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Texas Tech: The Faces of Desperation

It's sad that it has come to this. But it has.

Texas Tech is doing anything to be relevant. They're desperate, so desperate in fact that it's embarrassing to watch grown men grovel.

Cody Campbell and Joey McGuire are the faces of desperation.

So butthurt are the Red Raiders about getting left in the Big 12 that their administration at every level, from the board of regents, to the president's office, even to the football coach's office, they're all willing to do anything to get anyone to listen to them and regard them as more relevant than they are.

In a flash of showmanship and false bravado, their football coach today asked for Texas to move its game with Texas State from Austin on Sept. 5, and schedule Texas Tech in Dallas instead.

Yet just minutes later, that very same coach tried to convince reporters that his quarterback who gambled on his own team should not incur significant penalties. "Maybe he should get a few games but not a whole year [I am paraphrasing here]," McGuire told reporters.

A sane man's response to such words? Joey McGuire will say anything to anybody if it helps him win a football game. He's a man who knows no bounds.

McGuire is only following the lead of his president at Texas Tech, who days earlier penned a letter to all students and alumni asking for the same thing.

The whole thing is preposterous.

They know it. You know it. We all know it.

If you gamble on your team, you're toast.

As for Campbell, his thumbprints are all over the latest senate legislation. And that legislation attempts to box in Texas and the SEC. Why is Campbell so worried about what's going on in Austin? Does he feel threatened?

Again, it's the move of desperate people. And McGuire and Campbell are the faces of desperation.

Texas Tech is embarrassing itself over and over again.

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No13Seed Jim

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Let's see:

• never, ever voluntarily play Tech in football (or any sport,for that matter).

• repeat previous bullet.

And Hell, they want Texas to give up a home game for them???? 

29 minutes ago, Boomhauer said:

Yet, , in your words, they influenced that bill more than the sec. So while I don't like tech,  they've got balls that the sec schools don't have. 

The two things are not mutually exclusive.

You can be influential yet still be a clown show. 

Andy Arnold

Supporters

Why would anyone with dignity and self respect want to go to tech? 
 

this is a twilight zone episode, right? 

Atticus

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56 minutes ago, JMarquette said:

Eh, fu*k it, schedule them. I don’t think the game would be competitive and it would prove Sark’s point.

Last time we played them, we won 57-7. That was less than 3 years ago.

We schedule them, they lose, it won't stop their bleating. Nothing to gain.

Edited by Atticus

Jbro52

Supporters

I’ve never been a Joey fan reminds me to much of Finn lol

CoachBobbyFinstock

Supporters

Texas Tech is doing anything to remain relevant. Tallest midget in the Big 12 and they know it.

Don’t ever dignify them in public again. 

Deej

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IMG_0412.thumb.jpeg.e0233f39ad59a9adcb5a48caabd9512d.jpegCody is literally paying to promote his own tweets. Clown show 

QuanCosbysBurner

Supporters

Cody Campbell is such a pompous asshole. Dudes a billionaire wasting his money on a tech school that wins literally nothing. He talks all this stuff about wanting to help college sports and he’s the legit reason it’s the way it is. 
 

All that money and he’s still what he was in college. A loser 

Game of the Century

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Lubbock has only one redeeming quality. You can get to Colorado in half a day from there.  
 

but once you did, why would you come back?

Edited by Game of the Century

Marcus Myers

Supporters

I riled some Tech fans up the other day (apparently) on X. None of them will explain to me the benefit for Texas to schedule this game. Its like they all got the same newsletter saying "schedule us now that the playing field is leveled." My response continues to be it's not as level as they think. IMO, the talent gap is still wide. 

They are beyond disingenuous. They keep acting like this is a Tech vs. Texas St/UTEP convo when they know it's Ohio St/Mich/ND, etc. that we're scheduling. 

Anything to deflect from the Sorsby debacle. Its nasty work. They want us to be their rival sooooooo bad. Its weird. 

CoachScott619

Supporters

Their fans on Twitter are a special level of special

Blaise Allen

Supporters

I would be down for the week one match up tbh.  I’m confident we would step on their neck

SB21

Supporters
2 hours ago, JMarquette said:

Eh, fu*k it, schedule them. I don’t think the game would be competitive and it would prove Sark’s point.

This right here. It’s a classic bluff. “Hey man, I bet I can beat you..,” 

Turns into “oh shhh, didn’t think you would actually accept my challenge…. Now I’m screwed!”  Middle school stuff right here man. 
 

they know they can’t beat us, but wanna talk big to the media like they ain’t scurred lol but if we scheduled em they would be looking for every excuse to not be 100% or ready. 
 

straight trash move. 

MBHORNSFAN

Supporters
8 minutes ago, SB21 said:

This right here. It’s a classic bluff. “Hey man, I bet I can beat you..,” 

Turns into “oh shhh, didn’t think you would actually accept my challenge…. Now I’m screwed!”  Middle school stuff right here man. 
 

they know they can’t beat us, but wanna talk big to the media like they ain’t scurred lol but if we scheduled em they would be looking for every excuse to not be 100% or ready. 
 

straight trash move. 

 

Not playing them makes them more mad than playing and losing to us. 

19 minutes ago, Blaise Allen said:

I would be down for the week one match up tbh.  I’m confident we would step on their neck

No!!  Never again.

Tuco Ramirez

Supporters

This is all just a misdirection to distract everyone from the fact that community college is institutionally involved in a gambling issue in which a player gambled on his own team.

Coop2395

Members
45 minutes ago, Blaise Allen said:

I would be down for the week one match up tbh.  I’m confident we would step on their neck

Do they even have a qb week 1? Don’t think Hammond would be cleared yet? And tech keeps saying they will accept a punishment just don’t think it’ll be a full year. Be funny to accept this game and watch them change to “but but he should be suspended later in the year” 

THookem

Supporters

If Tech plays Sorsby, should they be banned from college football? 

BobInHouston

Members
3 hours ago, JMarquette said:

Eh, fu*k it, schedule them. I don’t think the game would be competitive and it would prove Sark’s point.

Nah.

cdibbs

Supporters

Tech acts like Texas and A&M are the only two teams they can schedule non conference in the p4

tmataya

Supporters
1 hour ago, Deej said:

IMG_0412.thumb.jpeg.e0233f39ad59a9adcb5a48caabd9512d.jpegCody is literally paying to promote his own tweets. Clown show 

My view is call their bluff. But the terms are: they buyout the games. They pay for the venue. And Cody “big spender” Campbell pays us $50M. And throw in a softball pitcher of our choice. Why $50M? Why not. Otherwise it just doesn’t interest us. 

cdibbs

Supporters

Up the ante even more. Buy out ohio St and play in Austin week 2.

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