The Saturday Column With No Name: Texas Tech Softball Hands The NCAA Selection Committee The Hammer To Keep Them From A Top National Seed, The Truth About Tim Tadlock’s Future As Texas Tech Baseball Skipper & Texas Tech’s Starting QB Revealed

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Welcome back to the often times, sometimes, nearly all the time Saturday Column With No Name. We challenged y’all to come up with a great name for the column, but no on did. So it remains… the SCWNN.

We’ll give you some quick thoughts today and always enjoy your feedback. So comment away here and share it on your social media feeds with your friends. Up to y’all to grow Raiderland and you’ve done an awesome job so far!

Let’s get to it…

1. Texas Tech Softball has been ranked in the top five nearly all year and it just doesn’t matter. Because the so-called experts who watch college softball every day are dumb according to the RPI. I’ve utilized RPI for decades, starting with Lady Raider Basketball in the 1990s. I know how it works. It should be a tool, but a tool with basic mathematical limitations. We’re about to see if the NCAA Selection Committee embraces bad math or can realize that Texas Tech Softball is more than worthy of a top 8 national seed and the right to host a Super Regional if they win a regional in Lubbock. All of that said, Texas Tech absolutely handed the NCAA the hammer to hit them with the last week by losing to Baylor at home and then not winning the Big 12 Tournament Today in a 4-0 loss to Arizona State. The 6th seed in a league that it seems the metrics don’t like winning hurts Texas Tech. So, if you listen to the not-so-quiet whispers that a lot of folks around college softball hate how Texas Tech operates and how Jerry Glasco has operated over the years…. buckle up. They may just try and prove a point Sunday on the national seedings. It seems, unlike other top rated teams, Texas Tech had to be Perfect this year…
2. Not matter what happens with Texas Tech Baseball over the next week or so, Tim Tadlock should absolutely be back next year as head coach of the Red Raiders. If he wants to….Tadlock has earned the right, not deserves it, but earned the right to return with a full compliment of scholarships to offer top recruits and an NIL budget that makes the programs competitive. Texas Tech made poor decisions the past two years on how to handle the new era of college baseball. Tadlock has admitted to being a part of that, but he was not alone in crafting the approach. We now know if you don’t have the scholarship to offer, the conversations with top players ends right there. So, whether Texas Tech Baseball makes the Big 12 Tournament, goes on a great run, or doesn’t make it to Surprise, Arizona ( dumb place for a dumb event ), we unabashedly state that Tadlock should return if he wants to. Then again…maybe he doesn’t want to be a part of the college baseball world the way it works now; and that’s ok. Just ask someone like Jay Wright… You’re either all in or all out. We’ll know soon enough.
3. Will Hammond will be the starting QB for Texas Tech in week 2 at Oregon State. He’ll go about a quarter and then he’ll be ready for Houston the next Friday in Lubbock. That week Brendan Sorsby will most likely be a part of an NFL team’s roster… probably suspended for at least six games or so. And life will go on.

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