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A-J Media’s Mike Graham traveled with the team for yesterday’s Big 12 Media Day and Zuri Sanders said that she wants to lay the foundation for getting Texas Tech back on track:

Sanders, a senior wing, and Brewer, a junior forward, don’t expect to win a national championship like the 1992-1993 team. But they do want to help Stollings get the ball rolling back in that direction before calling it a career.

“We want to lay the foundation,” Sanders said. “Tech is known to have a lot of great history and we want to bring that history back to the top. Laying down the foundation is where it all starts and we want to be a part of that process.”

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Congrats to Jarrett Culver for being anemd as a candidate for the Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Watch List.

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A-J Media’s Don Williams has a football notebook from yesterday’s media get-together and as you might guess, head coach Kliff Kingsbury essentially said that quarterback Alan Bowman iasn’t practiced with pads, so the guess is that Bowman won’t be ready for Kansas. I’ve got a Quote Board coming up at 8:00 a.m. so you can read all about it there. Also, safety Jah’Shawn Johnson talked about on how the play that linebacker Jordyn Brooks wasn’t lined up right on the play he made the interception:

Safety Jah’Shawn Johnson said he and other players had to make an adjustment just before the snap on a play that ended with linebacker Jordyn Brooks batting and intercepting a pass in the end zone. Brooks had tight coverage on tight end Artayvious Lynn.

“Actually, we weren’t lined up properly on that play,” Johnson said. “Jordyn was actually supposed to be blitzing, J.P. (Justus Parker) covering, but we didn’t get it done. I told Jordyn to take the tight end. He did a great job of doing that.”

A-J Media’s Don Williams writes about cornerback Adrian Frye’s very good season thus far:

Tech coaches and players alike touted Frye’s ability before he took his first snap in a college game. Kingsbury said he saw it last year when Frye, working on scout team, relished facing the multiple Tech receivers who are now NFL rookies.

“He’d go up and challenge them, wouldn’t back down,” Kingsbury said. “I knew he was competitive. He’s just worked at it, worked at it, prepared the right way. You’re seeing the results on the field.”

We’re at the middle part of the season, so lots of publications are putting out their midseason awards. The AP named cornerback Adrian Frye as a second team All-American, which is terrific. The AP also said that quarterback Alan Bowman was an “also considered” for Best Freshman, which went to the very deserving Rondale Moore, the receiver from Purdue.

ProFootballFocus named their midseason their All-Big 12 team and on offense, guard Jack Anderson and center Paul Stawarz were named to the offense and linebacker Dakota Allen was named to the defense. ProFootballFocus has this grading system that I’m personally not all bout-it bout-it. Sometimes I think some of this is just made of or really subjective. For example, I think (I don’t know this, I’m making a guess here) that some of the good folks at RedRaiderSports are helping PFF with their grades as they have the criteria and then grade the players. Well, grades would seemingly be subjective to an extent and one group of graders may be more harsh than another group of graders. Anyway, I’m not completely sold that PFF is the end-all be-all is all I’m saying. It’s great for discussion and good times.

Yahoo! Sports’ Pat Forde wrote that Kliff Kingsbury earned his comp car last week after the win against TCU:

Kliff Kingsbury (38), Texas Tech. For the first time in six years, the Red Raiders have held two Big 12 opponents to less than 20 points — and both on the road. Tech limited Oklahoma State to 17 in a rout Sept. 22 and TCU to 14 last Thursday, with games remaining against the bottom three scoring teams in the league (Kansas, Iowa State, Kansas State). Perpetually on the hot seat, Kingsbury has never had a winning Big 12 record in his previous five years on the job, but he has a good shot at it this season.

Texas Football’s Shehan Jeyarajah heaps all sorts of praise on the Texas Tech defense:

Instead of undergoing the futile task of trying to defend like Alabama for 90 plays a game, Gibbs has built a bend-don’t-break defense in Lubbock. Typically, those defenses are centered around keeping teams out of the end zone and getting opposing offenses off the field. Finally, in Gibbs’ fourth season, those parts are coming together.

Texas Tech leads the Big 12 in third down defense (34.1 percent) and fourth down defense (20 percent) during conference play. The group also ranks No. 4 in scoring defense (24.3) and forced turnovers per game (1.7). It’s a big part of why the Red Raiders have beaten conference rivals Oklahoma State and TCU in the last three games.

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