Texas Tech received a commitment for the 2024 class in 3-star Deante Lindsay, a 6-2/165 cornerback from Ada, Oklahoma. Lindsay had offers from Boston College, Dartmouth, Harvard, Kent State, Tulsa, UNLV, and Utah. Recruiting profiles: | Rivals | 24/7 Sports | On3. Lindsay was a pretty big Boston College lean before choosing Texas Tech. You can check out Red Raider Sports’ Jarrett Ramirez on Lindsay.

Another long and lean cornerback with long legs and really terrific stride and a 3-sport athlete, which is the formula that Texas Tech follows when it comes to cornerbacks. We get to see some of his receiving skills and his interceptions don’t “wow” you, but that one he absolutely gets underneath and catches it like a receiver.

I’m not going to be able to keep track of all of baseball, but Texas Tech did receive the commitment from pitcher Lukas Pirko, who was a freshman all-American last year.

6-foot-3, 215-pound #CaliforniaBaptist transfer freshman RHP Lukas Pirko announces what appears to be his commitment to #TexasTech.

Pirko was named second-team All-WAC after going 5-2, 3.38, 1 SV in 13 appearances (12 starts). He struck out 69 in 64 IP. https://t.co/OVNLqvfuYu

— Shotgun Spratling (@ShotgunSprD1) June 16, 2024

The official site has a Q&A with guard Leon Horner, III:

Is there a pro player you see shades of yourself in?
“Cade Cunningham and Cam Reddish.”

Who do you look up to?
“My mom and big brother. My mom is always working and has done everything she can for my family. She taught me everything I know. My brother has been by my side and pushes me to get better.”

CBS Sports has winners and losers in the basketball portal and Texas Tech fell into the winner category:

Winner: Texas Tech adds right pieces
Second-year Texas Tech coach Grant McCasland rounded out his transfer class with the addition of promising transfer forward JT Toppin (New Mexico), who also considered staying in the NBA Draft. Toppin was the Mountain West Rookie of the Year, and he’ll pair with assist guru Elijah Hawkins (Minnesota) to supplement a returning core that includes three double-digit scorers. Former Drake wing Kevin Overton and ex-Pitt big man Federiko Federiko are also nice adds that will help the Raiders on their quest to go 2 for 2 on reaching the Big Dance under McCasland’s direction. While TTU did lose leading scorer Pop Isaacs to Creighton, he wasn’t a particularly efficient player. — Cobb

CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd has a really nice article on Sharon Leach, the surviving spouse of Mike Leach and his chances of getting into the College Football Hall of Fame. This article is really about a lot more than that and if you read one thing today, let this be it.

Sharon left this discussion no less a saint than when she became a football wife.

“The only way I’m getting through [the loss of her husband], really, is trying not to think about it so much. I like talking about him. It’s a little bit easier right now,” she said. “I kind of have hopes that he will get into the hall of fame at some point. He definitely changed the way football is played.

“That’s what I’m hopeful for … his memory will be honored.”

ESPN’s Bill Connelly ranks the top 30 most influential teams ever and I am honestly surprised that the 2008 Texas Tech is the 5th most influential team, but am happy that they are receiving the recognition that they deserve and there’s part of me that Leach’s first year at Texas Tech, with the really wide splits and Kliff Kingsbury at the helm was more influential because it was the first time that a Power Five team went all-in with the spread offense.

5. 2008 Texas Tech
Head coach: Mike Leach
Record: 11-2

Mumme indeed carried his Air Raid vision from the Texas high school ranks to Iowa Wesleyan and everywhere else in his career. And his right-hand man for a lot of that journey brought it to fruition in a single play.

When Leach arrived in Lubbock in 2000, Texas Tech was in a bit of a rut: The Red Raiders had won between five and seven games in eight of the nine previous years. His gunslinging offense fit West Texas like a glove, and after a pair of seven-win seasons, he would win at least eight in each of his final eight years on the job. (Tech has won eight games only four times in the 14 years since he left.)

The peak came in 2008. With a four-star quarterback (Graham Harrell) throwing to the best receiver in the country (Michael Crabtree), Tech began the season 10-0 and moved to No. 2 in the AP poll after a classic upset of top-ranked Texas. The Red Raiders lost two of their final three to slip to 12th, but this season provided a new level of proof of concept for the Air Raid offense. So many of its concepts have become part of the generic college football offense in the years that have followed, and that’s an incredible thing to say considering its counter-culture thinking and small-town start.