbit from the LAJ article I did not know: “On top of that (the share exit fees OU & UT would owe), the grant-of-rights agreements give the Big 12 dibs on television revenue from any SEC home games the Longhorns and Sooners play before 2025.”
    • The Four Million Club (games with 4 million plus viewers during 2015-2019 seasons)
      • Staples main point in the B10, ACC, & P12 scheduling alliance was to combat the many more 4 million-viewer games the SEC was about to get. 
      • Big 12 only had 2 games in 2020 with 4+ million viewers
        • Texas v Oklahoma; 4.81M
        • Oklahoma v Ok State; 4.1M

 

  • Tech game numbers; 10.726M total; avg 1.34M/gm
    • Texas (Fox) 2.72M; 8th in Big12 (42 total B12 games)
    • OU (Fox) 2.12M; 12th
    • OSU (Fox) 2.12M; 13th
    • ISU (ABC) 1.38M; 22nd
    • WVU (ESPN2) 685K; 28th
    • BU (FS1) 585K; 32nd
    • TCU (FS1) 559K; 33rd
    • KSU (FS1) 557K); 34th
    • KU (FS2) no data
  • TTU Fandemonium Scrimmage Announced
    • This Saturday, Aug 21
    • Festivities start at 12:30
    • Scrimmage begins at 2pm
  • TTU Athletics Kickoff Party Announced at the Sports Performance Center
  • Preseason/Fall Camp Continues
    • Any big updates? Starters named?
      • Mason Tharp is listed at 6-9/255 (can he hoop?)
  • Three Things We Want to See This Season
    • Spencer
      • 1.Defense allowing fewer than 30 points per game
        • 2020 (4-6) – 37.1
        • 2019 (4-8) – 32.2
        • 2018 (5-7) – 31.1
        • 2017 (6-7) – 32.2
        • 2016 (5-7) – 43.5
        • 2015 (7-6) – 43.6
        • 2014 (4-8) – 41.3
        • 2013 (8-5) – 30.5
        • 2012 (8-5) – 31.8
        • 2011 (5-7) – 39.3
        • 2010 (8-5) – 30.9
        • 2009 (9-4) – 22.5
        • 2008 (11-2) – 27.8
      • 2. Improve 3rd Down Offense
        • Converted 33.6%; 106th in country (still 7th in Big 12)
      • 3. More takeaways per game
        • Averaged 1.0 in 2020 (104th); 1.7 in 2019 (29th)
    • Michael
      • 1. Increased TE production
        • 2020 TTU TE’s – 20 rec (7.7% of team) 1 TD (out of 18 total)
        • 2020 TCU TE’s – 23 rec (14% of team) 5 TDs (out of 11 total)
      • 2. More pressure on the QB
        • 2020 – TTU tied for 93rd in team sacks (17 total, 1.7/gm – same as UT) 
        • 2020 OU #6 in the country (39 total, 3.6/gm)
      • 3. Red Zone Improvement
        • Offense
          • 2020 TTU Offense – T105th with Miss State, 33 attempts, 9 rush TDs, 11 pass TDs, 5 Made FG, 25 scores (.758)
          • 2020 TCU Offense – 57th, 32 attempts, 14 rush tds, 3 pass tds, 10 fg made, 27 scores (0.844)
          • 2020 KSU Offense – 4th, 33 attempts, 13 rush tds, 8 pass tds, 12 FG made, 31 scores (0.941)
          • 2020 OU Offense – 13th, 59 attempts!, 25 rush tds, 15 pass tds, 14 fg made, 54 scores (0.915)
        • Defense
          • 2020 TTU Defense, T78th, 49 attempts, 22 rush tds, 10 pass tds, 10 fg, 42 scores (0.857)
          • 2020 ISU Defense, 17th, 35 attempts, 10 rush tds, 7 pass tds, 9 fg made, 26 scores (0.743)

Questions

https://twitter.com/23Personnel/status/1427690555094470656?s=20 

 

What did we learn?

Michael – The Dad Hat is my only option

Spencer – the boomer email/call combo

 

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