Centennial Chicken🌵

I’m your son now, I’m your little fella.

[Jody S. Laughter∴ @Lubbockist]

Clifford B. Jones

Clearly not enough people know about ol' Cliff but he would be on the Mount Rushmore of influential TTU leaders.

Born in 1885 in Colorado, he moved to West Texas in 1911 to work on the Swenson & Sons ranch. Rose to the position of ranch manager. Helped found the city of Spur. Mayor of Spur. Rotarian. 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason. Served West Texas with the Highway Department and the Works Progress Administration.

Founder of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce (who lobbied successfully for the formation of TTU). Served on the school's first board of regents.

He had no formal education whatsoever, but was self educated and his contemporaries said he could hold his own with any PhD on campus. Then he could switch to ranch talk on a dime and talk to the working man.

Became TTU's 3rd president in 1939. Controversially due to his lack of a degree. Students protested in favor of his appointment.

Gave $100,000 to build the football stadium in 1947.

After his term as President, was named President Emeritus and served the university for the rest of his life.

Nicknamed West Texas' #1 citizen.

In a 1968 interview, courtesy of the Southwest Collection, William Curry Holden said of him:

"Since he did not go to college, he never went through being a freshman and getting all of that out of his system—and being a sophomore and being an upper classman, getting that out of his system—and all of these other things, he’s still a freshman
at heart, with his attitude about—toward Tech and education as a whole.

I think this is exemplified a great deal by the fact when he wanted to do something big for the college, he furnished the first hundred thousand dollars to build the stadium. In other words, to him, the outside—the extra-curricular things are the things that mean much to him. Although he will give—express an interest in the academic attainments—and I guess he knows their value—the thing that excites him are the football games and the teams. He knew the players of the teams far better than he knew the members of the faculty—and followed them, and everything like that.

The same thing appeals to him that appeals to an average freshman, not the exceptional freshman at all—the average freshman—the color, the band, the flags, the size, the pageantry, the color, all of that—to him, that’s what university life is.

That’s the thing that appeals to him greatest."

I think many of us can identify with those sentiments.

Clifford B. Jones was probably the type of guy who would say, take my name off the stadium if it helps us win football games, but I hope the university finds some other way to honor him, because he should never be forgotten.

Photos courtesy @SWCArchive

[CFB Junkies @gwilkie80]

I'm fascinated by the pettiness that is the @Big12Conference . When I was living in my home state of Michigan developing my love of college sports as part of my school newspaper staff my knowledge of Tx Tech didn't extend much past Michael Crabtree's catch and their quirky coach.

But since moving to Texas I've learned a lot more. I've enjoyed following and, yes, defending them from all the virtue-signaling hypocrites who have attacked them over pulling an SEC and getting an injunction to sidetrack NCAA ineligibility. I'll go to my grave believing that if Sorsby had chosen LSU over TT we'd have heard a lot less about it and Sorsby would be suiting up this fall in Baton Rouge.

A big part of the difference is the SEC supports it's own. They've had seemingly countless injunctions in that league yet those schools don't openly criticize each other. They may hate each other behind closed doors, but if that's the case we'll never hear about it in public.

The Big 12, on the other hand, had bitter coaches and athletic directors who couldn't wait to find someone in the media to talk about internal meetings about TT and their outrage that TT would dare consider playing it's $5M portal QB after a judge made him eligible.

And now we're finding out more and more about Cincinnati doing EXACTLY what the others were accusing TT of wanting to do -- knowingly playing a QB who gambled on his own team.

Except Cincy tried to sweep it under the carpet despite being notified in 2024 according to USA Today and Sorsby's agent. Yet there is no outrage for the Bearkats from TCU's Sonny Dykes, or Kansas State's foul-mouthed Gene Taylor, or any of the others who were so outraged at TT. And ever the hypocrite, Cincy even had the gall to vote for sanctioning TT.

There's some indication that behind the scenes only Oklahoma State was supporting TT for doing what 99% of the other universities in the country would do under the same circumstances. That makes sense to me because at the end of the day TT and OSU are probably the most valuable athletic departments and the natural candidates to fill the void left by Texas and Oklahoma.

So why is the Big 12 so petty compared to the SEC when it comes to having each other's backs? My guess is the Big 12 is full of have-nots who are extremely insecure at the thought of anyone becoming the 900 lbs gorilla that TT has quickly become. In the SEC, much like the Big Ten, there are a bunch of gorillas so everyone is pretty secure.

But the Big 12 only has TT and not much else unless OSU returns to prominence or BYU continues breaking through on a regular basis. And the insecurity that comes from that fact means articles like the Iowa State write-up below are never going to defend the league heavyweight. They're just going to be petty, virtue-signaling, and bitter.

I guess the moral of the story is that have-nots seem to only be happy with other have-nots.

[Centennial Chicken🌵 @ChanceFerguson8]

Sorsby’s time as a Red Raider

[Terrance Carter jr @carterdagoat2]

So ummmm can we bring the Tortillas back 🙃

[Texas Tech Softball @TexasTechSB]

ROLLING ON!

[Cody Campbell @CodyC64]

Toughest team wins!!!

[Centennial Chicken🌵 @ChanceFerguson8]

Tech softball page doing the lords work rn

[Viva La Peagle @TexasPeagle]

Delino DeShields mentioned.

[Starcade Media @StarcadeMediaKC]

Pat McAfee had a message for those who were criticizing him for picking up the bar tab for team #USA after winning the gold medal in Milan.

- @PatMcAfeeShow

[Texas Tech Basketball @TexasTechMBB]

That 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 feeling🕺

[Jeff Goodman @GoodmanHoops]

I said Texas Tech was a 10 seed without JT Toppin.

Here was Grant McCasland's reaction to me after today's win at Iowa State.

[Chris Level @ChrisLevel]

The demise of this season was greatly exaggerated. 😏

[Jeff Goodman @GoodmanHoops]

Ok, Texas Tech ... maybe I was wrong about you.

[College Sports Only @CSOonX]

Texas Tech fans' 2026 so far:

[Ryan Hammer🔨 @ryanhammer09]

Texas Tech 8-1 in their last 9.

Comeback vs Duke, split with Houston, beat BYU. Resilient team of dogs.

Team is so good, playing exactly like the team I thought was top 5 to start the season. Hitting their stride big time.

[John @iam_johnw]

Texas tech defense seeing their offense come off the field after a 40 second rest

[Centennial Chicken🌵 @ChanceFerguson8]

@SSN_TTU Will be there! Please add!

[Centennial Chicken🌵 @ChanceFerguson8]

RED ZONE PENALTIES
HEADLESS CHICKEN ON THE WAY

[Centennial Chicken🌵 @ChanceFerguson8]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but ranked #5 would be optimal right? Home game vs g5 and no bye week that could screw us over in anyway? This makes the most sense to me at least

[Centennial Chicken🌵 @ChanceFerguson8]

UCF gunna feel this chicken