Year: 2018

Texas head coach Tom Herman stepped to the podium for his press conference and gave the item Longhorns want to hear. “I just want to let you know that we are really excited about this season,” he said. “Our culture is firmly ingrained, our guys are in as good a shape as I’ve ever seen them. They’re hungry to compete in the Big 12, which has done a fantastic job.” He stated that 60 players have a vertical jump of more than  30 inches, 42 players can powerclean more than…

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What a difference a year makes. In 2017 Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury was asked during Big 12 Media Days how the Red Raiders could improve defensively after a 2016 season where it seemed like they couldn’t stop hardly anyone. In 2018 Kingsbury walked in and was told Texas Tech led the conference in preseason all-conference selections on the defensive side during Big 12 Media Days. And Kingsbury was quick to credit defensive coordinator David Gibbs, a man who has worked with the head coach for four years. The Red…

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TCU head coach Gary Patterson did something unusual, he said, when he brought sophomore quarterback Shawn Robinson with him to Big 12 Media Days. “Usually I don’t bring a young player with me,” Patterson said. “I joked the other day with somebody (that) two years ago I didn’t bring Kenny Hill, and we went 6-6, and last year I brought him, and we went 11-3.” Patterson added that he brought Robinson because of superstition, not because the sophomore is the new starter. Still, it’s hard to think it’s someone else.…

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Commissioner Bob Bowlsby of the Big 12 Conference began his state of the conference address by noting his league was the only one in the country to have a representative in the College Football Playoffs, the men’s basketball Final Four, College World Series, and the women’s College World Series. He noted the Texas had every team that wears the burnt orange make the postseason and that Oklahoma had three first-round draft picks in Baker Mayfield (NFL), Kyler Murray (MLB) and Trae Young (NBA). Bowlsby welcomed new athletics directors Jeremiah Donati…

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