Tech football recruiting update.

We are still the shit, and getting better.

Great stuff!

A 4 star TE? Very cool. Very excited to see Tubby make this team his own.

Garner wrote:

Great stuff!

A 4 star TE? Very cool. Very excited to see Tubby make this team his own.

Yup! hes the #40 overall high school player in the country according a few sites. Im really excited about this class.... not to mention whats already starting with the 2012 class. We will win championships with Tubs here, no doubt in my mind!

why did willis leave?


http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/12/former-texas-tech-defensive-coordinator.html

Willis left because he allegedly Chris Browned his wife in their house in Wolfforth. She fled from the house as if Jason Kidd were chasing her with brass knuckles.

BlackMansWish wrote:

Willis left because he allegedly Chris Browned his wife in their house in Wolfforth. She fled from the house as if Jason Kidd were chasing her with brass knuckles.

This is true.


An intriguing name out there in terms of potential defensive coordinator candidates is Pittsburgh defensive coordinator and former SMU head coach Phil Bennett. Bennett has never coached with Tuberville, but succeeded him as Texas A&M's defensive coordinator in 1995 -- his future at Pittsburgh is uncertain as a result of the program's still active coaching search.


also: Phil Bennet has a daughter that goes to Tech right now, and his son is a graduate. If I were a betting man (which I am) I would put my money on Bennett getting the nod.


Randy Shannon's (Miami) name has also been thrown around..... Could happen, but probably wont.

uhh ohhhhh

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5999907

IB29 wrote:

uhh ohhhhh

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5999907

It means nothing.

You will notice nothing else going forward because other than being on probation the penalties have been served. All current prospects were called last night about this and explained that there are no more issues going forward. Texas Tech had 14 fewer official visits in the last recruiting cycle as punishment too. no more issues or penalties going forward.

Some of the illegal text messages were simply, "thanks" and stuff like that

http://www.texastech.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/011811aab.html

Jan. 18, 2011


LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech University has announced a one-year extension and increase in annual compensation for head football coach Tommy Tuberville. The new deal will keep Tuberville in Lubbock through the 2015 season.

"I am grateful to the university for believing in our vision for this football program and I am thrilled to be a Red Raider," said Tuberville. "My family and myself have been embraced warmly by this community and all of Red Raider Nation and I believe that unity was a major contributor in us winning eight games the first year along with a bowl championship. Texas Tech is a tremendous place and together we can achieve our goals of graduating student-athletes and winning football games."

The additional year will give Tuberville a five-year contract as he begins his second season this fall. Additionally, his annual compensation has been raised from $1.5 million to $2 million.

"Coach Tuberville has done a great job of representing Texas Tech and we believe he is the right person to lead our football program," said athletics director Gerald Myers. "We share the same goals of graduating student-athletes and running a program with integrity. He won eight games last season and is the first Tech coach to win a bowl game in his first year. Along with a strong first season and the record number of season ticket sales in 2010, we are very excited for the future."

In his first season as head coach, Tuberville guided the Red Raiders to an 8-5 record and a 45-38 victory over Northwestern (Big Ten) in the TicketCity Bowl. He became the first coach in school history to win a bowl game in his first season. Tuberville also excited the fan base as Texas Tech set the school record for season ticket sales with 46,565 and that figure also led to new single-season home average attendance record of 57,107.

We're not even ranked on ESPN? Any new update from rival?

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/ncf/news/story?id=6145535

Tommy Tuberville's raise angers faculty
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LUBBOCK, Texas -- A $500,000-per-year pay raise recently awarded Texas Tech football coach Tommy Tuberville through 2015 has angered some university faculty members, who have been asked to take a pay freeze in 2011.

Facing an 8 percent state funding reduction and with more funding cuts possible, Tech officials killed $3 million in faculty raises for 2011. However, Tuberville's new five-year, $11 million contract guarantees the coach at least $2 million per year. That's up from $1.5 million in the contract he signed in 2010.

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At a faculty senate meeting last week, several faculty members questioned Tech's announcement last month that it would pay Tuberville the raise even as lawmakers considering cutting university revenue by tens of millions of dollars, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported in Monday's editions.

"If that was me, I would have turned it down. I would have been embarrassed," Julian Spallholz, a human sciences professor and Tech faculty senator, told the newspaper.

Tuberville and Tech athletic director Gerald Myers declined to comment. However, Tech President Guy Bailey told the Avalanche-Journal that the university was keeping a promise made to Tuberville a year ago when he was hired at "less than market value."

"I'm sympathetic," he said of the faculty response. "I'd love to be giving pay raises right now more generally."

Faculty Senate President Richard Meek said some of the anger could result from a lack of understanding that academic and athletic budgets are funded separately. However, $2.5 million of the Tech athletic budget comes from academics. Bailey told the Avalanche-Journal that the academic subsidy of athletics has been reduced to $2.25 million this year because of the funding cuts and he hopes to remove the subsidy completely over the next few years.

Faculty advocates, however, say this brings up yet again the long-running issue of academic vs. athletics in terms of university priorities.

"Regardless of the specifics of the money flow, there's still a question of the symbolism of what this says about the university's priorities," said John Curtis, director of research and public policy for the American Association of University Professors.

"If you're at a time of cutting academic programs or freezing or cutting salaries for faculty and other employees, and you have a raise for the football coach -- even if the money is there -- it sends a completely wrong signal about where the priorities of the university are," he told the Avalanche-Journal.

Chris Level reports that Tech officials met with Miami(fla.) Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt in Dallas to offer him the AD position at Tech. Sources say he accepted. Nothing in stone, but looks to be close




YES!

IB29 wrote:

Chris Level reports that Tech officials met with Miami(fla.) Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt in Dallas to offer him the AD position at Tech. Sources say he accepted. Nothing in stone, but looks to be close




YES!

YUP! not a bad get.

He needs to upgrade Dan Law first.