Spike Dykes

Let's hop into the time machine for a minute back to August of 1996 when Kansas State and Texas Tech played the first Big 12 game ever. The Red Raiders traveled to Manhattan, Kansas for the first time ever to play Bill Snyder and the Wildcats...

Texas Tech will honor the late, great Spike Dykes this season with a special helmet decal that will be there all season.

The Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Tech football game from the 1999 season is one filled with a great deal of history, intrigue and urban legend. The game featured the end of one Texas Tech folk hero and the birth of another. It was the final game of the incredible career of Spike Dykes, and the very first start for Kliff Kingsbury...

Coach Mack Brown was a colleague, opponent and friend of the late Spike Dykes. Hear Coach Brown talk about his late friend at his memorial in Lubbock, Texas.

A memorial service and reception honoring the life of Spike Dykes will be held Thursday, April 13 in Lubbock.

The former Texas Tech quarterback shared his Spike Dykes memories and thoughts.

In the comments of the video above, Randy Hendrix shared a classic story that he had heard from Coach Dykes: "Spike told a story once about the first elevator he ever saw. His mother, father and himself went to Clovis, N.M. Spike and his dad saw these big silver doors that slid open and closed...

Tommy McVay, director of football operations at Texas Tech, shared his favorite Spike Dykes memories and what the dearly departed football coach meant to West Texas.

A beloved former Texas Tech coach has died at age 79.

The Lubbock Area Foundation is pleased to announce that legendary football coach Spike Dykes has been named this year’s Hero of the Year for 2013. Mr. Dykes will be honored at the 14th annual Hero’s Luncheon presented by the Lubbock Area Foundation on Friday October 11 at the Overton Hotel & Conference Center.