…at The Rawls Course a couple weeks ago. Very good university golf course for a reasonable price. We played on a Thursday morning and it cost me $40. Also, some kind soul noticed the “K-State Alumni” tag on my car and stuck a golf ball with a K-State logo under my windshield wiper.

If it rains, the underpasses will flood, making it hard to get where you are going. Ask a local for the best high and dry route.

i heard a long time back, some ttu engineering guys installed the statue with the horse’s anus pointing on a direct line to college station. Anyone know if it’s true?

… yes, it is true that the back end of the horse points towards aTm on purpose.

Here are some things that won’t happen to you in Lubbock…

1. You won’t get mobbed by panhandlers and bums on every street corner like you will in Austin.

2. You won’t get robbed like you might be in Austin. in fact, if you are in a checkout line and you don’t have enough cash, someone is likely to help you out.

3. You won’t hit a deer.

4. If someone hits your car in the parking lot, they’ll probably leave a note.

5. You won’t get claustrophobia

6. If you are a man, you probably won’t get hit on by another man.

Peace

and have found that almost every restaurant had a drive through. Very convenient!

Holy Lord…my city is better than your city. How retarded is this argument?

As for degree value…anyone hear of T. Boone Pickens? OSU…and they’ll take anyone with heartbeat. It’s not where you earn your degree that counts; it’s what you do with it later.

Tech92! I’m afraid that the TU fans are practicing to be aggie. If you’ll remember aggie week, all we heard was “we have better academics”, and “there’s nothing to do in Lubbock”.

I did laugh at the “there isn’t a single BBQ restaurant in Lubbock” statement. That is quite possibly the stupidest comment I’ve heard since Beergut said he’d rather have aggie’s record than Tech’s.

Peace

… stop using the word “retarded”. Retards and gays on this blog are very sensitive.

I feel an intelligence vacuum

I’m not surprised.

Speaking of gayness, is not the Red Raider the gayest of all mascots? (Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but just sayin’.)

I will say that the Tech band is excellent and they have a great high school band program. I also kind of dig the spats.

I also dated a girl there who had a tattoo and she told me that Lubbock has fine tattoo establishments. I’m not a great judge, however.

Couple of quick notes from a Tech season ticket-holder and alum…

1- Lodging for this weekend is booked solid. You will probably be laughed at if you call any hotels inside Lubbock county for availability…sad that a town of 200,000+ does not have the capability or resources to house an additional 50k within it’s city limits but I digress…

2- Unfortunantely Bleachers shut down about a year or two ago, but I would only reccomend you head out to the Depot District on Friday. If you want to get a better gameday atmosphere, stick to Broadway with Crickets, Chimy’s, BarPM, etc. on Saturday.

3- You will probably have an easier time finding a hotel room than finding a ticket at face-value for this game.

Southwest corner of the stadium and the behind the south endzone are usually where the scalpers tend to set up shop.

4- In regards to the alcohol issue, yes it sucks but after 5+ years and 2 degrees worth of time out in Lubbock, you deal with it. A word of advice for anyone making the trp from Austin, the Strip is all owned by a couple of guys who are all buddy-buddy, so collusion and price-gauging happen, especially on weekends like this.

For a cheaper alternative, that is actually on the way to Lubbock, head to Wayne’s.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=waynes,+lubbock&fb=1&view=map&cd=1&safe=on&hl=en

Located right on Highway 84 it is the cheapest pricing you will see. A forewarning, the place is pretty ghetto but for cheap booze, look no further.

I would reccomend any Horns fans to take a look at some of the renovations Lubbock has been undergoing with the development of the Overton area (east of the stadium) and the continuing construction of the Marsha Sharp freeway. Yea, the wind blows and occasionally some dust will get swirled around but the city is definently starting to be transformed and for anyone who has not been out there in a while, you are in for a suprise.

Other than that, a pretty good synopsis of what to expect for the weekend. While we will not care for each other one bit come Saturday evening, let’s all be thankful that we are lucky enough to see a high-calibur matchup like this that not only shows the strength of the Big 12 this year, but moreso shows off to the country that the state of Texas still remains football king.

I went to a bar in Lubbock and I can’t remember the name. It was on one of the main strips or whatever. It had two stories and there was a big outdoor patio on the upper floor. Anybody know what it was? Is it still there?

I think the two story place with the deck is actually Mesquites. Only place I can think of off a main drag with an outdoor deck on the second floor. The service can be dicey though. For what it’s worth: I would say avoid Bar PM—it can get frat-tastically rowdy in there, and it’s not that great a place to watch a game.

To all those making the trip up-have fun and have a good time.

Oh Yeah, Barbecue. The outdoor place in the depot district across from melt has good cheap brisket wraps. It ain’t the Salt Lick, but it’s pretty good.

Cheers.