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@Spaulding!No! Texas Tea article I mentioned yesterday
If only our OL became oil tycoons
LUBBOCK — True feelings often get revealed in the digital town square.
Texas Tech fans were apoplectic after a 41-27 loss to Colorado last November. The chairman of the Tech board of regents was so mad, he posted on X that it was “awful officiating” and the Big 12 Conference should be better than that.
One fan posted that he should go buy Tech some offensive lineman.
Billionaire Cody Campbell responded, “I will.”
One social media post and $27 million later, Texas Tech has the nation’s 13th-ranked team, a 7-1 record and sits as the odds-on favorite to win the Big 12 championship and reach the College Football Playoff.
The former Tech offensive lineman turned oil tycoon is a huge reason why. The Red Raiders drilled deep into NIL and struck a gusher.
“We’re not just a one-trick pony here or this is our one year,” Campbell said in an interview with the Houston Chronicle. “We’re planning on doing this for the long run.”
Campbell firmly believes college sports have entered into a new era, one where “it doesn’t really matter if you won a national championship in 1952 or whatever.” Name, image and likeness payments, the transfer portal, a new $242-million game-changing football facility and a Tech administration that’s all pulling in the same direction? It’s a powerful drill bit.
Texas Tech is finally out of Texas and Oklahoma’s shadow in the Big 12, and the Red Raiders believe it’s their time. And Campbell, with a 6-foot-4 frame, salt-and-pepper hair and wildcatter exuberance on his side, is leaning hard into the power vacuum.
“The thing is now, what doesn’t Texas Tech have to be nationally competitive?,” Campbell said. “We have facilities, we have financial resources, we have an individual that’s committed to it. We have a fan base that’s committed to it.
“Why shouldn't we be in that position?”
Click on the link to read the rest of the article
If only our OL became oil tycoons
LUBBOCK — True feelings often get revealed in the digital town square.
Texas Tech fans were apoplectic after a 41-27 loss to Colorado last November. The chairman of the Tech board of regents was so mad, he posted on X that it was “awful officiating” and the Big 12 Conference should be better than that.
One fan posted that he should go buy Tech some offensive lineman.
Billionaire Cody Campbell responded, “I will.”
One social media post and $27 million later, Texas Tech has the nation’s 13th-ranked team, a 7-1 record and sits as the odds-on favorite to win the Big 12 championship and reach the College Football Playoff.
The former Tech offensive lineman turned oil tycoon is a huge reason why. The Red Raiders drilled deep into NIL and struck a gusher.
“We’re not just a one-trick pony here or this is our one year,” Campbell said in an interview with the Houston Chronicle. “We’re planning on doing this for the long run.”
Campbell firmly believes college sports have entered into a new era, one where “it doesn’t really matter if you won a national championship in 1952 or whatever.” Name, image and likeness payments, the transfer portal, a new $242-million game-changing football facility and a Tech administration that’s all pulling in the same direction? It’s a powerful drill bit.
Texas Tech is finally out of Texas and Oklahoma’s shadow in the Big 12, and the Red Raiders believe it’s their time. And Campbell, with a 6-foot-4 frame, salt-and-pepper hair and wildcatter exuberance on his side, is leaning hard into the power vacuum.
“The thing is now, what doesn’t Texas Tech have to be nationally competitive?,” Campbell said. “We have facilities, we have financial resources, we have an individual that’s committed to it. We have a fan base that’s committed to it.
“Why shouldn't we be in that position?”
Click on the link to read the rest of the article
