Texas Tech football: The funniest social media reactions to ISU loss

Though Saturday’s loss to Iowa State was hard to watch, at least it provided Texas Tech football fans with some opportunity for comedy on social media.

Sometimes, you have to laugh to keep from crying.  That’s certainly how some Texas Tech football fans felt after Saturday’s 31-15 loss to Iowa State.

While dropping a third straight game in 2020 and a fifth-straight game in the series with Iowa State is not funny, we can either allow it to make us more bitter or we can find some comedic relief to help us deal with our pain.  The following people decided to do the latter and their Twitter comedy is worth sharing.

We start with a take on the popular “how it started/how it’s going” trend that’s become so common on social media in the past few days.  Matt Helm had a funny but obvious take on that idea by posting a picture of former head coach Mike Leach for the “How it started” portion and a picture of a flaming dumpster for the “How it’s going” side of the equation.

Helm is right in the sense that Tech football has become a dumpster fire recently.  Tech is now just 2-11 against Power 5 teams in the Matt Wells era and if that doesn’t scream dumpster fire, I don’t know what does.

Meanwhile, Chase Wade had a great offer for the Texas Tech football program by volunteering to take over for Matt Wells citing his own ability to make the type of QB change that everyone who watched Saturday’s game could see needed to be made.  And he offered to give Tech better results than Wells and for much cheaper.

https://twitter.com/LuxWade/status/1315072416159338496?s=20

For what it’s worth, Wells is making an average of $3.1 million per season.  Thus far, Tech has paid him a total of $2,996,664 for eleven losses. That’s not a very good deal.

Meanwhile, Clayton Malkowsky had a genius passive-aggressive criticism of the offensive gameplan by offensive coordinator David Yost.  Posting a picture of a recipe for milk toast, he got his point across that the game plan lacked any type of creativity.

Many agree with this assessment of Yost’s offense this year.  Almost always just sticking with 11 personnel and hardly ever utilizing pre-snap motion or exotic formations to confuse the defense, the offense has gone stale of late.

In the last two games, Tech has averaged just 18 points, 370.5 yards, and 5.2 yards per play.  If that isn’t a milk toast offense, then I don’t know what is.

Meanwhile, Caprock Amy had some sarcastic sympathy for the people running the official Texas Tech football Twiter account.  Certainly, it does have to be a challenge to find a way to positively spin what we’ve seen from this team over the last two games as those sending out the program’s Tweets are tasked with doing.

Meanwhile, Lubbock radio host Rob Breaux had a great play on a classic Tony Romo meme.  Harkening back to the classic DirecTV and NFL Sunday Ticket commercial featuring the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, the meme Breaux Tweeted out a hilarious but poignant observation about Alan Bowman.

We have to be safe in assuming that what Bowman is showing his coaches in practice is worlds better than what he’s shown in the last two games (though he played only one full series against Kansas State, it was an uninspiring cameo appearance).  In games, it still looks like Bowman is playing as if he’s unwilling to stand in the pocket and take a hit.  But in practice, he doesn’t have to worry about taking any punishment, and perhaps that’s why he’s been able to perform well enough during the week to keep his job.

Finally, Lee White had one of the Tweets of the year.  After the insane spinning heel kick knockout delivered by UFC fighter Joaquin Buckley on Saturday night, Lee suggested that he needs Buckely to use that move to prevent him from watching any more Red Raider football.

The reality is that we all angry about the state of Texas Tech football and we all hate that we’ve become so cynical as a fan base.  But at least we can enjoy each other’s comic genius because, at times, it’s all that helps us get through the darkness that rooting for the Red Raiders has become.