What do Arizona, Kansas, Texas A&M, New Mexico State, Lafayette (PA), and Louisiana Tech have in common? They all are tied for 6th in college baseball with 12 triples. But what exactly does that mean? How meaningful are triples? How common are they? How much do they help a team? Can I do anything other […]
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There’s a saying in football: “Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.” The quote (often attributed to Bear Bryant) is so prevalent in football that it is on Wikipedia’s List of Sports Clichés. The maxim is usually attributed to football, but it can be applied to most sports. In basketball, dunks and J-shooting is what
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Now that it’s been a few weeks since the end of Tech’s 2017 football season, we can start to look back more objectively at how and why the season went the way it did. Or we could play a game. And games sound like more fun. You may have seen a few tweets referencing the
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After starting conference play 1-5, many Tech fans are calling for Konkol’s head. Some of the takes are quite simplistic: https://twitter.com/TXCWB74/status/951665043124482048 Some are a bit more creative: After a while though, the takes start to feel repetitive: https://twitter.com/ShotForty/status/951665252281802752 And it after doing some intensive research, it appears the problem goes back further than we thought
When I was a freshman at Louisiana Tech (way back in the year of 2012), I had never really gotten into college basketball. It was just the thing you watched once a year for March Madness. But that changed the first time I walked into the TAC to watch the Dunkin’ Dogs play. The leader
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Before the season began, we at gtpdd came together and posted some predictions for how the season would go. So now that we have just crossed the midway point in the season, we will go back over our predictions or make some new ones. And there’s only two reasons why you make predictions: to see
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48 yards. 7 yard return. 29 yards. No return. 45 yards. No return. 37 yards. 5 yard return. 39 yards. No return. 35 yards. No return. There were two reasons why Tech almost lost to South Alabama: Field position and 3rd Down Efficiency. Okay, so probably more than two. But let’s dive in to the
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In this opening weekend, Louisiana Tech plays Northwestern State. Anybody who followed Tech football in 2014 remembers the last time these two teams played. Well, almost everyone. Some of us have blocked out the entire day of September 20, 2014, Total Recall style.
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Before the 2013 season, the Louisiana Tech football team made a drastic uniform switch, changing the T on the helmet from white to red. Like with the hill, many Tech fans hated the change. The main argument against the change to a Red T was that it was harder to distinguish on TV. This post,
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