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Texas Tech football: Cons of a potential Big 12 only schedule

By Matthew Conner

LUBBOCK, TX - NOVEMBER 2: The Texas Tech Red Raiders take the field for a game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys on November 2, 2013 at AT&T Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Oklahoma State won the game 52-34 (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images)
LUBBOCK, TX - NOVEMBER 2: The Texas Tech Red Raiders take the field for a game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys on November 2, 2013 at AT&T Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Oklahoma State won the game 52-34 (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images) /
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We will have fewer football games to enjoy this year

Every year, the college football season flys by in a flash.  Just as soon as we settle into September’s rhythm of weekly games, the leaves are off the trees and we are carving the Thanksgiving turkey while watching the final weekend of the regular season.

Thus, imagine how short this season will feel with only nine games.  Taking a fourth of the season away is only going to make what is already the shortest of the major sports seasons nothing more than a flash across the calendar’s night sky.

Also, the current offseason is going to be even longer as Tech would not play its first game until September 26th, the final Saturday of the month.  That means that this already torturously long college football offseason is going to drag one for another four weeks.  And when we consider that the NCAA sports offseason has been extended by the cancellation of the NCAA Tournament and all spring sports, we are already having to endure the most prolonged absence from Red Raider sports that we’ve ever experienced.

Saturdays in the fall are special in college towns.  Each one serves as a pseudo class reunion as people from across the country return to their school, many for the first time since they graduated.

They are opportunities to celebrate and reconnect with old friends and enjoy the pageantry that makes college football unique and special.  It would be a shame if we have two fewer opportunities to do so this year.

It always strikes me when I drive by an empty Jones Stadium how the largest and most profitable building in Lubbock is only used by the community five or six times per year.  This year, Tech was supposed to have the rare seven-game home schedule but by taking away the non-conference portion, we will lose two opportunities to celebrated Red Raider football and 25% of a season that is already far too short.

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