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We were left for dead in 2021. Now?
✅ Best basketball conference in the nation
✅ Four time zones
✅ Restored rivalries from the SWC, Big 8, Border Conference, and Holy War
✅ Media deal in place worth more than the last one
✅ Stability, ready to add ACC teams
LFG. Love y’all
Don’t want to hear any slander about our new Big 12 conference members.
UCF is in a huge market and has the largest student body in the country.
Cincinnati bridges the gap with West Virginia and made the CFP recently.
Houston
BYU has a national following and rich history.
Jerome Tang gets a lot of credit for relating well to the fans at K-State.
But nobody has their finger on the pulse of their team’s fan base quite like Rodney Terry. Lose, then cry that the opponent didn’t kiss your ass. Perfect coach for that fan base.
Can you imagine the life of a Kansas State fan who also roots for the Chiefs the past few months?
Beat
#3
TCU to win the Big 12, Super Bowl Champs, Elite Eight
#EMAW
Big 12 newcomers, here’s 10 THINGS that you need to know about Texas Tech and our fan base:
1. “Passionate” probably doesn’t do our fan base justice. We are loud, we protect our own, we love our school like crazy and if you piss us off we know how to hold a grudge. If you see a
Texas Tech is investing $200M in its south end zone renovation. Iowa State is investing $200M in
#CyTown
. And now K-State is investing $60M in Aggieville. $460M between the three.
Just a bunch of poverty programs that won’t be able to make it in the new Big 12, right?
Unreal. Mike Gundy finally admits Oklahoma State steals a bunch of Texas Tech traditions.
“You see them in games, they have really great traditions. The horse, we took that. The hand sign, we took that. We just call it by another name. This is a copycat industry, it just is.”
If you’re Texas A&M, here’s what you do next:
1. Hire the top assistant on the staff; he can get you back to a Super Regional in Year 1, garnering Coach of the Year honors along the way. You’ll sweep Texas if you do this and make it further than them in the tournament.
2. Do
One orchestrated the greatest turnaround in the history of the sport. The other has basically slightly overachieved (while probably cheating) given KU's basketball resources and history.
It's Snyder and it isn't close.
Six seasons as a starter. Six AFC Championship games. Three Super Bowls. Two Super Bowl titles. Two Super Bowl MVPs.
There is no Manning-Brady in the AFC or in the NFL for that matter.
It’s just him.
I like when they courtstorm. But them not doing it shows you just how much Jerome Tang has changed that culture there. Very similar to what Lance Leipold has done/is doing in Lawrence.
🚨 DECISION TIME 🚨
Country roads, take us home…
The Gamblin’ Gauchos will be pulling for West Virginia in the 2023 NCAA Tournament! ⛰️🟡🔵
Almost Heaven 📍
#HailWV
It’s time to kick Texas and OU out of the Big 12 and into a lesser conference like the SEC where they belong. Texas Tech is tired of carrying them during bowl season.
Hey everyone, the girl in the video that surfaced this morning said on instagram that the UT player was shoved into her and apologized. We obviously didn’t realize that at the time and deleted any tweets about the video once we realized. Owning up to the fact we got it wrong.
When America needed a Super Bowl MVP and a World Series champion All-Star third baseman in the same year, they didn’t call on Texas, LSU, or Georgia.
Nope, they got Texas Tech Red Raiders Patrick Mahomes and Josh Jung.
—
@KentRHance
, probably
It wasn’t quite the Big 12 basketball season we’ve all grown accustomed to. Time for a new chapter of conference schools to carry the torch into March 🫡
Kansas State’s pre-1990s history as a football program is well-known.
But for fans of the game in their 30s and 40s — a key demographic for TV advertisers — this is what they know/remember about K-State:
✅ Three Big 12 championships
✅ Double digit 10+ win seasons
✅ Seven
Colorado is coming off of a brutal stretch of football. Yet they drew this attendance despite being 0-5 at the time last year.
Passionate fans willing to show out in force: welcome home to the Big 12 🦬
“When the Texas Rangers needed an All-Star third baseman to help lead them to their first World Series title in franchise history, they didn’t get someone from Stanford, Texas, or Vanderbilt. They got Texas Tech Red Raider Josh Jung.”
— Kent Hance, probably
UCF fans talking about how there’s nothing to do in Lubbock like we don’t have Joyland. The only amusement park they have in Orlando is Disneyland, like that even compares.
Kentucky fans can cry about this all they want, but Tang is 100% right. No team is entitled to win by showing up with a certain name across their chest. Kentucky had their chance to line up and beat K-State, and they didn’t get it done.
Jerome Tang has chosen violence: “All those old dudes that played for Kentucky; they ain’t coming back… Tradition does not help you if you don’t get out there on the floor and play with some dudes.” 😐
#BBN
Michigan State is one of the most prestigious basketball programs out there, but they’ve struggled to get past the sport’s historic blue bloods in the NCAA Tournament in recent years.
One way to measure the passion and loyalty of a fan base is to see if they continue to show up through rough patches.
Big 12 bound Colorado far outpaces the
#Pac9
in fan support, and the numbers show it.
We deserved better than being lied to by
@TJAltimore
. He should apologize!
Bridges represent some of the greatest achievements of human engineering and architecture. Here are 12 of the most extraordinary:
1. Iowa State University pedestrian bridge, Ames, Iowa (2023) - the world's most amazing bridge.
You should check them out before just going the route of “ew a smaller city in the middle of the country!”
Lubbock is a gem
Ames is a great college town
Waco
Stillwater has small town charm
I love watching UCF football, but the only way I'll ever go to Lubbock, Waco, Stillwater, or Ames is if I'm forced to enter the witness protection program.
Texas Tech’s apparel deal with Under Armour is set to expire in 2024. It’s an opportunity for the athletic department to align itself with its most famous alumnus, the greatest football player of all time, and be the first and only Mahomes brand school in partnership with Adidas.
Wow, the Big 12 championship game had more viewers than the ACC and Pac-12 championship games combined. It was much closer to the SEC and B1G in viewership.
This conference is going to be just fine 📈