Double-T Nation Roll Call

My relationship with Texas Tech is one that dominated my childhood. I was at every home football and basketball game from the time I was a youngster. My family was very involved with the University, and I traveled to many away games as well. In my younger years, I looked forward more to playing dodge ball at the games with my friends (sorry to anyone we ever ran over or hit with the wadded up dog-wrappers we used as the ball) than the actual games. Over time, however, my mood began to be reflected with how the previous week’s game went. I was also a ball-boy for 2 years with the basketball squad (while Myers was coach), and I witnessed some amazing games from right under the basket.
I did not attend Texas Tech, but know that my heart is with the University always. Even if they played my Alma Mater (which they wouldn’t in Football, maybe hoops), I’d root for Tech over the Quakers.
I work in the oil industry in Houston, and I’m really looking forward to a “home” game with UH this year. The Rice game a couple of years ago was lackluster and really showed the weakness in our secondary. Even though we won big, I hope a repeat is not in store for UH passing. I will always make one big game a year in Lubbock, and I will travel to (almost) any bowl game we make. College Station and Austin are also must-go games being in Houston.
Thanks Seth for providing a daily dose of everything Red Raider related. It’s tough during July to get by…

I am Jacob Day and just finished my masters in electrical engineering for TTU (hence the jdeeTTU, real creative I know… gotta love us engineers). I recently moved to Wylie (northeast of Dallas) and started a job in the real world. I am not looking forward to being away from Lubbock this fall, but plan to see as many of the games live as I can manage. I bleed red and black… and thanks to Seth and the rest of you guys on this site I am now addicted to recruiting as well (something I never paid any attention to in the past). Thanks to this site I have officially become a year-round addict instead of just in the fall… I find myself checking the site at least 4 times a day, so thanks to everyone who comments throughout the day on news and fanposts so there is new content for me to read during the doldrums that are 1-4pm.

I started following Tech when I was in the 7th grade after watching the football team destroy Steve Spurrier’s Duke Blue Devils. Being a little white boy myself I was taken by how many were on the team. So from that point on that is the only place I wanted to go. At the beginnig of my senior year in high school I applied to one college. Before the end of the first grading period I had been accepted to Texas Tech. I still had dreams of playing football, but after my recruiting visit and seeing Lloyd Hill I believed what my head coach and parents were telling me, I was too small. My first indication that they may have been wrong was seeing Donnie Hart. I made friends with a lot of athletes and went to every sporting event I could while I was at Tech. I graduated in 98 and began coaching and preaching to my athletes that if you want it bad enough it doesn’t matter what anyone says or how big you are. Coach Leach’s system only contributed to this by making stars out of Welker, Amendola, and Morris. I coached 1 year in College Station, 5 in Leander, 2 in Flower Mound. Now I am in Austin teaching Elementary PE and working on my Masters and Administration certification. I get to see a lot more games now that I am not coaching. I miss it, but I also have two boys of my own that I need to spend time with. I watch or listen to every game. I get to go to a few live every year, but I have vowed not to go to any more bowl games. I am not superstitious, but every bowl game I have gone to we have lost, and every one I have stayed home and watched we have won.

I stumbled on DTN a while back and started contributing a little this year. I check in every opportunity I get and appreciate all every one does on this site.

Thanks
Paul
c/o 98

I have a BS, ‘96, wife BA ’97. My Dad went to Tech in 1950 on a Rodeo Scholarship I’m told. He Met my Mom there after he got back from the Korean War. 2 of his brothers also graduated Tech. Basically anyone with my last name has a degree from both Tech and A&M. I had just gotten out of the Air Force, so fake soldier land made me want to puke, plus I had three years in Lubbock under my belt at the AFB. I knew I wanted to go to Tech, so I swapped an assignment overseas with a guy who was PO’d he’d been stationed in LUBBOCK, TEXAS???? After being Honorably Discharged and getting my GI Bill, I did a semester at Tech and one “down there”. There was no decicion to make. "Thank God I chose Tech and thank God my wife got home sick at Okie State, because I met her at Tech as well.

My Bio is alot like Seth’s though. I taught public school, got an MS(not the disease, the degree), became an administrator then we had to move to Kansas for my wife’s Med residncy. I decided to go to law school after one year working as a middle school principal. Went to TU Law School because there ain’t no law school in Wichita (TU, they call it in Tulsa. Half my wife’s fam is from up there, greatest place in the world if only it were in Texas). I worked as a prosecutor then decided I was ready to start my own criminal and juvenile defense office here in West Plano. Being my own boss,and having nobody looking over my shoulder, I check this spot “during” work. I just say F-off in my head to any boss I ever had every time I log on (I have a problem with authority as you’ve probably figured). Owning my own business is scary, but I can have lunch with my wife and leave Friday morning for Tech games whenever I want.

DTN is the best thing I’ve ever found on the interwebs and is definitely too important to me.

Give ’Em Hell Tech!

Greetings fellow Raiders
 I am a recently Retired Army officer who was commissioned thru ROTC @ Texas Tech in 1983. Graduated from the Tech Business College. Before arriving in Lubbock my home town was / is Sherman Texas. Met my wife during my first overseas Army assignment and funny thing she is a Shippensburg University Army ROTC graduate. They are of course the Pennsylvania Red Raiders. Too neat. We have a great daughter who like many of you fellow bloggers has trouble understanding Dads obsession with this place of higher learning. I work for the Army here at Ft Hood and trust me it’s never dull around this joint. Now you can tell why I write with campaignism’s and military speak creeping into my postings. I would like to thank you Seth and all the polite fellow bloggers for the great DTN site, the thoughts and energy put into the articles. I thoroughly enjoy the discussion. I too am here every day and it’s never boring. Well done folks.
Just a reminder keep your fellow Americans who are deployed in harm’s way in your prayers. And add one for their families. It’s a tough time and we owe them much for the vigilance and professionalism displayed every day. Go Raiders!

I graduated in Aug. ‘04 from Tech with a Reastaurant, Hotel, and Institutional Management degree. I’m from a little town in SW Texas called Uvalde. I’m 29. I live alone in Austin now. Work at Tres Amigos Restaurant out in Westlake. Love Austin (except for all the Longhorns which really clutter the place up). I miss Lubbock. I love Texas Tech, and my time there. I’m proud to be a Red Raider, and wear my ring with pride. I’ve been visiting this site since the old format, and have always thought Seth has done a great job. You won’t see me posting too much during the off-season, but I’m sure you will once it’s football time again. Great work, great site. It’s nice to have our own place to be bias and love our school. I’m a pro musician, and I am currently working on the release of my first album. Strive for Honor Evermore! Long live the Matadors!

Bachelor of Science in International Economics 1990

Not many fellow Red Raiders in this town. A few. A guy who went to school around the same time as me (Land Mgmt degree) and another that came as I was graduating and got his degree in Architecture. A friend of mine who married a very nice younger girl who also happens to bleed red&Black. God bless her.

My wife (of a month and a half) has long since learned about and accepted my fanaticism. Last year, after we had become engaged she announces to me how we received our FIRST invitation to a wedding as a couple and was very excited about it as was I. She says the wedding will be November 1st 2008. Yes. THAT Night! This was quite a few months before then and I told her I was sorry that I was gonna miss the game as the wedding was going to be in Mexico City. As the game approached I tried unsuccessfully to tell her how important the game was. She didn’t understand why my excitement kept growing. Surely it couldnt be simply relative to the proximity of the game. I tried to explain to her that as it drew closer and both teams continued to go undefeated the IMPORTANCE of the game was growing and with it my excitement. Needless to say she had a hard time keeping up with said excitement.

I spent the ceremony checking my PDA which drew frowns of consternation from her. I said to her, we’re in control as I checked the score. It was a long drive to the reception and I called a buddy of mine (who is an Aggie) to ask him how the game was going. He told me his wife was climbing the walls. (she’s a longhorn) As we arrived to the reception I checked in again and my buddy told me, “youre down 33-32.” “How much time is left”, I asked “and hurry up my phone is dying” “83 seconds” he replied. “Too much time. Its in the bag,” I said as my phone conked out.

As cool as tried to play it…I went crazy trying to find a way to call him back. By the time I extracted the # from my phone and called him back the game was over and it was in the history books.

When my girl finally saw the replay on my TIVO she finally understood the magnitude of the game.

This summer she is getting her michael crabtree jersey. To which I will purchase a GHarrell jersey ( I already own quite a few all the way back to the 95 Cotton Bowl Zebby Lethridge jersey….even a personalized one with the #7{my bday}) my late dad would have loved Harrell for his on field demeanor and the fact that he wears #6. Dad’s Bday.

Hello, everyone. I am Larry Pilkinton and was raised in Lubbock from the age of two. Having been born in 1945 in San Diego., that was a long time ago. My dad was a Born and Raised Texan who worked for a consolidated place that maintained airplanes during WWII in San Diego, so I & my next older brother were born there. We all moved back to near Bonham, Texas when I was about 6 months old and I have been in Texas since, except for my time in the Navy during the Vietnam Conflict (It was a war to me). I graduated from Monterey before entering the Navy (Aviation Technician) for 4 years, got married 2 years afterward, divorced 7 years later, then went to Tech (Studio Art) part-time for 5 years (no degree), as I was working at Litton (Electronics Technician) while attending Tech. When they shut down (schooling incomplete-75 hrs) I found work at Motorola in Austin and found the Lord here (Hallelujah!). I left Motorola in 2002, but now work at Austin Lighthouse for the Blind (Document Specialist-I can see), hoping to retire within 3 more years. My hobbies are portrait & landscape painting & sketching, Golf (when affordable) and DTN. I have 2 grown daughters, one just entering (shudder) UT in September. I have been and always will be a Red Raider and a fan. This site is perfect for keeping abreast with all things Texas Tech. I really enjoy it all, except maybe the usual visiting aggie & horn nuts. Hope to read all your comments during this & future years. WRECK ’EM!

Red Raider in South Georgia
As luck would have it Brett Reister is my younger brother. I remember your Dad very well and hold him in high esteem. Just because you reminded me I will now go look him up on Army Knowledge Online. Last time I saw him was at Brett’s commissioning ceremony in Lubbock. Brett has just returned from Afghanistan where he was the communications officer for the 101st Airborne Division. Guess this just goes to show you that you can’t keep us Techsan’s apart. Wonderful to hear from you. God bless your family. Please give my best to your Dad. If you are ever in Killeen –Austin for that matter don’t hesitate to come stay. Plenty of room. Go Tech!
v/r
Bob Reister

I graduated from Tech in may of 1999 with a BS in ME. I grew up in San Angelo, but wasn’t really a fan until I attended Tech. I was an RA while I was there and had a great time bringing new freshmen into the fold. After graduating, I spent 8 years in Houston before moving to DFW.

My wife went to North Texas, but since the mean green hasn’t had much to cheer for since the ’70’s, I’ve converted her. We have 1 daughter (3) who loves watching the basketball games with me.

I am looking forward to a trip to visit friends and see Tech play U of H this year. I enjoy writing for this site (though I have taken a sabbatical since basketball season) and hearing everyone’s thoughts.

My hats off to ya….I just don’t think I could stand the constant barrage of everything-longhorn….

With that said, my name is Kevin Murray , I graduated in 1982, BS-Agriculture, majoring in Park Administration and Landscape Architecture. I graduated on May 15, 1982 and started working for the City of Plano Parks Dept. (hence the name “cityman”) on May 17, 1982. I’m still w/the City of Plano 27 years later. Got married in 1987, 2 kids, 21 and 19.

I have 2 brother-in-laws, and 1 sister-in-law that went to TECH. I wish I could tell you the story of how it came that my sister-in-law went to TECH, but we’ll suffice to say that at first she didn’t want to go the TECH, then I took her to TECH, then she loved it, and then she got 2 degrees from TECH (BS and MS-both in Engineering). Currently I have 2 nephews and 1 niece at TECH. Botgh of my kids want to go..we’ll see.

The story of how I ended at up TECH is long and rather disjointed. My Dad worked for Sears, so we moved about every 4 years. When I graduated from HS, we lived in Louisville, KY, and I had absolutely no plans or even thoughts of Texas Tech. I started school at a small university in western Kentucky. Right after I started college, my family relocated to Plano. In the summer of 1977, I got a summer job w/the Plano Parks Dept., my boss was a TECH alum. I worked for the Parks Dept. for the next 3 summers. Somewhere along the way I ‘figured it out’ (the encouragement that I was getting from my boss certainly helped!!) that I MUST get my degree from TECH in Park Administration. So, I transferred to TECH in the fall of 1979. I was fortunate enough that there was a job opening in the Parks Dept. just before I graduated. I probably wouldn’t have gotten the job if I hadn’t shown them what I could do during the 3 summers I worked there.

My wife has not attended any college, but she has become indoctrinated into the TECH mindset!!! I absolutely LOVED Lubbock when I was there, and would move back in a heart beat. My dream retirement would be to have some inconsequential, part-time job on campus, just so I could be there every day. That’s because to me, there’s no better place to be than the TECH campus. Whenever I go back, I just find a bench somewhere near the UC, I listen to the bells play, watch the students, and remember how special of time it was and still is to so many.

I’m John W. and I grew up in Midland with parents that were OU grads. My girlfriend’s dad took us to see Tech v Baylor in about ’65 where I got to see Donny Anderson play about every position on the field. I went in rooting for Baylor because my older sister went there at the time, but I got converted by the atmosphere and crowd noise at that game. Been a Tech fan ever since.

I entered Tech in 1969 as an EE major, but too many girls and parties got me scholastic suspension in my junior year. It was the age of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, after all. You youngsters have no idea of the atmosphere on college campuses back in the hippie days (yes, even in Lubbock). Plus, THE PILL had just been invented and nobody had ever heard of herpes or AIDS. Needless to say, Tech holds a special place in my heart.

After working a couple years in the oilfield, I ended up at Baylor (still not sure how that happened) to get my BBA and JD (Tech didn’t have a law school when I went there). After a decade in private practice, I’ve been a felony prosecutor for the last 20 years or so.

Last year my screen name was TT_ , partly the result of some kind of computer glitch while registering. I laid low for quite a while after the Cotton Bowl. Call me old-school, but I have no tolerance for internet trolls. In my day, folks knew to keep their mouths shut in enemy territory unless they were willing to step out to the parking lot for a little one-on-one therapy. It was called common courtesy, or at least common sense. But nowadays they just hide behind keyboards and don’t have to answer for their lack of civility. Guess I’ll never get used to the complete lack of manners in some folks.

Courtesy is contagious… but being polite well..that’s taught. I couldn’t agree with you more Tech First. Guess that why I like the venue here on DTN for the most part folks adhere to the "golden" rule and keep it civil. Look forward to the next posting. Go Raiders!

Having been born and grown up for 10 years in arkansas you’d think i might have heard of Tech from the old SWC… but that wasn’t the case, the farthest back i can remember of seeing football with any kind of understanding was SEC games and what not. i moved to the washington DC area when i 10 or so and football just isn’t that big a deal… except for the half time shows… i became a big band nerd all through high school. i was lucky to live in an area that was great for music development… you may ask what that has to do with tech… WELL i’ll tell you ;) when i came time to audition for colleges i auditioned all over the place South Carolina, Youngstown State, the REAL UT (University of Tennessee) LSU, and at the last minute i heard about this random guy that taught out at a place called Texas Tech in a town i never heard of called Lubbock. Turns out he’s a phenomenal saxophonist and liked how i played, i got a scholarship to go here. naturally joined the goin’ band from raiderland and from experiences with that have been hooked ever since and have sortta just gone crazy nuts about college football and everything texas tech.

I’m starting the fall as a 5th year senior, studying for a music ed degree. it’ll take me 6 to get out after my student teaching and all. but i don’t know that i want to teach. i compose music a lot and have gotten lots of cool opportunities along the way. You might could see a documentary on PBS soon that has my music on it! :) I have a feeling i’ll be a LONG time fan of texas tech! die hard!

Set the tone for Tech bands years ago and it is still strong, as the Goin’ Band is among the BEST in the country. Congratulations and I will be praying you are very successful. While there, look up Jack Woody. His family ran, maybe still runs, Woody Tire Company in Lubbock (on 50th, just East Ave. Q, I think). He was a Monterey and Tech grad, while serving as their drum major, way back in the 60’s. Great guy who survived cancer many years ago, losing one eye. Say “Hello” for me.

I am in the graduate accounting program at Tech and I am a third generation Texas Tech Student. My first Tech jersey was a black Byron Hanspard jersey, and my first football game to attend was the 2002 UT – Tech KK shootout in which we came out on top… for those wondering why it took me so long to go to a game, it is because I grew up in Colorado and moved to Lubbock for college.

My name is Travis and I’m a current grad student at Tech working on my MSA (Master of Science in Accounting). I also completed my undergrad in accounting at Tech finishing up in May of 2008. I spend this past spring (January – May) doing in an internship in London with Deloitte. It was a fantastic time and I just received a full time offer for when I graduate which is putting me under a bit of stress as this is probably the largest decision of my life so far. I check DTN daily and truly can’t get enough of it.

I’m currently living in Plano (where I’m originally from and graduated high school) doing another internship with Pricewaterhousecoopers in Dallas. I start school back up this fall for my last year as a student and my last year to make every home game. I’m really looking foward to it.

Seth, you do an outstanding job and I wanted to say thanks again for all your hard work.

I bet you guys do get tired of the constant BS down there in liberal-loonie-land. I’ve got a Whorn in the office next to mine and I have to whip out my screensaver on a regular basis: (to make it better, the guy on the other side of him is from LSU)

I graduated from Tech in ‘98 with a double major in Accounting and Mechanical Engineering. I grew up in Odessa so working in the Oil Patch seemed to be a natural fit after graduation.It was an industry that I had worked in ever since I was 13 years old and was working on drilling equipment in my granddad’s shop. I have worked for several of the Majors, such as BP and Chevron all over the lower 48, Alaska and Gulf of Mexico offshore. I spent most of my career in Midland which is a great place to raise kids. I now work for an independent Oil Company in Midland and I actually love my job. I spend most of my time in Southeast New Mexico and West Texas.

I am married and have a son (9) and a daughter (11). I bought season tickets as soon as my daughter was born so I could start the indoctrination process early. Even with our busy schedule of juggling kid activities and sports in the Fall, we still try to make every home game. My best Tech memories are either last year’s Crabtree catch or the Zach Thomas interception for a TD against A&M. My worst memories are all the Cotton Bowl’s but especially the ugly fluttering field goal that Alabama kicked against as time was expiring in the 4th. My first TECH game was against SMU in the mid 80s when Tech had a chance to upset the #2 Mustangs but let them run a kickoff back as time expired to lose the game. (ouch).

I love Tech Football and I really love the fact that there is an intelligent forum like Double T Nation to actually discuss it. Great Job Seth! This site has probably the best information out there.

Get your Guns Up,

Paul Porter

So I just got back from Dallas this weekend and can now post in this thread.

Basic rundown:
Graduated 2006 (in December, so I got 5 football seasons :D)
Live in Austin, just bought a house.
Work on medical clinical software.
Looking for the million dollar idea.

I’m Barry, graduated in ‘05, started following Tech football religously in the 2000 range…
I live in Houston and got to see Tech vs. ECU in the then ’Gallery Furniture.com Bowl’ (at this point I had never seen an offense so dynamic as the one Mike Leach presented). When I attended Tech from ‘01-’05 I never missed a home game… now living back in Houston I go to Tech games as they come to me (Rice, U of H, etc)

My family has always been into the Raiders, my Grandmother was in the first classes at Tech that allowed women, and my Aunt and Uncle are both huge alums, and big time supporters of Texas Tech. My cousin also just got admitted into Tech and will begin classes in the fall (sounds like a good excuse to sneak away and catch some home games this year).

Just got in from California for a week. Some great Tech stories here I see!

I grew up in a small town here in the Panhandle. Never cared much for college football until ’89 while I was a Sophmore at Tech. A couple friends took me to see Tech beat number 19 ranked Arizona I think. We had seats on the front row in the corner by the tunnel where apposing teams come down onto the feild. We were three sheets in the wind by halftime. And the Arizona players were the “beneficiaries”. We hurled all kinds of “pleasantries” their way each time they went to and from the locker room. After the game a security guard had to come and stand between us THREE and the apposing players cuz several had stopped in front of us and were threatening to come into the stands(raising their helmets and flipping us off in frustration),,,LOL. Not my proudest moment to be sure…but I was hooked on Tech football from that day forward.

I was there when Zach beat A&M, when our horse died(RIP), when the A&M fans refused to eat our goal post, when Taureen beat O Who on the last play of the game, and when Mr Crabtree was dogpiled about ten yards from me after that unbelievable play he made to beat Texas.

Hometown is San Antonio
Graduated 2005, Civil Engineering
Still in Lubbock about to finish a long-term project.
Will be moving back to SA very soon, but will keep my season tix.
Work has been busy, but looks like I’ll have it a little easier soon so more time on DTN!

Key Stats:

• Born and raised in Lubbock, TX

• Graduated with a Dual BA in PoliSci and History in 1995

• Attending Tech football, basketball and baseball games since I was 7 years old

• Lived outside of the US for almost 10 years (last 6 in London) where I came for B-school and am now active in European real estate investment

• Two small kids: a boy, 3, and a girl, 1.

• Miss Texas every day, and even though I’m a converted Euro city boy now, hope one day to make it back.

• On any Saturday night over the past 10 years you will have found me huddled over the internet at anytime between 7:00pm to 4:00am listening to 95% of Tech games (my now-wife thought I had another girl friend until I convinced her otherwise, and she still married me anyway). The other 5% on TV and of course. . .

• Last year, decided on Wednesday (at the relentless urging of my Boys) to go to Lubbock for the Tech-UT game. Flew out on Friday. Couldn’t get in until Saturday morning and flew back Sunday night. To be there was the best Tech experience ever.

• This year planning to bookend UT and UH games around a business trip.

• Football: Huge Leach fan. Cannot understand why we don’t hire TCU’s defensive coordinator and replace Ruffin. Seriously, what’s the marginal cost ($100k?)

• Basketball: Think that we sacrificed the long term interest of the basketball program to bring in Bobby Knight (possibly the world’s greatest coach and equally one of its worst recruiters) in the short term. Also think that James Dickey (arguably one of the best recruiters in the 1990s while being an atrocious floor coach) got absolutely railroaded in the process. Mixed feelings on Knight Junior.

• By far the best Tech site with the best informed fans. Kudos to Seth C on an amazing achievement. Hope to keep contributing for a long time to come.

• Looking forward to a rebuilding year, but hoping for 8 to 9 wins. Then watch out 2010!

• Go Red Raiders!

but I plan on being a vocal critic this year. We are extremely thin in the front and raw in the back. I think as an emerging national program we just have to be better at the defensive coordinator position.

What’s impressive about TCU is that what they do on defense is akin to what we do on offense which is to maximize relative lack of talent with very efficient and smart schemes. That starts with smart coaching.

As I’ve stated in previous posts, our defense started 2008 with a whimper, improved for a few games in the middle of the season, and fell apart at the end of the year. That was with two to three NFL caliber players

Ruffin argues that simplifying his schemes allows players to play with more raw agression. However, we saw little evidence of this benefit. Bob Stoops and others were easily able to devise a game plan which left us exposed on too many occassions.

Remember, our defense ended the year as the 80th ranked total defense in the country (two spots lower than Toledo). Ruffin has hardly cemented his future.

The recruiting powerhouse which is TCU, by the way, finished the season ranked number 1 in total defense. Heck, San Jose State finished number 21 – how hard would it be to attract that defensive coordinator to Tech?

I graduated in 1992 from Tech. I have 2 older brothers who also graduated from Tech. I am a self employed architect and have an office in Plano and also live within 2 miles of my work. I am a huge Tech fan and live and breath Texas Tech football especially during the season. I have 2 daughters who are 1 and 4 who will some day also be red raiders. I really enjoy this web site as most of the people on here always seem to represent what I feel like tech is all about. Lots of knowledge and facts to pull from when wanting to learn more about my team and school. Red raiders always in my mind stand for integrity and I feel like that is what we have on this site. Seth you’ve done a great job here.

Born in Lubbock, though raised on the east coast and southeast most of my life as an Air Force brat. Spent any school vacations in and around Lubbock my entire life as that’s my mother’s home as well. I’ve been a Red Raider fan from day one. Everyone in my family has either attended or graduated from Tech, so it’s a genetic thing, I think. I headed to Tech for college and an ill-fated attempt to walk on to the baseball team (eschewing a books only scholly from Elon College in NC)…best decision I’ve ever made.

Graduated in ’92 with a BA in English, joined the USAF, went to grad school at Central Michigan, got out of the Air Force and bounced around California for a few years before heading back home to Texas.

Recently went to the dark side as I took a job with the University of Texas Medical Branch as the deputy director of clinical operations. Still weird getting money from UT, but I laugh out loud every two weeks.

Usually hit two home games and one road game every year, though that may dial back since we welcomed a baby girl to the brood in January. I tend to get pretty worked up by the games and have made a vow to tone it down a little for the sake of family peace this season. We’ll see how that goes, though I’m not optimistic I will succeed.

Love the work Seth has done and the time and effort he’s put into giving all of us a place to spout off. Though we can agree or disagree on various topics, there’s nothing like being surrounded in the world wide webisphere by fellow Red Raiders. This is one of the only sports blogs I’ve encountered where the conversation leans high brow and semi-intellectual. Big kudos to all the DTN voices.

Graduated Texas Tech University in 2005, with a BA. Graduated Baylor Law School in 2008. Currently practice in McKinney, Texas.

I have absolutely no allegiance or interest in BU sports. Everyone, for four generations, in my family went or is going to Texas A&M University. Being that I am from a Class 1A High School less than an hour away from TAMU, I went to Tech to get away from all of that. Truly one of the best decisions I made.

Currently have season tickets, and try to make at least 3 home games and 2 away games every year. I appreciate the efforts everyone puts in to make this site what it is.

the most favorite thing I do each year. I love hearing from you guys (and gals?) and your backgrounds.

Hi I’m Elissa. I’ve been reading DTN for a while but never really felt the need to contribute. Generally whatever I’m thinking gets stated by someone else.

I graduated with an BS & MS in Industrial Engineering in ‘05 & ’06. Spent 4 years in the Goin’ Band. (Saxamaphone!) 1st exposure to Tech was thru my 2 older cousins who attended while I was in Elem and JH. Also one of my best friend’s parents are both Alums and took all of us girls to various games throughout HS. My 1st Tech game was the ‘98 Texas game (Woohoo for beating Texas in the R.Williams battle). Can’t begin to elaborate on all of the great memories related to Tech football. Love having season tickets as an excuse to go back and visit friends and yell alot.

Just want to say that y’all provide great information. I love being more informed than all my friends!

Long time reader, first time poster. I graduated from Tech in Dec. ’05 with a degree in communication studies. I found this blog in 2006 while i was on lunch at work. Been reading it ever since.

Son of Louis a great warrior of the South Pacific and Korea.
I was born in the year of Eisenhower’s reelection, the year "In God we trust" was put on our money, the year Elvis first swung his hip into the hearts of women, the year the warrior Salk slays the dreaded monster Polio, the year Jackson Pollack splattered his blood on the dash of car.
I am a child of the great high plains; I do not fear heat, cold, ice, hail, snow, the wrath of cumulonimbus, and least of all wind.
I spent my youth flying the highways of between Lubbock and Amarillo on two wheel steeds of Iron in search of women of high moral character and large breast.
Luck was with me, I never heard the song of the Sausage Creature, and I found a woman of high moral character.
I make my living with camera and chemistry, I enjoy shooting guns from the 19th century because they belch fire and brimstone, and smell of the breath of dragons.
I can read and interpret with my own brain, so I view A.M. Radio and opinion T.V. as the new opiate of the masses.
 I sent both my kids to Tech.
If you read this and do not understand why I love Mike Leach and the Texas Tech Red Raiders, I suggest you check with you holy man and ask why you have no soul.

I am Max, I am part of the TT Nation.

A scholar and wordsmith is amongst us! A bender and capturer of light itself.

Howdy!
Tech Graduate of ‘00.
Was a Saddle Tramp in 96. I was the first Treasurer of the refounding chapter of Pi Kappa Phi. Huge Tech Football fan! Just married the love of my life who happens to be an aggie. Her father got his masters at Tech and was an assistant football coach to Spike in the late 80’s. My brother and his wife graduated in 01. I love Tech! I love talking about Tech Football. If you’re ever in a Dallas bar durring a televised football game and you see an annoying guy in a Tech Jersey running around the bar ringing a Saddle Tramp bell as loud as he can when Tech scores, odds are… it’s me.

Wreck ’Em!

Hey y’all! Another Raider Girl here! My name is Kathy — KO for short — and I’m a 2004 English/Comms Studies grad. I live in Lubbock with my husband Luke (BA Psychology 2005) and our dogs…wait for it…Raider and Matador! My parents both went to Tech, so I grew up hearing stories about haunted dorms and the Goin’ Band and knew Tech was the place for me. I’ve always been a huge football fan, and spending those years in the student section just solidified my love for the RED RAIDERS. The Jones on a Saturday afternoon is the greatest place on earth!

I have read DTN for a couple of years now, and I really appreciate all the effort Seth & others put into it. I don’t pretend to know everything about football (I know just enough to get me into trouble!), but I do enjoy following it & continually learning more about it. I’m happy to be able to contribute next week as I’ll be sending in pics from Leach Women’s Clinic, so be on the lookout!

Thrilled to be part of Raider Nation, and now Double-T Nation. Wreck em!

Hey there Seth –
Thanks for all the great work you do here – I am an infrequent post-er, but a frequent reader of this very informative Tech blog.
I was born in Abilene in ‘56, raised in Lubbock from ’58 to ’65; grew up in Odessa. I attended Tech from ’75 to ’80. Fortunate to be in Saddle Tramps – even luckier to serve as Raider Red in the Fall of ’77.
I have lived out here in San Francisco for the last 20 years – last year may have been the best year to be a California Tech fan (right up there with the whipping we gave to Cal in the Holiday Bowl in ’04!).
Looking forward to another exciting season – Let’s Go Tech! Wreck ’Em!