From the outside looking in, it seems like a large number of college football coaches have high expectations for what their team is capable of. And I think that’s generally a good thing. Especially when it comes to avoiding small, simple errors throughout a game. You should expect your team to play at a level where they aren’t repeatedly making mental mistakes.
None of that seems unreasonable. Yes, I mean, I get that these players are still relatively young and that they’re people and not robots, but avoiding errors is a generally solid thing for a team to aim for.
That’s not too high of a standard to ask for from your team. And it seems like Joey McGuire is looking for the Texas Tech football team to play a pretty clean, mistake-free game when the Red Raiders meet up with the Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions on Saturday.
Joey McGuire wants Texas Tech to “eliminate the bad football and the sloppy football” when the Red Raiders play in Week 1
During a press conference earlier this week, McGuire mentioned just that.
“I talked to our team about it yesterday,” McGuire said. “I’m going to show them clips tomorrow, but one of the biggest things in Week 1 is eliminating bad football.”
That seems fair to me. Let’s eliminate the bad football.
“If you watched any games last week, Week 0, Week 1, one of the biggest standouts is sloppy football,” Texas Tech’s head coach explained. “It usually always happens because we’re the only level of football that doesn’t get a preseason game and your scrimmages and everything for some crazy reason.”
Yeah, I don’t know about the logistics of that one and how that would play out for a lot of teams. The season keeps getting longer and longer as is. What are the implications and potential consequences of adding some scrimmages or a preseason game?
“So, there’s sloppy football and what we’re going to try to do is make sure we eliminate the bad football and the sloppy football on Saturday,” McGuire said.
That seems like a healthy sort of goal to have. Aim for mistake-free action against a team that is likely to be outmatched on Saturday. I like it.