Nationwide, Tech fans were psyched by the final score
By Joshua Hull | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
Texas Tech fans may think a bar on the Upper East Side of New York City would be an unlikely place to hear the chant “Raider Power,” even during a big game.
But Red Raiders were out in force at the East End Bar and Grill near 86th Street and First Avenue in New York, where more than 50 Tech fans joined in the celebration felt by alumni across the world Saturday as their team knocked off the former No.1 ranked Texas Longhorns.
Texas Tech vs. University of Texas football - 39-33 last second upset winSaturday, November 01, 2008. Photo by Geoffrey McAllister/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
“When we won, somebody ripped down the Tech flag and got up on the bar and started waving,” said Kelly Buchanan, co-director of the New York Tech alumni chapter. “It was our biggest turnout ever.”
Fortunate enough to find a bar willing to sponsor her organization, Buchanan said around 35 Red Raiders usually turn out to watch Tech anytime a game is televised. Saturday, that number jumped to more than 50.
“We had a huge table in the bar, and nobody would sit down,” she said of the crowd. “We were confident on the outside, but I think we were secretly praying.”
Bottles of champagne were uncorked when Michael Crabtree caught the game-winning touchdown pass, she said, and even those not associated with the group got in on the celebration.
Texas Tech fans fill the playing field at Jones AT&T Stadium after the Red Raiders upset Texas on Saturday in Lubbock. (Zach Long/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)
Whether at a watch party or in the comfort of their living rooms, Red Raiders at home and abroad made sure to catch the game. According to comments left on The A-J Web site, lubbockonline.com, celebrations in Fance, Italy and even South Korea were well under way.
Bill Windsor, a 1972 Tech alum in Atlanta, said he and his wife couldn’t contain themselves after the final second ticked down on the clock.
“It was just the two of us watching the game, and she went crazy,” Windsor said of his wife. “You couldn’t wipe the smile off my face with a brick.”
With the race for the national title heating up, Windsor said he’s seen a lot of support in SEC country for the Red Raiders, even if it’s just to boost the rankings of teams like Alabama, but it doesn’t matter to him.
“My wife came downstairs this morning and asked if I was watching the game again,” he said. “She said she could still hear the sound of the band in her head from last night.”
Traveling in from Los Angeles, Tech alum Jeff Pirtle said he couldn’t have picked a better game to come back to Lubbock while his West Coast friends watched the game on TV.
“They were all really cheering me on at work last week because they wanted Tech to beat Texas so USC would go up in the polls,” Pirtle said.
In Philadelphia, Elizabeth Pohl said her alumni chapter couldn’t find a place to get together, but that didn’t stop them from calling each other after each big play.
“We were absolutely hysterical,” Pohl said. “Here I am on the East Coast, and I can’t wait to go into work tomorrow and talk to people about it.”
Windsor added, “We’re all going to be dreaming it for the rest of our lives, but even if it ends right here you’ve got the happiest group of students and alumni and townsfolk in the whole wide world,” he said “If we don’t win another game again we can die happy.”
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I am a Tech alumni living in Cincinnati. I am going to wear my Texas Tech t-shirt to work every day this week in honor of the Red Raiders. It’s a joy to do so because I work in a den of Ohio State fans. If they think I am a bit kooky for wearing the same shirt every day, I’ll tell them I am honoring the “mad scientist.” Oh by the way, I work in the field of mental health!
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I am a Tech alumni living in Northwest Ohio and it has been a great year to be a Red Raider in the sea of buckeyes (also known as a nut!!)!
Way to go Tech!!
Get (and Keep) Your Guns Up!!
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Living on the Gulf Coast of Alabama, the ‘Bama fans were all behind Tech in the hopes that they would move up with a Tech win. On our street (only 10 houses) there is our Tech flag, an OU flag, and an Aggie flag – and we are deep in the heart of SEC country!
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I am a Tech alumi living in Columbia, Missouri. I was a walk-on and played JV ball in 1976 under Parcells and I have to tell you that was one fantastic game Saturday. I wuold love for Tech to make it to the Big 12 Championship game and woop ass on the Missouri Tigers. It has been a tough road the last few times Tech has come to Columbia…..but I still wear the Red and Black.
Guns Up!!
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Wreck ‘em TECH!!!! I live in Pensacola and usually all bragging rights go to Florida State or University of Florida—NOW we Red Raiders can hoot and holler and give those Noles and Gators a run for their money!!!! It was AN AWESOME GAME and all my friends gathered to cheer and raise their guns–course they want UF to move up, BUT hey for one night we a sea of red and black in Florida!!! Can’t wait until next week—Beat OK STATE!!!!!!
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I am a Texas Tech alumni living in Knoxville, Tennessee. I am so proud of the Red Raiders, I can hardly control myself. But, since Red Raiders are good sports (unlike others I won’t name) I will refrain from cheering every 5 seconds, Go Red Raiders! I’ll just smile and say I knew they could do it.
One thing I wanted to make known to everyone is that it’s not much of a secret that the University of Tennessee is looking for a new football coach. And from what a whole lot of people are saying here is that they want Mike Leach, our coach. Some people are even talking like it’s a foregone conclusion that if Tennessee offers the job to Coach Leach, he’ll be coming to Knoxville. I want everyone to know that and to try to prevent it. I don’t think Mike Leach would go to Tennessee, but I want to get the work out to everyone so that it won’t happen. Thanks! Go Red Raiders! Beat the Cowboys!
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Welllllllll, it took us long enough but what a perfect win with Texas ranked #1 – I will never tire viewing that game over and over!!
WAY TO GO TECH!!!!
Proud Tech 1968 alum!!!
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I live in Lubbock but it is good to know that the Raider Alumni are representing across the nation! Let’s go all the way Raiders!
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I’m a Tech grad living in Austin and I’ve endured plenty of scrutiny over the past 15 years hearing the obnoxious gloating about the Longhorns. Going to work this morning and being able to hold my head high among all the Longhorns was awesome. What a game! One that I’ll remember for the rest of my life!!!
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As a misplaced Texas Tech Alumni living in Tennessee, I proudly have my Tech paraphernalia displayed in my “insert other University name here” office. I get kidded a lot about it, but I’m always loyal. Saturday night we were traveling and had to watch the game in the confines of our hotel room, while my 17 month old slept. Believe me I won the award for the LOUDEST silent screams ever! I danced a jig or two and sang the fight song over and over again in my head! WRECK ‘EM TECH!!!!
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The husband of Heather Hambrick Marrou (Tech 2003 Alum) watched the game while stationed with the US Army in Afganistan this weekend!! Bless his heart – even though he’s an Aggie Alum, he was pulling for TECH!!! GO ARMY – GO TECH!!!!
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THE BEST GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! We had a houseful of out-of-town friends come in for the game, all Longhorn fans, so the victory was super sweet! BTW: Even when Texas led 33-32, we NEVER gave up hope — we knew our Red Raiders had it in ‘em! Way to go Tech!!
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Greatest win ever. Graduated from Tech in 1960 and I have seen a lot of great games but this was the best. Now we have to do it again Saturday with Oklahoma State. (I am one of the few Tech fans in Pennsylvania but I’m recruiting all the time.)
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I am station at Ft StewardsGa. with 56th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Texas ) am fixing to get deployed to Iraqi. Way go Tech!!!!!!!!
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As a diehard Longhorn fan, I congratulate your team on a great game. You definitely out-played us. However, you should be equally ashamed of some of your fans. We met some really nice people in Lubbock over the weekend, and almost all would immediately apologize for the behavior of Tech fans. Friday night we went with some Tech friends to the stadium, and we were called all sorts of vile names. When we got to our seats at the game, the security guard came over to tell us he would be nearby if we had any problems. The people around us were so disrespectful and foul that we had to leave our $200/each seats at the beginning of the second quarter. They were laughing. Now I know what the polite Tech fans were apologizing for. Winning is a good thing. Winning without class is not. My memories of Lubbock are completely tainted, not because of the game, but because of people who don’t know the meaning of good sportsmanship.
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I’m a Tech grad living in Austin. Going to work this morning was a such a joy . What a game!
WAY TO GO TECH!!!!
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I was in the stands in 1976 with a red cotton boll on and the double T in the middle. I watched and wilted as we missed that last chance touchdown pass to lose to University of Houston and therefore not win the SWC and go to the Cotton Bowl. I was once again in the stands Saturday night – but this time – got to see the play of a lifetime when Harrell hit Crabtree for that winning touchdown pass. What a team – what a night!!!!! I still have no voice to speak of today at work – but the grin on my face says it all. Wreck em Tech! You made all us gray haired Tech grads happy!!!
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As a Tech fan living in Memphis, TN, I just about went nuts watching a game that was the most entertaining of the year even for persons who did not have a dog in that hunt.
Yesterday at church, many told me what a great game it was. They also told me how happy they were knowing how excited I would be about the victory.
Go Raiders. And do not be happy with just beating Texas. KEEP WINNING!!!
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I am an avid Tech fan from LaPlace Louisiana (originally from Lubbock/Wolfforth) I stood in my TV room the whole game and I was screaming and hollering on every big play. As a long time Red Raider fan; I have been waiting for a game like this for a loooong time. What a thrill!!
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Tech grad living in Washington State. I have the TTU nation flag flying high at my neigbors house, a WSU allumni. On a recent trip to WSU I have found that Lubbock and Pullman are the same place. College towns in the middle of nowhere where there is only two things to do, study and drink. With that I have become a Couger fan and Couger fans have become Tech fans. With the support of the nation we can’t go wrong.
I will be in lubbock this weekend for OSU, are next biggest game in school history. Wreck’em Tech.
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mellanied, you have those occurances everywhere even in Austin. It’s unfortunate, but give over it. Thanks for you contribution to Tech athletics though. :-)
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Mellanied, maybe next time you can be with the Austin crew at the Third Base Bar where vulgarities and rowdiness was displayed here to all the Tech Fans. I’m sorry you had a hell of a time in Lubbock but believe me Im not getting any apologies here in Austin either so life goes on. I shall forever be a red dot in the sea of burnt orange here in Austin but you better believe I’ve got my Guns Up. Go Tech.
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97′ alum: As a high school football coach in the state of Texas and alum I couldn’t be happier for the Tech family.
I have had the privelage to work a majority of Tech’s football camps since Coach Leach arrived. It’s always a highlight to return and see the continuous improvement of Texas Tech Football.
My hats off to the coaches (former as well) but in particular to Coach Leach. He has stayed the course and has put Tech Football on the map by doing it the right way. (Graduating players..no probation etc.)
Congratulations for a job well done and may God continue to smile on the Scarlet and Black!
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Hi ya’ll from Phoenix…My hubby graduated from Tech in 89, I am a native Lubbockite..My friends here in Arizona State territory were rooting for the Raiders, everybody loves an underdog…and all agree that we have never been given any respect by the sports media, no matter how well we’ve played. This is long overdue.
Mellanied, I used to work in a bar in Lubbock and after UT/Tech games there, the Longhorn fans I encountered were rude and obnoxious. They acted like we were small town hicks. I always thought they couldn’t be Texas natives because real Texans don’t treat people like that. Even the Aggies weren’t that rude.
Sorry for your experience this weekend, but Horn fans have always acted like that toward us, especially when we were playing in Austin.
Anyway, Wreck em Tech….on to the Cowboys!!
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Great win and I watched every second from my home in Connecticut! I had my Raider flag out all week. Let’s keep the spirit going for next weeks big game. Go Raiders!!!!!
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OMG!!! Raider Power!!!!!!!! Congrats to the coaching staff, players and fans!!!!! This was the game of the year! Hats off to Harrell and Crabtree and the entire Raider team! We had a friend to come in for the game from Houston, TX He came in with his long horns logs and had the nerve to tell us that the long horns were going to wreck Tech, but by the end of the game I was asking him if he wanted to borrow one of my husbands shirts so he could save face.
Thanks again for a wonderful game and week! Wreck’em Tech!! The Harris Family!!
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I live in the very middle of Austin. What a smile those Raiders put on my face! Even my UT grad girlfriend said the Horns were just out-played. She came to understand the quality of team, fans, and school out there on my precious, dusty Plains.
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GET UR DAMN GUNS UP 4 NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to our employer my family and I were able to make a Tech game for the first time and it will be well remembered. We support our college town. Go Texas Tech!
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Great game!!!! I am a 2004 Tech alum living in the Houston area. We were cheering so loudly we scared our 4 month old! We were all wearing our blackout shirts and our baby had his Tech onesie on. My sister is an Alabama alum. We are hoping for a rematch in the National Championship!!!!
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I worked at TTU and my daughter graduated from TTU in August – we were in LA watching the game – we travel full time in a motor home. Great to see our Shallowater player – #12 Eric Morris make great plays in this game… GO TECH! YAY! The news in LA was degrading the BCS standings because USC fell to #7 while TTU went to #2.. What an awesome time for TTU!
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melissa
to mellanied
my son and i were at the game on sat nite and had a group of texas fans in the row in front of ours and i couldnt believe the foul language coming from a lady then she had the nerve to point her finger in my sons face who happens to be only 15 yrs old!!!! She was even trashing the longhorns so even the true texas fans are not as loyal as they seem!!! She was the first one to leave our section so sad
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I am a proud Red Raider alum living in Little Rock, AR. I am proudly wearing my black suit, white starched shirt and my special edition Texas Tech tie. Few people hate the orange colored cows as the people of Arkansas. Therefore, I have received so many congratulatory calls I almost feel as if I played in the game.
I am pleased that Mack Brown and Colt McCoy showed some class. Maybe some day it will filter down to their fans. However, I kind of doubt it.
What a great game! Beat Okie State! Then we can rest for a while before we Boom the Sooners!
FIGHT RAIDERS FIGHT!
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Mellanied- typical UT/ T- Sipper phony compliments. “You did well, but the real issue is about me and the respect I deserve…”. If you had stayed home and watched it on TV you would have seen Mack constantly crying to the ref’s when he didn’t get the calls he’s become accustomed to when everyone should help keep the Horns at the top. Maybe next year in Austin but not in Lubbock any longer.
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I am so proud of the whole Texas Tech community!! Lubbock, the fans, the students, the alumni, the band, the university staff…..everyone pulled together to support our Red Raiders!!!
A sweet victory indeed!!!
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And to all the Longhorn fans who complain about “rude comments” or the way they were treated as a UT fan….BOO HOO!!! If you don’t like it, don’t come to the game! What did you expect??? We Tech fans aren’t treated too kindly in Austin, so get over it!! We WON….you didn’t!!! END OF STORY.
Wreck ‘em Tech!!!
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WOOHOO! Where are all the Tech fans in Tennessee. I am in Ringgold, Georgia (just south of Chattanooga) and everyone came out the their houses to tell us to keep it down! We have the best receivers, the best QB, the best Coach. Why would Leach leave a program he has brought up to be #1 (those other polls don’t acknowledge it yet) in the nation? My guns are up and the arms will never tire! Was it not the coolest thing to have College Gameday on campus? I need another fan to talk too……..Go!Fight!Win!
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From PALESTINE, TEXAS – a lot of Aggies around here!
All were on the TECH bandwagon….
melanie— too bad that people are obnoxious and rude….It’s not that they are Raiders or Longhorns or Aggies or Baylor baptist, it’s just that they are low-life humans that were not taught better….. Many are aided by a little (or Lot) of alcohol. Their liver will eventually give them their payback…
When Texas defensive back let that tipped pass fall through his his hands…. it was obvious, a greater power took over and assured TECH’s WIN…..many agree, it was way overdue…
final comment: “Guns UP, Dog!!!!”
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Please, you Tech fans need to get over yourselves. I feel happy that you beat a #1 team but lets get real. You still have to play OSU and play at OU. One of those teams will probaby beat you and Tech will be left out in the cold of the BCS standings. As for the future this game does nothing for you.
The top players from across the state will go to Texas, Oklahoma, LSU and maybe even A & M. The second tier also go to those schools and a few to Tech. The fact of the matter is that Lubbock is in the middle of nowhere and offers an average education. I’m not trying to be rude just stating the facts. It does not matter if you keep Leach or not, you will only compete once every 4-5 years.
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Sorry, I’ getting senile…
Forgot to mention, I’m a Tech grad… Class of 1954……
I was fortunate to go back to Lubbock, and help my spouse get a ED degree from Tech in 1969..
I have hopped to live long enough to see the DOUBLE T become the NCAA Champions….. It is again IN Sight!!!
GO “TEAM”….
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I am an ‘89 Tech grad in the heart of Husker Nation and I took my son to Homecomng a couple of weeks ago. He loved the campus and everything about it and has decided at the age of 9 to go to college there.
His halloween costume this year was Graham Harrell- Texas Tech football player!!! We watched the biggest game in Texas Tech’s history together and will never forget the night Tech beat the #1 team in the nation!!!
Now we can show these Huskers who is the REAL BIG RED!!!!
GO TECH… Show the world the Pride of the Raider Nation!!!
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Great game! So great to beat the Evil Empire and even this time bad calls that went against Tech couldn’t save them! My wife’s UT-shirt relatives were griping about the officiating, as if Texas was getting jobbed, and one of them said those clips were legal! Aaaargh! NO, they were not!!
About time we get some favorable calls though in that contest, as opposed to the last two years! So good to see them go down!
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Leach set the officials straight last year!!!
I noticed a certain Austin resident wasn’t the official again this year
Cost Leach $10,000 fine to finally get fair officials this year!!!
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Too BAD, big bad Michael doesn’t have enough guts to use his last name when he is blasting us TECHsans.
Also, I noticed he didn’t say where he was from—–If he is from anywhere…. Probably a UT drop out….or from Mars..
Tech’s educational product is second to no one. It’s what you do with it that counts…
I am certainly glad that Tech got some of those “NON TOP” players like Crabtree — Harrell –Zack Thomas— E.J. Holub, and oh yeah, Donnie Anderson–Wes Welker… just to name a few you may have heard about.
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Every school has their share of poor sports. It is unfortunate that most of the time the good ones don’t have the balls to tell their comrades to shut up. Verbal poor sports are one thing. Physical assault is quite something else. I personally know that a young Texas fan was assaulted in one of the bathrooms before the game. Unprovoked a 50-yr. old Tech fan came behind my friend, grabbed his head and shoved it into the wall fracturing his nose. I also know of another incident during half time where an older UT fan was punched in the gut, again unprovoked. Unfortunate for the Tech fan, this UT fella countered and decked the young man. For crying out loud, people, it’s just a football game. My gosh.
To Coach Leach and his staff, and especially the players – congratulations. Great game. Now get back to work and finish the season.
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Michael, you sound like a real fun loving guy. What made this game exciting was simply that the whole community came together and had a blast watching an awesome game. I’ll bet your workmates call you Eyore behind your back.
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PS – I hear that Emory Blake, a WR from Stephen F. Austin HS in Austin committed to Tech after his recruiting trip over the weekend. You are getting a tremendous athlete.
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What a game. Alumni living in Huntington Beach California. I along with co-workers who are alumni’s form UCLA, Ohio State, USC, etc all were cheering for TECH!! Finally much respect way overdue!!! Go Red Raiders!!!!!!!!!!
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This Tech fan in Minnesota is thrilled. Congratulations Lubbock. I miss you!!!
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Watch the RED RAIDERS defeat Texas!
Go to http://www.ioffer.com/i/81614346
GO TECH!!!
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Went to a friends house here in Columbia, SC and drug a second digital big screen into the living room. We had S. Carolina on one screen and the Tech game on the other. Had about 10 people there and all were supporting Tech, even though I’m the only one that went. Neighbors came by twice to see if we were OK from all the screaming. After Tech won, a few friends and I went out for cocktails. Everywhere we went, it was like I was a celebrity. Once they saw my Tech hat and shirt, they would line up to buy me a drink. It’s so great to be from Tech… I’m so proud of this team and I think a lot of folks appreciate what we’ve been through to get here. Don’t let the dream end against OSU. Guns Up!
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Tech alum here in North Carolina and wanted to give a big guns up for all Tech fans across the country. Watched the game in a bar in Winston-Salem, NC (home of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons) and the whole bar was pulling for Tech to win. One guy who had even bet against Tech jumped on the band wagon toward the end of the game and was glad they edged it out.
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I’m a Tech alum (’02) living in St. Petersburg, Florida. I wore my Tech t-shirt all weekend – and was stopped by several people while out shopping on Sunday. Great exposure for a great university!
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I first want to say that it is so awesome to see such Tech Pride in so many different places throughout the US. Tech is not a school that is as popular by non-alumni as other schools like Texas. I second want to say how proud I am of the first few paragraphs of this article. Kelly Buchanan is a good friend of mine and I know how excited she was to find a good game watching spot in New York. The owner of this bar wants it to be the official Tech watching bar in New York. I think that is amazing. WRECK EM TECH!!!
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Im a Tech grad longtime fan in Chattanooga Tennessee deep in Alabama Georgia Bulldog n Tenn Volunteer SEC land. Tech fans here ( and there are lots of em) are ESCSTATIC! No one here thinks we would have a chance to beat Alabama. They are in for a shock like the Lonhorns were. I know we have to take care of the cowboys and the sooners, but Texas Tech Football has ARRIVED!
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No matter HOW Tech fans are treated in Austin… there is NO excuse for rudeness in Jones Stadium. To the Texas fans, apologies… to the Tech community, wherever we are, WE should step up and try to stop unacceptable behavior. In a part of the country that prides itself on hospitality, surely most of Tech is not rude. If alcohol is the issue, find security and get the culprit removed. NO visitor should have to leave a college football game or be told to “stay home”. Mostly, shield the visitor by directly apologizing. We have a great leader in Mike Leach and the competing athletes, so lets be known for their character, NOT as bad characters.
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Funny poll on AOL’s men’s site about whether guys will be more likely to take Mike Leach’s dating advice now that he’s knocked off Texas …
http://www.asylum.com/2008/11/03/leach-engineers-upset-but-is-his-dating-strategy-a-winner/
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I love reading these comments from Tech fans and alumni from ALL OVER the USA. It’s a wonderful feeling to have Lubbock unite behind the Red Raiders. Let’s not let it stop with the UT game. We still have some hard games ahead of us. Let’s show everyone, we BELONG here!! Go RAIDERS!!
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Michael -
There is nothing wrong with Texas Tech Red Raider fans enjoying a sweet victory. We’ve waited years to enjoy such a moment. Saying we should “get over ourselves” is ludicrous. Do you think Longhorn fans would have “gotten over themselves” if they had won the game?
The football programs at UT and OU have been recognized for years as being exceptional. Texas Tech is playing top-notch football this year and deserves no less.
No one can say for certain what the outcome will be when we play OSU and OU. If the Red Raiders play as well as they are capable, we certainly have a good chance to win both games.
Your attempt to minimize Tech’s success in football and assert that our grads received an average education is just so many sour grapes and a feeble attempt to insult us. Perhaps it is you that should get over yourself.
To Mellanied and Steer -
Rude, crude and violent football fans exist everywhere these days. It’s not something that only happens at Tech. Such behavior is wrong regardless of where it occurs. I’m sorry to hear what happened this past weekend, but Tech and Lubbock are full of kind and friendly people that demonstrate good sportsmanship.
Thanks to the Red Raider football team for a memorable season. Good luck to you the rest of the season!
GO TECH!
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Hey Tech fans…you might as well call off the rest of your schedule. From the sound of things, you already won the national title. The last I checked, you don’t get any awards for being 9-0. You might want to tap the breaks just a bit.
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D Lacey – I’ll tap yo mama!!!
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I hope Baylor whips UT’s a……!
(Austin, TX)
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I’m from West Texas and I grew up in the 80’s. Tech was a frat school and still is. Tech is a fine school but it doesn’t come close to UT at Austin. Why in the world would our kids from the inner city’s of Dallas or Houston or even the small towns across the great state of Texas pick Tech over UT? The kids that will go to Tech will be the one’s that UT, OU and LSU could not accept. It’s the truth and not mean spirited. Enjoy your victory, there is still a lot of football to be played.
I don’t think Tech can beat 3 top 10 teams in one season, much less in 4 weeks.
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Michael – Shut up and go somewhere else. Go spew your unwanted venom on a UT site. We already made it clear you’re a douche and should leave. So here it goes again, you are a douche and you need to leave now. Is that better?
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I’m a 1999 Tech grad living amongst the CU Buffs in Denver. What an amazing game and evening on Saturday. My house was the gathering point on Saturday to watch the game. The guest list was made up of grads from Kentucky, Wisconsin, Temple, Ohio U, & Florida….and by the 4th quarter, everyone of them was screaming as loud as me! The Gator fan obviously had other motives in cheering for Tech….but I will take it!
On the point of the rude fans….when I was at Tech as a student I witnessed classless actions in both Lubbock and Austin by a few fans/students of both schools. But…the great majority of students and fans are respectful and decent….I was treated well in my trips to Austin. Randye….I agree….as Tech fans we need to do our best to police our own. Don’t be an idiot! Win with class and enjoy the gift that this amazing group of kids is giving us!
I am heading down to Lubbock on Friday for the OSU game and I can’t wait! Let’s pack Jones and make it rock!
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Oh Yeah! To #38 Jordy Rowland, we are proud of you cousin out here in Tennessee!! RAIDER POWER!!!
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Texas Tech Alumni living in Las Vegas, Nevada. We Raiders in Las Vegas are behind you all the way….Yea Texas Tech Red Raider Power ALL the way!
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Techsans, congrats on a GREAT, classy win!! It’s long overdue, and I’ve had people in my adopted home stopping me in the halls and on the streets to tell me what an exciting game that was and how great the Red Raiders played. It’s high time that the pundits finally realized that Tech can hold its own.
Speaking of which, Michael, Tech won’t conveniently roll over and play dead for OSU or OU. If one of them beats us, they’ll have earned it. Neither of them will be easy for us, and we know it, but we are going to savor this weekend’s victory for a long, long time. It’s so much sweeter when you’re the underdog, as your petulant comments indicate we are.
I went to grad school at Tech and taught there. I had football players, baseball players, and volleyball players for students, and they were all good. I taught some of Coach Knight’s student-athletes, and if there is a coach on campus who supports academics, he does. As for me, I earned a doctorate there and now teach in a university. Average education? Tech? I don’t think so. Michael, I’ll stack any one of my students from those days against you any day of the week.
As for being competitive every so many years, Texas isn’t the only team we play. Look at our bowl appearances since Coach Leach came aboard. That’s hardly a sign of an also-ran team with an average record.
What’s average — and below the belt — are comments from jealous people like you who can’t stand it when people like us have a success like this to celebrate.
WRECK ‘EM TECH!!
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One of my customers in Dallas was a
UT Alum & had season tickets there. He was
not going to be able to go to the Tech
game & gave the tickets to me because
he knew I was a Tech Alum & my Dad’s
birthday was that weekend. We were sitting
right in the middle of the UT Alum section &
it was a miserable experience for us – People
throwing things & yelling at us. My 75 yo + dad
commented about the rudeness of the people,
& we left right before halftime & watched the
rest of the game in a bar. So that kind of stuff
happens everywhere. Go TECH!
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As an alum ‘85 and mother of a senior ‘10 and incoming freshman ‘09, it is up to us all to stop this nonsense of rude behavior off the field. These players play each other with the utmost respect on the field, we should to the same in the stands and on the streets. My oldest daughter witnessed some students harassing a UT couple at a bar in Lubbock on Friday night. She apologized to them because she wanted these visitors to know there is more good behavior than bad behavior. My youngest daughter was on the field and witnessed a fan throwing a drink on a UT player. She said it made her sick. Alums, Students, Faculty, Administration, Fans…stand up for who we REALLY are…and stop the behavior of a few weak people representing OUR University in a manner less than acceptable. I apologize for any rude behavior encountered in OUR HOUSE. It’s the same house I’ve been spit on by an Aggie, and the same house my daughter has had a coke poured on her head for being in the OU section in a Tech shirt. For all fans…lets leave the lack of respect for the opposing team/school/fan behind. We’re better than this.
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Oh yeah…one more thing…I don’t want ya’ll thinking I’m some pansy momma out there, I’m not. I was the one on University High Five-ing every Tech Fan I encountered. It was the GAME OF MY LIFE…to date.
Now…let’s go Wreck ‘em on Saturday ya’ll!!
Guns Up!!
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I’m a texas tech fan from lubbock living here in yuma AZ, I was going hysterical jumping up and down after Crabtree sealed the deal…my wife had to tell me to calm down. (she is an Arizona State fan)
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I spoke with a girl today who was in Austin on a club soccer trip along with the men’s soccer team who got kicked out of THREE bars in Austin for using Raider chants, along with getting flipped off by the UT football team on their way back to Lubbock.
Sports and the emotions brings out the worst in people along with a little booze thrown in. Lack of class and respect boils down to the individual fans themselves and not the community. The small isolated actions of certain “fans” ruins the atmosphere for all involved. Lubbock is a great town and so is Austin. I’m sorry that we’re not rated in the “Top 10 of Party Schools” every year despite us being a “party school” like UT is. Oh and last time I checked Texas Tech’s football program is ranked rather high with player graduation rate of 79 percent compared to UT’s 50 percent.
Sports is temporary, but an education lasts a lifetime.
I’d finally like to add, that it really doesn’t matter where you attend college as long as you get a degree and use it. Great people have gone on to do great things from both UT and Tech.
So please, be kind and treat others accordingly.
Sincerely,
A Tech Student
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The truth hurts doesn’t it sailor?
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84 alum living in St Pete Beach, Florida. Watched the game with the girlfriend and made so much noise the neighbors thought we had 15-20 people in the house. They were looking for a bunch of cars and could not figure it out! Raider Power in St Pete Beach!
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Just heard on ESPN that Mike Leach is talking to Tennessee, now that Fulmer is out.
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Quick double Leach’s salary. We love you Coach Leach stay at TTU.
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Michael is a troll who cut and paste his attention seeking comments on most articles today. Nothing to see here…
Don’t respond to him and he will go away like most malcontents.
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Ooohh, hit a nerve Houston Raider? LMAO
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And for all of those people saying “Now you have to play OKIE State. And even if you beat them, you have to play at OU” Well orange cows, at least we are willing to go to Norman and play the Sooners.
I am tired of the whining by the tea-sippers. They got it handed to them.
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I live in austin but i am form SOUTHPLAINS and have been a proud tech fan all my life win or lose and these obnoxius texas fan all way find resons and excuses for there loosing i believe colt said it best and even looked the part a whipped man TECH’S D WAS AWESOME GO RAIDER BEAT osu,
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Had a great time all last week trading barbs with a co-worker.
It was so sweet to come into work this morning and see him eat some some Bevo!
I am a proud Tech graduate, working in Manhattan and living across the river in New Jersey. My husband is from NJ, not a big college football fan, but he watched the game with me since we weren’t able to make it into the NYC Techsans Alumni gig. He was hootin’ and hollerin’ right along with me. It was just a FABULOUS game! Truly one of the best of all time! Thank you to all the great professors I had at Tech and the fun times at football games! I have nothing but gratitude for my college experience at Tech!
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That is hilarious! An OU person criticizing the quality of education at TTU. OU has a good football team, but their academics are pathetic!
GO RAIDERS!
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Michael Robinson, quit making a fool of yourself. Ut LOST the game, and you’re over here making idiotic comments. You’re acting like a sore loser!
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I have to agree with mellanied in an earlier post.
Tech fans should be ashamed of themselves. We witnessed some hostile fan activity before the game. My husband called security but that didn’t stop the vulgar language some of the students were using.
My husband is a TTU alum and he was embarrassed to say the least.
The UT fans that were being harassed didn’t even make it to half time when they got up and left the game.
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I am from Lubbock and will always be a RED RAIDER FAN!!!Way to go TEXAS TECH!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so excited to watch the game with my family!! We were jumping and hollering all night. It was a great feeling to see them WIN BIG!! CONGRATS!!! THIS IS A LIFETIME MEMORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Excited Red Raider in Lexington, KY. I’m loving hearing all of the nationwide conversation about how well Tech played.
Keep it up, Raiders.
Win with CLASS, fans.
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Oh by the way I now live in Valencia, Venezuela and it was awsome watching the game all the way from South America and wishing how bad I wanted to be there watching the game Live!!!!! This will be a game to remember forever!!!!!!!!!!
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When a friend of mine calls me from El Salvador–after hearing about the game down there–it IS a very big win!!!
But we really need this next one as well. Keep the home win streak going, Raiders!!!
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Enough of the ” you” (implying ALL Texas Tech fans) “should be ashamed of yourselves…” Take a college football game of NATIONAL significance – with a University like Texas and its lofty following…add some fiercely loyal Red Raider fans excited to play AT HOME against #1….put that game on a national stage…hype it up for a week… ADD about seven hours of tailgating… hundreds of thousands of beers… and you have 15 to 20 thousand people who will SAY and DO things that they normally would be ashamed of. Those folks wore red and black AND BURNT ORANGE! It’s sad but true… if you go to a game like that – you can EXPECT to witness some human beings acting uncivil to each other!
Here’s the TRUTH: People who behave that way SHOULD be ashamed whether their team wins or loses – but the whole idea of one team’s fans being above it all, and another teams fans being judged harshly and blasted is nothing but sour grapes.
The really funny thing about all this: IT HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THOSE GREAT TEAMS THAT PLAYED THEIR HEARTS OUT! It’s a bunch of immature (regardless of age) creeps with no right to associate with real winners.
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this is exactly the kind of crap that tech fans should not get caught up in
we should expect to win every game
every game
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CONGRATULATIONS and THANKS RED RAIDERS!!!! WHAT A GREAT WIN AND THE BEST WISHES FOR CONTINUED SUCCESS FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON!! It will be tough, I believe you have the heart to carry it out! Play the cowboys as hard as the longhorns and they won’t want to come out and play the 2nd half. Jones Stadium is YOUR HOUSE and ALOT more of us who cherish and long for the time we are able to be back in beautiful Lubbock, TX with the absolute best people in the world cheering our team on to victory. It is a shame that a few leave a bad impression on those visiting. I know how that feels been ther e and done that in both Austin and College Station. And, I would bet you would find that anywhere else you might go. Human nature is what it is and we all have ‘em. RED RAIDER AND PROUD OF IT!! HAVE NEVER DREAMED OF BEING ANYTHING ELSE!!! There is something special about that place in the middle of nowhere, I am now in the center of everything dreaming of being in the middle of nowhere!!! Go RED RAIDERS GIVE IT YOUR ALL AND THANKS FOR LETTING US EXPERIENCE THE HEIGHTS OF VICTORY AGAIN on SATURDAY NIGHT, LOOKING FORWARD TO ANOTHER PRIMETIME SATURDAY NIGHT!!! AND, AS BOBBY KNIGHT SAID ” I DEEPLY HOPE WE KICK THEIR ***!!!!!
GO, FIGHT, WIN!!!
WRECK ‘EM TECH!!!!!!
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Go Tech!!!!! I live in Chicago and I wore a Texas Tech shirt to school each day where I teach last week, but nobody believed. When I went to the Bears game with my Tech hat, on Sunday people were finally giving props to the Red Raiders and the incredible show in Lubbock, staring the Crab, Graham and led by the Swashbuckler himself, Dr. Leach. What an awesome game! Wreck’ Em Tech!!!!! Bring on the Cowpokes from Stillwater!
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I just heard from a reliable source that Leach is meeting with the A.D. from Washington at the end of the season. Can anyone confirm that?
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ESPN blogs are reporting that Leach is wanting to leave Lubbock.
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truth is Mike Leach isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Rumors always start with wins such as this and from people who want to make trouble. Fact is Mike Leach really likes Lubbock, his family is embedded here now. Now that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t talk to interested parties but Leach isn’t going anywhere anymore than Mack Brown is going to leave Austin.
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Class of 82…watching the game in Monterrey, Mexico…GO TECH !!!!..LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!…do not know if there is a Tech chapter in Monterrey but would like to start one
SALUDOS AND MANY MORE WINS TO COME….CHAMPIONSHIP????…WHY NOT!!!! BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!
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As a Techsan living out in Arizona, I can’t tell you how great it is to pick up the local paper and read about our Texas Tech Red Raiders!! I grin ear to ear as local sports talk radio extols the virtues of our team.
Every year I pull out my t-shirts and jerseys to wear on Fridays at work and everyone knows I graduated from Tech and how proud I am to be an alum. Saturday night they were all texting me congratulations on the amazing performance our team put together.
The Longhorns are a fantastic team and Colt a standout QB – that’s what makes this win so great – that even though they are that good, Harell, Crabtee, a fear inspiring offensive line, underrated defense and a mad pirate coach in Leach are BETTER.
Two years ago, I went to the Insight Bowl when Tech played Minnesota and was as proud as I could be when we won. As much as I’d love to see my team out here in the Tostitos Bowl, I’ve never been to Florida and look forward to making a trip out there in the near future!!
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Mike Leach is a very real hot topic of conversation as Tennessee’s new head coach…facilities, money, size of stadium, prestige, are all superior at Tennessee to most programs around the country, so it WILL be difficult for him to turn the offer down IF he is offered the job,
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I don’t know about Tennessee being all that superior, Tech is a fine school, first rate facilities, Mike likes it here and his scheme in building something here is more important to him than glitter. It might be difficult if offered but that hasn’t happened yet. No one knows for sure what’s in a persons mind but I do know that he enjoys what he’s got here in Lubbock. As far as money, how much does a person need. I don’t think money is necessariy a factor at his level. So just because people are talking doesn’t mean diddily. I get tired you people always thinking that the grass is greener somewhere else besides Lubbock. Lubbock is a great place.
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I’m a 1976 Tech alum living in Reno Nevada. I thought seeing Tech beat UNR here in Nevada was going to be the highlight of this season! I have never seen a more exciting finish to ANY college football game as the Tech win over Texas! Congratulations guys. Run the table for us now! You have a LOT of fans out here, and even the Nevada fans want to see you do well. My neighbor is a UT grad but has been elk hunting,so I have not got to rub it in yet. You made us all proud. Keep up the great work.
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Keep it classy by not degrading each other. No school is perfect and “he without sin cast the first stone.” It’s hard to contain emotion when you’re 18-21 years old, you’ve camped out for days to see your school play and then see a spectacular football game. Yeah rushing the field prematurely was not called for, but in the heat of passion, it happened. Enjoy the game of football please and don’t criticize us, we’re not perfect and neither are you.
If you want to discuss any of this with me, I would love to hear your comments, discussions from anyone such as alumni, Tech fans, Aggie fans, UT fans, etc..
email me at lancettu10@yahoo.com
I would love to talk with you.
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I’m a Texas Tech Alumni ‘99 living in Los Angeles. It was so great to watch the game here! I was looking forward to this game all week and it lived up to the hype. Found some great videos that I posted on my blog about the game. I lived across the street at Sierra Crossing and went to lots of games during my years in Lubbock. Let’s win every game and go for a national championship! I will ____ myself if we do and jump for joy if that happens!!!!! GO TECH.
http://www.michaelmadison.com
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Enough of the stories of how one person who acts without class is representative of the entire 56,000 + fans. Since everyone is talking about how horrible Tech fans are….I thought I would offset the negative comments. We were surrounded by several TU fans and made an effort to make them feel welcome. After a GREAT game of making small talk and discussing the teams and action on the field, and ending with the Tech fans exstatic. Three different TU fans sitting around us told me on seperate occassions that this was by far the best away game they had been to because of the way we accepted them as VISITORS!!!
KEEP YOUR FOCUS AND STICK IT TO THE COWBOYS!
Wreck EM TECH!
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And all the horns of the wicked He will cut off Psalm 75:10
WRECK’EM TECH and GOD BLESS!!!
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I’ve been a Raider for 50+ years living in Houston. I helped ring the
victory bells on the day Tech was admitted to the SWC. Have never been more proud than I was on Sat. night. The victory bell (my old
Saddle Tramp bell) was ringing in my front yard.
I have not understood why so many tu’s read our blogs; is so they can show their class by posting snide comments? I certainly don’t waste my time reading their blogs or comments. Ony the other side, there are some horns with class. I got congratulatory
e-mails from several of them and on Sun. @church got a hug and
congrats from a good-looking UT grad that I had never seen before. It s great to get so much TV time and front page coverage here in Houston which is primarily Aggie and
tu country.
Go Raiders; beat the Okie Aggies.
Jim
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I LOVE this article…mainly because it was myself and 3 of my girlfriend that were the one’s dancing on that bar on the upper East Side…New York may be the city that never sleeps, but no one parties like a Red Raider!!
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Class of ‘01, been in Santa Barbara, Ca since ‘05, and I was yelling and screaming in my living room and couldn’t believe what I was watching! Then I had to go to a Halloween party, but I was the happiest guy there, BY A LONG SHOT, and it’s even sweeter out here in USC (Univ. of Spoiled Children) country!!
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