Texas Tech Men's Basketball head coach Chris Beard spoke to the media yesterday. Here are some of the points that were covered.
UNSELFISH CULTURE.
Coach Bread touched on trying to instill a culture of unselfishness and positive energy, which he says starts with an appreciation to be Americans, healthy and in school. Beard said he was reminded of how lucky he is to be at the D-1 level after a time in 2000 at Seminole State College, where he was reprimanded for not wearing his Seminole State shirt to a press conference. It had been his only shirt and after doing the same thing yesterday, he was thankful for the equipment closet that had plenty of spares, as Seminole State College couldn't provide such luxuries.
SUMMER
Coach talked about how great it was to have Justin Gray play for the Virgin Islands national team and Davide “Moro” Moretti for his Italian National team. Beard said “It was pretty cool to have two [Red Raiders] representing their countries”. Aside from Moro being away in Italy Beard says they had 100% participation in summer workouts.
FALL WORKOUTS
“Pretty much picked up where we left off” according to Beard. Coach said he is happy with the mix of returners and newcomers. He mentioned he was happy with “Tommy [Hamilton] and Josh [Webster]” who are both Junior College transfers this year. Of the seven freshman Beard said “these guys are making me age more than I'd like to but they're a lot of fun to coach”. He is also happy with the leadership from his returning veterans.
OFF THE COURT.
Beard said they are “continuing to have a lot of victories”. He mentioned season tickets are at an all time high, being just shy of 5,000. He thanked the core of renewing season ticket holders for sticking with Tech basketball through some lean years. He touched on upgrading the schedule which he said he wasn't sure if he was excited about yet but “we’ll see how exciting it is when we're going through it”. He mentioned three events. One will be the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Tip Off in Connecticut, where they will play against two “BCS” quality opponents (Boston College being one of them) as well as a chance to play Seton Hall at Maddison Square Garden. The third event (which has me the most excited) is the throwback game against Rice, which will take place at the Old Colosseum. Beard was particularly excited about this one and the chance to pay tribute to some of the great Red Raider teams who called the colosseum home for many years. This works out well because of graduation ceremonies in the United Supermarkets Arena at that time. As part of the festivities there will be an alumni game prior to tip off and Beard says he’s in the process of talking Gerald Meyers into coming in and “throwing his jacket and stomping on the floor” like he used to.
Red Raider Basketball tips off against South Alabama on November 10th at the United Supermarkets Arena.
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