Former Texas Tech offensive line coach Matt Moore has joined the staff at Middle Tennessee State, the school announced Tuesday.

Texas Tech defensive tackle Dennell Wesley’s ready to turn the page, since there was nothing very memorable about his first year of major-college football. That was true not only for Wesley, but for the rest of the Red Raiders’ defense. They’re under new direction with veteran defensive coordinator Art Kaufman having taken over for Chad Glasgow in the wake of the team’s meltdown on defense. “It was kind of hard,” Wesley said. “We managed and did what we had to do. It’s a new season coming up. We’ve got a new (defensive) coordinator.

A lot of eyes watch Delvon Simmons, and no one has to tell Texas Tech’s young defensive tackle. It comes with the territory of being a consensus top-100 national recruit. He knows 13 tackles and one sack in his 10-game college debut don’t meet the instant-impact expectations some had for him. “I try to take it day by day,” Simmons said Saturday, “but once I hear people talking about it, it makes me want to work harder and get better, because they had high hopes on me last year and I didn’t do too well. This year, I want to try to get better.”

No videos exist showing Ben McRoy and Javares McRoy toeing the starting line and settling, once and for all, which of the two is faster. Javares McRoy says he can’t even say for sure, insisting he and his brother have never gone head to head. “We don’t race each other, not at all,” McRoy said Saturday. Javares McRoy, a year younger than Ben, is reputed to be as fast or faster. That’s saying something considering Ben McRoy is missing part of Texas Tech spring football practice to run sprints on the Red Raiders’ track team.