Tech announces 2010 schedule
Just like this season, Texas Tech will play Texas in September again next season, according to a tentative 2010 football schedule the Tech athletic department released Wednesday.
The Red Raiders’ home game against the Longhorns will be on Sept. 18. Tech officials initially reported that ABC or ESPN will televise it, but Tech later removed the announcement from its Web site because ABC was still finalizing details.
“We are pleased with how this schedule fell into place,” Tech athletic director Gerald Myers said in a statement. “We were able to work some things out with our league schedule to accommodate a network opportunity, while also bringing our fans an attractive non-conference schedule as well.”
To make room for the Texas game in September, Tech officials said a scheduled game against TCU will be postponed to a later season.
The 2010 schedule has another twist: The Red Raiders will end the season with two consecutive non-conference games for the first time since the program joined the Southwest Conference in 1960. Tech will host Weber State on Nov. 20 and Houston on Nov. 27. The last time Tech played two non-conference games in November was 1964 against Washington State and West Texas State, now West Texas A&M.
TEXAS TECH 2010 SCHEDULE
(Tentative and subject to change)
HOME GAMES IN ALL CAPS
* — Big 12 Conference game
Sept. 4 SMU
Sept. 11 at New Mexico
Sept. 18 TEXAS*
Sept. 25 Open Date
Oct. 2 at Iowa State*
Oct. 9 vs. Baylor* at Dallas
Oct. 16 OKLAHOMA STATE*
Oct. 23 at Colorado*
Oct. 30 at Texas A&M*
Nov. 6 MISSOURI*
Nov. 13 at Oklahoma*
Nov. 20 WEBER STATE
Nov. 27 HOUSTON
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weber state on 11/20 ?! please explain to me the imporatnce of playing a cream puff that late in the season. we’d be better off with a bye week. and how convienient that TCU has been “moved to a later season”. that would have been the best non-conference team we would have played, and a great look for the program and the conference.
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BC we don’t want to play TCU at the end of the year at the risk of creating what could potentially be our only loss of the season and keep us from a BCS game or even the NC. Next year is a big opportunity for our program. UT will lose almost everybody and be rebuilding, as will OU and OSU. That leaves it up to us and TAMU for the South. I think this was a smart move because as we’ve seen before, if you go undefeated in the Big 12 South, you have a HIGH probability of going to the NC and you are almost guaranteed a BCS game.
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What, not playing Anton HS? Wait, there they are on November 20th. LMAO
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What a JOKE of a schedule, no wonder we can’t get any respect! I’m sure some SEC teams had open dates later in the year!
Meyers needs to leave, this is not Monterey High School ! Boy the fans will turn out to see Weber State!
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I don’t get this at all. How in the world of high profit football does this compute?
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Hum next question what’s the season ticket price going to be?
Think the weber state on 11/20 will be televised? NOT!
That could have been Boise State and nationally televised with no cost to Tech’s athletic budget and a chance to fill the stands and make money to pay Leach’s high salary. How much is Weber going to COST us?
Looks like they threw the games in a hat and tossed it in the air…
Bet there going to be a lot of upset season ticket holders!!!!
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Great! Let’s give TCU something ELSE to use in recruiting against us. Now, they’ll be telling kids that we are ducking them – because we are. Smooth move, Myers. It’s time for your tired act to go to the house.
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Hey DallasRaider: Spoken like a true lover of mediocrity.
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Weber St, lol that is funny! But then again UT played UCF this year and was not penalized for it. Anybody know how much Weber is getting for this? Why is the schedule done this away? Why Weber and U of H at the end of the season?
Been in Snyder past 2 days, feels great to be back in TT territory! Western Texas College, here in Snyder looks great, go Westerners!
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OK I get the TCU/UT scheduling thing but I think we couldve found more worthy foes during our off week slot than playing Weber State late in season. All season ticket-holders may boycott that one. Probably a nice aftn for golf anyway . But placing UH as our last game. Somebody must have been on cool aid to even consider that!!! Bad Bad Bad decision!
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“while also bringing our fans an attractive non-conference schedule as well.” What? Substitute Weber State for TCU? I know this was about money, and not about selling season tickets. Just another example of where Myer’s priorities are. Not selling season tickets, thats for sure. I have emailed him numerous times about questions or concerns without a response EVER. I have emailed KENT HANCE, our CHANCELLOR, and he has responded both times. Myers doesn’t care. Regardless of how this decision turns out, his true colors are showing. As a 3 year season ticket holder between the 40s on the west side, I am for the first time seriously thinking about getting rid of them. Its not worth it to see these sad teams. And my decision has nothing to do with us taking a step down this year. Our program’s future is bright and we can still make the Cotton Bowl, it just is hard to spend all that money to a place where the athletic director does not care one BIT about YOU or YOUR opinion. Why not run this by the program’s loyal fans/season ticket holders to see what the consensus is? Oh wait, that would mean he would care about what we think. The good news is is that in one of the recent, “Texas Techsan,” magazines I believe I read Bill Dean wrote that after all that contract squabbling last year with Leach that Myers was likely coming close to the end of his tenure. Thank God. Wreck Em.
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You know if us fans are not interested in watching the last home game you thing the football team will be? Will they show up? Or will Tech play like the last two games be like the 09 a$m game? I sure can see empty stands….
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It is a real shame that so many do not understand that Coach Leach rather than Gerald Myer’s has substantial control over scheduling. I’ll bet real money that Leach said yes we will play UT early for the TV money providing we can duck one of TCU or UH.
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Gerald Meyers must retire! Weber State, give me a break! If this is the best schedule we can muster?? WE are taking steps backwards! To compete and recruit we must play top notch teams. I’m sure any recruit looking at this schedule will see it and re-think his choices! How in the heck can we fill up our new STADIUM additions with this schedule. MEYERS MUST GO!!
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Hey Ken………Leach is the coach, not the admin!
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Great way to get Houston back by making sure we’ll have a hostile crowd of students cause no one goes home for thanksgiving break. Way to look out on that one.
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Not a brain in our athletic dept.!!
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Well, at least we’ll get some press about the Red Raiders up here in Utah next year with the Weber State game. I have to agree with other here…”attractive non-conference schedule” my (insert appropriate word here)! Since when did SMU and Weber State become “attractive”? I’m not saying you should schedule Florida, USC, and Ohio State every year for the non-conference foes, but come on. At least the Houston game could be half decent.
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Weber State give me a break, dont know who scheduled this but cant see how it will help Techs image, dont surprise me though, after all these years , what a shame…
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Come on …Boise State was willing to pay to play a worthy oppenent on the opposing teams home turf! What gives?
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Way to go Meyers you idiot!
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Let play LCU! Oh that right maybe not after the Lady Raiders last game!
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Gerald Meyers! How to kill an athletic program one sport at a time.
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its all good though TECH has a great chance of running the schedule next year and winning the BIG 12 out right regardless what teams they play the part of being a true fan is to support your team no matter who they play unless your a tee shirt fan or a band wagon jumper all i got to say is GO TECH get your GUNS UP and support your team
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yeah, ken you’re way off its the administration not the head coach that chooses the scheduling. Get you’re facts, or in your case blind assumptions, straight.
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I couldn’t agree more about firing myers and weber state. However I ask WHY the tcu game is rescheduled. Could be tcu. Who cares. Look at the over all picture here. We could have an extremly good year next year. And honestly I don’t know that playing the non conference games at the end of the year is not such a bad idea. We learned the hard way it’s WHEN you lose a game. Anyone remember ou last year.
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Sup Red Raiders….
Hey, didn’t Boise State just challenge any elite school to a game, they are willing to travel somewhere and play any big name school. If this is true I think Tech should jump on this quickly. It should make both programs look good, even though I think we would crush them. Gerald Myers do something you got alot of West Texans pist off at you.
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It does say TENTATIVE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Hopefully it does.
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That is a terrible schedule. I hope it changes.
I’m not really a fan of the early UT game thing they’re doing now, but I can live with it.
Move Houston to a date when the students won’t be home for Thanksgiving.
I hate to echo everyone else, but get Weber State out of the schedule immediately. No one wants to see us play an FCS team. I don’t care who we play in their place, whether it’s TCU, Boise State, or someone else entirely, but any FBS team will work.
And why are we playing New Mexico again?
In place of those two games, I’d like to see us play two of the following: Ole Miss, Utah, Tulsa, BYU, or one of the military schools (Army, Navy, or Air Force).
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Running the table with such a low RPI will get us another Alamo bowl. If Potts is still QB.
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Weber State????? Get REAL, Gerald! I think it is time for you to retire, and the University to hire an AD who is NOT connected with the so called “Good Old Boy Network” We need someone in the meld of Deloss Dodds, someone who can raise money, and make sure we have a schedule. I would rather pay my money for my season tix, plus my “seat donation” (extortion), and watch the Red Raiders lose to quality teams, than pay to see creampuffs….Think about the fans who want to fill the stadium!
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“We are pleased with how this schedule fell into place,” Tech athletic director Gerald Myers said in a statement. “We were able to work some things out with our league schedule to accommodate a network opportunity, while also bringing our fans an attractive non-conference schedule as well.”
What was he smoking? Must be good stuff!
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Your a Red Raider fan because of Texas Tech not because of who they are playing.
Playing Baylor, OK State, @ Colorado, @ A&M, Missouri, @ OU
Those are 6 very tough games in a row and if they can run the table on those games,
no one should say anthing about finishing with a games like Weber State or Houston
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Sup Red Raiders…
How about we hold some signs up at out next home game and accept Boise States CHALLENGE to a game. They said they are willing to travel to any stadium, we do have the expansion coming up next year. Spread the word gents…. GUNZ UP
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Good idea DOUBLE T. I am in.
Some thingsd need to be said about GM’s quote:
We are pleased with how this schedule fell into place,”
Nothing like doing a little work to make it better!
“We were able to work some things out with our league schedule to accommodate a network opportunity, “
Well there was another NETWORK OPPORTUNITY with Boise State!
“while also bringing our fans an attractive non-conference schedule as well.”
Sure Weber State is SOOOO attractive that I am sure that’ll be our lowest attended game in the Mike Leach era!
Subject to change I sure hope it does. GM do some WORK
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AJ way to play along and bury this on the main page!
This is an important topic and should stay as lead story or one of them at least!
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Hold the phone everyone. The schedule and story has been pulled from the official athletic website, so it may be changing!
Wreck ‘em Tech
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So complaining does work?
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Apparently ABC hasn’t confirmed the move so Tech had to pull the schedule. UT is still scheduled to play UCLA on Sept 18th according to their website.
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So was this a trial balloon to see our comments on such a lousy schedule? Or is ABC draging their feet?
Could ABC make it a 2-fer if Bosie State’s added to Tech’s schedule? Will Tech owe Weber now if we cancel?
Someone sure jumped the gun here, unless it was a balloon afer all.
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Boise St is looking for a game for 2011, not 2010. or at least that’s what their offer was for They play Va Tech in Washington DC and Oregon St next year.
One of these days, we’ll quit scheduling the “Weber St’s” of the college football world. People go to the first game of the season against a junior high team because it’s the first game. If we had a few losses or were out of contention and a November 20th Weber St game rolled around…you’d hear crickets at The Jones with all of those new seats.
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Theme for the Weber game…Buddy Holly (and the Crickets). Free glasses and tickets to the Buddy Holly Museum to all attendies. Which will be 1,000 all be Widlcats from Utah and few Tech recuits visiting seeing an empty stadium. How’s that sound?
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Bunch of freaking cry babies on this board. It makes sense to schedule these games at the end of the season. If Tech is undefeated going into the Weber St/UH games fans will be excited and pack the Jones to watch tech roll into the Big 12 title game.
I would rather see TTU have a weaker non conference schedule and finish the season with 0 or 1 lose and have a shot at the Big 12 and BCS games. This is no different then what UT and Florida did this year. However, I would love to get some sweet revenge on TCU for the 2006 lose.
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It is true, Boise St. wants a game in 2011, not next season, but yeah it would be awesome if we took them up on their deal in 2011. Also wouldn’t it be great to schedule some of the powerhouses that are in a downturn, although it may be too late now they’re starting to get better. We could have played and beaten notre dame, michigan, F-state, UGA, Tennessee wouldn’t that have been cool, but they’re rising back up now.
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Raider Power, gee what about the Houston and a$m game this year? Your counting on a win for those two end of season games. (We saw what that did this year) I would watch that, could be a BIG letdown and then what? No BSC then.
Does not make any logic playing Weber at the end of the season, except for Weber that is. There is already time off before bowl game to heal injuries….only plus is game time practice for the following year players.
Wonder if we would really get in the top BSC game if we had such a schedule….And TCU would love to “prove” themselves once again (similar to what Boise State’s wanting).
I want the best for Tech and to that ends mean playing the best and winning those games! Fear no-one! Wreck’Em Tech!
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I’ve known Gerald for over 20 years and I can honestly say that he’s one of the “least intellectual” people I’ve ever met. Is that politically correct enough for saying he’s an idiot?
That said, he truly makes very few decisions – certainly not the biggest ones. However, with regard to scheduling, I believe he DID make this one. The administration (University) generally gets a severe case of tired-head over that sort of thing and, thus, they leave it to him. I guess they figure it’s the proverbial “rubber hammer” and that even a moron can’t break it. Wrong assumption. Gerald is a train-wreck.
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It did not make sense to play Texas early this year (as far as being in the best interest of the football team). It does make sense to play them early next year. We will have more returning starters in key positions then them next year unlike this year. Things like that should go into the reasoning of a schedule.
BUT TECH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE start scheduling teams that matter. I dont mean schedule a run through the SEC in nonconferance begining with Florida then Alabama, but stop scheduling teams that make people say (Do they have a football team, or when did they start playing sports). Maybe schedule a couple like SMU and New Mexico to get new players adjusted, but dont finish it with the Southeastern Westchester Northstars. Do the great minds that run this not get it that beating a team lke the Northstars is expected and you gain nothing from it but cheap ego, but losing or not blowing them out is an embarrassment. What looks better to polsters ( beating TCU or Boise State, or any decent team by 3 or beating Northeast southern christian university by 40. New mexico almost had us if we didnt have sticks come in, what would that of done to the season. Be more like the Fresno State Coach and Play anyone, any real sportsman would be willing to. GO TECH
finish strong and play a good team in Cotton Bowl and win it this time.
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Good point Watchdog. Don’t get me wrong I would like to see TTU answer Boise State’s challenge. Since none of the BCS beloved big time schools have stepped up to the challenge, the publicity alone from that game would be worth it. “The Rogue Pirate from West Texas fears no opponent.” Of course the Red Raiders would tame those Broncos!
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I’m w/you watchdog, we MUST play the best to get our program to the next level, win or loose, let’s go after the best! This Weber State deal is a joke! As long as GM is in charge, this program won’t be recognized as a top tier. Throw a cream puff in at the start, SMU, and then let’s play w/the big boys!
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I see how Gerald would think moving the ut game next year is such a grand idea, since it worked out so well this year. To think that ut vs Tech would not be on TV some where is silly. This year TT would have been at least ranked & ut top 5. Yeah , probably no tv there. Nice call Gerald.
From what I understand ABC pays $325K for TV rights, the lowest is Fox Sports @ $175K. So our wonderful brain trust in the AD dept did all this to make at best $150K more? All we would have to do to make more than that would be to fire a few of the 23+ asst/assoc ADs.
What a pitiful schedule. After the ut game on Sept 18th, we get two home conference games the rest of the year. I can’t believe Gerald is doing this on top already moving the Baylor game out.
To end the season with two non-conference games is pure stupidity.
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Again gents….
Lets throw a big invite to Boise State to come to our new stadium at our next home game. I think from now on WE should start making the challenges (or accepting any) to other schools on the stands instead of letting the GM make the calls….. GUNZ UP
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Anyone know where Shef is on the depth chart?
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Mike Leach is notable in any season, if for no other reason than that he makes things interesting. Tech is lucky to have him, especially now. ‘09 Tech has had all the impact of a canned soup casserole. Mike Leach has been as spicy as ever.
How does Tech expect to keep someone like Leach around with stunts like the ‘10 schedule? Seems pablum is the order of the day, and Leach, no doubt, was never shown the menu – if indeed he was allowed a seat at the table.
On the other hand, the ’safety first’ attitude of TT’s administration reflects the culture surrounding it. To prevent hyperventilating itself breathing free air or polluting itself at the sight of reality, the very correct and self-ordained leadership of the school and broader community seems to have donned a bag as headgear. Even the hamburglar’s hat and mask permit more exposure, but then he’s mythical. The mythic proportions Leach has fulfilled may soon join the many legends about what Texas Tech might have been, given the chance to take a chance.
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Should have schedule all non-conference games before conference games. Not sure why TCU would have been removed. It would finally show that Tech will play top quailty shcools from Non-BCS conferences and help recuriting. Especially since the game would be in Lubbock and Naitonal TV and may game day in Lubbock on a September day.
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1981, dumb folks in AD who let the schedule “fall in place” instead of WORKING!
Sure short notice, but heck what have they been doing?
I agree TCU vs. Tech would be televised for sure and might even make “national” coverage. Might fill the new sections as well. Two or three new record sellouts in one season! (TCU, Texas, Bosie State)
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“We are pleased with how this schedule fell into place,” Tech athletic director Gerald Myers said in a statement. “We were able to work some things out with our league schedule to accommodate a network opportunity, while also bringing our fans an attractive non-conference schedule as well.”
TOTAL BS!!
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I hear that Tech wants the Roosevelt Eagles for the open date! You want to play TCU & Boise State!!! Get real, they are in another league!!!
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texasborn, YES we are in the Big 12!
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HAHA all you fools think that Weber State isnt a good team. Well for all your information, WSU one of the top football programs in the FCS in the toughest confrence. So don’t downsize WSU. I would love it if WSU came and beat texas tech. that way it would shut all your a sses up! ha!
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