The first practice is in the books and Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire spoke to the media for about 10 minutes. The camera work was a little shaky, but the audio was fine except I had a tough time hearing the reporters’ questions. Regardless, this is a non-transcript, which is me typing as fast as I can while listening to McGuire and what he said after practice.

• Really excited how we were executing on both sides of the ball. Will be a big step up on Saturday, new offense and defense and guys did a good job of executing what we were calling . . .
• Honestly, it was like I was a kid at Christmas. Incredible getting the job, but didn’t get to coach. Getting out here and coaching football and seeing these guys execute what we want to do and one of the best days of my life . . .
• During indy, I’m watching every indy, plugging in what I can, but when we get in 7-on-7 situations, I gravitate towards defense and linebackers, and I let Kittley take care of the offense and want to put a brand on how we play defense . . .
• Offensively similar because they came out of the same tree with Sonny and Kittley, but defensively it is very multiple, saw 4-down, 3-down, different packages of guys on the field, as far as personnel and alignment is a lot different than last year. Guys coming in and out of personnels and guys being in the right spots . . .
• Tyree Wilson, when we are in our 4-down stuff, he’s an outside linebacker or defensive end, he could be rush or drop, he will be on the edge and put speed on the pass rush, when he goes to our 3-down, he’ll be a 5 or 4 technique and hand in the ground, it will be more like he did last year with a 2-point stance, and some could be 3-point stance, but mostly 2-point stance . . .
• I liked Larry Moore’s athletic ability and length as far as moving, both offensive and defensively line, we are in a good spot on the o-line and took Larry Moore and Blake Burris, Blake played d-line in high school. With Larry we really studied his movement in high school, they were both willing. He’ll project as a 3-technique in a 4-man front and 5-technique in a 3-man front, he’s not going to be a nose . . .
• I was thinking the last time I was a head coach Dimitri Moore and I were on the field together and now he and I are back on the field together. I am a different person between the lines, will stay on their tail and be very demanding, easy for Dimitri to say to not take it personal and I’m demanding that things be done right . . .
• First competition is the longest was the jugheads, Dadrion “Rabbit” Taylor-Demerson and Tony Bradford did the most, they were leaders and getting those teams where they were supposed to be, being on time to class, study hall, tutors. The last competition was team commitment week and was Coach Lockhart’s team, Kosi Eldridge was part of that, was a physical and community service work and quick competition. The biggest thing about that is to hang out with someone other than their position group, and showed a lot of who they picked and what they thought of their teammates . . .
• Kosi’s playing outside linebacker and star, strong safety, was really impressed with him, Marquis “Muddy” Waters, Rabbit, Malik Dunlap, Reggie Pearson, have a strong DB group . . .
• Rabbit is a gym rat and high football IQ, diagnoses plays quickly, and he’s put on 10 pounds in the offseason and added good weight and help him be healthy and physical. He can run, he doesn’t have the length, but he can identify plays fast, but he can run and get in good position . . .
• Dimitri Moore, really good length, legitimate NFL measurables, loves football and very intelligent student in the classroom and when it comes to football . . .
• Incredible, fun to be back and in front of the team and see all of the offseason work and build on the work and see how many guys want to watch film on their own and demanding from them to give great feedback to build off of every day.

It was a great first day and it’s only going to get better.#WreckEm pic.twitter.com/W5Ezs5zQRh

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