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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Year after year, fewer people are heading to Joe Aillet Stadium to watch Tech football. But that shouldn’t be news to you. It definitely feels like the gameday crowds are getting thinner, even across college football as a whole. Last year, Tech averaged the lowest attendance in a decade: The team coming off of four
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315 to left. 370 to left-center. 385 to straightaway. 340 to the scoreboard in right-center. 325 to the foul pole in right. The tornado that ripped through Ruston in the early hours of April 25th destroyed J.C. Love Field beyond repair. The roof crumbled, the scoreboard fell, and the structure was eventually condemned. But what
If the 2018-19 basketball season had a theme, it would be road losses. The Dunkin’ Dawgs lost ten of their fourteen games away from the Thomas Assembly Center. And only one of those victories came when it counted the most: conference play. It’s fortunate that curse didn’t rub off on the baseball program, because 12
A Hit By Pitch (HBP) is about as ordinary of a baseball stat as you can get. It’s often listed in the box score alongside other classics like the Walk, Batting Average, or my favorite, the Blown Save (mostly because of its abbreviation, BS). A HBP works exactly how it sounds: if a pitch makes
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Another year, another round of Tech fans calling for the basketball coach’s firing due to transferring players: https://twitter.com/j_tweets_alot/status/1107824641580716032 To be fair to hot taeks like this, Tech fans have every reason to be this upset. The duo of Duruji and Langston won’t exactly be the easiest to replace. The Bulldogs did get quite a bit
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Even though Tech finally achieved a conference road victory last night, there are several reasons to be critical of fourth year Louisiana Tech head basketball coach Eric Konkol. Let’s go through some of them: #1: Over the seasons, Tech has scored fewer and fewer points per game: Points scored isn’t some magic indicator of a
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