Texas Tech football released their availability report and the worst regarding Dooda Banks has come to fruition as he is now out for the season. Have also added quite a few new players to the questionable category
OUT FOR SEASON
Dylan Spencer So. OLB Knee
Joseph Adedire Jr. OLB Knee
Vinny Sciury Sr. OL Knee
Cam’Ron Valdez Jr. RB Knee
E’Maurion Banks Jr. DL Knee
OUT FOR TCU
Javeon Wilcox R-Fr. DB Knee
Dylan Shaw R-Fr. OL Hand
QUESTIONABLE FOR TCU
Drae McCray Sr. WR Head
Sterling Porcher Sr. OL Ankle
Bryce Ramirez Sr. LB Lower Leg
Marcus Ramon-Edwards RFr. DB Head
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“We lose a leader,” McGuire said. “… You’re losing a guy that’s really physical. He’s got some really good length”
Defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter revealed that Banks will have surgery “in the next day or two.”
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Even had McGuire tempered expectations, it might not have mattered. The tag of five-star recruit alone ensured all eyes would be on Hudson from the jump.
I’ve mentioned this before, but in the parts of preseason practice media get to see, Hudson dropped a disconcerting number of passes. I’ve not belabored that, because it came in a small viewing sample, and might not have been representative of his performance overall. But he dropped another one Saturday, two series before his spectacular catch.
Based on Hudson’s talent level and his having played in every game, I suspect coaches view his concentration lapses as freshman learning-curve stuff, not a long-term concern.
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“Tough people respond, that’s going to be the message. We have to respond,” McGuire said in his weekly meeting with the press on Monday. “(Jacob Rodriguez) and I were talking, and he goes, ‘Coach, we’ve been in a lot of darker places than this in our three years together.’
“He’s the one that reminded me this morning, ‘Hey, we’re in control of everything that we do.’ We can’t let people in the building panic, outside the building, we always remind each other that things are going to be said, and whatever is said is said. But as far as in the building, we can’t panic. We’ve got to respond, and that’s going to be the deal, is how we’re going to respond.”
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“None,” McGuire said when asked about the pass rush on Saturday. “We didn’t have one sack and did not have one time that we had a tackle for a loss. that’s little bit of credit to them, but it’s a lot of us. And you’re never going to have a TFL when you’re not setting the edge of the defense. You’re never going to have a sack when everything’s not married together. And, you know, we it’s, it’s like a broken record whenever it comes to that.”
The Red Raiders’ best day defensively came in Tucson, and a large portion of that success came from sending extra pressure at Arizona’s quarterback Noah Fifita, something that Tech might have to resort to this weekend to throw turnover-prone TCU quarterback Josh Hoover for a loop.
“We got to continue to work on that, but we also got to continue to schematically, come up with some things to affect the quarterback,” McGuire said. “If we allow this guy to stand back there, like most quarterbacks, but Hoover stands back there and he’s going to pick us apart. He’s got big arm. They’ve got three to four really, really good receivers, they’re playing really well and and they’re big and physical and so, I mean, that’s something that we’re really going to have to work on.”