Spring practice for the Texas Tech football team starts ... LT: Howard Sampson, Jr.; Jacob Ponton, Fr-RS; Daniel Sill, So. What to know: Tech thought it had five veteran starters in holdovers ...

Texas Tech will attempt to reach the program's ninth ... In addition to Stirtz, Isaiah Jackson, Daniel Abreu, and Mitch Mascari, all rotation guys, played for McCollum at Northwest Missouri.