Tech QB to transfer

[Marty]

Bridgeport's Daugherty leaving Tech

By Troy Phillips

Star-Telegram Staff Writer

Texas Tech third-string quarterback Phillip Daugherty, a sophomore from Bridgeport, has decided to transfer to an NCAA Division I program outside the state, Bridgeport High coach Danny Henson said.

Henson said Daugherty, who threw for a Class 3A-record 10,136 career yards in high school, has met with Tech coach Mike Leach and ironed out all the details of his transfer.

Leach was expected to address Daugherty’s departure after Tech’s workout ended Monday evening, a university media-relations official said.

Daugherty arrived at Tech as heralded true freshman in 2003 but redshirted that season. Because of that, he will lose a season of eligibility when he transfers but will have two seasons remaining.

Last spring, Daugherty battled Harrell and fifth-year senior Cody Hodges to get a leg up on Tech’s starting job. Leach isn’t expected to name a starter until later this week or next week.

So far, Harrell and Hodges have shared an equal number of plays in fall camp, and Leach has said both are running even right now. Daugherty has had no work with Tech’s first team. He had a chance to move up when Harrell suffered a non-football ankle injury in the spring, but Harrell has since caught up and passed him in the coaches’ eyes.

``Phillip just doesn’t have a place there,’’ Henson said. ``I think Tech would love for Hodges to have great year and let Graham be his understudy. Then they’ll have a quarterback who will be there a while and not just one year. Graham is the one they’ve got tagged to be their future.’’

Henson said he’s made calls to colleges outside Texas and outside the Big 12 on Daugherty’s behalf but wouldn’t say which ones. He said Leach is helping Daugherty all he can, but Tech won’t release him to transfer to a school in Texas, in the conference or to a school on the Raiders’ future schedules.

[PlummMeanGreen]

Bridgeport's Daugherty leaving Tech

By Troy Phillips

Star-Telegram Staff Writer

Texas Tech third-string quarterback Phillip Daugherty, a sophomore from Bridgeport, has decided to transfer to an NCAA Division I program outside the state, Bridgeport High coach Danny Henson said.

Henson said Daugherty, who threw for a Class 3A-record 10,136 career yards in high school, has met with Tech coach Mike Leach and ironed out all the details of his transfer.

Leach was expected to address Daugherty’s departure after Tech’s workout ended Monday evening, a university media-relations official said.

Daugherty arrived at Tech as heralded true freshman in 2003 but redshirted that season. Because of that, he will lose a season of eligibility when he transfers but will have two seasons remaining.

Last spring, Daugherty battled Harrell and fifth-year senior Cody Hodges to get a leg up on Tech’s starting job. Leach isn’t expected to name a starter until later this week or next week.

So far, Harrell and Hodges have shared an equal number of plays in fall camp, and Leach has said both are running even right now. Daugherty has had no work with Tech’s first team. He had a chance to move up when Harrell suffered a non-football ankle injury in the spring, but Harrell has since caught up and passed him in the coaches’ eyes.

``Phillip just doesn’t have a place there,’’ Henson said. ``I think Tech would love for Hodges to have great year and let Graham be his understudy. Then they’ll have a quarterback who will be there a while and not just one year. Graham is the one they’ve got tagged to be their future.’’

Henson said he’s made calls to colleges outside Texas and outside the Big 12 on Daugherty’s behalf but wouldn’t say which ones. He said Leach is helping Daugherty all he can, but Tech won’t release him to transfer to a school in Texas, in the conference or to a school on the Raiders’ future schedules.

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Glad to see Coach Leach and the Red Raiders have the, uh, "student-athlete's" welfare first and foremost in all this.

I hope I live to see the day where Texas Tech wins some kind of conference football championship (outright) because this hasn't happened since I was born (1950); or at least it didn't in the Southwest Conference or the Big 12. I have no idea about the old Border Conference they were in at one time.

Edited August 16, 2005 by PlummMeanGreen

[Zeke]

Very odd, because he transferred to North Texas on Xbox NCAA 06 just last week.

[mad dog]

yep... same thing happened to me.

[NT80]

Wreck Tech!

[SCREAMING EAGLE-66]

They can't go where they want to as long as they sit out a year of A-I ???? I thought they could but it would cost them a year of eligibility....

[ADLER]

They can't go where they want to as long as they sit out a year of A-I ???? I thought they could but it would cost them a year of eligibility....

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If they are released from their scholarship, they can accept another offer immediately and be on scholarship for the transfer year that they have to sit out of play.

If they are not released, they could still go anywhere they wanted. That first year they would either have to pay for college themselves or find a coach like Sutton or Bliss that may or may not have a slush fund that will cover all expenses for them. If they take the slush fund route, they need to watch out for the guy who's going to get eliminated from the team to open up their roster spot.