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Red Raiders Football Notebook – 08-22-08
Writers’ cramp
Texas Tech inside receiver Blake Kelley guessed he signed his name more than a thousand times Thursday. If so, he missed a few people.
Tech officials estimated that at least 3,000 turned out for the team’s annual autograph night at Jones AT&T Stadium. The event started at 7 p.m., and lines remained for the team’s [...]
Red Raiders Football Notebook 08-16-08
Holding their own
With the influx of talent that Texas Tech has gotten at defensive end, returning starters Brandon Williams and Jake Ratliff appear to be answering the challenge. If the season opener were today, they’d be starting, defensive line coach Charlie Sadler said Friday.
Sadler said there would “have to be a lot of progress made [...]
Red Raiders Football Notebook 08-15-08
Upping the ante
A couple of rules changes in college football this season will make defenses pay for sloppy attention to fundamental tackling.
The 5-yard penalty for incidental facemask has been eliminated, so the only facemask penalties enforced will be 15-yarders.
An official attending Texas Tech’s practice on Thursday threw a flag when defensive end Brandon Sesay grabbed [...]
Red Raiders Football Notebook
Competition at kicker
Some might have expected a slam dunk for Donnie Carona in Texas Tech’s kicker competition since the Red Raiders signed him to a scholarship coming out of high school. Carona might very well prevail, but senior Cory Fowler isn’t just giving him the job.
Fowler, who has handled Tech’s onside kickoffs in the past, [...]
Red Raider football notebook 08-08-08
Dixon expected to be ineligible; Sesay will be able to play
Texas Tech defensive end McKinner Dixon is expected to be ineligible for the upcoming season, Tech coach Mike Leach said Thursday.
That news came on the same day that defensive end Brandon Sesay found out for sure that he qualifies to play this season.
Dixon played for [...]
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