Tech football drawing unparalleled attention
BY DON WILLIAMS
AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
“America’s Team,’’ a term first applied by an NFL Films executive, resides 300 miles to the east. The title has stuck to the Dallas Cowboys, through the glory years and the glum ones, for nearly three decades.
“America’s College Football Team’’? This year, it might be Texas Tech. The description seems apt, if such a title can be won based on nothing more than this month alone.
The attention the Red Raiders have milked from a 10-0 start and No. 2 national ranking is unprecedented for Tech, whose supporters sometimes complain that their team gets short shrift within the state, let alone nationally.
Well. Not now.
The New York Times, just in the first two weeks of November, wrote a half dozen staff stories on Tech.
“I think Tech generally has been undercovered, and part of that is they’re a little bit remote,’’ said Pete Thamel, who covers national college sports for the Times. “If it were in Philly, it would be a lot easier to get there and write about it. But they are the darling of college football this year. They are the single biggest story in college football. There’s no doubt about it.’’
Of the Times’ multiple stories, Tech coach Mike Leach said, “The fact that it’s that far away, it’s very flattering to know that they’re interested in what we’re doing out here.’’
They’re not the only ones.
The Raiders’ success has even spilled beyond the confines of sports-specific entities. A producer for CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” ventured to Lubbock for the Nov. 8 Tech-Oklahoma State game and stuck around for several days to get a feel for the town.
Last Friday, “60 Minutes’’ correspondent Scott Pelley, a former A-J employee and Tech College of Mass Communications Hall of Fame member, taped a segment with Leach. The piece is tentatively planned to air in late December, Tech officials said.
USA Today is planning a story on how Tech’s success is resonating in the city of Lubbock. And lately, when the subject turns to college football on ESPN, it’s almost impossible not to see clips on Tech and the suddenly famous triumvirate of Leach, quarterback Graham Harrell and flanker Mike Crabtree.
The Times’ Thamel said those three have been fertile ground for stories, but make no mistake: Winning is what’s gotten the Raiders this much press.
“If Washington State (a 1-10 team) was doing what (the Red Raiders) were doing, we would be giving them the same amount of coverage,’’ Thamel said.
The combination of Tech’s offense averaging 48 points a game and back-to-back games in Lubbock matching top-10 teams has been a boon to the Saturday night “ESPN on ABC’’ college football series.
The Tech-Texas game on Nov. 1 averaged a 7.5 rating and almost 8.59 million households, making it ABC’s fifth most-viewed and seventh highest-rated regular-season game ever. One week later, the Tech-Oklahoma State game — placed in a split-national slot alongside a Cal-Southern Cal game — averaged a 5.3 rating and a 6.02 million households.
“Both of those are very strong audience numbers,’’ ESPN spokesperson Mike Humes said. “The success of the Big 12 and Texas Tech has been tremendous for the sport and for our coverage.’’
Veteran announcer Brent Musburger, who was in Lubbock to do both games, told Tech officials it was the first time he’d ever covered games from the same stadium two weeks in a row.
Leach handled the lion’s share of interviews sought with the Red Raiders, such as Wednesday, when he was on with ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd. He’s also been on with national hosts Scott Van Pelt and Jim Rome and done “College Football Live.’’
“We’ve turned down quite a bit, too, local stations, but from across the country — literally from Raleigh to Seattle,’’ Tech spokesman Chris Cook said, “just because we can’t fit them in. We’ve never had that problem before. It’s a great problem to have.’’
Leach is known to worry about the potential for distraction being a detriment to his players, but what about to himself?
Asked if he could become distracted by all the outside obligations, Leach said, “A little, but I figure it’s better to have (the players) insulated. So given the choice, I’d rather they’re protected.’’
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Focus Focus Focus. In bed my 11 and takeing care of Buisness. Guns UP #27
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I agree Sr…discipline…there is no replacement.
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America’s Team – at least for this year. I love it!
Maintain focus Raiders. We are all very proud!
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Amwerica’s team…lol
Your not even Texas’ team>>hehe
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Oh Sally! Where did you get lost? Was it the year you skipped English class? I’ll be happy to send you a dictionary. And where is Amwerica?
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Here’s a good Texas expression for you shorthorn Sally–”go soak your head.” Raider Nation is spreading not just across the State but across the U.S. It must be sad to know that all of UT’s big athletic budget cannot BUY the kind of press and accolades that TTU is obtaining. America loves the underdog, and TTU has the longest active winning streak in the nation and has beaten three top twenty teams in three weeks period, and after Saturday, it will be #1 UT (dominated!), OSU #8 (spanked) and #5 OU (silenced).
LONG LIVE RAIDER NATION!
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This is one exciting season and a HUGE game.
Here’s what I pray will happen Saturday:
1. Tech will beat OU.
2. Tech will maintain the longest winning streak in college football (and set a few other records, I imagine).
3. Tech will clinch the Big 12 South Championship.
4. Tech will be ranked #1 in all polls.
5. Tech will be #1 in the BCS Rankings.
6. Tech will have a great shot at playing in and winning the National Championship.
7. Graham Harrell’s performance will clinch the Heisman Trophy.
8. Michael Crabtree’s performance will earn a trip to New York with him as one of the top five Heisman vote-getters, and 6 will invite 5 up on the podium with him.
9. Michael Crabtree will secure his second Biletnikoff Award.
10. Coach Leach will win Coach of the Year.
11. Michael Crabtree will be drafted in the first 5 spots in the NFL draft.
12. Tech will receive the respect it deserves.
13. Coach Leach will re-up for a long time, and he will never have to worry where the money will come from for his next trip to the Der.
14. Stadium expansion will begin on the East Side.
15. Brent Musburger, Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, and Desmond Howard will all get apartments at Lynnwood.
16. And we will all live happily ever after at The Next Level with 4- and 5-star recruits.
I don’t know that there has ever been more possible from one (more) win. GO TECH!
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Those silly lil longhorns fan still bitter and suffering I see LOL. Good for them. The sooners will soon be joining them and the cowboys in the raider also ran trash bin. Make room Baylor & A&M , the longhorns, cowboys, and sooners are moving in with ya. On to Tebow and the Gators in Miami. Quit messing with these pretenders.
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Well i grew up in Lubbock and grew up on the Red Raiders. There is nothing like driving down 4th street or University Ave on a football Saturday..I moved to Niagara Falls NY in 2001 and every chance i get i watch Tech..I am so excited this year because i am seeing a lot of the Red Raiders…Noone around here is big on college football…..but for the last month i have been having..Red Raider parties at my house….When i go to work everyone stays….Go Tech…i am so pround to be a Red Raider fan…and i cant wait to move back to Lubbock in the summer
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The whorns are simply setting themselves up for a huge gloat/moral victory when TTU is finally, whenever it happens, beaten in a football game.
Their’s is the same verbage that was seen as the collie station team begain their loosing ways vs TTU…I am surprised that the whorns started talking it so soon. But there are similarities, both teams lose ‘big’ games on a last minute pass from an Air Raid qb.
Funny thing is that there is the possibility of an upset come Thanksgiving…the world of football would laugh for a week at least.
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No Crab needs to stay at least for 1 more year!
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focus boys, we have a tough task ahead!!!!!!! maintain your ability to play your game and the hell with the whorns and sooner fans.
LET’S PLAY SOME FOOTBALL AND LEAVE it ALL OUT ON THE FIELD AND THE RAIDERS WILL COME HOME WITH A VICTORY!!!
NO MATTER THE OUTCOME, MY FAMILY IS PROUD OF YOU AND WILL SUPPORT THE RED RAIDERS FOREVER!!!!!!
the rest of you better get aboard the RED RAIDER SHIP IS LEAVING and you will be left behind with your ole rusty history and trophies.
you have to have some age on you before you starting history!!!
the red raiders are here in the present and taking charge of their destiny and changing that old dry 5 yards and a cloud of dust football known in the big 12 for years………
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WATHDOG113 crab wil be gone after this year
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Just win Baby! BEAT ou!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Alumni living in Huntington Beach, CA. Sending out the best for the Red Raiders Saturday. I work with OU and Texas alumni and for Tech to be in the spotlight is very sweet. Go TECH!!!!
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Tech is a great university that is often overlooked. The cattle (Longhorns) finally got a taste of their own medicine. The waters don’t part in Lubbock for a bunch of arrogant cattle. My $$ and my daughter go to Tech!
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I am so proud to be a Red Raider fan! Little did I know what a dedicated and outstanding football team Tech had till 5 years ago. My boyfriend is a Tech Alumni and his passion for Tech football and its people has truly rubbed off on me! I have never seen a more exciting football team to watch. I’ll have my GUNS UP on Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEAT OU!!!!!!! :)
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Hey Cheryl, the reason your money and daughter go to Tech is because your daughter couldn’t get into an elite school like Texas.
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I grew up in Lubbock. unforutanly I live in Collegestation. Where I’ve always been proud to fly my raidr flag on my vehicle on game day and I have loved every minute of it. I am proud of the Raiders and have bragged alot. This is are year and just know that I will rub in the Aggies face every game GO RAIDERS AGGIE HATERS
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I doubt the Sooners will be bitter if we win this game. Based on what I’ve seen, the Sooner fans are a pretty good bunch. Now the Longhorns are a little different. In any case, I’m also proud of our Red Raiders and I’m starting to see Raider wear here in South Carolina and a friend of mine in NYC says she see’s it all the time.
I don’t see much of a drop off for next year either. Guns Up and beat OU!
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39-33….Have Some!!
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Hey Texas Born
Did you learn how to be an arrogant hater at UT or are you just completely full of krap
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The damage has been done…
Regardless of the out come on Sat, Texas Tech has changed the face of the Big 12 South. OU and UT have vacuumed up the majority of talent in OK and TX. This is about to change. Texas Tech will most likely win over Baylor and whom ever they are paired with in a BCS bowl. Remember they were picked #12-#15 respectfully during the preseason. Expectations have been surpassed, TV coverage has been phenomenal and Texas Tech will reap the fruits of this season all spring and summer.
For the record…
2- count’em 2… Heisman Candidates
Wins over #23 Kansas, #1 Texas, #9 OSU
Undefeated in the best conference in 2008. Not Con USA MAC WAC
Sounds like a football powerhouse to me.
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We WILL keep this zone going first of all and not let it break down, and at the same time be cool and calm about everything cause i know for a fact the Sooner fans will be on their feet throughout the whole game. It’s clear that weve been preparing for this moment for a long time, weve seen the failures, weve been thru the beatings, we have lost our minds at times (MIKE LEACH’S LAST YEARS REF SPILL) but now its judgement day. Of course Bob Stoops has only lost 2 games at home, of course they score alot of points give them credit this game wouldnt be this huge if they were not as good as a team that they are now but at the end of the day to be this “BEST” you have to beat the “BEST” consistently. I believe this teams preparation is superb to its finest leading to every detail that needs to be addressed. Tech prepares every battle with a better that average game plan, let the sooner fans yell, scream, flip us off, cuss us out but at the end of the day this is what the Red Raiders do and play for “TO CUT THE LEGS OFF THE DOUBTERS ONE WEEK AT A TIME” GO RED RAIDERS, AND WRECKEM TECH, CHEERING ALL THE WAY FROM NEW ORLEANS, LA.
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Oh and by the way which ever teams wins its not considered an upset anymore both teams are good both and both are ranked its THE SHOWDOWN BABY…..go Red Raiders
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I can’t believe Stoops stooped to ask the fans to holler throughout the game when Harrell drives the ball on their poor injured defense.
That says alot. He obviously has more respect for TTU than the horns and sooners fans that have a knack for talking trash during their weeks of humiliation and anticipation.
One thing is for sure. Tech fans have lived up to the team’s expectations. Despite the media and bitter UT supporters hype and hate, we all have remained classy and retained good sportsmanship. Of course, I realize while on a winning streak that lasts over a year, it is unlikely to be fuming like the UT fans have been on this site.
But we also have kept level heads. Our players are great men, I can tell. They keep focused and don’t get ahead of themselves.
Tech fans can’t helpt but to look ahead at what could be, but we have not been rubbing anyone’s nose in it. We let the scores and stats do the talking.
Great season, and I will toast you to the victory in Norman.
GUNS UP
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25 years of waiting. Take it to “em Tech. We have always been behind you and will always be there. Good Luck in Norman and we will be waiting for you at home against Baylor.
Wreck”em Tech.
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TX born is full of crap. I’ve known people that have gotten into both schools and they just choose tech over UT becauase they liked the school more. Don’t even pay attention to what he is saying.
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I was raised and lived in Lubbock 40 of my 47 years of living. Many saturdays as a child, teen ager and adult were spent at Jones Stadium. I grew up as the ultimate tech fan, i get to travel thru out the united states and meet wonderful new friends. This year i have had more people come up to me and ask about our beloved red raiders and i tell them proudly everything they want to know about them and more.The attention our school is getting is well deserved and all true tech fans can never tell these young men how proud we are of them and what they have done for our spirits.I wish the best in their upcoming game againsy ou and the way we are playing ou is worried so is most other schools.so guns up
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Texas Born: FYI, my daughter was automatically in Texas, and chose NOT to attend. Tech seemed like it needed her, not vice-versa. It’s a shame that arrogance like yours is part of the reason she didn’t attend UT. Tech rolled out the Red carpet for a top 2% student. Geaux Red Raiders!
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One thing about all the longhorn fans that post comments and talk some serious trash here is a gentle reminder to you about how classy the ut football program is.1- ut does not care if their football players get du’s, do drugs,robbery, or any crimes what so ever, as long as they play football mack brown has the classiest young men around. 2- back in the early 80″s when ya’ll had fred achkers as coach and they were playing in lubbock, the saddle tramps always welcomed the visiting team and rolled out the red carpet as a sportsman like gesture, needless to say ole fred and the boys refused to walk on it and even spit on it as they arrived, now that is pure class if i ever saw it, oh by the way ya’ll were ranked and we still kicked your butt. so before you talk down to raider fans you best bring your a game because you will loose that battle
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Well said, Coast Guard Raider!
Can I get a RAIDER-POWER!
WRECK ‘EM TECH!
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Don’t worry, my fellow Raiders! The longhor fans posting on here are just angry & bitter because Tech is getting all the publicity. Deep down they are scared because the future is looking so bright for Tech! They are hoping and praying that someone can beat us since they could not.
Wreck ‘em Tech!
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LongliveTech
What’s the all time record between Tech and Texas?
42-15
Everyone outside of Lubbock knows that Tech fans are the worst in the big 12.
Over the last 60 years Tech has always tried to keep up with Texas and try to compete with Texas. Tech finally has a good year and all of a sudden people from West Texas believe that Tech is the next big thing.
You better pray and pray hard that OU doesn’t beat Tech, because
a loss to OU will drop Tech into a second tier bowl game. A one loss Texas team will go to a BCS game, a one loss Tech team will not.
Is it fair? Well yes it is.
We’re Texas
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Texas born, quit living in the past. What the heck does the all-time record have to do with THIS SEASON? The only reason you bring that up is because you LOST this year. Quit hating TECH for beating your team, you’re just making yourself look like a sore loser. You have had plenty of good seasons and now its our time in the spotlight.
Wreck ‘em Tech!
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Absolutely nothing Joe, but I’m just reminding Tech fans where your place in the football world is.
The bottom of course
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Your argument about Tech having the worst fans in the Big 12 is rather foolish. You are the one on OUR board spouting off 3 weeks after you lost. Tech has an extremely loyal & dedicated fanbase that is thrilled to see our team 10-0 for the first time in a long time. We are very excited and will not apologize for that!
Wreck ‘em Tech!
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Actually, we’re at the top right now. UT is the one looking up at us in the conference & national standings! hehehehehehe
Wreck ‘em Tech!
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Texas Born, shut up and get over yourself. Why is it that all UT fans have this sense of entitlement? It’s pathetic. If y’all are so “it” then quit going to our message boards to make comments and focus on your team and what they are doing. Stop worrying so much about Texas Tech, we don’t need you. You’re Texas and we beat you.
I hope you are right Bill Windsor! I love the list. If 6 gets the Heisman I think he will have the class to invite 5 to the podium with him! Awesome.
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Don’t worry, Raidergirl29. He’s probably just some poor pitiful t-shirt fan that never even attended Ut. He’ll respond by saying he has 3 masters degrees and a doctorate from there, but he’s just another Texas t-shirt fan.
Wreck ‘em Tech!
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Raidergirl29
Is there a law that passed that only Redneck Hicks, I mean Tech fans could post or respond on Tech websites?
I could care less who wins the game, UT is going to a BCS game regardless who wins the game.
Go Horns
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Hey Joe I’d rather be a Texas T shirt Fan, a high school drop out, or even a drunk on the street, then a Tech alum/student/fan/.
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Let’s all try to be considerate to the poor Longhorn and Aggie fans. In fact, we should be thankful that there are schools like UT and A&M that will accept kids who can’t get into TECH!
WRECK ‘EM TECH!!!
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MaskedRiderGuy
You are so funny, I can’t stop laughing. Let it never be said that Tech fans don’t have a sense of humor.
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Texas Tech, One Hit Wonder, or is it One Year Wonder?
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UT Lover
years not over yet.
It’s a known fact that Tech is a second class school but with Tech winning 10 games for the first time since 1938 the people from Lubbock need to be slapped back into reality.
Tech’s place in academics and in football is and will always be behind the University of Texas.
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Oh gosh! How can we ever compete with the great ut program or fans? They’re so classy, as this site demonstrates. GO RAIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Guns up!
Ok, now that you’ve got your guns up, FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS.
Play chilled, baby!
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texas born, give it up
ya’ll lost, simple as that
sure ya’ll might own the series record over us, but stop living in the past
and the only way for a chance for ya’ll to play in the national championship is if…we lose to oklahoma, and then oklahoma beats oklahoma state AT stillwater
osu still is a heck of a team
and yall only beat em by what? 4 points??
get off our 36 point win
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Texas Born , it seems to most here you have this complex that if anyone beats ut it must be a fluke or a one hit wonder and on and on. Has the Texas Tech Coach got on national tv and begged the voters of the BCS and Called all the coaches of the Big 12 including Tech to give them a chance to play in a BCS game. Mack Brown at his classiest … I worked in Austin all of last year and the best joke i heard was coming from the so called true longhorn fans…You have 3 longhorn football players riding in the car who is driving? and the answer is …The Police
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We’ve strayed from talking about THE game.
We’ve EARNED our day in the sun. Tech has progressively inched up each for many years, and it’s our turn now. And Tech athletes have one of the highest graduation rates in the country.
Colt said all his HS classmates attend Tech. Wonder if he’s having 2nd thoughts about turning Leach down. Wouldn’t that have been something had McCoy and Harrell been on the same team.!!!
Texas Born, you and some of your UT compadres are like the French. You can’t admit your glory days have reached the pentacle, and your best is in the past. Afterall, you inherited it from Darrel Royal, and didn’t really earn yourselves. I gather from some of your blogs you now live in Florida. I can understand why: nobody in the real Texas can stand you anymore. You can have IS-10 and south, and we’ll take the rest of the country.
We don’t have the huge land-grant funds, but we’ve made the big leagues anyway such as retired alum CEOs of AT&T, TI, et al. (Someday, the courts will say the land grants were INTENDed for ALL higher education in the state.) We don’t have to buy loyalty. If UT is so great, why can’t you attract without the huge pay-out like $900k. Bob Knight returned his salary one year saying his team didn’t win enough for that salary. That is indeed really unusual, but that’s the caliber of people Tech attracts across the whole campus.
So, toot your French horn and move over. Go Raiders.!!!
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Why so many whining Longhorns still lingering here with their arrogance? Face facts, without Vince Young, you have been Tech + 1 win or so team. Really impressive for all of your arrogance! Even OU has done more with less than Texas for years! We win the Ntnl. Championship this year and we have done as much as UT in the past 40 years, for all their talking. We beat them 3 of the 4 years I was at Tech (86-90). If you are so superior, why are you spending time on this Lubbock online newspaper message board instead of of spending time in your superior UT world? Please get over yourselves!
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“Texas Born”:
My dad always said, an empty can makes the loudest noise. I hope you are only 18, which would explain your ignorant young arrogance. You will learn. If you are actually past college age, you are an embarassment to the team you support (likely didn’t even go to UT). I have friends that graduated from UT and while arrogant, they are nothing like you. I would love to see what kind of job you actually have. You are probably a mean donut maker in Round Rock.
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Now I hate to be rude about T-sippers, but I’m afraid I must get my two cents in. Austin is a lovely town in a beautiful part of the state. I was accepted to UT out of Monterey High School in Lubbock, and that’s where I began my college experience. I hated UT. Hippies everywhere, an incredibly wide assortment of really unattractive girls, and a lot of arrogance. I transferred to Tech, and I absolutely loved it. Not many hippies in the Hub City, the most beautiful girls in the college world inside and out, and the nicest people you will ever meet. Lubbock is a great place to live. Texas Tech is a great school for normal people. We owned the Longhorns this year in football. I think it is so sad that these losers have to spend time making jerks out of themselves on the Lubbock newspaper web site. Read your own paper, and let us enjoy our success and support our team.
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Texas Born In reference to the overall record, there was a time when Darrel Royal would hoard all of the best players in the state just to keep them from other teams. Yes Texas could sign a gazillion players while other schools could not. Those times have changed. One thing that remains the same is the police blotter at ut pertaining to drugs, assaults, DWI’s, you name it ut players have done it. Tech players also lead the Big 12 in graduation rates, and have enough sense to be careful what they say on Facebook. I bet you make a pretty good donut. Meet us in Miami.
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Its ok, Texas born is just upset because he can’t stand the fact Ut is in second place to Tech. All the national media are taking about TECH and our players.
What’s even more hilarious is a Ut t-shirt fan talking academic smack! And if you’d rather be a t-shirt fan, a high school drop out, or even a drunk on the street then you’re even dumber than we thought! Get back to work boy making those donuts!
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What’s even more funny is Texas born pretending to be different people by posting under several different user names.
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I agree joe, if there is one thing I can’t stand it is a t-shirt fan. Definition a bandwagon fan that dreams of going to the university but, can never get in and has no affiliation to the university
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I don’t mind some t-shirt fans, its just the ones that act like a-holes that bother me. Many of them are worse than the ones that actually attended the schools. Having said that, I know for a fact that there are some fine individuals that support Tech i.e. season ticket holders, etc, that did not actually attend the university.
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You must believe and I believe that Texas Tech will win OU Saturday night. Go Tech Guns Up. Justin Bradley I hope I see you Sautrday with the Cheer Squad on the field. Love Mom
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That is true joe.
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Hey UT Queen–a little presumptuous of you to accuse me of being a Redneck Hick. Funny actually because I am neither of the two. I never said that there was a rule, just simply stating that since you guys are so “wonderfully perfect” that you should probably have better things to do then to worry about the Texas Tech Red Raiders and what we were doing. All you need to worry about is how we dominated you for the entire game. And more importantly that we won. Stats don’t lie.
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Let the shorthorn fans say what they want. They only talk here because their BOYS could not do the talking on the field WE all know how it went down but that is in the past UT was three weeks ago! We need to focus in on Oklahoma this week, our guys are going into the trenches and are going to have to battle for every inch on that field. They need us to focus in on cheering them on to Victory not getting into these little YaYA matches with the Texas fans that do not mean anything to this game. Let’s Rally behind our Guys and as Always WRECK EM TECH RAIDER POWER
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All of us Yanks up here in the Northeast, along with the rest of the country are rooting for Texas Tech to beat the Sooners!
Wreck ‘em Tech!
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One thing is for sure after reading all of these post. Tech fans are ignorant.
Get overselves Tech, your a one hit wonder.
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I grew up in Lubbock and have always been a Red Raider fan…I moved to niagara falls Ny in 2001. The hardest part is not being able to see Red Raider games. This year i have gotten to see quite a few of them. The people i hang out with don’t watch college football..NOW they can’t wait for a RED RAIDER football game..because they know it is a PARTY and a Texas BBQ at my house…GO TECH can’ wait to get back home in JUNE for good..
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Tech is a second rate/class school. Sooners will have them for lunch.
GO Sooners
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OU All the way
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To all Longhorn and Sooner jerks:
NOBODY from Tech gives a crap what you think or feel. Just simply go away and bother some other newspaper’s site.
Tech has become the darlings of the college football world this season, whether you like it or not !!!
The Evil Empire… well they’ve just become irrelevant this year. Besides, the whorns have a game next week. You better pray that you don’t screw that one up. Go hang out on the Aggies’ websites. You two deserve each other.
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well, living in Austin, I hear this in person all day long.
I have to say that it never seems to stop. UT fans love their ugly orange shirts and their smelly heffer mascot.
I am glad Tech has such style. Red and black look sharp driving down the field, in texas or oklahomo.
OU’s only advantage is the home field. Can you guys believe Stoops felt the need to ask the fans in Norman to howl louder when we have the ball? Seems like his priorities are aimed the wrong way. He needs to be focusing on making his team more disciplined.
Maybe after we win, he will see how Leach has the Raiders and their fans on the right track
or maybe having such a history on top of the ranks leads t-sippers and soon(to be obselete)ers to have horrible manners, sportsmanship, style, and class.
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That’s rather laughable, an OU fan calling Tech a second rate/class school? Oklahoma will accept anyone with a pulse.
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What exactly is a Red Raider?
Redneck?
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If you don’t know by now, you should watch a little more TV. Get lost troll.
Wreck ‘em Tech!
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How interesting. All of this bickering is what I call “Tech rage,” which is very similar to road rage. Road rage is a result of an insecure human being operating a 4000-pound machine, giving one a feeling of power and the ability to be rude and flee the consequences immediately. Tech rage is similar, providing insecure people ( Tech fans ) an avenue to rave with absolutely no negative consequences (e.g., getting shot). What a great invention this internet is.
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I’d say the only rage is from the Ut fans, who despite losing to Tech 3 weeks ago, continue to troll the Tech message boards. Get a life!
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Elite, you’re rather hypocritical, don’t you think? I mean, this is a Tech board, we’ll say whatever we darn well please. If it weren’t for Ut people polluting it there may be some rather interesting discussions taking place.
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I rest my case.
LMAO
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Hi everyone. I want to apologize for my delusional posts in here. I took 3 ambien last night and just got real loopy. Hell, I didn’t even go to UT or Tech. I’m too stewpid. Fact is, I got no life so I waste my time posting on Tech websites. I drink booze , pop some ambien and then I’m off to the races. If I was smart, I would be able to appreciate what tech has done this year, but I ain’t smart. I’m just angry and lonely. I’m sorry. I’m gonna go put on my Colt McCoy jersey and cry. I love you Colt.
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Texas Born…. I’m finally encouraged by your latest post, there may be a cure for you after all. Take your medi, like you have admitted and swallow the pride. Better yet… instead of putting on your Colt McCoy jersey, maybe you should try out a new look and sport a Red-Raider jersey! It feels soooo good and has never looked beTTer!
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How interesting. All of this bickering is what I call “Tech rage,” which is very similar to road rage. Road rage is a result of an insecure human being operating a 4000-pound machine, giving one a feeling of power and the ability to be rude and flee the consequences immediately. Tech rage is similar, providing insecure people ( Tech fans ) an avenue to rave with absolutely no negative consequences (e.g., getting shot). What a great invention this internet is.
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Raiders Suck
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I admit Tech is a second rate/class school, but that’s cool.
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Well for those of us who grew up in Lubbock or who went to Tech..We know school spirit and school loyalty…GO TECH WE IN WESTERN NEW YORK ARE ROOTING FOR THE RED RAIDERS
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How do you spell choke?
R E D R A I D E R S
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HA HA HA…Raider Power….yeah… 65 – 21
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