I think Tech found him at state championships this past weekend. Another long CB.

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LA Tech Sports has renewed its agreements with Learfield and CLC (Collegiate Licensing Company). Both are 10-year renewals for multimedia rights (+ more) and licensing/trademark management respectively. Additionally, LA Tech Sports has also added Amplify, LEARFIELD's outbound ticketing and customer service solution. This is a 5-year agreement.

Has entered the transfer portal

We’ll keep track of all the visits for this upcoming weekend in this thread.

OL Ja’Marion Kennedy will be in for his official this weekend. He tells me Tech is his favorite.

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DE Malcolm Pugh from Leroy, AL.

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S DaMarcus Crosby from Kilgore College.

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Here is the panel:

• Coach 1: Head coach in Baton Rouge area
• Coach 2: Head coach in Baton Rouge area
• Coach 3: High school assistant coach in South Louisiana
• Coach 4: Head coach in Southwest Louisiana
• Coach 5: Head coach in New Orleans
• Coach 6: Head coach in New Orleans

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Who are some of top out-of-state schools and recruiters?​

Coach 5: Louisiana Tech’s coach Teddy Veal, receivers coach. Teddy’s been doing a real good job coming down here and getting some key guys, but also up north.

Coach 1: Louisiana Tech does an outstanding job. They get all over the state. Coach Cumbie I like a lot. He came in and I met him, and I think he’s a good guy. It’s gonna take a little bit of time to get his system in there and get it going, but I think he will.

With Kelly lacking Louisiana connections, how big of a role did his staff play during the transition?​

Coach 3: What’s helping Brian Kelly is getting (associate head coach/running backs coach) Frank Wilson back on staff. Getting Frank back, because Frank is one of the best recruiters in the country. Frank knows Louisiana, especially New Orleans, inside and out. The receiver coach Cortez Hankton, he’s from New Orleans. He’s from here. So getting people from here that’s on the staff in higher positions, that helps him because they understand the Louisiana mind. They understand Louisiana kids.

It helped their street cred, because once they lost Corey Raymond to Florida, he was one of the best recruiters in the state, especially with DBs. That helps them because a lot of people know Frank. Everybody knows Frank. Frank recruited me when I was in high school. … Frank is gonna take care of you.

Coach 4: Coach Frank and I have a good relationship. (Quarterbacks) Coach (Joe) Sloan, I knew him back when he was at Tech. He and I talk a lot as well.

Coach 1: Joe Sloan was a good hire, especially for the Baton Rouge area in recruiting. I mean, I met him when he was at Louisiana Tech and he recruited us hard here. He’s really got good relationships with a lot of coaches in this area.

Coach 2: The thing that Joe does better than most guys I come across is he’s always on top of the academic piece. He doesn’t leave it to the backroom guys to hope that it’s right. He goes in there and he crunches all the numbers himself. He’s always done a great job with that going back a decade now.

Whitaker makes it public, and he’s listed as a DL as expected:

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Conference play starts this weekend!

Dunkin’ Dogs (6-3):

12.14 - vs Stephen F. Austin — 6 PM tip-off on ESPNU

12.17 - @ UTEP — 7 PM tip-off on CUSA.tv

Lady Techsters (6-3):

12.12 - vs South Alabama — 6 PM tip-off on CUSA.tv

12.18 - vs UTEP — 2 PM tip-off on CUSA.tv

Check 'em out!

Trent Taylor (Bengals) - 52 snaps played (WOW), 59.1 PFF grade, 1 catch for 34 yards, 62.6 grade as punt returner, 3 returns for 14 yards

Boston Scott (Eagles) - 12 snaps played, 75 PFF grade, 6 carries for 33 yards, TD, 1 catch for 4 yards, 79.4 grade as kick returner, 3 returns for 117 yards (long of 66)

Milton Williams (Eagles) - 24 snaps played, 65.2 PFF grade, 3 QB Pressures, 1 QB Hurry, 1 sack, 1 tackle, 1 STOP

Xavier Woods (Panthers) - OUT

Justin Ellis (Giants) - 27 snaps played, 62.8 PFF grade, 1 tackle, 1 STOP

Amik Robertson (Raiders) - 21 snaps played, 61.1 PFF grade, 1 QB Pressure, 1 sack, 2 tackles, 2 STOPs, 1/2 for 8 yards when targeted

L'Jarius Sneed (Chiefs) - 72 snaps played, 77.2 PFF grade, 1 QB Pressure, 1 QB Hurry, 1 batted ball, 4 tackles, 3 STOPs, 3/6 for 12 yards, INT when targeted

Jeff Driskel (Texans) - 33 snaps played, 69.1 PFF grade, 4/6 for 38 yards, 1 TD, 6 carries for 36 yards

Vernon Butler did not play for the Giants this week.

Who else is excited about the start of the World Cup? And anyone have any preferences for their starting 11 for USMNT?

Conference play starts tonight when La Tech travels to to El Paso to take on UTEP.

Tip-off is at 7 PM on CUSA.tv.

You won’t recognize anything about Joe Golding’s team in his 2nd season.

The Miners lost their top 5 scorers from last season. Tae Hardy is their leading scorer this season, and he’s a transfer from Southern Miss.

The only return 3 players in all from their team that won 20 games last year. Boum transferred to Xavier. Bieniemy entered the draft early, and he might be overseas. Not sure.

Game is a pick ‘em.

At UMASS with less than 2 minutes remaining, 8-2 UNT leads 8-2 UMass 60 - 44. UMass tries to drive the lane and UNT slaps the ball into the stands.

FINAL: UNT 62 - UMass 44

Huge one tonight against a good SFA team.

6 PM on ESPNU.

Let me introduce y’all to Scott Surratt. He is the Head Football Coach of Carthage High School. He has won 8 Texas High School Championships since 2008 and his team is 7-0 already this year. It’s time for Tech to go the UTSA route and hire the next Art Briles, Gus Malzahn, or Jeff Traylor. Surratt is the man. Holtz needs to go is my Lock of the Year. I’ve seen enough.

Wow. From walk on to All American. Players are out there. We just have to dig deep.

Gunter wins 42-7.

Hoping Duncanville can also.

Scott Frost has been let go by Nebraska.

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SFA S Myles Heard has committed to Louisiana Tech, per sources.

This is a big get.

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Tre Harris, Smoke Harris, and Cyrus Allen are not yet officially in the port, FWIW. They also haven't announced it on Twitter/Instagram yet. What does that mean? No idea.


Guys that are in the portal:

Grubbs
Ivan Thomas
Christian Archangel
Tyler Mansfield
Kershawn Fisher
Kalen Villanueva
Khiry Morrison
Joe Mason
Queden Ballew
Tyric Gould
Keyon Henry-Brooks
Kameron Booker (Not sure who that is)
Harlan Dixon
Omar Sims
Eric Barnes
Taz Marshall
Chandler White (Not sure who that is)
Allen Walker

Henry-Brooks is listed twice.

Don't know if most are aware but Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach is in a hospital in Jackson apparently in pretty critical shape. College football will be a lot less fun without press conference clips and halftime interviews of The Pirate expounding truths and life lessons.

BC & Beck are back on the air Tuesday night on SportsTalk 97.7 FM!

Calls/Texts - (888)-993-7762

We will have two guests in-studio tomorrow night.

Cam Ayers, Equipment Staff for the Football team, will join us from 6:00-6:45. Will be a fun interview, learn a lot into what that job is and what it entails on a daily basis. Cam has worked with the QBs for the last couple of years. One of my favorite guys in the entire program.

Jonathan Fincher, LHP for the Diamond Dogs, will join us from 6:45-7:30. You know him.

Questions for either guest?

Keep a real close eye on Jarvis Durr 😉. He was in Ruston for the camp on Friday.

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Tech will host two official visits this weekend:

LB Brevin Randle - (SFA Transfer)

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DT Clifton Mosley - (Navarro JC) - 6'4, 325, Shreveport native, committed to Utah State

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Badger Hargett from Ascension Episcopal. I’m not sure if it’s scholarship or PWO.

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Check 'em out! Vernon Butler sees his first action of the season.

Trent Taylor (Bengals) - 5 snaps played, 50.3 PFF grade, 1 rush for -3 yards, 60.1 grade as punt returner, 1 return for 10 yards

Boston Scott (Eagles) - 17 snaps played, 49.7 PFF grade, 6 carries for 16 yards, 1 catch for 5 yards, 63.2 grade as kick returner, 2 returns for 37 yards

Milton Williams (Eagles) - 25 snaps played, 47 PFF grade

Xavier Woods (Panthers) - 39 snaps played, 73.2 PFF grade, 3 tackles, 1 missed tackle, 1 STOP, 0/1 for 0 yards when targeted

Justin Ellis (Giants) - 25 snaps played, 48.5 PFF grade, 1 QB Pressure, 1 sack, 1 STOP

Vernon Butler (Giants) - 12 snaps played, 47.7 PFF grade, 2 tackles, 1 STOP

Amik Robertson (Raiders) - 59 snaps played, 56.4 PFF grade, 4 tackles, 4/9 for 75 yards, 1 TD, 1 PBU when targeted

L'Jarius Sneed (Chiefs) - 72 snaps played, 52.3 PFF grade, 1 QB Pressure, 1 QB Hurry, 5 tackles, 3 STOPs, 6/7 for 66 yards when targeted