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Texas Tech football: Team records that may never be broken

By Matthew Conner

LUBBOCK, TEXAS - OCTOBER 19: The Will Rogers and Soapsuds statue is pictured before the college football game between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Iowa State Cyclones on October 19, 2019 at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images)
LUBBOCK, TEXAS - OCTOBER 19: The Will Rogers and Soapsuds statue is pictured before the college football game between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Iowa State Cyclones on October 19, 2019 at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images) /
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Texas Tech’s Masked Rider rides on the field (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images)
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500 career tackles

We can all agree that Jordyn Brooks was the best linebacker this program has produced since Zach Thomas.  A 2019 second-team All-American, he was a four-year starter who finished his career with 360 career tackles.

However impressive that number may be, it’s still 140 tackles short of the school’s all-time record, 500, which belongs to Lawrence Flugence.  The Houston LB was a Red Raider from 1988-2002 averaging 125 tackles per season.

You will find his name three times on the program’s list of top ten seasons in terms of tackles by one player.  In 2002, he set a school record with 193, his 2000 season total of 153 is third-most, and his 145 in 2001 sit at No. 8.

Since Flugence graduated, Cody Davis had the most career tackles of any Red Raider with 362.  What’s more, the only other players in program history with over 400 tackles are Brad Hastings (480) and Kevin Curtis (430).

In the years following Flugence’s record-setting 2002 season, the most tackles a Red Raider has had in a season has been Micah Awe with 126 in 2015.  He would have to have repeated that feat three times to overtake Flugence and considering that he never had more than 69 tackles in any other season, he never came close.  That just shows how improbable it will be for anyone to replace Flugence atop the all-time tackles list.

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