Administrative Stuff
Vacation. I’ll be taking a vacation the last week of July, the 25th through the 29th. I think it’s been 3 years since I’ve been on vacation and I’m pretty excited to get away. We’re headed to Taos for the week, let the kids run around and hike and do all of that stuff.
Big 12 Athlete of the Year Nominees
Janine Beckie is @TechAthletics 2015-16 #Big12 Female Athlete of the Year nominee.
➡️ https://t.co/6evNg7By9k pic.twitter.com/GjWPF58ve9
— Big 12 Conference (@Big12Conference) July 12, 2016
🎥: After an All-American senior season & #CWS trip, @TTU_Baseball‘s Eric Gutierrez is a #Big12 Male AOY nominee. https://t.co/8Qbu03QsTq
— Big 12 Conference (@Big12Conference) July 13, 2016
Track & Field
Adkins isn’t the only one repping the 🇺🇸 in 2016!
Culver – NACAC U23
Brown, Crisp & Hinton- IAAF World U20#WreckEm pic.twitter.com/X6zxfplfEV— TTU Track & Field/XC (@TTU_TF_XC) July 12, 2016
Basketball
Don’t Get Two Fouls. Via Ken Pomeroy, he looked at all of the data to determine which coaches are likely to play players with two fouls and Chris Beard was ranked 302nd out of 321 coaches. Bottom line, if you get two fouls, you can just sit on that bench for a while.
Football
All-Big 12 Released Today. I don’t know if I’ll be around to post this, but you should be checking Twitter for this to happen at 9:30 this morning.
PSA: #Big12FB news awaits…
Wednesday – preseason team/awards
Thursday – preseason poll
⏰ 9:30 a.m. CT each day pic.twitter.com/lnls4Hf6sS
— Big 12 Conference (@Big12Conference) July 12, 2016
Miscellaneous. ESPN’s Brandon Chatmon is predicting the Big 12 season and it’s week 11 and a Texas Tech loss to Oklahoma State . . .