Cotton Club Crew #63: Changing of the Guard
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Texas Tech Rebuilds in the Trenches
Two massive, figuratively and literally, additions to Texas Tech in a an area of need. We all know that the offensive line play this season was mediocre or poor all year. Tahj was running through contact at the line regularly, and quarterbacks did not have the time to develop Kittley’s route trees. So this offseason… read more
Instant Reaction: Texas Tech holds off scrappy Oral Roberts
It was not pretty, and there was a very slow start, but the Red Raiders survived the challenge from ORU winning 82-76 at home. Oral Roberts is a tough squad, and they scared but Texas A&M and Kansas State, so the Red Raiders knew this was going to be a fight. And a fight it… read more
How To Watch: Texas Tech battles Oral Roberts
Texas Tech (6-2) returns home again to battle against Oral Roberts. Tech is reeling from the loss of Cambridge, who suffered a devastating knee injury and will be out for the season. Oral Roberts (4-4) is having a tough year, dropping matchups with UT Arlington and Missouri State. Against Texas A&M, a team Tech beat… read more
Opt-in or Opt-Out
Texas Tech, like all schools, has players who have already entered the portal or opted-out of the bowl game otherwise. Let me clear here first, this article is not talking about the guys who are portal bound. If I was planning on leaving a school and was actively looking for my next home the only… read more
Cotton Club Crew #27: Tahj Time Returns
Tahj Brooks has done the improbable once again, he has announced his return to Texas Tech. This is a huge, massive, gigantic, insert adjective here moment for the program. Tahj is one of the best running backs in all of college football, and he immediately uplifts your offense in a critical year three. Macon breaks… read more
Red Raiders set the new minimum expectation
Texas Tech has one job every year, the minimum requirement. Make a bowl season. However, since Mike Leach departed the program making a bowl game has proven far more difficult than it should for a program like Tech. Kingsbury missed numerous bowl games, and Matt Wells failed to make one at all until Sonny Cumbie… read more
Cotton Club Crew #26: Bowl Season Bound
The guy’s are back for their second episode of the week, reacting to the bowl matchup. Texas Tech will take a hop, skip, and a jump to the Independence Bowl to take on the Cal Golden Bears. A rematch of the 2004 Holiday Bowl, though with far less prestige or interest or frankly niceness of… read more
Fixing Bowl Season
The story of the season is of course the CFP rankings being announced and everyone having to accept a new reality with Florida State being left out. Never before had an unbeaten Power Five member been left out of the playoff, and the outrage has been overwhelming. Now, with the four-team playoff coming to an… read more
Cotton Club Crew #25: A Season in Review
Well, where we last left off the football program was frankly embarrassed in Austin. I was there, it was cold, miserable, and DKR is a hellhole of a venue. The play on the field was the only thing worse than the conditions way up high in the stands. The guys talk about that game, what… read more
Cotton Club Crew #24: Beating Texas one last time
The regular season has reached its final chapter. Texas Tech heads to Austin to take on the Texas Longhorns in what might be the final meeting of these two teams for years to come. In a rivalry full of such much mutual disdain, who will triumph? Will Texas Tech shock the world? Or will Texas… read more
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