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good for the Canes!

I like to think that the Badgers have a lot to do with Miami's position in the world these days.

02 NCG knocked the U off of their perch. They haven't been the same since.

Good, dominated by the pipeline

fullback trap

Is there more to the story of Moorhead getting canned? Going 6-6 and beating your in-State rival in your second year shouldn’t warrant a pink slip. Especially given the suspension issues they were dealing with. MSU essentially played without 5 to 6 starters every game last year and still broke even. Unless, of course, Moorhead could be blamed, in part, for the suspensions.

Sort of a blend of things. 
He was an offensive guy who came in and didn't have a good offense. 
One of those not-good offenses meant 8-5 with the best defense the school will likely ever see.
After losing a QB who regressed badly under the new coach (he also almost had his foot torn off the year prior), they had one of the new coach's guys, a transfer, flame out badly.
In an insular place, he had a lot of outsider to him. 

But I heard the biggest thing was that they had him go from the new hotness to kinda flat, and their rival go all the new hotness with Lane. And so with the sense they were leaking oil, they wanted to get that buzz back. Almost messed it up before they didn't. 

I think there was a mutual aspect to it too.  Weren't there rumors his people had reached out to Rutgers almost as soon as Ash was fired?

Might be. I thought that was more reaction to the sense he might get canned. 

In either case, he'll either spiral his career or make Oregon look real smart in the coming years. 

#52 Texas Tech Red Raiders

#8 in Big XII

Texas Tech wasn’t so bad that you could call it a rebuild, but simply calling it a retooling sort of unsold the roster issues.  What it needed was an enema.  Kingsbury’s tenure wasn’t just marked by mediocrity but by a number a character decisions that backfired.  Matt Wells is simultaneously trying to upgrade the talent, while cleansing the lockeroom.  The result was losses in 8 of their final 10 games, and the transfers of five skill position players, including guys who were at times the starting quarterback and starting running back last year.  Said quarterback, it was subsequently revealed, had several pending sexual assault charges, and the running back only ascended to the starting role when the previous starter was arrested for theft and booted off the team last summer.  You would think at some point the Raiders might just run out of running backs, but all that did was allow freshman SaRoderick Thompson to emerge from buried on the depth chart at the end of spring ball last year to being the starting running back by midseason.  His coming out party was when he ran for 153 yards and 2 touchdowns against Baylor’s Big XII leading run defense.  That was his only 100 yard game though, even though the Red Raiders’ line measured out as one of the 20 best in the nation, anchored by 4 seniors.  The problem was that Texas Tech, which always put up big passing numbers, even when their quarterbacks maybe weren’t as talented as their numbers suggested.  Alex Bowman regressed in his injury plagued sophomore season, where he only played in four games, but saw his ypa attempt drop by 1.5 ypa versus under Kingsbury, and his completion percentage and TD:INT also regress.  Matt Wells probably didn’t think he was leaving a better quarterback behind in Logan, Utah, when he took the job.  The thing about that, is Matt Wells knows how to coach quarterbacks.  He, with offensive coordinator David Yost, were the head coach and offensive coordinator the year prior, together at Utah State, where they had the FBS’ 3rd highest scoring offense, putting Jordan Love on the map.  If Bowman is healthy, I think he’ll perform.  If he isn’t healthy...it could get really ugly.  There isn’t another quarterback on the roster who has attempted a pass at this level.  There are a pair of redshirt freshmen who saw no game action last year, and a Division II transfer who had lost his starting job before transferring.  They didn’t even take a quarterback in their 2020 class.  The receiver group loses grad transfer R.J. Turner, who led the team in receptions, but returns 9 of 11 other players who caught at least 10 passes.  T.J. Vasher looks like an NFL receiver at 6’6”, but has struggled to stay on the field with suspensions.  Erik Ezukamma ended the season with a big game against Texas, and might establish himself as the #1 if Vasher can’t get out of his own way long enough to let his talent shine.  Defense is rarely an emphasis in Lubbock, but Wells was angry enough after surrendering 36 ppg a year ago to make a pair of staff changes on that side of the ball after just one year.  He also added JUCO transfer Krishon Merriweather, one of the top JUCO linebackers on the market, as a quick fix, due to the loss of Jordyn Brooks, who was the team’s best defender last year.

	KEY PLAYERS
RB	SaRodorick Thompson, Sophomore
C	Dawson Deaton, Junior
K	Trey Wolff, Sophomore
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DE	Eli Howard, Senior
LB	Riko Jeffers, Senior
CB	DaMarcus Fields, Senior