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SPORTS / TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
BIG 12 FOOTBALL
First game tough for Tuberville
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LUBBOCK, Texas — As he and his coaching staff hand out weekly grades to their players, Tommy Tuberville isn't shy about his own assessment of the job he did in his first game as the Texas Tech coach.
"As a head coach I'll give myself probably a C." Tuberville said Monday, a day after a 35-27 season-opening win over SMU. "We had them on their heels,
and as a head coach sometimes you forget certain situations."
With a night to reflect, Tuberville admits that the questionable play involving a failed Taylor Potts quarter
"We're not good enough yet to say we can line up against anybody in the Big 12."
back sneak on fourth-and 1 from the SMU 34 with less than 10 minutes remaining in the game should never have been called. The Red Raiders were up 35-20 at the time, and Potts fumbled the snap, which led to a touchdown for SMU and made the game too close for Tuberville's liking.
"There could be a few more
we'll have the Tiger Walk sign," Tuberville said. "It'll be a shorter walk, but at least it's something where fans that get there can form some kind of line starting with the Tiger Walk.
"We went quarterback sneak on the goal line (earlier in the game) and didn't have a very good snap and I just completely forgot about that," Tuberville said. "Then I tried to do a quarterback sneak in another one where our timing was off.
Pass-run distribution.
With Tech having 53 passing plays and 31 running plays against SMU, it's apparent that the Raiders will continue their Air Raid.
either way depending on how they play on defense." Tommy Tuberville said. "They were blitzing and they had seven or eight men on the line of
"Not the Tiger Walk, excuse me. The Raider Walk sign."
Raider Walk success
"I'll get better as a coach. I'm going to work hard this week, watch a lot of film, do a lot of drills and try to get better."
Tommy Tuberville wants fans to be a part of the new Raider Walk, and by all accounts the first session of it was a huge success.
TOMMY TUBERVILLE Texas Tech coach
Raider Walk is a new event where Tech fans, cheerleaders and band members line the street about two hours and 15 minutes before kickoff, and the players and coaches walk through that line.
For the SMU game, some 12,000 fans joined in, and Tech officials expect that figure will swell for the Sept. 18 game against Texas.
New starters
For a moment, Tabuville inadvertently talked as if he were still coaching the Auburn Tigers.
Tommy Tuberville said he'll have some new starters in the lineup for Saturday's game at New Mexico, but he did not indicate which players have lost their starting jobs.
scrimmage. They weren't going to allow us to run the ball, and that allowed us to throw the ball a little bit better."
"I think it's important that guys understand that just because you were named a starter you don't stay a starter unless you perform." Tuberville said. "I love competition and it's there at every position."
"When we have an away game
Tuberville wasn't pleased with the offensive line, the running game and special teams, adding that the Raiders were efficient against SMU on "four out of eight cylinders."
Ready for Texas?
After the New Mexico game, the Raiders host a major Big 12 clash against rival Texas. Tommy Tuberville admits his squad isn't ready for that type of challenge just yet.
"We've got to get a lot better before we get to Big 12 play," he said. "We're not good enough yet to say we can line up against anybody in the Big 12, much less one of the teams that's picked to win it."
Team finishes sixth in tournament
MEN'S GOLF
BY ETHAN PADWAY
epadway@kansan.com
The Men's Golf team finished in sixth place at 54 over par this weekend at Turning Stone-Tiger Intercollegiate in Verona, N.Y. Purdue won the tournament finishing 33 over par. Missouri, tournament host, finished three strokes back at 36 over to take second. Bowling Green State University, University of Connecticut and Central Connecticut State University rounded out the top five, shooting 39, 44, and 50 over par respectively.
"It was very disappointing," said coach Kit Grove. "We had a few teams that beat us that we felt like we should have beaten."
Sophomore Chris Gilbert led the Jayhawks shooting 10 over par and finishing in a tie for 15th place. His second day 70 was a tie for the second lowest individual round all weekend.
Junior Doug Quinones finished in a tie for 28th place after shooting a final round 74 to put him at 15 over in his first tournament for the layhawks. Quinones transferred from New Mexico Junior Colleague this year.
"David and Doug both had it going pretty good," Grove said. "It was good to see those guys hang in there. It was just too bad that they didn't get much help from some of our more experienced guys."
Senior Captain Nate Barbee and freshman David Cattibb finished the weekend tied for 39th place. Barbee opened up the weekend well shooting 74 in the first round and Catt rebounded strong after a rough opening round shooting 76 and 74 to close out the weekend.
Sophomore Dan Waite rounded out the Jayhawks shooting 24 over to put him in a tie for 57th place.
Jakob Ziegler from Oakland University won the individual tournament, shooting 215 to put him 1 under par for the tournament. Ziegler finished six strokes ahead of a four-way tie for second place.
Grove will try and shake things up next week when the layhawks travel to compete in the Fairway Club Invitational in Nebraska City, Neb., next week.
"The lineup will change quite a bit," he said. "Half of our team is new. I think it could take us a while to figure out who we really are. It is our first time out of the gate, so we don't want to put too much stock into one tournament. But at the same time, there aren't a lot of positives to say and we have got a lot of work to be done."
— Edited by Roshni Oommen
Sophomore Chris Gilbert led the Jayhawks this weekend. The team finished sixth overall.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Boise State solid contender for national title
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LANDOVER, Md. — Kellen Moore and Boise State look as if they are going to be in the national championship chase for a while.
"Game 1, and that's what it is," said Chris Petersen, who improved to 50-4 as coach of Boise State. "We're just pleased to get out of here with a 'W'."
Moore hit Austin Pettis with a 13-yard touchdown pass with 1:09 left and No. 3 Boise State passed what might be its toughest test of the season, beating No. 10 Virginia Tech 33-30 on Monday night.
Tyrod Taylor passed for 186 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 73 yards for the Hokies (0-1), who for the fourth straight season took a deflating early season loss.
The winningest team of the past decade in major college football, Boise State yet again was forced to prove it was worthy of all the accolades — this time far from home on a field that was anything but neutral, packed with Hokies fans.
Moore, the undersized Heisman Trophy contender, threw for 215 yards and three touchdowns. He led a five-play, 56-yard touchdown drive in the final two minutes — aided by a Virginia Tech personal foul penalty. After hitting Pettis on a quick slant for the winner, Moore sprinted to midfield with his hands raised high, waiting for a teammate to come and celebrate with him.
The Broncos (1-0) came to FedEx Field with their best preseason ranking ever and ran out to a 17-0 lead in the first quarter, then had to rally themselves to extend their winning streak to 15 games.
As for the Broncos, even with 11 games left in the season, the debate will start about whether they should become the first team from a conference without an automatic BCS
bid to play for a national championship if they go undefeated.
When it was over, they were taking a victory lap, exchanging highfives with their fans who made the
long trip.
Boise State took the 17-0 lead by taking advantage of a handful of critical Virginia Tech mistakes that set up two TD passes by Moore. But by halftime the Hokies had climbed back into it with Ryan Williams scoring twice to cut the halftime lead to 20-14.
On Boise State's first possession of the second half, Moore fumbled when he cocked to throw and hit his own lineman. Virginia Tech recovered at the Broncos 31 and Williams completed the fifth scoring drive of less than 40 yards in the game with a 1-yard run around the right side.
Taylor bounded off the field and leaped into a side bump with a teammate. Virginia Tech, after a nearly burying itself in the first quarter, had its first lead at 21-20.
It lasted about a minute on the clock. D.J. Harper broke a tackle at the line on a third-and-1 and outran the Hokies for a 71-yard touchdown. No questioning Boise State's speed on that play.
Virginia Tech blocked the extra point attempt and it was 26-21 with 5:38 left in the third.
Back came the Hokies, Virginia Tech's Chris Hazley was wide right on a 51-yard field, but Boise State was flagged for running into the kicker. Now with a fourth-and-4 from the 29, Tech went for it and Taylor zipped an out to Jarrett Boykin, who slipped a weak arm tackle attempt by Brandyn Thompson and eased into the end zone to put the Hokies up 27-26. They went for two and missed.
Boise State couldn't answer that score. Kyle Brotzman missed wide left from 30 yards and Hazley answered with a 34-yarder for Virginia Tech to make it 30-26.
Virginia Tech had a chance to run out the clock, but couldn't do it. Taylor threw an incomplete pass on third down that stopped the clock and gave Boise State extra time.
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