Well, I haven’t updated in a while. Sorry about that. Here’s a quick update.

Summer is almost over for the kids. They start Monday (August 27th). It’s been a long summer it feels like…but lots of cool things have gone on. I wish I had more time to talk about it too…but with this new job, Marla’s new job, Sports around the corner, and Randy coming into town…I just haven’t found the time.

I’ll try to send over more updates on a more regular basis too.

I guess the main focus for this post is to kick off Tech Football!!! 12 days and counting. Come on Labor Day!!!

Campaign is a combined effort on behalf of Texas Tech and the Lubbock community

July 26, 2007

Raider Power Spirit and Sportsmanship Campaign

LUBBOCK, Texas. - Texas Tech Athletics unveiled its Raider Power Spirit and Sportsmanship Campaign today designed to enhance school spirit and promote healthy sportsmanship across the university campus and the city of Lubbock.

The Raider Power Campaign is a joint effort on behalf of athletics, the university, the City of Lubbock, the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce and various community leaders. This is the first official organized spirit/sportsmanship campaign done through athletics and has been officially adopted by Mayor David Miller on behalf of the city of Lubbock.

Sportsmanship across the landscape of sport is increasingly becoming an issue that numerous organizations at the high school, collegiate and professional ranks are being forced to address. The Big 12 Conference has adopted a spectator code of conduct and Texas Tech’s campaign will follow closely along the guidelines set forth by the league.

“Sportsmanship and the spirit in which we support our teams are important to us,” said Gerald Myers, Director of Athletics. “We have a loyal and outstanding fan base, but there are areas of spirit and sportsmanship that can be improved.

The objective of the campaign is to promote spirit and sportsmanship by defining a popular Red Raider cheer “Raider Power” as: Honor, Respect, Pride and Tradition. Through these four simple words, Texas Tech hopes to maintain a distinct home field advantage yet unify Red Raider fans through this objective.

“Texas Tech teams are tough to play against at home,” said Myers. “That reputation must be maintained and developed for all sports, and it can be done with class and respect for opposing fans, teams and officials. Be loud and stay late and let the opponents experience a Raider Power crowd that is 100% partisan for Texas Tech. Do it with class by eliminating profanity directed toward opponents, throwing objects on the fields and courts, and other disparaging remarks toward opponents and officials.”

This comprehensive campaign will set forth to educate our fan base on the importance of being a good sportsman and raising the bar in regards to school spirit. Passion and rivalry both play major roles in the excitement of college sports but that energy should be used in a positive manner that celebrates the accomplishment and sacrifices of all student-athletes.

Through this effort, Texas Tech will bring together its student-athletes, coaches and fans to rally under one common ground and make Lubbock, Texas the home of the best fans in college athletics. Raider Power.

Again, no words needed, just enjoy.

P.S. If you know where these originated from and know where to get more of them leave me a comment and I’ll post them too.

This time it’s not from LogoMaid.

For those of you that follow this blog, you know that I am also an avid sports fan. I follow mostly Texas Tech University sports, but sometimes keep up with my old HS since I have moved back to my old stomping grounds. So here’s what I found. I frequent several recruiting sites. One of them being the Scout.com network, specifically Texas Tech. While thumbing through some articles I saw something that I knew I had seen some place else. I’ll quit typing and just show you:

So, I was surfin through that site above, reading about my sports and I see this:

and look close at his chest, at the B.

Yep, I’d seen that before, but first I did a search for Badger Sport to see what it was all about…and to prove what I had seen. I came to this:

And for the logo that I am ashamed to call out for lifting/ripping off the above logo, my old HS, my old stomping grounds, that I have just lost a ton of respect for:

You know, with this trend…I am really tiring of this…and maybe it’s time for a job change? Nah! It’s getting kind of fun calling these people out. I hope I get a response from someone in the Admin offices of my old HS. Heck, their site is horrible…maybe I can offer a redesign of the entire ISD system sites! Hahaha…

I am not going to give a writeup here. There are plenty of places to read about the game like at Red Raider Sports, Raider Power and the Texas Tech Official Athletic Site.

Then you have the normal sites that all run about the same stories at:

• College Football News
• Sporting News
• USA Today
• Sports Illustrated
• Yahoo Sports
• CBS Sportsline
• Fox Sports

And last, but not least is ESPN. I went there today actually and was stunned to see that they had a story titled, “Sources: Minnesota fires Mason“. Though our record isn’t something to tout…theirs was a mere 6-6, having to win their last three regular season games just to become bowl eligible. Nice recovery…but I don’t know that it was time to cut the guys throat. Mason just signed a contract extension last New Years Eve for $1.65 million a year. Oh well, news not worthy of overshadowing Tech huge win in a bowl game that they needed, the fans needed, the entire program needed. Wow, just wow.

ESPN - Tech’s Comeback
ESPN’s Insight Bowl

But the main reason for my post is to inform anyone and everyone that they can watch this historic game again at the NFL Network website. They are providing the entire game online FOR FREE and want to spread the word. Here the link to the actual story with links to the game segments: Texas Tech’s offense proves game’s never over.

I’m watching it, you should be too…at least starting at the end of the 2nd quater when it started to get good.

Here are a few images I hope RRS doesn’t get mad at me for posting. They are just teasers and you have to go there to see the rest.