Texas Tech Hall of Fame
Texas Tech announced on Wednesday the 2024 Hall of Fame & Hall of Honor Class and includes some terrific former Texas Tech athletes. This is your Hall of Fame class:
+ Danny Amendola (football)
+ Cory Carr (men’s basketball)
+ Amanda Dowdy (volleyball)
+ Taylor Lytle (soccer)
+ Omo Osaghae (track/hurdles)
+ Ifeatu Okafor (track/shot put)
The lone Hall of Honor member is current track and field coach Wes Kittley and Derrell “Mookie” Mitchell is being awarded the Heritage Award for his success in the Canadian Football League and being named as part of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. The entire class will be honored on November 8th at 6:00 p.m. and on the field on November 9th against Colorado.
On the Gridiron
CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd reports on how the NCAA is splitting into two different Division I’s within the NCAA, the Power Four and then everyone else.
CBS Sports put the subject to one powerful Power Four administrator this way:
“You essentially don’t want a Division III president voting on roster caps.”
(Roster caps are a controversial issue involved in the House settlement.)
“Correct,” that person said.
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Something must happen because of the implied threat. The Power Four has the means to formally break away and stage its own football playoff – at least. While none of that is imminent, the conferences have been throwing their weight around to speed up change.
Sankey emotionally voiced his frustrations at NCAA governance last month.
College sports continues to change at a dizzying pace. Earlier this year, the Big Ten and SEC formed what was called a joint “advisory group” to address “significant issues in college athletics.” That was viewed by some outside those two conferences as a threat.
In the same time frame, the Big Ten and SEC essentially demanded an unprecedented 58% combined share of revenue in the new College Football Playoff media rights contract. The development did not go over well with the eight other FBS conferences, but has settled in as a new reality.
The money continues to flow to the top, where the most influential schools are responsible for the most popular content.
“I live by the value equation,” Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark said at last week’s conference media days. “Those who create value deserve to be rewarded.”
The captains of the Texas Tech football team visited some special patients at Covenant Health.
Our captains made some new friends today at Covenant Children’s Hospital 🫶#WreckEm | @covhs pic.twitter.com/5R7Py43ARK
— Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) July 17, 2024
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Red Raider Nation just in case you were wondering if @iammike1x is ready to
Go?!?! He is ready!!!!! #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/yCBR0psy1r— Joey McGuire 🌵 (@JoeyMcGuireTTU) July 19, 2024
Athlon Sports ranks the Big 12’s top transfers and it’s a long list and the first Red Raider is Josh Kelly at #9:
9. WR Josh Kelly, Texas Tech (from Washington State)
With three out of the top four targets from last season departing, the Red Raiders hit the portal hard for help at receiver. Kelly and fellow transfer Caleb Douglas (Florida) should replenish the outside weapons for quarterback Behren Morton. Kelly paced Washington State’s offense with 923 receiving yards and eight scores and grabbed 61 passes over 12 contests in ’23.
After that, it is just a list and we’ll go through it with TE Jalin Conyers at #17 and then it’s just a list of players to watch on offense and defense. On offense it is WR Caleb Douglas, OL Davion Carter, OL Sterling Porcher, and OL Vinny Sciury, and on defense it is DL De’Braylon Carroll, DL James Hansen, DB A.J. McCarty, and DB Javeon Wilcox, with punter Jack Burgess on the special teams list.
The seniors went to the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia.
Fall camp is less than two weeks away 👀
The seniors are ready to lead the way.#WreckEm pic.twitter.com/vGYbTRaAlV
— Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) July 19, 2024
On the Court
The basketball program announces some coaching staff moves, promotion of Chris Nottingham and addition of Brian Pete.
Help us congratulate @cnottingham24 on his promotion to Director of Player Development and welcome @brian_pete_ as our new Video Coordinator!#TTW | 📰: https://t.co/S0O3bdprVa pic.twitter.com/RXb0ihzAtS
— Texas Tech Basketball (@TexasTechMBB) July 18, 2024