Stephen Hamby needs to find one good man to play right tackle for the Red Raiders. The Texas Tech offensive line coach says he for sure would have that man if he could combine the best physical attributes of Monroe Mills and Ty Buchanan, the two transfers vying for the job.

"They both shock me in different ways," Hamby said this week. "Monroe has a ludicrous anchor. He's built like a brick house somehow, and he can take on the point of attack. Ty is literally one of the most flexible, freakish athletes I've ever been around.

"And so, if you had both of those people in one body, they'd probably be already playing on Sunday."

Hamby made the comments when asked if there's an offensive lineman who has stood out to him.

Both are transfers, Mills from Oklahoma State and Buchanan from Southern California. Mills is a 6-foot-6, 315-pound sophomore from Columbia (Mo.) Father Tolton, and Buchanan is a 6-6, 295-pound redshirt freshman from Corpus Christi Calallen who was a Texas state top-100 recruit.

Mills has been running with the first team since spring practice when he was on the field for all 15 sessions. That gave him an edge on Buchanan, who didn't transfer from USC to Tech until after the spring semester.

Looking into the future

Texas Tech on Friday released a few new artist's renderings related to its recently announced $200 million football facilities project. Among them is a view of the Red Raiders' team entrance to the field at Jones AT&T Stadium from a new south end zone building.

As previously described, it shows fans flanking the team as the players pass through a walkway at the center of the building that opens on to the field behind the south-end goalpost.

Tech plans to start work on the project as soon as the 2022 regular season ends. Two Tech athletics officials said last week that fundraising for the project has reached nearly $75 million in pledges with another $10 million in pledges expected this fall. The department wants to top $100 million in commitments in time for the scheduled groundbreaking in late November.

Tech plans to fund a substantial portion of the project with revenue from suites, loge boxes and club seats that will be included in the four-level south end zone building.

"I believe if we can raise $100 million privately that we'll be able to service the revenue bonds on the other $100 million," Tech athletics director Kirby Hocutt said Friday after the Red Raider Club kickoff luncheon.

Hocutt said he wants to go beyond $100 million in private fundraising to lessen the need to use additional money from the department's annual operating budget.

"That project, we're going to hit our goal," he said. "There's too much excitement and too much interest in it, so I'm really confident we'll meet our goal there."

Sounds of football

Texas Tech hosts Murray State in the season opener at 7 p.m. Sept. 3. Tech coach Joey McGuire has made getting turnovers from his defense a point of emphasis, so much so that he's planned sound effects.

When the Red Raiders take away the football, the siren from the horror film "The Purge" will be played over the Jones AT&T Stadium public address system. Tech players already are hearing that sound as a backdrop when they go through the daily turnover circuit in practice.

This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Tech football notebook: Red Raiders right tackles not short on physical tools