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re: Texas Tech is one of the biggest winners from NIL and conference realignment
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:04 pm to umop sujoH
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:04 pm to umop sujoH
This thread about Texas Tech is infested and crawling with Aggies - I just want you all to notice that.
Heh, I say invite Tech to the SEC. The Aggie meltdown would be priceless. Much worse than when Texas was invited.
Heh, I say invite Tech to the SEC. The Aggie meltdown would be priceless. Much worse than when Texas was invited.
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Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:11 pm to aggressor
If construction crews and land developers made Phoenix, a hostile desert landscape, livable, then they could technically do it to West Texas. The bigger question is… would the juice be worth the squeeze? I was stationed out in Clovis, NM in the mid to late 1990’s and Lubbock or Amarillo were the closest “big” cities. Lubbock was better because of the college girls and night clubs.
But it don’t compare to my visits to Miami, Chicago, Nashville, Ft. Myers, Columbus (Ohio), or Charlotte. Dallas and OKC were pretty cool to hang out in. But west Texas was just blah for what felt like hundreds of miles. Maybe it’s changed a lot since then. I don’t know. The tech posters in here have a lot more info than I would
But it don’t compare to my visits to Miami, Chicago, Nashville, Ft. Myers, Columbus (Ohio), or Charlotte. Dallas and OKC were pretty cool to hang out in. But west Texas was just blah for what felt like hundreds of miles. Maybe it’s changed a lot since then. I don’t know. The tech posters in here have a lot more info than I would
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:13 pm to aggressor
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Lubbock has some oil money but not that much really.
Oh man quote:
serious wealth are in DFW or Houston
Yeah man, 20 years ago that was the model. The money, and the people that have the money are staying and investing at home.
Head on out to Lubbock or Abilene and look at the new commercial and residential construction. Its exploding.
I know its a jagged pill, but there are millions of people in Texas that have money that DO NOT want to live and raise a family in Houston or Dallas.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:30 pm to AGGIES
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Then we played Tennessee in the bowl game and got trounced.
Nope. We went to the Sugar Bowl and lost to Ohio State 24-14.
You're thinking of the Cotton Bowl under Franchione fell arse backwards into w/a weak 7-4 record when we were only taken b/c the CB people wanted to put a ton of butts in seats.
This post was edited on 10/7/25 at 1:51 pm
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:51 pm to Dr RC
Correct. Mixed up with Cotton Bowl for some reason. That was just as frustrating.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:52 pm to MtVernon
quote:I'm shocked, shocked, to find that Aggies have an opinion about the prospects of a school that they played for 50+ consecutive years. That's really surprising.
This thread about Texas Tech is infested and crawling with Aggies - I just want you all to notice that.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 2:18 pm to twk
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I'm shocked, shocked, to find that Aggies have an opinion about the prospects of a school that they played for 50+ consecutive years
And will probably go to great lengths to dodge them this post-season
Posted on 10/7/25 at 2:31 pm to umop sujoH
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He took: Mike Stoops, Brent Venables, Mark Mangino and maybe more. I can't remember. Totally fricked KSU's best season ever.
All three of those were 100% coaching for KSU for that game. Acting like they suddenly stopped giving a shite and didn't game plan correctly b/c they had a job lined up at OU is ridiculous. No coach is going to tank the chance to play for a national title just b/c they know they are going elsewhere for a raise the next year.
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So A&M played against a great team that was missing their most important coaches,
Again, false.
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and didn't you win by a FG in double-overtime?
Won scoring a TD in OT and since there was no need to kick the extra point it ended 36-33.
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However, A&M did come into that game under a very fortunate set of circumstances.
The circumstances were not the way you're trying to frame it and it's interesting that you're trying to asterisk away our win when you're conveniently ignoring A&M was using our backup QB Branndon Stewart for that game b/c Randy McCown broke his collarbone the week before against Texas.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 2:42 pm to truth22
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Between OU, Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, and Kansas St, the Big 12 was at tge epicenter of the National Championship every year for its first 10 yrs.
First year was 1994 and Nebraska was national champions. They played 4 ranked teams that season, 2 of which wound up having losing records like the other 8 did, one of the 2 which did not have a losing record played and beat a single top 25 team and had 11 games against teams with losing records and the other ranked team they played lost to Nebraska which had a winning record and that was it. Nebraska was a very good football team but they played 2 teams with a pulse in the regular season and beat a team that had played one team with a pulse in a bowl game. Between the 5 teams mentioned only 2 won a natty in the leagues first 10 years, Nebraska and Oklahoma. I would posit that some very easy research would indicate that in both instances neither played more than 2 teams in a season with a pulse because thats what the Big12 was and is....
Posted on 10/7/25 at 2:51 pm to MtVernon
quote:I didn't realize that A&M ran the CFP committee. Good to know that.
And will probably go to great lengths to dodge them this post-season
Posted on 10/7/25 at 2:52 pm to AwgustaDawg
Big 8 in 1995 was the heat.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 3:33 pm to MtVernon
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Right now they look pretty solid, but my point was who really isn't getting a pass right now. It's not a dig at A&M, I just don't think looking at SOS right now is a great way at evaluating a team.
I would love to see Tech in the SEC. And they're MUCH more SEC-like than you (and Austin).
Posted on 10/7/25 at 3:35 pm to AwgustaDawg
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. I would posit that some very easy research would indicate that in both instances neither played more than 2 teams in a season with a pulse because thats what the Big12 was and is....
That's bullshite and you know it.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 3:39 pm to Dallaswho
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TTU is benefiting from one billionaire opening his checkbook wide open for a potentially limited amount of time.
Doesn't this pretty much describe the Oregon Ducks?? Open up the checkbook, stack some quality seasons, and voila, now you have a program with a successful pedigree
Posted on 10/7/25 at 3:55 pm to truth22
Awgustadawg spewing bullshite how B12 was only 2 good teams in first 10ys and couodnt compare to SEC. Let's lookat the FACTS, little guy/
B12 AP Fnal Rankings:
94/ 1Neb, 3Col, 8A&M
95/ 1 Neb, 5Col, 7KSU, 9Kan
96/ 6Neb, 8Col
97/ 2Neb, 8KSU
98/ 10KSU (set to play for NC til A&M)
99/ 3Neb, 6KSU
00/ 1OU, 8Neb, 9KSU
01/ 5Texas, 6OU. 8Nebraska, 9Col
02/ 5OU. 6Texas. 7KSU
03/ 3OU
SEC AP FINAL RANKINGS:
94/ 5Bama, 7FL, 9Aub
95/ 2FL, 3TN
96/ 1FL, 9TN
97/ 4FL, 7TN, 10Ga
98/ 1TN, 5FL
99/ 8Bama. 9TN
00/ 10FL
01/ 3FL. 4TN
02/ 3Ga
03/ 2LSU 7 Ga
So. as we all see, you were full
of shite and it was ACTUALLY the SEC that was a 2-team league during that period. 20 total too 10 finishes, with only 5 teams.
Take out FL and TN. and SEC had a total of SEVEN Top 10 finshes in TEN YEARS!
Big 12 had 25 top 10 finishes, with 7 different teams appearing.
Big 12 had 4 different teams finish 4 or more times in the 10 years. SEC only had 2.
Like I said in the beginming, B12 was at the epicenter of the NC question almost every year.
B12 AP Fnal Rankings:
94/ 1Neb, 3Col, 8A&M
95/ 1 Neb, 5Col, 7KSU, 9Kan
96/ 6Neb, 8Col
97/ 2Neb, 8KSU
98/ 10KSU (set to play for NC til A&M)
99/ 3Neb, 6KSU
00/ 1OU, 8Neb, 9KSU
01/ 5Texas, 6OU. 8Nebraska, 9Col
02/ 5OU. 6Texas. 7KSU
03/ 3OU
SEC AP FINAL RANKINGS:
94/ 5Bama, 7FL, 9Aub
95/ 2FL, 3TN
96/ 1FL, 9TN
97/ 4FL, 7TN, 10Ga
98/ 1TN, 5FL
99/ 8Bama. 9TN
00/ 10FL
01/ 3FL. 4TN
02/ 3Ga
03/ 2LSU 7 Ga
So. as we all see, you were full
of shite and it was ACTUALLY the SEC that was a 2-team league during that period. 20 total too 10 finishes, with only 5 teams.
Take out FL and TN. and SEC had a total of SEVEN Top 10 finshes in TEN YEARS!
Big 12 had 25 top 10 finishes, with 7 different teams appearing.
Big 12 had 4 different teams finish 4 or more times in the 10 years. SEC only had 2.
Like I said in the beginming, B12 was at the epicenter of the NC question almost every year.
This post was edited on 10/7/25 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 10/7/25 at 4:03 pm to AwgustaDawg
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First year was 1994 and Nebraska was national champions. They played 4 ranked teams that season, 2 of which wound up having losing records like the other 8 did, one of the 2 which did not have a losing record played and beat a single top 25 team and had 11 games against teams with losing records and the other ranked team they played lost to Nebraska which had a winning record and that was it. Nebraska was a very good football team but they played 2 teams with a pulse in the regular season and beat a team that had played one team with a pulse in a bowl game. Between the 5 teams mentioned only 2 won a natty in the leagues first 10 years, Nebraska and Oklahoma. I would posit that some very easy research would indicate that in both instances neither played more than 2 teams in a season with a pulse because thats what the Big12 was and is....
Troll detected
Downplaying the dominance of Nebraska 94/95 discredits anything else you writePosted on 10/7/25 at 4:18 pm to Underwood
Yep, im addition to above which shiws him 180 degrees wrong.
it's pretty hard to get owned that bad, but he managed it, and after claiming he could look up the facts.,but...but...but
it's pretty hard to get owned that bad, but he managed it, and after claiming he could look up the facts.,but...but...but
This post was edited on 10/7/25 at 4:19 pm
Posted on 10/7/25 at 4:20 pm to ob1pimpbobi
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Tech would not only roll Texas by a few scores; they would hang with OU if not beat them too.
Well if they make the playoffs they'll get their chance to prove themselves for sure. I do think in general those boosters over at Tech are definitely making a big difference. Same can be said about BYU for the most part.
This post was edited on 10/7/25 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 10/7/25 at 4:35 pm to Lakeboy7
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quote: Lubbock has some oil money but not that much really. Oh man quote: serious wealth are in DFW or Houston Yeah man, 20 years ago that was the model. The money, and the people that have the money are staying and investing at home. Head on out to Lubbock or Abilene and look at the new commercial and residential construction. Its exploding. I know its a jagged pill, but there are millions of people in Texas that have money that DO NOT want to live and raise a family in Houston or Dallas.
There is money there but there is a big difference between the folks who can build a nice house and the Bass family. There is definitely money in West Texas and some newer money but it's still a fraction of what is in the big metros. Hell Bryan College Station and Lubbock have essentially the same population at just under 300k so you may want to slow your roll on the "millions" comment.
I don't have anything against West Texas as I said. My Dad is from Canyon. My wife is from Big Spring. My favorite Uncle who I spent a lot of time with was from Brownfield. I have 2 nieces and nephews at Tech right now and know a lot of friends with kids there. Some really genuine folks from there and it is growing. The high schools aren't remotely on the same level as the big 6A powerhouses and private and charter schools in the big metros as well and they aren't going to be competitive in my lifetime.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 4:35 pm to Rankest
Makes sense.
Boon Pickens died a few years too early.
Oklahoma State would be a different team with him still writing the checks.
Boon Pickens died a few years too early.
Oklahoma State would be a different team with him still writing the checks.
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