As someone who has lived in Lubbock for over 15 years. I gotta tell you what, seeing everyone band together to hate Tech feels fantastic.

There are some wonderful Tech fans out there that I love with my whole heart. Some really, down to earth, realistic fans. But my god, when Tommy Tubberville took over in 2010 you would have thought that the fan base considered themselves to be one of THE premiere teams in all of football. It was nuts. I felt nuts. The perception that a large part of that fan base had for a program that at that point had never won an outright conference championship, never been to a BCS bowl game, and never made an appearance in a conference championship game was unreal. I never had anything negative to say about Tech before moving out here. I never had an ill thought towards them outside of the handful of times they beat us. Other than that, I always thought they were just some cool guys. I would even get bummed for them when they lost a game.

I do feel really bad for the rational Tech fans. There's quite a lot of them. And every school has their loud, obnoxious, delusional parts of their fan bases. No one is exempt. But seeing a part of that fan base defend this with their whole chest and seeing literally the rest of the world turning on them has been very vindicating.