Dude from Denton talking smack on Houston, you must feel safe because big brother D is between us
I've been to Lubbock and I drove through something like 100 miles of cotton fields just to get there

In fairness, Lubbock can be viewed as a pretty harsh place. Located in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but brownish gray dry treeless tumbleweed planes for literally hundreds of miles in all directions. IIRC, you have to drive at least 300 miles to get to a place bigger than Lubbock itself (e.g., Albaquerque, Dallas). It's isolated.

Also, the weather is, well, "dynamic". Sand storms and thunderstorms one day, sunny skies the next, a constant 15-20 mph wind, blisteringly hot summers (many days over 100 degrees) but bitter cold windy days in the winter.

And in fall and spring, you can have dramatic changes, 85 degrees one day, 55 the next.

It's definitely not for everyone, LOL.

(05-20-2017 09:00 AM)rosewater Wrote:  I echo Rfs about flubs. I have never been to Texas Tech, but I know how Flubs was full of inaccuracy and half truths. So as far as a I know, Lubbock looks like the garden city of Mesopotamia that was located in Iraq.

Lived there. Ugliest place in this country by far. Nothing else even comes close. Not a western city with beautiful mountains. Not an eastern city with beautiful trees and water... Not a southern city with a lot of water and green. Tumbleweeds with awful weather. Hot as hell in summer, and windy as hell in winter and spring.

(05-21-2017 08:59 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  In fairness, Lubbock can be viewed as a pretty harsh place. Located in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but brownish gray dry treeless tumbleweed planes for literally hundreds of miles in all directions. IIRC, you have to drive at least 300 miles to get to a place bigger than Lubbock itself (e.g., Albaquerque, Dallas). It's isolated.

Also, the weather is, well, "dynamic". Sand storms and thunderstorms one day, sunny skies the next, a constant 15-20 mph wind, blisteringly hot summers (many days over 100 degrees) but bitter cold windy days in the winter.

And in fall and spring, you can have dramatic changes, 85 degrees one day, 55 the next.

It's definitely not for everyone, LOL.

Dallas isn't that pretty either but they have money to pour into making the city look greener than it would be normally with its fancy shrubbery. West Texas is rough....Houston is much nicer. Much wetter. Denver and even Santa Fe and Albuquerque are very pretty with their huge mountain ranges and a lot more trees than Lubbock. El Paso, which is 6 hours south of Lubbock is more of a traditional desert, however it's a pretty place with its mountains and its weather is quite mild . Amarillo and Lubbock: my least favorite places, and the lot lizards at the flying j's aren't as pretty as actual lizards.

(05-21-2017 09:52 AM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(05-21-2017 08:59 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  In fairness, Lubbock can be viewed as a pretty harsh place. Located in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but brownish gray dry treeless tumbleweed planes for literally hundreds of miles in all directions. IIRC, you have to drive at least 300 miles to get to a place bigger than Lubbock itself (e.g., Albaquerque, Dallas). It's isolated.

Also, the weather is, well, "dynamic". Sand storms and thunderstorms one day, sunny skies the next, a constant 15-20 mph wind, blisteringly hot summers (many days over 100 degrees) but bitter cold windy days in the winter.

And in fall and spring, you can have dramatic changes, 85 degrees one day, 55 the next.

It's definitely not for everyone, LOL.

Dallas isn't that pretty either but they have money to pour into making the city look greener than it would be normally with its fancy shrubbery. West Texas is rough....Houston is much nicer. Much wetter.

FWIW, I don't like Houston's climate, too much like New Orleans and Tampa and all other gulf coast cities - warm to hot and always humid, LOL. But the critical difference between Houston/Dallas and Lubbock is the obvious one - Houston/Dallas are massive metropolises and hence have within themselves all the aspects of economic and cultural life that most people can expect. They don't need to be near anyplace else because they are self-contained universes, destinations.

Lubbock isn't.

Gosh, Lubbock is takin a beating on here...I certainly would rather live in Lubbock than iraq

Amarillo has Palo Duro close enough to make it better than Lubbock.

Lubbock has Texas Tech which is a party school.

Midland doesn't have nature or a party school but it does have some oil money.

Odessa has NOTHING. It's the worst city in Texas and it's not even close.

(05-21-2017 12:20 PM)CornellCoog Wrote:  Amarillo has Palo Duro close enough to make it better than Lubbock.

Lubbock has Texas Tech which is a party school.

Midland doesn't have nature or a party school but it does have some oil money.

Odessa has NOTHING. It's the worst city in Texas and it's not even close.

Midland has some oil money? I would say it has quite a bit of oil money

(05-21-2017 12:13 PM)JHS55 Wrote:  Gosh, Lubbock is takin a beating on here...I certainly would rather live in Lubbock than iraq

Reason of this thread too was to prove another point, the big12 certainly missed the bulls eye, inviting a few wrong Texas schools.

If I was forming the big12 after the SWC break off this group here bellow would've been my Texas group rather than focusing on pure nothing...

UT
Houston
A&M
SMU

... but oh well

Is he wrong?

What could have been for UofH, but we're looking a lot better all the time

(05-20-2017 01:35 AM)robertfoshizzle Wrote:  I will forever despise Tubs for how he destroyed our football program. Thankfully we made a great hire for his replacement.

He made Cincinnati look like Mosul.

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i'm a pretty big fan of inhospitable locales

I just did a Google Street View tour of Lubbock...

He's not wrong.

(05-23-2017 08:21 AM)Lush Wrote:  i'm a pretty big fan of inhospitable locales

We need to go party in the DR

(05-21-2017 10:13 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-21-2017 09:52 AM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(05-21-2017 08:59 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  In fairness, Lubbock can be viewed as a pretty harsh place. Located in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but brownish gray dry treeless tumbleweed planes for literally hundreds of miles in all directions. IIRC, you have to drive at least 300 miles to get to a place bigger than Lubbock itself (e.g., Albaquerque, Dallas). It's isolated.

Also, the weather is, well, "dynamic". Sand storms and thunderstorms one day, sunny skies the next, a constant 15-20 mph wind, blisteringly hot summers (many days over 100 degrees) but bitter cold windy days in the winter.

And in fall and spring, you can have dramatic changes, 85 degrees one day, 55 the next.

It's definitely not for everyone, LOL.

Dallas isn't that pretty either but they have money to pour into making the city look greener than it would be normally with its fancy shrubbery. West Texas is rough....Houston is much nicer. Much wetter.

FWIW, I don't like Houston's climate, too much like New Orleans and Tampa and all other gulf coast cities - warm to hot and always humid, LOL. But the critical difference between Houston/Dallas and Lubbock is the obvious one - Houston/Dallas are massive metropolises and hence have within themselves all the aspects of economic and cultural life that most people can expect. They don't need to be near anyplace else because they are self-contained universes, destinations.

Lubbock isn't.

LOL, dude you live in Baton Rouge and you're bitching about heat and humidity?

(05-21-2017 02:26 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  

(05-21-2017 12:13 PM)JHS55 Wrote:  Gosh, Lubbock is takin a beating on here...I certainly would rather live in Lubbock than iraq

Reason of this thread too was to prove another point, the big12 certainly missed the bulls eye, inviting a few wrong Texas schools.

If I was forming the big12 after the SWC break off this group here bellow would've been my Texas group rather than focusing on pure nothing...

UT
Houston
A&M
SMU

... but oh well

no bias here.

(05-21-2017 04:33 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Is he wrong?

No. He is not wrong. Lubbock is in the very worst area of Texas. There are no natural trees. None. It is very flat. Extremely windy. One of the coldest areas of TX in the winter. Dust storms can come up any time. There are no mountains or scenery. Unless you consider cotton fields scenery. At least Amarillo has Palo Duro Canyon (Google it...second largest canyon in US behind the grand canyon).

East Texas has Huge pine trees and forests, greenery, and rain. Houston has gulf coast weather, palm trees, and access to the beach, to go along with pines and other greenery. Dallas has rolling semi- forested plains, with much more rainfall and thunderstorms and green grass. Austin and San Antonio have the beautiful Hill Country next door, with high hills/low mountains a stones throw away, with live oaks and cedar trees. Deep South Texas has tropical weather, tall palm trees, and beaches. Not a lot of natural trees, but with hot weather year around, who cares. Far West Texas, including El Paso has beautiful deserts and mountains, and milder weather.

Lubbock has...nothing. Except wind and flat, arid landscapes.

(05-23-2017 09:50 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(05-21-2017 02:26 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  

(05-21-2017 12:13 PM)JHS55 Wrote:  Gosh, Lubbock is takin a beating on here...I certainly would rather live in Lubbock than iraq

Reason of this thread too was to prove another point, the big12 certainly missed the bulls eye, inviting a few wrong Texas schools.

If I was forming the big12 after the SWC break off this group here bellow would've been my Texas group rather than focusing on pure nothing...

UT
Houston
A&M
SMU

... but oh well

no bias here.

That's right, bias doesn't live here Hehe

(05-20-2017 09:01 AM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(05-20-2017 09:00 AM)rosewater Wrote:  I echo Rfs about flubs. I have never been to Texas Tech, but I know how Flubs was full of inaccuracy and half truths. So as far as a I know, Lubbock looks like the garden city of Mesopotamia that was located in Iraq.

Lubbock is the armpit of Texas

Perfect match. Should never have left. He was the armpit of coaches.