We’ve made it to the end of the week, so at least we got that going for us. Tonight we’ll ask you whether the Potts-Sheffield QB battle coming this August at Texas Tech is the best battle at that position in the last 40-years. It very well could be. We’ll find out what you think tonight and you can also post your thoughts here today.

We’ll also take your calls on the Friday Tri-Fecta and True-False quiz as well as look at Day 2 of the British Open, the Rangers win over Boston last night and of course the sale of the Rangers that could impact my fandom for years to come. If Nolan Ryan is gone, this Ryan may be gone too.

Get your calls in tonight starting at three on the toll-free at 1-866-984-5326.

Hyatt

5 THINGS WE KNOW ON A FRIDAY: 7/16/10

1.  The looming QB battle between Taylor Potts and Steven Sheffield is the best at that position in the last 40-years for Texas Tech. No two players have fought for the job coming in with as many skins on the wall as these two.  For the record, I think Potts wins the battle but Tech fans can’t lose either way. It should be one of the great stories around the Big 12 and the national media this August, but probably won’t. Too bad for them.

2.  Tiger Woods will never again be the consistent, clear-cut top golfer in the world. He’ll be amongst the best, he’ll have some nice runs at number one, but never again the dominant top golfer. Does that mean he won’t catch Jack? Don’t know…ask me again  at the end of 2011.

3.  The toughest athletes in Lubbock aren’t playing for Texas Tech. They are the Lubbock Firefighter Combat Challenge team. If you’ve never seen this stuff you’ve got to watch it. You can catch them in action in the Hubbbaplex in a few weeks.  They could always use some more financial support so if you’ve got a business in Lubbock and want to help out, do it! Thanks to Carpet Tech for the great support they’re giving these fine representatives of Lubbock. Rumor has it they were going to do a calendar to help raise money, but the City Manager spiked the idea because it might not present a “professional image”. That’s a laugh. Someone downtown lecturing the firefighters about being professional. . .

4. If you knew half of what went on in college football you probably wouldn’t be a fan. Then again, if most folks knew half of what went on at other businesses they might never shop there, eat there or purchase their services. Sometimes ignorance is both bliss and good for business.

5.  Has anyone noticed Gerald Myers is still the Athletic Director at Texas Tech? Just wondering.

It is raining again here in the Hubbaplex as we start another week, inching closer to NFL training camps and college football actual action vs. summer topics like hiring trainers, practice turf and white helmets. August can’t get here soon enough . . .

We won’t be on the show today but we do welcome back an old friend in Scott Fitzgerald. He’ll have plenty to talk about with the Rangers’ trade for Cliff Lee as well as the All-Star Break. As we know, baseball is a talkin’ sport, so get on the phone early and give him a call at 1-866-984-5326.

We’ll all be back on the show come Tuesday when we get together again at Rudy’s Country Store and BBQ. As for me today, I’m gonna go re-watch that Jimmy Buffett concert for the gulf from last night on CMT. What a great show. If you missed it, you gotta try and find it when they show it again.

Hyatt

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1. College sports fans do not care about graduation rates, Tier One status, or how much their favorite school is in debt. They only care about being able to walk into the office every Monday and talk about their winning school. That’s it.

2. Auburn vs. Alabama is the best rivalry in college football. Texas and Oklahoma only wish they could generate the passion, hatred and flat-out evilness that those two gin up for each other.

3.  Taylor Potts should be the starting QB for Texas Tech this fall. Remember when you wanted to build small statues of him and light candles around him after last year’s Texas game, even after a loss? You still may get that chance. . .Come on, in your heart, you know I’m right. . .

4.  ESPN hates your favorite team and loves your enemy. It doesn’t matter who you root for. This is true.

5.  Waylon was (is) better than Willie.

5.

1.  Nothing LeBron James did over the past 48 hours made me want to be a fan of his more. . . wasn’t that supposedly the point of all this? Wasn’t this about increasing his brand power? He’ll have “brand power” when he gets a ring. Or two. Or six. Good luck with that. On a side note, I love the fact that Stephen A. Smith scorched the Mother Ship and 4-letter network by getting the story right, first. I can’t stand him on TV or radio, but I pay attention to him. Every time.

2.  Lake Alan Henry gets shut down because of an oil pipeline upstream this week and we come to find out the City of Lubbock really hasn’t done much research on this little factor and what it might do to the folks in the Hubbaplex when it comes to drinking the stuff in the future. Nice to know we’re spending millions and millions to pump that water uphill. I still say sell it downstream, use the money to buy more water rights that can be cheaply brought into Lubbock and use the rest to eradicate salt cedar along the Canadian River to improve Lake Meredith. Too easy I guess.

3.  The new L.I.S.D. Hall of Honor is a great idea by A.D. Mark Ball and long over-due. Bobby Moegle and Louis Kelly need to be in the first class. After that, let’s make sure we get in the luminaries from Lubbock High and Dunbar from the 1920′s to 1950 or so. Several State titles between those schools brought to you by many men that most in Lubbock don’t remember.

4. No matter what Don Williams says, it is still a bad idea to play Texas in the third week of the season. It was a bad idea last year and it is a bad idea this year. Always try and play your toughest competition late if you can. The downside is too great for a school like Texas Tech. A Texas will get resuscitated by the media with an early loss. A Texas Tech just gets thrown to the side and as we saw last year, the wind can come out of the sails of both the fans and the players. Don’t give me the TV argument either. TV will be there no matter when you play them.

5.  Texas Tech Football Coach Tommy Tuberville has given Texas Tech their first true modern-era C.E.O. ( I hate that term) style coach. Spike was a throwback to the Darrell Royal era and Mike Leach was, well he’s Mike Leach-an era unto himself and unlike almost any major BCS playing school coach you’ll ever see. In just a few short months Tuberville has elevated culture around the football program and set a pattern of expectation that Texas Tech hasn’t seen since Jim Carlen came in and spit in the eyes of those in Austin, Fayetteville and College Station. True, Leach acknowledged no sacred bevos, but Tuberville has brought a different air to the program and folks inside and out are noticing. Now he’s got the same challenge LeBron James has. You gotta deliver the goods or all the rest won’t matter. Interesting parallel.

Hyatt

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That is all.

More on this later. Feel free to post your thoughts on the Big 12 leadership here.

Ok, now is “later”. Let’s have some fun with this, shall we Big 12 fans? Time to play a little fill-in-the-blank.

The Big 12 Conference and Commissioner Dan Beebe have less credibility than___________________.

To the winner will go a Texas Tech cap plus two pair of tickets to Tech’s season opener against SMU.

Get your answers in by Monday at noon and will announce the winner on Tuesday’s Williams and Hyatt Show live from Rudy’s Country Store and BBQ.

(keep it clean kids, I’ll not approve anything I couldn’t say to my momma)

Hyatt

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