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1990s Great Decade for Raiders

Any way you look at it, the 1990s have been a super decade for the Baseball Red Raiders.

Let's just count the ways:

A .682 winning percentage including 43-40-51-49 wins over the last four seasons when the Raiders lost no more than17 games in a season (183-61, .750);
half of the school's six Academic All-America honorees have come the last two years (Clint Bryantin both 1995 and 1996; and Jimmy Frush in 1996);
23 Raiders picked by professional baseball in the annual draft. Eighteen others havesigned free-agent contracts. And those figures don't include high school seniors who have signed to play for Tech but are drafted and decide to play professionally.

Since Texas Tech began tracking grades in the fall of 1986, here's how baseball ranks by semester against other men athletes:

Semester       Rank     GPA
Fall 1986         2     2.663
Spring 1987       3     2.603
Fall 1987         3     2.829
Spring 1988       4     2.568
Fall  1988        3     2.448
Spring 1989       3     2.332
Fall 1989         3     2.615
Spring 1990       4     2.413
Fall 1990         2     2.469
Spring 1991       5     2.300
Fall 1991         4     2.486
Spring 1992       5     2.347
Fall 1992         3     2.659
Spring 1993       2     2.691
Fall 1993         4     2.575
Spring 1994       5     2.299
Fall 1994         2     2.598
Spring 1995       5     2.314
Fall 1995         1     2.680
Spring 1996       2     2.256
Fall 1996         5     2.521 
Totals            3.25* 2.

In the Fall 1995 semester, the baseballers were fifth overall -- counting both men and women GPA. During the 1990s only twice out of the 13 semesters did Larry Hays' crew have a lower Grade Point Average than the overall men's GPA.

* third of 17 sports Tech sponsors