Viva The Matadors · Apr 20, 2017
If you could relocate Texas Tech, where would you move it?
Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty ImagesI transferred to Texas Tech from the University of Missouri after my sophomore year, and one of the first phrases I heard when I got to campus was “Lubbock or Leave It.”
I understand the sentiment. People typically are either enamored with or repelled by the city of Lubbock, and I think a lot of that is contingent upon where you’re originally from. I was born and raised in Austin, so my perception of Lubbock was “desolate, dusty puragtory.” Please, Lubbock friends, take no offense to these words. They are simply a product of my upbringing in the shadows of UT.