On the Diamond
Texas Tech baseball run-ruled ACU yesterday 16-4 with home runs from Robin Villeneuve, Damion Bravo and Logan Hughes. They will be on the road on Thursday through Saturday to close out the Big 12 Conference season.
On the Hardwood
CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander grades the hires from the 2021 coaching carousel and you’re probably thinking that Texas Tech didn’t have a coaching hire in 2021 because that was ages ago and well . . .
Mark Adams, Texas Tech
Adams went 43-26 but only lasted two years after being promoted following Chris Beard’s 2021 move to Texas. He took the Red Raiders to the 2022 Sweet 16 as a No. 3 seed, then followed that up with a 16-16 season and promptly resigned. Adams, a TTU alumnus, was under suspension at the end of that season when he left. The reason for suspension being he said an “inappropriate, unacceptable, and racially insensitive comment” toward one of his players, per a school investigation. So, it started well, then all came crashing down quickly in Lubbock. A bizarre second-year saga, truly. The program was quickly salvaged by the Grant McCasland hire. Grade: D+
If you are also curious, the Texas hire of Chris Beard was also graded as a D+.
On the Gridiron
ESPN’s Eli Lederman, Max Olson and Adam Rittenberg ranks how each team did in the offseason for the Power 4 teams and Texas Tech finishes 1st in the Big 12. You can go read the Texas Tech summary, but here is how they thought the rest of the Big 12 finished (to be clear this is not a ranking of how good they think the teams are, but a ranking of how well they did in the offseason):
1. Texas Tech
2. Arizona State
3. Baylor
4. Iowa State
5. Kansas State
6. TCU
7. Utah
8. Cincinnati
9. BYU
10. Colorado
11. Houston
12. Oklahoma State
13. West Virginia
14. Kansas
15. Arizona
16. UCF
