I am writing to voice my immense displeasure with the 2010 Texas Tech football schedule, which was released Wednesday before being taken down. As an alumnus, donor and season-ticket holder, I find this schedule to be an insult to the fans of Tech football.
Upon announcing the relocation of the Tech-Baylor game to the Cotton Bowl, Tech Athletic Director Gerald Meyers stated a high profile non-conference game would be scheduled to make up for the lost conference home game. Looking at the current schedule for 2010, there is no such game.
The originally scheduled game with TCU would have brought national exposure and probably a very large crowd. The final two games of the 2010 season could also negatively impact Tech’s rankings in the BCS at the end of the year. Closing out against Weber State is not going to impress the voters, and I seriously doubt playing Houston on Thanksgiving weekend will result in the ticket sales the athletic department would like to generate.
After seeing this year’s student turnout for the Kansas State game I cannot imagine why you would set a home game on the same week as fall break. Hopefully some arrangement can be made with the university to move fall break weekend.
In the last two weeks of the season while other schools in the Big 12 are playing each other and still in the race for positions in the conference championship game, receiving significant amounts of exposure throughout the media, Tech will be playing an FCS team and a team from a non-automatic BCS qualifying league. Hardly the thing to keep your name in the headlines.
Tech football represents a significant investment of time and resources for my family and me. As the 2010 schedule stands, I will give a lot of consideration as to whether renewing my season tickets is worth the investment.
Fans of Tech football have sat through season after season of poor to mediocre non-conference games for the opportunity to watch four exciting Big 12 games every year.
With the 2010 season not only have you given away a home conference game, but also removed what looked like a very good matchup in the TCU game.
Hopefully this situation can be remedied in future seasons. As it stands, renewal of my season tickets will no longer be the automatic decision it has been in the past and will most likely be on a year-by-year basis depending on the quality of teams the athletic department elects to bring to Jones AT&T Stadium.
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