View the Texas Tech Red Raiders roster for the 2012 FBS college football season. As I always say, injuries hurt in the present tense and help in the future tense. We're still dealing mostly with potential instead of production here, but it's something. That is an absurd average of Opponent 58, Tech 18. The offense is senior-laden, and the defense is at least more experienced than it was last year (and hey, he's moving back to the defensive alignment for which any fourth- and fifth-year defenders were recruited to play!).
Recruiting has been solid enough (Tech ranks 20th in two-year recruiting average), but if Tuberville wants to be around long enough to reap the rewards of solid recruiting, he'll need to figure out how to win games. When Tuberville took the Tech job a year and a half later, he took another Troy coordinator. While we’re here, let’s watch some of the many fine college football videos from SB Nation’s YouTube channel: 2012 Texas Tech Football Preview: The Panacea, LeBron James taking the Lakers to the NBA Finals is one of his best accomplishments yet. It looked like new defensive coordinator Chad Glasgow had begun to figure things out, and the Tuberville program was close to taking off.
Doege returns for his senior season after throwing for 4,004 yards, 28 touchdowns and 10 interceptions a year ago. One-dimensional offenses can be slowed down, and while Tech is going to pass a ton no matter what, they probably would have run at least a bit more had they been able to keep running backs on the field. Are you a Stathead, too? No. Of the seven players who had compiled starting experience after last fall, four return, including two two-year starters: second-team all-conference tackle LaAdrian Waddle and center Deveric Gallington.
But the extremes do. A combination of strong recruiting, solid experience and healthy knees tells us that Tech can expect to improve quite a bit in 2012, but in a loaded Big 12 the Red Raiders could still fade into the woodwork if they aren't careful. Considering the lack of pass rush, the Tech secondary wasn't awful last year. Again, efficiency is a good thing, and Tech will once again have one of the more efficient passing games in the country; but easy scores are the lifeblood of a successful football team, and Tech didn't generate enough of them in 2011. After receiving no response, bowl organizers invited the All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. But the defense still has enormous questions to answer, as does Tuberville himself. When you just saw a long bowl streak end, and your conference is loaded with six ranked teams in the preseason (and you are not one of those six), expectations will probably keep themselves in check no matter how much experience your roster currently holds. Texas vs. Texas Tech - Game Summary - November 3, 2012 - ESPN Ash, Davis deliver third straight win for Texas David Ash threw for three touchdowns and 264 yards to … Then-freshman DeAndre Washington followed suit with a knee injury of his own late in the year. Copyright © 2000-2020 Sports Reference LLC. 2012 Texas Tech Football Preview: The Panacea - SBNation.com Coaches don't become dumb overnight, but Tommy Tuberville's tenure at Texas Tech … Join our linker program. So the next question, then, is obvious: can they improve enough?
Some school's results have been altered by retroactive NCAA penalties. Tuberville is conservative and can occasionally become set in his ways; plus, he seems to have a way of sabotaging himself by adopting ideas to which he isn't fully married (see: his 2008 Auburn spread offense and his 2011 Texas Tech 4-2-5 defense). All rights reserved. Home games against Northwestern State, New Mexico and Kansas, plus an incredibly winnable trip to Texas State, should get Tech two-thirds of the way toward bowl eligibility. But the linebacking corps got a boost in a couple of different ways this offseason; first, playmaking safety Terrance Bullitt (9.5 tackles for loss, four passes broken up) put on 15 pounds and moved to strongside linebacker. Quarterback Seth Doege completed 69 percent of his passes last year, and Tech ranked 16th in Passing Success Rate+ (an efficiency rating).