Why is Tech so confident?
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Tech suffers from the same thing that caused TX A & M to leave the big 12: The Univ of Texas Inferiority Complex Syndrome.
Its a malady that their is NO known cure for the only thing you can do is to leave whatever conference where the Univ of Texas resides.
btw is that what happened to Nebraska?
Its a malady that their is NO known cure for the only thing you can do is to leave whatever conference where the Univ of Texas resides.
btw is that what happened to Nebraska?
As a note of awareness to Tech fans who have arrived here for the game (and players, for that matter), those tall, green things you see coming out of the ground are called "trees." Lubbock having 20,000 more people than Des Moines proper doesn't make it appealing whatsoever. It's still Texas.
When Tracy Gahan (a McKinney, Texas, girl and former ISU WBB star) was on a cable access panel answering questions from the public, she was once asked where her least favorite place in the Big 12 was to play. She said "Lubbock... because Lubbock's just nasty." Being a Texas girl until she left for college, I would think she knows what she's talking about. Consider that she also had Waco as an option as well.
When Tracy Gahan (a McKinney, Texas, girl and former ISU WBB star) was on a cable access panel answering questions from the public, she was once asked where her least favorite place in the Big 12 was to play. She said "Lubbock... because Lubbock's just nasty." Being a Texas girl until she left for college, I would think she knows what she's talking about. Consider that she also had Waco as an option as well.
It should be noted that city smack is incredibly lame. Unless you are living in some sort of paradise then anyone from a different part of the country is going to be able to call out things about a particular town and make fun of them. For example people make fun of the city I live in - Houston - for being a concrete jungle/swamp/110 degrees + humidity/Mexico/blah blah blah. Despite it being a booming economy of 6 million+.
Lubbock is not a bad town. Its not for everybody, but obviously 230k people seem to like it well enough. The 100 degree summers aren't so bad when you realize that theres no humidity to speak of, making it 80 degrees in the shade and 70 degrees at night, plus the standard 15-20 mph breeze that is almost always going. Lubbocks weather (outside of the occasional spring time dust storm) is actually quite fantastic, but I wouldn't expect you guys to know about that unless you were actually there for longer than a day. I would live in a location with that kind of weather in a heartbeat.
I would have stayed in West Texas if I was able to make the kind of money that I am able to make in the big city. Its too bad that all the best jobs are migrating to the metroplexes.
I will knock on Lubbock for this: The roads, while organized great and traffic is not a problem, suck completely except for the highway. If you have a car low to the ground like I do, it will get destroyed. I don't ever see anyone but Red Raiders comment about this though, lending credence to the idea that most forum posters actually havent been to Lubbock and just make fun of it based on heresay.
Anyway, back on topic:
Tech fans are confident going into Iowa because we are always confident at this point in the season. We are undefeated and our team is looking good. We know we have played nobodies, but for those of us who follow the program closely (attend practices, break down film as a hobby, etc) we can see that this team is way ahead of last year's team at this time. We feel good about our chances because we are fielding our best players while we didn't last year. Things like that. I agree that some predictions on Raiderpower have changed lately to some blowout numbers, and I find that a little odd myself, but I still understand that our fans are just confident.
Its the same thing you see here. Lots of ISU posters are confident that they will crush TTU. Should they be? I don't know. But I know that going by the idea "we crushed them last year" is not good because teams deliver eachother beat downs from year to year all the time.
Wow, ended up writing more than I expected. Time to watch the Baylor/WVU game!
Lubbock is not a bad town. Its not for everybody, but obviously 230k people seem to like it well enough. The 100 degree summers aren't so bad when you realize that theres no humidity to speak of, making it 80 degrees in the shade and 70 degrees at night, plus the standard 15-20 mph breeze that is almost always going. Lubbocks weather (outside of the occasional spring time dust storm) is actually quite fantastic, but I wouldn't expect you guys to know about that unless you were actually there for longer than a day. I would live in a location with that kind of weather in a heartbeat.
I would have stayed in West Texas if I was able to make the kind of money that I am able to make in the big city. Its too bad that all the best jobs are migrating to the metroplexes.
I will knock on Lubbock for this: The roads, while organized great and traffic is not a problem, suck completely except for the highway. If you have a car low to the ground like I do, it will get destroyed. I don't ever see anyone but Red Raiders comment about this though, lending credence to the idea that most forum posters actually havent been to Lubbock and just make fun of it based on heresay.
Anyway, back on topic:
Tech fans are confident going into Iowa because we are always confident at this point in the season. We are undefeated and our team is looking good. We know we have played nobodies, but for those of us who follow the program closely (attend practices, break down film as a hobby, etc) we can see that this team is way ahead of last year's team at this time. We feel good about our chances because we are fielding our best players while we didn't last year. Things like that. I agree that some predictions on Raiderpower have changed lately to some blowout numbers, and I find that a little odd myself, but I still understand that our fans are just confident.
Its the same thing you see here. Lots of ISU posters are confident that they will crush TTU. Should they be? I don't know. But I know that going by the idea "we crushed them last year" is not good because teams deliver eachother beat downs from year to year all the time.
Wow, ended up writing more than I expected. Time to watch the Baylor/WVU game!
Seems kind of counterintuitive to be browsing a message board of written text and not read, doesn't it?
I've been to Iowa City, Lincoln, Lawerence, Columbia, Las Vegas, Manhattan and Lubbock and Stillwater. Lubbock was by far the worst destination. Bad location and the fans were the rudest I have run into at an away game. ISU also lost that night, badly, and they were still jackwads.
Once again, the big difference in fan base perspective. No ISU fan really thinks we will smash Tech. Half the posts I read from Tech fans think they will smash ISU. So, in conclusion, Tech fans are more delusional than confident considering Tubberville HIMSELF said he doesn't know much of anything about his team yet due to their competition. So, there you have it.
Lubbock and DSM have nothing in common. Lubbock is a hole with a metro pop of under 300k. DSM is more diverse and has a metro pop of 600k. Lubbock is ugly, and smells bad and is in the middle of nowhere. If TT was not there Lubbock would be Odessa.....and that is not good at all.
The Lubbock skyline, rising off the Llano Estacado like a Cleveland Steamer off a flat girls chest.
