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Ben Habern

Habern was heavily recruited starting early in his junior year across the country receiving scholarships from Oklahoma, Arizona, Florida State, Miami (FL), Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech).

Dan Cook

The Yale Book of Quotations later concluded that it first appeared in print in 1976, attributed to Texas Tech sports information director Ralph Carpenter, and was a variation on an old Southern saying.

Greg Schorp

With the #5 Aggies trailing Texas Tech 17-16 with time running out in the fourth quarter on a third-and-long play, quarterback Jeff Granger broke away from Tech's Dusty Beavers to avoid a sack deep behind the line of scrimmage.

John Scott, Jr.

In January 2013, Scott was hired as the defensive line coach for Texas Tech under head coach Kliff Kingsbury.

Longhorn Spurs

The ridge was visited and so named by the Texas Tech Shackleton Glacier Party (1964–65) because of the resemblance of the spurs to the horns of longhorn cattle.

Mason Crosby

Mason's father, Jim, was a running back in college for the UTEP Miners and graduated from Texas Tech.

Rex Hadnot

Rex is a cousin of former Texas Tech running back James Hadnot, a third-round draft choice of the Kansas City Chiefs in 1980 who played with the Chiefs through 1983, and also a cousin of former NBA-ABA basketball player Jim Hadnot.

Robert Prunty

Prunty held the position at Hargrave until the end of the 2009 season, accepting the position of defensive ends and outside linebackers coach for Texas Tech under head coach Tommy Tuberville.

Texas Longhorns baseball

Texas's rivalry with Texas Tech dates back March 22, 1968, when the Longhorns beat the Red Raiders 7-5 in Lubbock.

United States administrative law

The Texas Tech Administrative Law Journal specializes in administrative law topics.

Vince Ferragamo

Ferragamo capped off his college career by leading the Huskers to a victory over Texas Tech in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl in the Houston Astrodome.


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2002 Tangerine Bowl

After Clemson forced a safety, Wes Welker scored on a 59-yard punt return to make it 31–2, Texas Tech.

2007 UTEP Miners football team

Texas Tech got on the scoreboard first when Kobey Lewis rushed up the middle for a one-yard touchdown with Alex Trlica making the point after.

2011 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team

Texas Tech's final touchdown in the fourth quarter came as true freshman Ronnie Daniels, a graduate of Albuquerque's La Cueva High School, ran in the ball from nine yards out.

Boyd, Texas

Billy Joe Tolliver, former Texas Tech and San Diego Chargers QB, among others, is from Boyd.

Dirk West

Thus there was the dim-witted Texas A&M Aggie, the devout but overemotional Baylor Bear, the arrogant University of Texas at Austin Longhorn and of course Raider Red, whose bullet-riddled Stetson showed by the number of holes the number of game losses for Texas Tech so far that season.

Two of his characters would eventually be officially adopted by their respective universities: Texas Tech's Raider Red and the University of Nebraska's Herbie Husker.

Ed Wilkes

Wilkes was a member of the Southwest Rotary International, National Association of Farm Broadcasters, Texas Tech Ex-Students Association, and the National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech.

Graford, Texas

Billy Gillispie- Former Head Coach of University of Kentucky and Texas A&M University Men's Basketball team and current head coach of Texas Tech University Men's Basketball team.

Jo Carr

She graduated from Texas Tech and worked as a professional Girl Scout in the Texas Panhandle.

Kristy Curry

As head coach of the Texas Tech Lady Raiders, following the retirement of Hall of Fame coach Marsha Sharp, Curry embarked upon a rebuilding program as her tenure began in 2006, facing the challenges of new-era recruiting and the increased talent prevalent in the Big Twelve Conference, especially Big Twelve South opponents Baylor, Oklahoma, Texas, and Texas A&M, all of whom were frequently ranked in the Top 25 and contending for the national championship.

KTTU-FM

The name of the station, "Double T 104.3" refers to Texas Tech's Double T logo.

KUPT

The station broadcasts about 50 basketball games each year from Texas Tech and the Big 12 Conference.

Margaret Formby

She served as president of Friends of the Library and the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech from 1986–1987 and was a board member of the National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech from 1983–1985, having worked to develop the "Cowboy Symposium" held there.

Mary Tate Engels

She has co-written five romance novels under the pseudonyms Cory Kenyon and Corey Keaton with Vicki Lewis Thompson and two non-fiction books for Texas Tech University Press.

Raider Red

Jim Gaspard, a member of the Texas Tech Saddle Tramps student spirit organization, created the original design for the Raider Red costume based on a character created by Lubbock, Texas, cartoonist and former mayor Dirk West.

Richard E. Cavazos

He is the brother of Lauro Cavazos, former Texas Tech University President and former U.S. Secretary of Education.

Robert Prunty

Following head coach Tommy Tuberville's departure to Cincinnati, Prunty remained a member of the Texas Tech staff through the 2012 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas.

Seth Doege

Additionally, Doege became the second quarterback in Texas Tech history to pass for more than 4,000 yards in consecutive seasons, following former quarterback Graham Harrell.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) offers programs in Allied Health Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy.

Texas Tech University School of Music

Texas Tech University School of Music is a school within the College of Visual & Performing Arts at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

Vance T. Holliday

During his time at Texas Tech University Holliday worked closely with Dr. Eileen Johnson of the Museum of Texas Tech University on the Lubbock Lake Project located in northwestern Texas.