Tech-Baylor games in Dallas

I may check out the cowboys stadium, but I have no intention of ever setting foot in the cotton bowl again.

Tech better be guaranteed a significant windfall for doing this. Home games should be played in Lubbock – local businesses bring in 5-7 million for each home game.

I feel like Bob Knight…Purdue!

Seriously, this is our answer to the Red River Rivalry…Baylor? OK so they stand to be much improved from their last decade of dreadful records, but this just doesn’t get me excited.

This feels like a second-rate game and sends the wrong message about Texas Tech football. It’s one thing if we could set up a neutral site game against a rival or a team that has experienced a level of success the past decade compared to Tech’s (Aggie for rival, Ok St for comparative team).

Some big Tech alumni have been pushing for Dallas games for quite a while, so I hope they’re happy about getting this lame game. I guess they get their brownie points with Jerry Jones going to Jerryworld.

No way in hell I go back to another game at the Cotton Dump.

I would rather play them in Dallas versus Waco. This will be a good thing for Tech’s recruiting also. The Baylor game in Lubbock has been boring with the exception of last season. I think this is a positive move for Tech and a great opportunity for the Tech and Baylor alums in DFW area to see a good football game. These guys are getting better and I expect a great game this year.
  
Jerry should convince A&M and ISU to move to Arlington and call it the basement rivalry.

We are the big dog in this series with Baylor…who is the big dog in the ATM vs Arkansas series? Just be thankful we can carry our own weight.

Tech is competing for media attention, which brings recruits athletically, as well as academically. Thank you Gerald Myers for not just passively watching other schools get theirs.

There will be a huge crowd at this years game in Jerryworld>>>some locals in Dallas can’t afford to see Jerryworld for a Cowboys game, so they will jump at the chance to see a competitive game in a billion dollar stadium for a third of what the ATM game with Arkansas will cost.

And I’d rather travel to Dallas than to Waco anytime.

but the trade-off of giving a home game away isn’t worth it. We own Baylor, and anybody who plays the Red Raiders at the Cotton Dump owns us.

What’s next? Something like Tech versus Oklahoma State in Tokyo???

If I was a season ticket holder I’d be upset about this. I think everyone’s rationalization that this helps with recruiting exposure is crap. Let’s just go ahead and play every game in Houston and Dallas so we can get more recruits…people come to Lubbock for a reason.

1. get your product out there in front of as many potential customers as possible
     -the product is Texas Tech University and its football program
     -the potential customers are people who might see any promotion involving your product

Due to logistics, Tokyo is not good product placement for Texas Tech.

We have a home and home scheduled with Rice in Houston.

1988 against OSU when Tech lost to Barry Sanders. I guess the Tech officials have taken your class.

You get your team in front of fans by producing W’s and getting on TV (as you alluded to earlier TT4ever) – not by playing in Dallas.

Baylor is going to be pretty darn good, and I don’t think giving them the equivalent of 2 home games (95 miles Waco-Arl) is worth it.

They sure as hell are scarier than Rice.

I went to the last game here in Houston Tech played against Rice – turnout…blah. It will be like the game at the Cotton Bowl (yeah the one where we should have a home game against BU) – crappy turnout, but this one unlike Rice could potentially end up in the L column.

Nonconference game against an opponent in Cowboys Stadium, great – conference game against Baylor – not supportive.

Get the season ticket holders to pay more and donate to the Red Raider Club to expand stadium and then take away a home game against a conference opponent.

Let’s add a #3 to your marketing list – Brand Loyalty.

You were making a point earlier about Baylor not being a worthy opponent, now you are saying you are scared of them.

and compared to Rice yes I fear them much more.

when the whole downtown restaurant I was at in Dallas did their little “Hotty Toddy” chant and I screamed VANDERBILT and WAKE FOREST after each annoying chant – I can guarantee you I was fired up to beat those guys!

I also think Division I college players are motivated to win any game they play. It wasn’t because Tech wasn’t motivated to win, it was because Nutt decided his corners were good enough athletes to take our outside receivers. With a 35% Crabtree, he gambled and won. They also had some nasty blockers (read “The Blind Side” about Michael Oher – amazing story) who shredded us.

80% of the people who go to Tech games are from Lubbock, and I believe they would rather have the game be in Lubbock as would any local merchants.

What’s the love affair with the playing a game at the Cotton Bowl? This is a facility that is so cheaply run that the Dallas Mayor and City Council wouldn’t even upgrade it for the Cowboys!!

If you have to have the “Dallas Exposure” for recruiting at least do it at a state of the art facility like Jerry World.

I’m torn. I kind of promised myself I would never give another dime to Jerry The Egomaniac after what he’s done to the Cowboys.

Arlington is far closer for me than Lubbock, but I know I’ll start foaming at the mouth as soon as the parking attendant wants $30-40. Actually I have no idea what the parking fee will be, but according to DMN the fee will be $75 per game for Cowboy games. I wouldn’t pay that much to park even if they threw in game tickets.

Not sure what parking will be for this game, but it was $38 for George Strait in June. Probably similar, though the football game will draw significantly fewer people. The concert sold out in a day or two. Maybe it will cost more due to fewer cars…it’s a scam either way.

I don’t give a damn if Lubbock loses ONE game of revenue from increased people in town for the weekend. They have 30,000 of our kids from Dallas and Houston year round spending crap-loads of money. Lubbock should thank its lucky stars the state chose them over Snyder back in the ‘20s. I’m not hating on the Hub City, but kwityerbitchin Lubbock! See the forest from the trees. More success for Tech = more butts in more seats = mas dinero y mas tortillas for Rosa’s to sell.

If Tech was going to play a game at a neutral site, why not a non-conference game against a real opponent?

Hell, see if LSU would be willing to play in Dallas or Houston every year, and set that up.

Baylor in Dallas? Really?

I don’t think you’ll sell out Jerryworld, not for that opponent in this economy. Baylor fans aren’t known for traveling well, so they’re not going to hold up their end of the bargain.

Baylor wanted the games at the Cotton Bowl, Tech wanted Jerryworld, the split is the compromise.

I just think Myers completely let y’all down on this one; conference games are two important to not be played on campus every other year, and unless you are traditionally an off-campus rivalry game, like OU-texas, there is no point in playing a conference game at a neutral site (and remember that OU-texas was a non-conference game before 1996).

I agree with Beergut, also. He made a good point about scheduling a great non-conference game in Dallas vs. a mediocre conference game.