cs69ag said:

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If you live in Lubbock, you look for any reason to leave town!

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I went to high school there and you are correct!

Luke The Drifter said:

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Proposition Joe said:

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Buzz can solve the fan problem by keeping his team in the Top 25.

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We've been in the top 25 all season and we still had a minimal number of fans at the game in Ft. Worth.

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Top 25 in December doesn't matter.

We need some seasons where we are ranked, not making a token fringe Top 25 appearance in the last week. That doesn't move the needle for casual fans to become active fans.

e=mc2 said:

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cs69ag said:

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If you live in Lubbock, you look for any reason to leave town!

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I went to high school there and you are correct!

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SAME HERE

Crapped on the bus in parking lot in Lubbock when 08 was still an undergrad at Tex A&M.

I went to Lubbock once to buy a car. That was years ago.
I don't ever want to go back. It's baffling that people choose to live there

Tobias Funke said:

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Complete Idiot said:

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At least they show up for basketball games

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Their team didn't

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Don't know about that. There best player who averages 18 points and 10 rebounds a game was out. I am not sure we would have done as good without Wade? Either way, their fans suck in every sport.

Tards spend their adult lifetimes hating on Ags and Horns because they could not get accepted by either school.

t - cam said:

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sharpdressedman said:

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Tards spend their adult lifetimes hating on Ags and Horns because they could not get accepted by either school.

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This sounds like something a longhorn would say about us. Sounds just as smug coming from an Aggie.

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In the early '80 as a student at Tech, I viewed TAMU as a kindred spirit. After all both were conservative ag schools. It was liberal Texas I disliked.

Then, I sent my daughter to TAMU in 2007 and saw lots of this same attitude you speak of. Not exactly conducive to warm fuzzy relations. But maybe thats okay, when it comes to college sports hate is more fun.

"...sent my daughter to TAMU..."

Luke The Drifter said:

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Proposition Joe said:

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Buzz can solve the fan problem by keeping his team in the Top 25.

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We've been in the top 25 all season and we still had a minimal number of fans at the game in Ft. Worth.

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He's talking about ALL the time, not just this season. But you pretty much know that.

We would have an equally supportive fanbase if we'd handled the business side differently back when BCG was here.

Dollar Bill Byrne jacked up ticket/season ticket prices hugely when the program started to take off. Hade he only made modest price increases, we could have sold a LOT more tickets/season tickets. Getting the non students to buy tickets and fill the stands with consistency is how you get people emotionally bought in to a winning program. You also have to have creative marketing for tickets for people coming in from Dallas/SA/Austin, and Houston. You want folks to make the drive because they can't stand the thought of missing the big game.

After a few years, this large group of loyal people start to push things like Reed renovation/expansion, they turn up the intensity for visting top rated programs, and these things begin to affect your recruiting results. Five or 6 years later you look up one day and say 'Holy Crap, I think we're starting to become a basketball school!'

It's a step by step process for a place like A&M. I hope Trev can remember this as Buzz starts to incrementally raise our cache as a Hoops program. Keep increasing our competitiveness, and keep doing all you can to get butts in seats at EVERY game, home and away.

Tech, and the Texas Panhandle, have always been more of a basketball area than football.

The hate is also tied to money that is guaranteed money for us and tu but tech is not included. This is the Permian Basin oil and gas money/royalties. The fund was set up as a permanent fund but well before tech was a school. They've groaned about the unfairness of that fund since I was in school. Used to hear about it all of the time from my aunt who lived in Lubbock.

Ehhhh it's tech…we are forever in separate conferences and rarely play them…other than fan forums and occasional interactions we have as much in common with uh as we do tech. Same goes for the wacoites

There is a reason that game is played in FTW and not HOU. If we ***** about that, it's our fault. Think hard about that folks.

LB12Diamond said:

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Luke The Drifter said:

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AG1996 said:

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Tells you who cares most about playing the other team.

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Tells you which fan base is more invested in its program. HTH.

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Nahh


It's more their hate for A&M. They also hate the sips and had a ton of fans at the game in Austin after the sips stole Beard.

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I don't think it was marketed very well on our end

Disappointing cause I actually don't mind tech why they hate A&M to me is very strange

Gil Renard said:

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Disappointing cause I actually don't mind tech why they hate A&M to me is very strange

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Not sure how you guys have lived in Texas this long and find the dislike strange. My longhorns friends don't like us, my Baylor friends don't like us, my TCU friends don't like us and my Tech friends don't like us.

Every other school in Texas finds us weird and off-putting, with a large dash of athletic superiority despite little actual results to show for it over the last 3 decades.

Magnified a bit more with a school like Tech where we actually hold a significant academic advantage.

But it's sports... You're supposed to not like the other guy and to talk ***** Embrace it.

Get your grades up or get your "guns up!"

Envy

Proposition Joe said:

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Gil Renard said:

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Disappointing cause I actually don't mind tech why they hate A&M to me is very strange

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Not sure how you guys have lived in Texas this long and find the dislike strange. My longhorns friends don't like us, my Baylor friends don't like us, my TCU friends don't like us and my Tech friends don't like us.

Every other school in Texas finds us weird and off-putting, with a large dash of athletic superiority despite little actual results to show for it over the last 3 decades.

Magnified a bit more with a school like Tech where we actually hold a significant academic advantage.

But it's sports... You're supposed to not like the other guy and to talk ***** Embrace it.

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I agree but everyone I know hates our passion and rabid loyal fandom. I guess the weirdness of Austin and tu or the Baptist hypocrites in waco list goes on and on

monarch said:

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There is a reason that game is played in FTW and not HOU. If we ***** about that, it's our fault. Think hard about that folks.

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Ok dad