WOW! GUNS UP !!!

This could be bigger than UT-OU weekend !!

We love playing in the Cotton Bowl. The Cowboys stadium might not be big enough to hold the crowd.

Gotta love Gerald !! Thinking of our great rivalry with Baylor. It’s been a real spectacle down thru history.

GUNS UP !!! (or wait, I already said that). RAIDER POWER !!

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salt in the wound!!!! what a bunch of morons…. lets take a big 12 home and home series away and raise ticket prices again next year…. i guess we can replace baylor’s trip to lubbock with another div II home game in the preseaon!!!

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Myers you idiot. All one can hope is that noone goes to this game. This is just so stupid.

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Is melvin block just being extremely sarcastic, or am I missing something about the history of the Tech-BU game?? Nothing we ever do in Dallas will be as “big” as the Red River Shootout

Ok at least they left alone notions of moving the OSU or aTm game to Dallas, but really? A game in the Jones every other year will be much more exciting to fans, TV viewers, and even players and recruits than one every year in the Cotton Bowl.

Now what would be REALLY exciting is to have an annual nuetral sight pre-season game against some other BCS school. Imagine if we started a series with Ole Miss? It could be the start of a great rivalry. Or maybe even a big name team like Florida State, any matchup like NC St., Wake, Auburn Georgia Tech etc would create alot of excitement and bring attention to Tech. Remember the when we played Ole Miss, NCState, Ohio State in the presason?? They were great games. Something like that could help take tech to the next level,

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Just cancel the game. Baylor is not worth playing. It cost more that $125,000 to send the team to Dallas. This is beyond ignorant.

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I don’t know if anyone has noticed but out sports program is not doing well.attendance is way down in all sports accept football. Myers is running the whole program into the ground,

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Move Myers to Dallas. Just buy him a bus ticket.

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I’ll pay for the ticket.

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My main concern is will this game even be picked up for TV? Under the current home and away system, it rarely is. While I do think that playing in Dallas will be an exciting and profitable venue, I have to wonder if the competition could have been further looked into. I think we could have looked outside the box and tried to set up a game in Dallas with various opponents. Why not pitch it to multiple schools from other conferences that would be willing to square-off with Tech during the pre-season. One year someone like BYU, the next year someone like Oregon. Seriously, this could have been so much better. While the games may have not been the best for Big XII preperation, they would have been much better received by the viewing audience. We should have treated this like the media treats bowl games; best defense vs. best offense, or spread vs. spread. Tech still has that mentality that they have something to prove. Get out of that! Think pre-conference and think about interesting matchups! I know its easier said than done but come’on.

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WTH is with Myers? Think the Dal fan base cares one iota about beating BU … which shouldn’t be in the B12 anyway. We keep moving down … TAMU … OSU … if BU pulls out, what’s next … SFA?

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Maybe I’ll rethink that ticket since it will not require a donation and will be cheaper than my season ticket at Jones….

I like Burt’s idea. Best Offense vs. best defense. Recruits would like that, even the D kids that couldn’t all go to the D school would itch for a chance to beat the school that didn’t take them!

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Maybe I’ll rethink that ticket since it will not require a donation and will be cheaper than my season ticket at Jones….

I like Burt’s idea. Best Offense vs. best defense. Recruits would like that, even the D kids that couldn’t all go to the D school would itch for a chance to beat the school that didn’t take them!

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Baylor? Baylor?? Let’s get it on with a real, respectable player with some tradition of it’s own (Nebraska, Tennessee, LSU..) I’d actually prefer TCU to Baylor. Let’s do something that excites the fans.

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The Cotton Bowl is a terrible place to play. I don’t see even the DFW Red Raiders supporting this move.

Why move a late November game to an outdoor facility when your offense is based on timing and precise route running. Someone is asleep at the wheel.

Go to “Jerry World”!

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Dallas Cowboys new stadium is just not BIG enough to accomodate the combined Baylor / Tech fan base , Let alone all those Dallasites that didn’t get enough of Tech in the last Cotton Bowl.

We’re a real spectacle in Dallas!

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Let’s play in Hawaii, then Leach can get his vacation trip paid for by Tech season ticket holders.

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Its something to be said when you have people who can’t appreciate a move to gather more attention to the teams in teh Big12 that don’t wear crimson or orange.
The Tech/Baylor Rivalry is not one that even the alumn of either program recognize and likely never will. But with the rising talent at Baylor and Tech’s big surge last season, this game just may grow in the years to come.
Not like OU/UT, USC/UCLA, etc but let’s be somewhate optimistic locally huh?

I always grew up around the SWC with elders from UH, LSU, TCU, UT, OU, Tech, A&M and the only two or three bowl games I ever watched as a kid were Cotton, Rose and maybe Orange.
Now with the BCS kids know alot more than I did, but in the South the Cotton Bowl and the Big 12 South still hold our own universe in check.
GUNS UP

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Great move – Baylor fans have to travel 90 minutes, so it’ll be like a home game for them every year. Yeah, we have plenty of Tech fans in the Metroplex [I'm one], but playing Baylor – just one more extremely weak move by Tech athletic dept. Tech could have played the first ever football game in Jones’ new stadium. But, NOOOOOOO! Gerald just sat there with his thumb up his ***. Now, guess who’s playing the first football game in that stadium. Myers allowed another program to one-up Tech.
FIRE MYERS – NOW!!!!
Has Leach signed yet?
FIRE MYERS – NOW!!!!
He’s directing the overall athletic program into the dumpster.
FIRE MYERS – NOW!!!!

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Myers you weasel faced jerk! You need to hit the road. .

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Williams and Hyatt you guys are so lame. Thanks for telling us ticket prices are going up.!!!!!!! You idiots are typical Lubbock media jerks. Stay off the blogs and do your third rate radio show. We need a fire Gerald Myers website NOW! I can’t believe fans are not calling the AD’s office and demanding Myers be fired.

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Most people were whining when they thought the precious A&M/Tech game was going to be moved to Dallas. More whining began when the OSU game was talked about because OSU game was a great game to see in Lubbock. Most wanted a lesser team to play in Dallas where it wouldn’t hurt the businesses in Lubbock. Currently the Baylor game is not the biggest game on Tech’s schedule and Tech isn’t making that much off the Baylor game, especially on a Thanksgiving weekend.

For those of us in Dallas, most of us will be there. It’s nice to get the Texas Tech Red Raiders in on my Thanksgiving weekend in the metroplex where I live and it gives me something to do on that Saturday while most are out shopping.

Bring it to Dallas. May not be the marquis game but it will save me the trip to Waco every other year that I usually travel to see the Red Raiders.

You will never please some people no matter what team you bring to Dallas. It could be Notre Dame and you would still have some fans whining.

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http://www.firemeyersnow.com

lets all sign the petition!

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Notre Dame might accept an invitation to play in Dallas . . . against SMU. That way they could have another possible win on their schedule as they claw their way into a bottom tier bowl.

They want nothing to do with Tech.

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I believe the new cowboy stadium will seat more than the Cotton Bowl. I’d like to see them play at jerry world.

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well we need to play at the very biggest stadium possible because of the tremendous throngs from Baylor and Tech that will be there – plus all the ones from the Metroplex that saw us in the Cotton Bowl.

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I get the concern, sure it is hard to get all jazzed about playing the “the cubs”, but I was home for the Thanksgiving this year and it didn’t seem like the fans were to into being there either as we were half full after half time. Let’s give the Big D folks a chance to see a game and once we can win a division title, then let the entitlement to play a better game come then.

Guns Up

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To the moron who said Baylor shouldn’t be in the Big XII: Where should they be, considering they almost beat Tech in football this year, and have a superior men’s basketball team, women’s basketball, softball, baseball, tennis, and basically every sport. So, if we happen to beat Tech next year (as we probably should), I want to start the motion that Tech should be kicked out of the Big XII.

GFY.

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let’s play the game on Sunday

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This would be a great move. As a student the lowest attended Big 12 game was the one after thanksgiving. The game day environment wasn’t even close to the typical Jones level. I think the move to Dallas will add a little more intrigue to the Baylor/Tech matchup. I think more students and alum would be a part of the game. I also think you could see it become a tradition in families to go to the game during the thanksgiving holidays.

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Wrong. Kick Baylor out of the Big 12 and invite Arkansas back.

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No intrigue for Tech when we play lesser opponents-let’s get an SEC team and play em in Dallas-Ole Miss, Bama, LSU- would be a good ones

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Justin, lets just not schedule a game for that holiday weekend!

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I can see some merits (recruiting and media exposure) to having a game in Dallas. I just don’t believe that having it at the Cotton Bowl really brings much excitement or star-power to the match up.

BTW, who pulled the plug on the TTU/OSU metroplex experiment in the 90’s. What were the issues?

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Midland Paul…..game got pulled cuz nobody went….we would bring 20-30k fans….but okie lite didn’t do their part and it was at TX Stadium which is pretty much a dump.

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Dog….why would you put up a link about firing GM? What has he done to deserve that? Do I like all of the moves he has made…no, but he has done more for TTU in the last 10 years except for Montford…..NTAC’s like yourself need to be taken out back and put down….if GM does something not in TTU’s best interest I would be the first one to get on your wagon…but unless he was to hire sorry spike back….can’t support ya.

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He was lucky 10 years ago (landing a new coach and a reject) and last couple of years is getting on the bad side and with his age I think it’s time to move on. A year ago I would agree with you, but times and his continued actions have changed my mind.

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OK puppydog…..what would you do? Easy to say someone was lucky….hell some yahoo probably just got lucky and won the lotto…but he still has a 7 figure bank account now too…..I’ll take some luck any day.

Are his days numbered….sure, but I really believe that when the time comes to move on he will….I don’t think he will be like the Arky AD who stayed to long….I still think that he wants to leave all of Tech Athletics in the best shape possible…ie: finish the entire stadium…east side and north bowl, get the hoops program moving forward (both men and women), the baseball program is getting some fresh attention and the track program is coming along.

Securing the Under Armour deal was solid too….who knows what else…..

So unless you know where we can find someone who loves TTU and will do what he has and will still try to do for the chump change we pay him (compared to the UT’s/OU’s/etc of the world) I think it might be good to support him as much as possible…..and keep the criticism to where it is needed…when he doesn’t make the best decisions for TTU!

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RaiderJohn may I submit my resume! I fit your bill that you made quite well.

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please submit in word format w/salary requirements…..we do require at least 10+yrs exp in AD capacity and several letters of rec….any aTm ties will automatically disqualify applicant.

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No, pure Red Raider blooded, I do have a problem with your mysterious 10 year rule. Funny how you expect to get a Red Raider who has 10 years into the job. Sounds like you only got one applicant in mind. BTW, My salary would just $75,000. Just think of the savings on the budget.

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