Dan Law Field Capacity

¦ 2007: A new state-of-the-art FieldTurf is installed, replacing both the indoor artificial turf and the natural grass outdoor field. The only natural surface that remains is the land of the pitcher hill. The cost of the project is $1 million. At the time, Tech was the only Big 12 school that had FieldTurf on the indoor and outdoor field. ¦ 2004: Tech unveils RaiderVision at Dan Law Field with the introduction of a new video board/scoreboard in right midfield. Texas Tech football players have won several individual awards based on their positions. At the end of the 1993 season, Bam Morris received the Doak Walker Award, and in 1996, Byron Hanspard became the second Red Raider to receive the award.[43] Michael Crabtree became the first two-time winner of the Fred Biletnikoff Award and the Paul Warfield Trophy twice in consecutive seasons.[44] [45] [46] Four quarterbacks from Texas Tech, Kliff Kingsbury, B.J. Symons, Graham Harrell and Patrick Mahomes received the Sammy Baugh Trophy. Harrell received the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.[47] [45] [48] In 2003, Wes Welker won the Mosi Tatupu Award, which is awarded annually to the best player on special teams.

[49] ¦ 1982: Tech receives money from the Southwest Conference to renovate the Texas Tech baseball stadium. The reception plate will be moved from the northwest (currently right field) to the northeast and new metal stands will be installed with an 8-foot wall behind the reception plate. The Red Raiders play their home games on the campus of Jones AT&T Stadium. The stadium opened in 1947 as Clifford B. and Audrey Jones Stadium. In 2000, Jones Stadium was renamed Jones SBC Stadium in recognition of a $30 million donation from SBC Communications. Following the renaming of SBC Communications to AT&T, Inc., the stadium name was renamed Jones AT&T Stadium in 2005. Texas Tech`s first home stadium, then known as matadors, was a makeshift stadium at the South Plains Fairgrounds in Lubbock, for the 1925 season and the first game of the 1926 season. In 1926, Tech Stadium, a 12,000-seat wooden horseshoe-shaped stadium, was built on campus. [54] [55] Twenty years later, Jones Stadium was completed for the 1947 season. Two years before the stadium opened, Clifford B. Jones, former president of Texas Tech University, formed a $100,000 trust to build a new football stadium.

Tech welcomes its first NCAA region a year later. Texas Tech first played against the Aggies in 1927 and the teams played every year from 1957 to 2011. The Texas A&M-Texas Tech Football rivalry saw several off-field clashes between coaches, players and fans. [91] The Texas A&M Aggies lead the all-time series 37-32-1. Since both teams joined the Big 12 Conference in 1996, Texas Tech has won 10, while Texas A&M has won 6 of those last 16 meetings. Texas A&M has a three-game winning streak against Texas Tech after their 2011 win over Texas Tech in Lubbock. [92] The rivalry has been dormant since Texas A&M left the Big 12 for the SEC in 2012. From 1988 to 2011, the baseball stadium was named Dan Law Field after Alabama-born Lubbock businessman and former Texas Tech baseball player Dan Law (1932-2019)[3], who was instrumental in renovating the stadium. Law played for the Red Raider football team from 1955 to 1956 and baseball from 1956 to 1957.[4] [5] Since the 2012 season, the baseball field has been known as Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. An anonymous donor for the 2012 renovation requested that the field be named after Rip Griffin, a longtime supporter of Red Raider baseball and Texas Tech track and field.

[6] The stadium has a permanent capacity of 4,368 seats. Renovated in 1996 and 2001, the stadium underwent another upgrade in 2007 and another in 2012. [7] NCAA PROMOTION TO LUBBOCK NCAA Regionals: 2019, 2018, 2017 2016, 1999, 1997, 1996 The 2017 Regional League welcomed 4,732 spectators for the four competitions for a total of 18,928 fans to see the number. The 5-seeded Red Raiders host Arizona, Sam Houston State and Delaware in Lubbock. The 1999 Regional Four-Team Tournament placed sixth among the 16 regionals present when the tournament attracted 19,869 fans to see Texas Tech, Rice, Rutgers and UW-Milwaukee. The average attendance was 2,838 people during the tournament with seven matches. The region attracted 23,407 fans in 1997, an average of 2,304 fans per game. In the 1996 regional league, there was an average of 2,808 fans per game when Texas Tech hosted a six-team regional team in the NCAA Super Regionals in Lubbock: 2019, 2018, 2016, 2014 In 2019, Texas Tech made its first consecutive World Series appearances in the history of the program and its fourth in the last six years, when the Red Raiders swept the NCAA Lubbock Regional and defeated their Big 12 opponent, Oklahoma State, in a memorable Slugfest. Exceeded. As the No.

8 national seed, Tech Dallas hosted Baptist, Florida and Army over the weekend in front of 13,776 fans for an average of 4,592 fans per game. The Inter-Conference Super Regional Series surpassed the 2018 Duke Series as the second-highest three-game series played at Rip Griffin Park with 4,782 fans per competition. The second game of the series drew a Rip Griffin Park record of 4,833 fans. In 2018, Texas Tech won the NCAA Lubbock Regional as the No. 9 on the national seed list and hosted Duke in the Super Regional Round. On average, 4,511 fans filled Rip Griffin Park for the area as Tech hosted Louisville, New Mexico State and Kent State. The Red Raiders hosted Duke in the Super Regional with 14,110 tech fans gathered at Rip Griffin Park for an average of 4,703 per competition, which was ranked as the second-highest total for a three-game series in Rip Griffin Park history. The atmosphere led Tech to the Blue Devils in his third World Series appearance in five years. In 2016, the Red Raiders received the program`s first national seed and registered for the number. 5, which earned Tech the right to host the NCAA Regional and Super Regional Rounds. Both series recorded a record 4,732 (regional) and 4,817 (super regional), while Tech hosted New Mexico, Fairfield and Dallas Baptist in the region and East Carolina in the super regional. The sold-out participants were an integral part of the Red Raiders, who made their second trip to the College World Series in three years.

In 2014, the Texas Tech baseball program made history on its home field by advancing to the NCAA College World Series after a 1-0 shutout against No. 16 College Charleston. The Red Raiders, who hosted an NCAA Super Regional for the first time in the program`s history, set a school record for home wins (33) in 2014, while hosting 4,811 Red Raider fans in a row at Tech`s Road to Omaha. RIP GRIFFIN PARK FACTS: All-time record (2012-19): 199-63 First game: February 17, 2012 vs. No. 31 Missouri State (W, 4-1) Highest attendance: 4,833 – 8. June 2019 (NCAA Super Regional); Oklahoma State 6, Texas Tech 5 Since opening with a capacity of 18,000 seats, the stadium has been continually expanded and renovated. In 1960, the addition of a lower bowl doubled the seating capacity to 41,500, an expansion in 1972 added more than 10,000 seats, 2,000 seats were added in the 1990s, and additions in the 2000s carried a capacity of 60,454 seats. [1] In 2003, a seven-storey building with 47 suites, a level of club seating and a new press box replaced the old press box from 1959.

[57] [58] In 2010, the expansion on the east side of the stadium included a five-storey extension that included 1,000 general seats, 542 club seats, 30 suites, a food club and a professional store. The ticketing and sports offices have also been moved to the East Side Building. [59] In 2013, the stadium was renovated again, adding 368 seats, installing an improved video board and sound system, installing a colonnade and connection room in the north end area, and an observation deck for 40 people. The 2012 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas was held on December 28, 2012, when the Red Raiders defeated the Minnesota Golden Gophers 34–31. The last time the two teams met was at the 2006 Insight Bowl, when Texas Tech made the biggest comeback in bowl history. After falling behind 7-47 to 7-47 in the third quarter, he rallied and scored 31 unanswered points to send the game into overtime. In the 2006 game, the Gophers scored a field goal in overtime, but the Red Raiders responded with a touchdown to win. ¦ 2002: A new $1.3 million pavilion is built behind the seats along the left field line, with a large locker room, coaching desks and locker room, training and equipment rooms, as well as batting and pitching cages.