What If Wednesday: David McWilliams & Texas Tech Football, Raiderland Hot Links Featuring Danny Amendola Still Dancing With The Stars, RIP Fernando Mania, Billy Dixon’s Big Shot & Early 70s Red Raiders and Frogs In Living Color

October 23, 2024 Ryan Hyatt Raiderland Hot-Links, West Texas, Pop-Culture, Questions Of The Day Comments Off

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Happy Wednesday, Y’all !

Busy day, so let’s hit the ground running in West Texas…

What If: What if David McWilliams didn’t leave Texas Tech after the 1986 football season?

How different is Tech football in the late 80s if McWilliams either turns down Texas or if Texas doesn’t fire Ain’t Ready Freddie Akers that year?

We will get your thoughts on some alternative history tonight on The Daily Broadcast.

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Daily Broadcast: Can TCU Really Be Texas Tech’s Rival? Surely Not…

See ya at 6:30!

Raiderland Hot Links

Each morning we’re serving them up, hot and fresh! The best links in Raiderland and beyond!

Good morning! pic.twitter.com/rckBEjJbLD
— Dane Dewbre 🌵 (@MarlandDane) October 23, 2024

The nation's premier scholar-athlete award 👏

From a pool of more than 200 candidates, @just_tahj is one of 16 finalists for the 2024 Campbell Trophy!@NFFNetwork | #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/hz8M7EgyWB
— Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) October 23, 2024

📍 Kansas City #TTW pic.twitter.com/Y5R82X7krb
— Texas Tech Basketball (@TexasTechMBB) October 23, 2024

New week, new number!

We're checking in at 14 in this week's United Soccer Coaches poll! #WreckEm | @FirstBank_Trust pic.twitter.com/Uq1tpddomB
— Texas Tech Soccer (@TexasTechSoccer) October 22, 2024

Dancing with the Stars: Whole Lotta Lubbock Edition https://t.co/XDJQoG6wns pic.twitter.com/VbVjtV45Lb
— A David Collier (@CollieronTV) October 23, 2024

A few words on Micah Hudson with more nuance than you get on most social media. https://t.co/x3VeowIKxH
— Don Williams (@AJ_DonWilliams) October 22, 2024

New Zone Star State Interview!🏀

We are joined by @TexasTechMBB head coach Grant McCasland to talk about his new roster entering year two, the landscape in the Big 12, and more!

Apple: https://t.co/4AWd164Nhp

Spotify: https://t.co/U3JD4ei4lB

YouTube: https://t.co/KWThg0WcyD pic.twitter.com/fUO7aQJEgh
— Dave Campbell's Texas Basketball (@DCTBasketball) October 21, 2024

An up close and personal look at the Big 12 Championship Belt that is awarded to the Big 12 Champion. pic.twitter.com/Fp45ybWvf9
— Neil Meyer (@MeyerNeil6) October 23, 2024

RIP "El Toro" 🙏🏻#Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuela

Few things have taken the sports world by storm like "Fernandomania" did in 1981 pic.twitter.com/JMlH05V90o
— Kevin Gallagher (@KevG163) October 23, 2024

I was lucky enough to see him in his 4th career start in the Astrodome. Fernando threw a complete game and had 11 K's. He also drove in the game's only run at the plate off of Don Sutton. Fernandomania was incredible. #RIPLegend #FernandoValenzuela 🙏https://t.co/aQCo2hbJrZ https://t.co/Av7ecoyHmn
— Ken Gelman (@kengfunk) October 23, 2024

"Old Days”
“Big Jake"
A Great John Wayne Movie,
and a Great " Bad Guy"Performance by Richard Boone.#Hollywood #movies #johnwayne #western #nostalgia #1970s pic.twitter.com/8YVE5rQEnI
— Tom's Old Days (@sigg20) October 23, 2024

Oct 23, 1981: the Frogger arcade game was released in North America. #80s pic.twitter.com/FRPDT1cMpF
— Old School 80s (@OldSchool80s) October 23, 2024

Queen entering the stage for the first time without Freddie Mercury, 1992. pic.twitter.com/yUkH6yLRDd
— 🎸 Rock History 🎸 (@historyrock_) October 23, 2024

On this day in Texas history, in 1863, the First Texas Cavalry, USA, organized by Edmund J. Davis, left New Orleans for South Texas as part of the Union effort to interdict the lucrative trade between Confederate Texas and Mexico. pic.twitter.com/ZzRzGuIAL3
— Derrick G. Jeter (@derrickjeter) October 23, 2024

The Texas Quote of the Day:

"He could eat centipedes for breakfast and barbed wire for supper without injuring his digestion, and ride all day and dance all night without missing a step."

—– Olive Dixon on her husband, the legendary buffalo hunter Billy Dixon, in "The Life… pic.twitter.com/GYJ2H30BIa
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) October 23, 2024