Previous Posts Monday – Departing Players Tuesday – Returning Players — ♫ Should I stay or should I go? ♫ The Clash probably weren’t thinking about Louisiana Tech’s baseball roster construction when writing that song. Because if they were, they forgot one important part of the process: the players that decided to come to Tech. […]
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Previous Posts Monday – Departing Players Yesterday, we talked about the players from 2019 that won’t be in a Tech jersey in 2020. And there were quite a few. But Tech brings back a roster full of talent including most of last year’s starting position players and some key pieces out of the bullpen that
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In the 2020 season, Tech baseball faces one of the biggest challenges it has ever encountered. Without a ballpark to truly call home, a daunting schedule, and key pieces lost to graduation, the Diamond Dogs will attempt to live up to the standard that Greg Goff set in 2016: make an NCAA Regional. Over the
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An average player typically shoots their best percentage shots from the free throw line, followed by normal two-point shots, followed by three-point land. For example, Amorie Archibald is 93% from the stripe, 54% from two, and 34% from three this year. But DaQuan Bracey, one of Tech’s most electric athletes, is no typical player. For
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Ah, 2006. It was such a simpler time. Video replay was in its infancy. There was no controversial college football playoffs. And current conference-mate ODU was in the initial steps of reviving their football team (years before the idea even crossed UAB’s bot-controlled mind). But simple as the times were, things were not great in
Our final installment of the 2019 season preview will finally arrive next week. But for now, let’s take a look at each of Tech’s opponents this season. These aren’t predictions of how the Bulldogs will perform, but rather the likely strengths and weaknesses of each team on the schedule. Texas Heisman-candidate Sam Ehlinger is back
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Hey y’all, Evan here. The season is still a few weeks away, so we’re continuing our preseason push of 2019 Louisiana Tech #content with a look at something that’s nerdy and terrifying all at the same time: MATH. In football, like most sports, nerdy dweebs have decided that metrics like “Who looks the best to
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This year, we’re kicking off the 2019 season a little differently. Yes, we’ll still be writing our Great and Accurate™ predictions closer to the end of summer. Don’t worry! But we’ve decided to have a series of posts throughout August that lead into the season by looking at the team through different lenses. This week,
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Early in Skip Holtz’s tenure at Louisiana Tech, we saw a pretty consistent pattern of how the QB unit would be assembled. Holtz would bring in a transfer that could immediately compete for (and often win) the starting role. This philosophy started in the very first year of the Holtz regime, as Texas Tech transfer
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From the beginning of recorded history, the Louisiana Tech football team wore a red helmet with a white T. But that changed with the introduction of the red T in 2013. While the newer, redder T logo looked better to basically everyone me, we previously determined that switching back to a white T on the red
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