Raiderville keeps growing!

[lonny23]

Attached is a video where the Fox 34 guys talk to Kevin Pierson, who is the Mayor of Raiderville. Kevin is the guy who started the camping out at the stadium phenomenon for Tech about 6 years ago. I know other teams do it, but Tech didn't always do it. Kevin will once again be the first person in the student section on saturday.

Anyway, they were up to 800 people camping out this morning and it was 500 last night. I expect it will be several thousand before Saturday. They've already got tents on the north side and I hope they circle the stadium with tents.

I like how they have a city council, crowd control, and a parking authority. Now they just need to talk to that terrorist Obama and ask about raising taxes!:mad:

http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/myfox/pages/Sports/Detail?contentId=7746020&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=6.1.1

[Favpack]

Attached is a video where the Fox 34 guys talk to Kevin Pierson, who is the Mayor of Raiderville. Kevin is the guy who started the camping out at the stadium phenomenon for Tech about 6 years ago. I know other teams do it, but Tech didn't always do it. Kevin will once again be the first person in the student section on saturday.

Anyway, they were up to 800 people camping out this morning and it was 500 last night. I expect it will be several thousand before Saturday. They've already got tents on the north side and I hope they circle the stadium with tents.

I like how they have a city council, crowd control, and a parking authority. Now they just need to talk to that terrorist Obama and ask about raising taxes!:mad:

http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/myfox/pages/Sports/Detail?contentId=7746020&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=6.1.1


Call me back if they have a Listeater - then you're into rabid fan territory.

BTW - is it still legal to say "Guns Up"? We lost the Red River Shoot-out, what's next?

[TTURedRaider]

Attached is a video where the Fox 34 guys talk to Kevin Pierson, who is the Mayor of Raiderville. Kevin is the guy who started the camping out at the stadium phenomenon for Tech about 6 years ago. I know other teams do it, but Tech didn't always do it. Kevin will once again be the first person in the student section on saturday.

Anyway, they were up to 800 people camping out this morning and it was 500 last night. I expect it will be several thousand before Saturday. They've already got tents on the north side and I hope they circle the stadium with tents.

I like how they have a city council, crowd control, and a parking authority. Now they just need to talk to that terrorist Obama and ask about raising taxes!:mad:

http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/myfox/pages/Sports/Detail?contentId=7746020&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=6.1.1

I was hanging out over there yesterday night with the Mayor. Im sick so I can't really camp out but I know people who are. Id live out there. It's great people just show up and give you food as well. You got everything you need pretty much.

Last year before the Texas A&M game I was sitting on a futon outside the east side playing Madden/NCAA on a big screen TV.

[tayb]

I was sent home by the APD for sleeping/passing out waiting for college game day in 2005 when Tech came into town. They didn't want people having naps on the grass by the stadium.

[lonny23]

I was hanging out over there yesterday night with the Mayor. Im sick so I can't really camp out but I know people who are. Id live out there. It's great people just show up and give you food as well. You got everything you need pretty much.

Last year before the Texas A&M game I was sitting on a futon outside the east side playing Madden/NCAA on a big screen TV.
Yeah, I read earlier they were begging for people to stop bringing pizza and start bringing something else. It's Leach's fault for taking pizza in 2006 and now everybody does it!:D

On the other hand, they shouldn't gripe too much about free food!:D

Yeah, they have TV and the whole 9 yards.

[lonny23]

I was sent home by the APD for sleeping/passing out waiting for college game day in 2005 when Tech came into town. They didn't want people having naps on the grass by the stadium.
I read just a while ago that it's OK to sleep out by the Game Day set in Lubbock, but they don't want tents. They also said they're going to clear out the parking lots on Friday evening for cars that don't have passes. I might've never bought a parking pass this year if I knew that I could just park on the Marsha Sharp Freeway like some people do!:D They're still doing construction on it and we've got cars lined up outside the normal traffc flow for every home game. I have to drive past the cars to get into my lot!:D

[lonny23]

As of 7 P.M. on the 29th:

200 tents
1900 residents

It's pretty cool reading about the events. They're going to have a BEVO-que and will hold a funeral procession for Texas in a few days. Gameday will get a key to the city and has been filming some of it.

Blog entries:

Daily Blog #1

First of all, I actually attended class today, so a good start to this years TTU/UT campout. There are now officially over 40 tents and approximately nearly 300 students. Last nights weather was quite chilly, and it was fought off with space heaters and large fires. Pizza from wreckemtech98 should arrive shortly, and the morale amongst the tudents is still high. We played many genres of music last evening, including nearly setting a world record for the largest soula boy cranking. The players have passed by and are very appreciative and are impressed with the size of the city. Everyone is switching off going to class as needed, but most of the "core" group will be present the rest of the day. Props to some alumni who provided us with hot chocolate and coffee this morning, very welcome. The line of tents nearly extends all the way down the east side of the stadium. We have established a city hall, and future plans are in the works for a poker tournement, xbox tournement, and a BEVO-Que Friday. The Red Raider spirit is definitely flying high jut as the Tech and Pirate flag fly aside city hall. We have begun the campaign to ban the "horns down" hand sign, as well as speaKING UP THE "BLACKOUT". From all of us here at Raiderville, we bid you a good day and buckle up and enjoy the ride!

#2

Thursday: We are holding a funeral service right in front of the UT flag pole in front of the training facility. The city council has pitched in to buy over 500 black roses, and we will be laying them in front of the tombstone just beside the flag pole. We will have a pastor conduct the ceremony, and Ave Maria will be playing on the sound system. The entire population will be dawned in black. (Might be a little much, but this should be a unique experience).

Friday: We will be having the Official Halloween, Mayor Sendoff, and Bevo-que. This should be a rouckus of a time with much merry making, and partaking of "refreshments". We will be grilling steaks in the shape of the infamous longhorn, and consuming them (we are asking if anyone would care to donate some meat, that would be wonderful. (Not asking anyone to feed a thousand ppl, but we could use it for our core group.)

[lonny23]

Here is the press release for Leach's annual feeding of Raiderville residents, except they don't have updated numbers. It went from 800 on Wednesday morning to 1900 on Wednesday night and will only grow as we get closer to Saturday. They already have tents from the student entrance on the East Side, around the North Side, and currently are on the West Side. They're going to wrap the stadium soon and probably on Thursday.

From Chris Cook over at Texas Tech:

Raiderville is an active and thriving community, that comes and goes with home football weekends, and establishes its niche within the city limits of Lubbock, or more specifically, Jones AT&T Stadium. Nearly 800 students and over 100 tents don the east side stadium landscape in anticipation of this weekend’s game between No. 5 Texas Tech and No. 1 Texas. To show thanks for the support and enthusiasm of the students, Red Raider Head Coach Mike Leach is teaming up with Bigham’s Smokehouse to provide bar-b-que to the residents of this budding metropolis.

Bigham’s will set up on the east side of the stadium and begin serving around 5 p.m. Thursday. At the conclusion of Thursday’s practice, which is closed to the public, Leach will make his way up the ramp and speak briefly to the gathering.

This week’s version of Raiderville began setting up late Monday afternoon and has steadily grown throughout the week, stretching from the southeast corner of the stadium around to the ticket office on the north side.

Texas Tech and Texas kickoff at 7 p.m. Saturday and the game will be aired nationally on ABC. ESPN Gameday built by the Home Depot begins its broadcast at the Engineering Key on Saturday at 9 a.m. and will continue through 11 a.m.

[okt0ber]

I was sent home by the APD for sleeping/passing out waiting for college game day in 2005 when Tech came into town. They didn't want people having naps on the grass by the stadium.

You was snoring too loudly

[okt0ber]

Attached is a video where the Fox 34 guys talk to Kevin Pierson, who is the Mayor of Raiderville. Kevin is the guy who started the camping out at the stadium phenomenon for Tech about 6 years ago. I know other teams do it, but Tech didn't always do it. Kevin will once again be the first person in the student section on saturday.

Anyway, they were up to 800 people camping out this morning and it was 500 last night. I expect it will be several thousand before Saturday. They've already got tents on the north side and I hope they circle the stadium with tents.

I like how they have a city council, crowd control, and a parking authority. Now they just need to talk to that terrorist Obama and ask about raising taxes!:mad:

http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/myfox/pages/Sports/Detail?contentId=7746020&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=6.1.1

Is that what it is, really? Or is Tech finally just becoming a real school?

[EaglePower]

Is that what it is, really? Or is Tech finally just becoming a real school?
c'mon now, wtf is this?

I'm at raiderville, got on the news hopefully they will post they bit tomorrow I will link it :)

[F18mustang]

c'mon now, wtf is this?

I'm at raiderville, got on the news hopefully they will post they bit tomorrow I will link it :)

Good to see another Raider on here.

Estimates are over 2000 people in Raiderville as of late Wednesday Night.

[dragons08]

c'mon now, wtf is this?

I'm at raiderville, got on the news hopefully they will post they bit tomorrow I will link it :)

Batch and co came by earlier, apparently noone was there...

[pied]

Is the student section general admission or are they waiting for tickets?

[WestPlano006]

We lost the Red River Shoot-out, what's next?

That was so lame. Now it's the "Red River Rivalry".... so stupid and not as cool sounding.

[F18mustang]

Is the student section general admission or are they waiting for tickets?

You pay an athletic fee in your tuition so all athletic events are "free" I guess. People camp out in Raiderville for the best seats.

[tayb]

And they would still arrest you for trying the same thing at DKR.

[dragons08]

You pay an athletic fee in your tuition so all athletic events are "free" I guess. People camp out in Raiderville for the best seats.

/skip class all week and drink

[F18mustang]

And they would still arrest you for trying the same thing at DKR.

/smug

[tayb]

/smug

/More going on in the city than just a University.

[F18mustang]

/More going on in the city than just a University.

I love the college town environment, and like you said its not something you get with Austin.

[tayb]

I love the college town environment, and like you said its not something you get with Austin.

Can't really comment on it. Visiting Lubbock or College Station doesn't mean all that much. I've only been in huge cities.

[dragons08]

College Town > College full of homos in a liberal city

[tayb]

College Town > College full of homos in a liberal city

Lubbock isn't a liberal city.

[dragons08]

Lubbock isn't a liberal city.
I'm impressed you are posting on 5a from the walmart line.

[tayb]

I'm impressed you are posting on 5a from the walmart line.

I buy my Longhorn shirts from Sharper Image.

But Walmart does have a nice selection... (http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?ic=48_0&Find.x=0&Find.y=0&Find=Find&ta=1&search_query=texas%20tech)

[RedRage00]

I buy my Longhorn shirts from Sharper Image.

But Walmart does have a nice selection... (http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?ic=48_0&Find.x=0&Find.y=0&Find=Find&ta=1&search_query=texas%20tech)

burn lol


....and I was reading this before I realized it was 2 years old.

[lonny23]

That was so lame. Now it's the "Red River Rivalry".... so stupid and not as cool sounding.
There's hope. I went to a Washington Bullets game one time and they decided to become the Wizards until Gilbert Arenas happened!:D

I've always enjoyed the violence between the UT and OU fans that week. No matter who wins the fight, I win!:D

[etizzle]

Just got back from Raiderville. It's been a miserable few nights. No sleep, idiotic people, and rain. Thank God its over.

[dragons08]

Just got back from Raiderville. It's been a miserable few nights. No sleep, idiotic people, and rain. Thank God its over.

I hate the people *****ing about that. If it sucks, don't be there. Tons of people had a blast.

[chapfootball123]

I hate the people *****ing about that. If it sucks, don't be there. Tons of people had a blast.

Gosh, someone is in a gripey mood this afternoon. Go take a nap bro.

[dragons08]

Gosh, someone is in a gripey mood this afternoon. Go take a nap bro.

He knew what he was getting into.

[Firebird]

He knew what he was getting into.

A nice refreshing dive into a big pool of STD?

[dragons08]

A nice refreshing dive into a big pool of STD?
That is borrishness!

[the_phoenix612]

Just got back from Raiderville. It's been a miserable few nights. No sleep, idiotic people, and rain. Thank God its over.
Poor baby. I spent two and a half days outside Reed last spring for the Kansas game and it was below freezing every night. And it rained.

[F18mustang]

Poor baby. I spent two and a half days outside Reed last spring for the Kansas game and it was below freezing every night. And it rained.

Cool story *****.

[dragons08]

Poor baby. I spent two and a half days outside Reed last spring for the Kansas game and it was below freezing every night. And it rained.

Your balls still haven't dropped.

[the_phoenix612]

Your balls still haven't dropped.

obsession noted.