Penn State’s legendary coach and college football’s all-time wins leader, Joe Paterno, died on Sunday, just 73 days after being dismissed as the Nittany Lions’ coach. He influenced a lot of people, including those in the Big 12. Several issued statements in the wake of Paterno’s death. Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville: “When you think of college football and its tradition, you can’t help but picture those dark glasses, black shoes and plain uniforms that were his style and mark on Penn State University.
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Big 12 icons weigh in on Joe Paterno
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Texas Tech has hired Art Kaufman as its fourth defensive coordinator in four years. Kaufman comes to Lubbock from North Carolina, and is a 28-year veteran in college coaching. “I looked at a lot of candidates for this job but when it came down to it, I turned to a guy that I knew could get the job done,” coach Tommy Tuberville said. “Art is one of the best defensive coaches in the business and that is obvious when you take a look at the product he has put out on the field over the years.
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Texas Tech lands its newest coordinator
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1. If you stop in at any university hospital this week or next, you’re liable to see a college coach or two visiting players. There’s no more playing hurt. Surgeries are scheduled and performed. That’s the kind of sport football is. Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville told me Thursday that 17 Red Raiders have undergone surgery this week. “You should see my training room,” Tuberville said. “It looks like a MASH unit.
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3-point stance: Red Raiders on the mend
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Today’s the day commonly known in the coaching profession as Black Monday, the first weekday after most regular seasons are finished. One Big 12 coach, Kansas’ Turner Gill, already got his plug pulled. What about the Big 12’s other two coaches on the hot seat? Let’s take a look. Tommy Tuberville, Texas Tech (13-12, 5-12 Big 12) What should happen: Stay What will happen: Stay Why: Breaking a streak of 18 consecutive winning seasons is a good way to maximize fan frustration, and that happened at Texas Tech this season.
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Surveying the Big 12 coaching hot seats
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Brandon Weeden picked a good week for one of his best performances of the season: completing 31 of 37 passes for 423 yards and five touchdowns in windy West Texas conditions to help beat Texas Tech, 66-6. It was the worst loss in Red Raiders’ history. His play so far has made a big impression on Big 12 coaches, who lavished more praise on Weeden than any other conference player has received all season. “Wow. I’ve been around some good quarterbacks and coached against some good ones, but the young man was absolutely flawless,” Texas Tech Tommy Tuberville said.
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Big 12 coaches wowed by Weeden
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1. Texas Tech’s 41-38 upset of No. 3 Oklahoma proves that Red Raiders coach Tommy Tuberville is up to his old ways. In 16 seasons as an FBS head coach at Ole Miss (1995-98), Auburn (1999-2008) and Texas Tech (2010-present), Tuberville has won 13 games against top-10 opponents, five against top-five teams. Tuberville is, overall, 21-33 against higher-ranked teams. I don’t have records for all coaches, but winning two of every five sounds impressive. 2. We may be able, once and for all, to decide what is more indicative of quality: losing to top-10 teams or losing close games to good teams. All we have to do is find a bowl game in which Auburn, which has lost to three teams currently in the top 10, can play Miami, which has two last-minute losses to teams in the top 12 (the Hurricanes’ third loss came by eight points to Maryland). Let’s get the bowl projection boys, Mark Schlabach and Brad Edwards, to work on that. 3. USC returned to the AP Top 25 for the first time in seven weeks. The media poll is the best measure of the Trojans, given that their NCAA postseason ban renders them ineligible for the BCS standings. USC’s 31-17 victory at Notre Dame, where it hasn’t lost since 2001, should give the Trojans some cred in the street (previous best win: Syracuse) and in the mirror as they prepare for No. 6 Stanford, their first ranked opponent.
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3-point stance: Tuberville’s still got it
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The Sooners have struggled in the red zone all season, and have shuffled kickers in and out of the lineup for three seasons. Both came into play and cost Oklahoma in a shocking 41-38 loss to Texas Tech, 28-point underdogs. Michael Hunnicut clanged a 28-yard field goal off the upright late in the fourth quarter, and Oklahoma scored just one of its three second-half touchdowns from the red zone. It settled for one field goal, and also missed a 39-yard kick earlier in the game. With that, Oklahoma’s home-game winning streak and it’s national championship hopes are over. The warning signs were there in lackluster wins over Kansas and Missouri this year. The offense sputtered for most of the game against the worst defense in the nation last week at Kansas, and the defense gave up more than 500 yards to Missouri. Saturday night, Texas Tech did what it wanted offensively for almost the entire 60 minutes and put up 600 yards and 41 points, all season highs, against the Sooners. Just like Texas Tech did against Texas in 2008, the Sooners’ national title hopes are dashed. Seth Doege to Alex Torres may not have the same ring to it as Graham Harrell to Michael Crabtree, but the duo was almost as potent Saturday against Oklahoma’s defense, which was missing top cornerback Jamell Fleming. Torres caught four passes for 94 yards and three touchdowns, tormenting Oklahoma’s secondary with big plays. Doege threw for 441 yards and four touchdowns on 33-of-52 passing. Oklahoma didn’t play well, but Texas Tech walked in and won this game, fully intending to do so all night. Tommy Tuberville faked a punt and went for it on fourth down twice inside the five-yard line. Only one worked, but it said a lot about Texas Tech’s intentions and mindset. Both paid off, and Tuberville has the biggest win of his two seasons in Lubbock. Next week’s showdown with Kansas State has lost a bit of its luster, but Oklahoma State and Kansas State are the last two remaining undefeated teams in the Big 12. Who saw that one coming?
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Oklahoma’s biggest problems surface again
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1. Coaches no longer automatically redshirt freshmen. If he’s good enough to play, he plays. One side effect of that, Houston head coach Kevin Sumlin learned, is that leadership isn’t limited to seniors. In fact, a senior displaced by a younger player may not lead at all. “I used to be a guy who put all his stock in the senior class,” Sumlin said. “It’s changed. You’re playing so many young guys now, older guys can get disgruntled with their roles. You don’t talk about seniors as leaders. You talk about players with experience.” 2. Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) is “disgusted” with the state of intercollegiate athletics. The money, he told KTAR Radio in Phoenix, “is destroying, really, any semblance of the word amateur in college sports.” What’s “destroyed” — college athletes get $250,000 educations. But McCain added that the U.S. government shouldn’t be the place to find a solution. “I’m embarrassed that Congress would have to get involved in something like this,” McCain said. “There’s neither the talent nor the expertise residing in Congress.” 3. Texas Tech has had three field goals blocked in each of the last two games, narrow losses to Texas A&M and Kansas State. Red Raider head coach Tommy Tuberville said Monday he thinks it’s mostly an issue of focus. So, in Sunday meetings, Tuberville has begun to show video of all phases of the kicking game to the entire team, coaches included. “I want the players on special teams to understand the importance (of it),” Tuberville said. The secret power of video is, as it always has been, public humiliation.
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A heated verbal and physical exchange from Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz and San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh made headlines after Sunday’s NFL action, and brings up an intriguing question: Should coaches be required to shake hands? Texas coach Mack Brown said he’d like to see the NCAA or the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) look at the issue. “I’ve been a proponent of not shaking hands after a game for a long time. Some guys don’t like each other,” Brown said. “After a game, some guy may have run up a score, some guy gets beat on a last second, no, I have felt a long time, those TV cameras love it because they run right in the face hoping somebody’s going to mess it up.” On Saturday, Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham and Vanderbilt coach James Franklin got into a verbal confrontation after Georgia’s 33-28 win. Last week, Missouri coach Gary Pinkel also abbreviated a conversation with Kansas State coach Bill Snyder after a 24-17 Missouri loss, spawning some discussion about whether Pinkel’s decorum was questionable. “I’ve always tried to walk over, say good game, good luck and get out of there as fast as I can because it’s really sensitive,” Brown said. “We want great sportsmanship, but I think you’re better off calling on Monday and saying good game than in the heat of the moment because coaches are so competitive. Our jobs are on the line and when you’re standing there and you’re in the position to win the game and lose late, or if somebody scores 80 on you’re not very happy about that and you don’t want to go over and tell him good job.” Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville, though, says the custom is necessary, and not just for coaches. “I think it’s important that the players see it and the fans see it. You’ve coached an emotional game. I think it’s important for players to shake hands, I think it’s important for coaches to shake hands, and it’s really embarrassing to see something like that happen in our sport,” Tuberville said. “It shouldn’t happen like that. It’s not called for, because it’s all about sportsmanship and teaching younger kids that see this on TV see it happen. It’s embarrassing in this profession to see something like that happen.” What do you think
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Should postgame handshakes continue?
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So, is this how it ends? Last June, myself and other reporters chased commissioners and administrators into elevators and stalked meeting rooms at the InterContinental Hotel in Kansas City, wondering if the next time one of them spoke into a microphone, it would be to eulogize the Big 12. They didn’t. The Big 12 survived. For awhile, anyway. But now, with Texas ( sort of ) and Oklahoma’s presidents possessing the ability to decide their university’s future conference homes, the breaking point is near. For all the drama of the Big 12’s Almost Breakup last summer, nobody but the Buffs and Huskers got this far down the hallway leading to the exit sign. Sure, it’s not over just yet. “It’s not a done deal that this thing is going to explode. Now, there’s a lot of smoke, but you’ve seen none of that fire yet coming up,” Texas coach Tommy Tuberville said Monday. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. CHOKE. Sorry, you’ll have to give me a second. The air here in Dallas, the home of the Big 12 offices, is getting a little difficult to breathe. Ok, I’m good. Had to slip one of these on . Anyway, maybe Tuberville’s right. The ink is not dry on any of these new conference deals, even the long-assumed marriage between Texas A&M and the SEC, which SEC commissioner Mike Slive first acknowledged publicly last week. But consider me a pupil of the Gary Pinkel School of Thought as it relates to the current odds of Big 12 survival
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