Texas Tech played SMU which is terrible, but after that New Mexico, NC State, and Ole Miss have all received AP top 25 votes at least sometime during the season.
They don't schedule weak like Texas. Last year week 1, they played the future national champions of that season in Ohio. Sure, New Mexico isn't great, but I'd say they are stronger than Rice. N.C. State was a gutsy (maybe stupid) scheduling call on the part of Texas Tech, as they were preseason top 10. Ole' Miss is pretty tough, but not great. Overall, it's not the creampuff schedule some big schools make.
We played NC State and Ole Miss last year at home - this year we went on the road to play them. Its some kind of NCAA scheduling rule or something I think...... Ive been pimping Symons since the beginning of the season. I told you guys he would be huge. The system is set up to throw the ball almost every down, but someone has to throw it, and someone sure as hell has to catch it. Our defense is terrible. Im not a Mike Leach fan - dude is waaaaaaay too cocky for my tastes. Give me Spike Dykes any day of the week. Conservative play caller - always had top 10 running backs - and a class guy who doesnt hit the bottle every day.
A big reason that Leach goes for it so much on 4th down is that he doesn't trust the kicking game. Texas Tech is starting two red shirt freshmen at punter and FG kicker. True he still went for it alot on 4th last year but not as much as he is this year. I think Leach has done a great job but I'm afraid he'll bolt as soon as he gets a better paying offer. I wish we had the money keep him. Drewdog: I do agree with you though about Spike. Spike Dykes rules! also just to emphasize how much 661 yards of passing actually is: no QB has passed for that much yards since 1990. Freakin' 13 years ago since anyone threw for that much yardage.
Looks like a stat line from one of my old Tecmo Superbowl games with the Oilers... Shotgun XY Bomb, baby!
