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I had never been to Lubbock, Texas.

Odd, right?

Much as I love Mike Davis.

I'd never been to a Texas Tech home game. I was at the famous Tech versus University of Texas game where Crabtree snatched that pass out of the air and scored and brought Texas Tech up to number two in the country. I was like many people, the biggest fan in my own mind of the pirate there ever was.

I've always watched Texas Tech from a distance.

We got an email years after we started on the air from BJ Simmons.

A great quarterback just went in their Hall of Fame this past November.

And I've had a lot of friends from tech over the years.

Grant Patterson, who's one of our top sellers, is a very proud tech alum.

I've told the story that the 2000 election, there was a group of us that were on the strike force,

and we got tickets to everything at the Bush inauguration in 2001.

And I remember it was a snowy, icy night.

And my wife and I were driving along at 10 miles an hour, just scared to death. We were going to

skid off the road. And when you walked into this big facility, the Texas room was the most

exclusive group. And that was the campaign's kind of inner circle. That's where I told you I met

Darrell Royal and Troy Aikman and Tony Dorsay. It was amazing. Roger Stobach. But as you entered,

the premier group that had bought out the kind of the lobby of the place was Texas Tech.

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