Texas, oil and football: How Texas Tech has raised a football monster in no time at all

[Chongo94]

Interesting article about Tech and their donation efforts. Campbell is an idiot most of the time and sounds a bit whiny throughout but how Tech is going about donation efforts is discussed in here.

Kind of long so read when you have time.

Texas, oil and football: How Texas Tech has raised a football monster in no time at all

The Red Raiders are scoring in bunches and stuffing opponents. Their oil-rich boosters are keeping the coffers full. Is this the dawn of a new era for Texas Tech?

sports.yahoo.com

 

[bmoney214]

That place is going to rocking tomorrow. There's so many students that have been camped out all week waiting to get in the game. Too bad they got the early kickoff. The atmosphere would be crazy for a night game. There's going to be a bunch of tired, drunk and hungover kids for an 11am kick.

 

[Mean Purple]

That place is going to rocking tomorrow. There's so many students that have been camped out all week waiting to get in the game. Too bad they got the early kickoff. The atmosphere would be crazy for a night game. There's going to be a bunch of tired, drunk and hungover kids for an 11am kick.

all the distractions and an 11 am. way to go, Big 12. That should have been a night game.

 

[Mean Purple]

if they don't win the conf title, those money boys are gonna go just as off the rails as the aggie alum who went after Sumlin and his family.

get your popcorn ready

 

[Wexahu]

all the distractions and an 11 am. way to go, Big 12. That should have been a night game.

This "night game" thing is so overblown. What is so great and different about a game being played at night? In my experience going to games, there is almost no difference to me in the atmosphere of a packed house at noon vs a packed house at 7:00. Both are great.

 

[Mean Purple]

This "night game" thing is so overblown. What is so great and different about a game being played at night? In my experience going to games, there is almost no difference to me in the atmosphere of a packed house at noon vs a packed house at 7:00. Both are great.

you obviously have not been to a night game at Tech. It's on the level of Okie State and Auburn. Insane level change.

but go ahead with your contrarian bit.

 

[HornyWartyToad]

This "night game" thing is so overblown. What is so great and different about a game being played at night? In my experience going to games, there is almost no difference to me in the atmosphere of a packed house at noon vs a packed house at 7:00. Both are great.

Shocked at the contrarian nature of this post.

 

[TopFrog]

When is the front supposed to arrive in Lubbuttock? 11 a.m. will be a good time tomorrow.

 

[Frognosticator]

This "night game" thing is so overblown. What is so great and different about a game being played at night? In my experience going to games, there is almost no difference to me in the atmosphere of a packed house at noon vs a packed house at 7:00. Both are great.

Saw a stat that since 2019, BYU is 28-3 at night and 9-14 during the day.

 

[Purple Hearted]

This "night game" thing is so overblown. What is so great and different about a game being played at night? In my experience going to games, there is almost no difference to me in the atmosphere of a packed house at noon vs a packed house at 7:00. Both are great.

Beating. Huge difference in energy level for me at 57. Insane difference when I was a college kid.

 

[Wexahu]

Saw a stat that since 2019, BYU is 28-3 at night and 9-14 during the day.

I saw it too, but that is a HUGE anomaly. I generally don't think it makes much difference at all as far as home field advantage.

I'm talking more in terms of why fans think night games are so much better. Personally, I think the atmosphere for day games if it's a big game is not much different.

 

[Mean Purple]

Saw a stat that since 2019, BYU is 28-3 at night and 9-14 during the day.

I think we play them up there at night. that place is a nut house when the sun goes down.

 

[Michael Milton's Jaw]

I think we play them up there at night. that place is a nut house when the sun goes down.

The biggest wildasses in college were the kids of preachers and high school principals.

When the sun goes down, people that don’t smoke, dont drink even a Coca Cola, just twist off once the thumb comes up just a little bit.

 

[AroundWorldFrog]

Lots of little brother butt hurt there.

 

[HornyWartyToad]

FWIW, didn’t want to start a new thread and this one seemed closely related- Just read that Rice is spending $120M to shrink their stadium down to 30k seats, and add a pedestrian connector to The Village. Pretty cool idea imo, since they will never again have a seat at the “big boy,” table.

 

[HornyWartyToad]

Disturbing stat from the article: B12 has produced TWO O-line first rounders in the last 10 years. Both from OU. Yikes.

 

[TopFrog]

FWIW, didn’t want to start a new thread and this one seemed closely related- Just read that Rice is spending $120M to shrink their stadium down to 30k seats, and add a pedestrian connector to The Village. Pretty cool idea imo, since they will never again have a seat at the “big boy,” table.

That stadium seats over 70,000 people and back in the day Rice could fill it up. It was the site of SB VIII, the first location of a Super Bowl that was not an NFL team's stadium.

 

[bmoney214]

 

[Wexahu]

This is "Raiderville" outside Jones stadium last night. That's just students lined up to get tickets for the game. Like 36 hours before the game. IDC what anyone says, you can't watch that video and convince me that a day game has the same atmosphere as a night game.

Not sure what you’re saying. That’s not a football game. And the game they are getting ready to go to starts at 11:00. A packed stadium in the middle of the day is still a great atmosphere. So you think the OU/TX game at the Cotton Bowl would be a lot better atmosphere if it was at night? Because I disagree. Fair enough, no sense arguing much about it, I just think the whole night game phenomenon is overrated.

 

[Frognosticator]

Not sure what you’re saying. That’s not a football game. And the game they are getting ready to go to starts at 11:00. A packed stadium in the middle of the day is still a great atmosphere. So you think the OU/TX game at the Cotton Bowl would be a lot better atmosphere if it was at night? Because I disagree. Fair enough, no sense arguing much about it, I just think the whole night game phenomenon is overrated.

All I know is that the 2009 Utah game at night was the most electric atmosphere I've ever been to for a TCU game.