While wondering whatever happened to Tommy Mainord. The best I can tell, Mainord was the co-offensive coordinator at North Texas as late as 2021 and then I’m not completely sure what’s happened after that. I always thought that Mainord was one of the good guys on Tomy Tuberville’s staff . . .

Indy Star’s Gregg Doyel on tracking down an Indiana fan who was just belligerent to Zach Edey, telling him that he sucks after Edey dropped over 30 on the Hoosiers. Quite loud and obnoxious and as Doyel talks to him and asks his name, which the fan gives him a fake name because anonymity is the perfect disguise to being an ass. And I think most people believe that yelling and hollering is fine, but being a rick with a “p” or just mean to an opposing player seems like a bad way to spend your time . . .

Rice defensive tackle De’Braylon Carroll announced on Friday that he was committing to Texas Tech. Carroll had 47 tackles, 9 TFL, and 3.5 sacks last year for the Owls and joins fellow transfer from Nevada, James Hansen along the defensive line. The returning players are Quincy Ledet, Dooda Banks and Trevon McApline with Tre’Darius Brown, Jayden Cofield and Braylon Rigsby as redshirt freshmen.

#AGTG First I want thank you to every school and coach that took the time to recruit me. I’ve decided to spend my last year at Texas Tech #QBHunters #WreckEm @CoachZFitch @COACHJUICE_ @JoeyMcGuireTTU pic.twitter.com/j4dvEvdPYz

— De’Braylon Carroll🦍 (@deeforsack) January 20, 2024

Anyone notice that CFB Stats is no longer working. No idea what’s happening, but think that’s odd. Such a great resource . . .

Texas Tech’s spring game is set for April 20th in Midland at Astound Broadband Stadium. The presser notes that all practices will be at Jones AT&T Stadium or the practice facility, but closed to the public (other than high school coaches) because of the construction, which should be finished before August 31st . . .

If you see football players tweet as part of a team this article helps explain the team concept and how McGuire wants to compete at everything that the football team does:

As part of the offseason programing under Joey McGuire, all 110-plus members currently on the Texas Tech roster have been split into 10 teams with names ranging from @TheCaffeinCrew to @TTUSackRunners. On each team, McGuire has appointed an upperclassmen to serve as a team captain.

Its goal: competition.

“For this program to achieve what I believe is our mission in competing for a Big 12 title, we must spend this entire offseason competing in all that we do,” McGuire said. “Even more so this year, we can’t emphasize enough the value of what true competition will do for this team. It was one of the first words out of my mouth in our first team meeting of the semester and it will again be a key theme throughout this offseason.”

McGuire said that he wants head of strength and conditioning Lance Barlow to focus on getting bigger and stronger and yeah, that sounds great. I should also add that I appreciate the fact that our strength guy is not camera hungry. We know who he is and I’m really fine with that aspect of the offseason not being about the cameras and content for the hungry masses. Small clips is great, but there have been times where it felt like the focus was on content, not on the strength and conditioning . . .

CBS Sports’ Gary Parrish has his daily 25 And 1 with Texas Tech being the biggest mover this week up 5 spots to No. 21 for Parrish. I think that sounds about right and don’t forget that Texas Tech will essentially be off this week and won’t play until Saturday. . .

Sports Illustrated has essentially folded a once great magazine is now worthless. If you were curious about who was in charge look no further than the same guy or group that bankrupt Scout, yes the same service that used to be the rival to Rivals, with wild expense reports and over-spending.

Scout’s fall was nasty. In the months before creditors forced Scout into bankruptcy proceedings, its board fired founder Jim Heckman for cause, accusing him of using company money not just for personal expenses but on extravagances like the aforementioned yacht, which reportedly cost $400,000 (Scout also chartered a yacht for the Cannes Lions in 2014). Heckman has denied these charges, countering that the company’s former CFO signed off on all his expense reports, and that he was ousted as part of a hostile takeover facilitated by “bribe-taking nincompoops” that submarined Scout’s value to any would-be investors. (Heckman points to a raft of staff departures following his ouster as evidence that “Russian investors” sank the company.)

In that article, he blames other people, but Heckman appears to be at least one common thread between the two failing companies . . .

Patrick Mahomes is pretty good at football . . .