After a disappointing loss to the hated
Texas Longhorns last week, Texas Tech looks to bounce back with a win against a
very poor Kansas team whom sits at 1-8 overall and 0-6 in Big 12 Conference
play.
The Red Raiders look to avenge the
tough loss as the string of five weeks against ranked opponents has come to a
close but Tech head coach Tommy Tuberville explained during his weekly media
luncheon how he and the team hoped to win all of them, despite the obvious
challenges and the grueling schedule of the Big 12.
“Well, we would have hoped to have won
all of them,” he said. “We competed in all of them, much better than we did
last year. We won a couple of games
on the road. We won a big game at
home. But it's just never
satisfying to lose any game. But we
did make progress until we started having injuries, and we'd lose three on
offense, three on defense, kind of threw us back a couple of notches, now we've
had to try to work our way back.
It's just hard to lose those experienced players. But again, this time
of year when you get to November, everyone has those injuries, and the ones
that are lucky enough not to have them are really on top of it. But everybody has them. We can't make excuses. Those guys that are backups have to come
in and play well.”
However, Tuberville and his Red Raiders
know that they cannot afford to look past anyone in this league. Coach
Tuberville talked about how his team cannot let the bad taste of last week’s
loss carry over into this week.
“Well, there's not a whole lot you can
do other than talk about it and try to get a good game plan in and try to get
everybody focused,” he said. “The seniors yesterday, they were obviously down,
and as we talked as a group and then as a team, it's one of those things that
we can if we can fix the problems, we can control it. So we don't really worry about who we've
played. We haven't done that all
year long. We worry about what we
do and what we can do and where we can get better. We know what we need to work on and the
things we need to get better at.”