Texts from Texas Tech Game Day
October 21, 2013 by Mike CasazzaThat’s a question, and not a statement, that also serves as a nod to today’s excellent texts.
Hey, I don’t know what happens the rest of the way. I just drive this bus and you give me the direction I need. But West Virginia, officially, has its work cut out for it to make a bowl for a 12th straight season. The Mountaineers are 3-4 following Saturday’s 37-27 loss to Texas Tech, the one in which WVU “refused” to respond as the Red Raiders rallied with 21 unanswered points to end the game.
Winning at Kansas State when the Wildcats are coming off an open week is tricky. (More fun with WVU’s schedule: K-State is WVU’s third straight Big 12 opponent with an open week before the game.)
TCU doesn’t look particularly impossible, but we’re talking back-to-back road trips this late in the season for a team that’s suddenly very thin and visibly affected by it (Barely any depth at receiver, only four receivers really getting significant playing time). And we know this year that the Texas-Texas Tech sequence for WVU was hard last season.
Get through that and, hey, it’s Texas.
The Mountaineers looked interchangeably good and bad, hopeful and hopeless Saturday. The arrival of the offense was as shocking as the disappearance of the offense was sudden. Seriously, five straight scoring drives for a team that only scored on back-to-back possessions four times. Two were against Georgia State!
While the score and the statistics don’t look bad, the sound bytes do. Dana Holgorsen more or less said his team didn’t have a will to win. Shannon Dawson said the offense had no one who could step forward to make a play. Keith Patterson said the defense is haunted by the Baylor game.
Combine that with the bizarre fourth down call in the first half, an on and off switch to exploit Kevin White against a cornerback nine inches his junior and the 11:4 pass:run ratio when the Mountaineers gained all of 26 yards and went from up 27-16 to down 37-27 and there’s plenty to dislike and plenty of reasons to worry that this might go all wrong.
Then as it was, then again it will be. And though the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach T.F.G.D. My edits are in [brackets].
10:54 am:
I keep hearing people say its chilly this morning. I’m in disagreement. Maybe they just need some pumpkin shine?
10:58:
My gf and her friends always tailgate but never go in to the game. I showed them pictures of Kilff Kingsbury and now they’re talking to a scalper.
11:14:
Would there be a collective mind [storm] at the stadium today if HCDH comes out in a gold shirt? I think he should do it just to mess with people’s minds.
12:10 pm:
Good: Squirt PR decoy!
12:12:
Where was he throwing that? Three and out without crossing the twenty. Yippeekai-ay!
12:13:
Please tell me yiy saw how fan of game spelled her name…bekki! Yes!!!
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