Rob Breaux is a sports talk host, show producer, online writer, and news anchor for Townsquare Media of Lubbock. You can hear him weekdays on Ryan Hyatt's Raiderland, during KFYO Sports Updates, and Saturdays during the college football and basketball seasons hosting "Rob Breaux's College Tailgate" on stations across West Texas. Interact with Breaux on Twitter @robbreauxshow. Breaux previously produced "The Weston Odom Show" and "Jack Dale's Sportsline" before becoming the host of his own sport talk show. Breaux also hosted Talk 103.9/1340's Texas Tech Football pregame show, "Countdown to Kickoff" from 2016-2019. Breaux is a graduate of Lubbock Christian School and he attended Lubbock Christian University. He's a Jerry Jones apologist and Kliff Kingsbury look-alike.
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It Was an Incredible Weekend to be a Red Raider
Texas Tech didn't go undefeated on the weekend, but among the weekends biggest moments Red Raiders and former Red Raiders shined incredibly bright. The much maligned Texas Tech basketball team got a huge win over a top 15 team at home when they beat the Kansas State Wildcats 71-63...
Can Patrick Mahomes Get to the Super Bowl on One Leg?
Patrick Mahomes became the fulltime starter for the Kansas City Chiefs in 2018. In that season he absolutely dominated on his way to an MVP and an overtime loss to Tom Brady's New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game. Since then, Mahomes and the Chiefs have been to every AFC Championship game and played in two Super Bowls with a Super Bowl Championship after the 2019 season...
Former Red Raider Will Make History in the NBA Dunk Contest
Mac McClung was a high school phenom that rose to fame on Instagram before even got to college. McClung made a pit stop at Georgetown before coming to Texas Tech for a single season. The Mac Attack took Texas Tech by storm notching 15.5 points per game, good enough for Big 12 player of the year...
Kliff Kingsbury Got Fired and Left the Country
Kliff Kingsbury made it through four seasons in Arizona with Kyler Murray before finally getting fired after a disappointing season in which he didn't have DeAndre Hopkins to start the year or Murray to finish it. Kingsbury took over the worst team in the NFL, improved it year over year for three seasons, and then a dramatic off-field season for the franchise tanked his season...
Joey McGuire Inks Contract Extension With Texas Tech Football
When Kliff Kingsbury finished his first season at Texas Tech in 2013 at 7-5, Kirby Hocutt and the Athletic Department extended his contract. In hindsight, there wasn't any reason to extend that early, but it was a showing of good faith after a solid start...
Joey McGuire Proves You Can Actually Recruit Football Players to Lubbock
Texas Tech football is recruiting again.
I guess they never stopped, but Joey McGuire and his staff have turned in the most impressive class at Texas Tech since 2011 according to the recruiting metrics. That 2011 class brought the Red Raiders Jakeem Grant, LaRaven Clark, DeAndre Washington, Jace Amaro, and many more...
Texas Tech is Bowl Eligible, But Where Will They Go?
The Big 12 has eight teams currently eligible for the postseason Bowl Extravaganza. That pecking order matters for bowl selections but it also doesn't matter. The Big 12 has automatic tie-ins, but they make exceptions all the time so the third-place team might go to the second-place bowl the second-place might opt for the lower tier to go to a destination and so on and so forth.
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Texas Tech Awards Special Jersey Number of 2022 Season
At LSU, the biggest playmaker gets number 7. At Baylor, the single-digit numbers are reserved for the best players on the team. Now, at Texas Tech, number 3 is a special jersey.
Kobee Minor came into the offseason and retained the uniform number after proving himself to the new coaching staff...
Former Texas Tech Coordinator Gets First Win at New School
David Yost and the FIU Panthers scored 32 points in the 4th quarter and overtime to beat Bryant, but that's not who I'm talking about. Sonny Cumbie also coached his first game, but couldn't pull out a win against Missouri.
The winner of week 1 was Abilene Christian Head Coach Keith Patterson.
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Three Texas Tech Pitchers Taken in First 6 Rounds of MLB Draft
In round one of the MLB draft, Jace Jung was selected 12th overall by the Detroit Tigers. In the following two rounds, the Red Raiders were shut out on draft picks, then in the 4th round, business started picking up again.
Andrew Morris was off the board next, going to the Minnesota Twins organization in the fourth round...