Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLB. Once that is done, we will examine how each team honors its past players, coaches, and executives. As such, it is important to us that Texas Tech has announced the six members who will comprise the school’s athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2024.

This group will be formally inducted on November 8 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center and will be recognized at the Red Raiders’ home football game the next day against Colorado.

The 2024 Texas Tech Athletic Hall of Fame Class is:

Danny Amendola, Football, 2004-07:  Over the four seasons as a Wide Receiver and Returner, Amendola had 204 Receptions, 2,264 Yards, and 15 Touchdowns while amassing more than 1,000 Punt Return Yards.  He would later win two Super Bowls with the New England Patriots.

Cody Carr, Men’s Basketball, 1994-98:  Carr averaged over 23 Points per Game over his last two years with the Red Raiders and was a First Team All-Big 12 Selection as a Senior.  He would later have a successful career in Europe.

Amanda Dowdy, Women’s Volleyball, 2008-11:  Dowdy Was the second women’s volleyball player in school history to be a two-time First Team All-Big 12 Selection and had 1,495 career kills.

Taylor Lytle, Women’s Soccer, 2008-11:  Lytle is the all-time school leader in Assists and was the team captain in her last two years with the program.

Omo Osaghae, Men’s Hurdles, 2007-11:  Osaghae was a four-time All-American and won three National Championships in the discipline.

Ifeatu Okafor, Women’s Shotput, 2010-13:  Okafor was a two-time All-Big 12 honoree and won the Big 12 shotput in 2011.

Track and Field Coach Wes Kittley will also be elected into the Texas Tech Hall of Honor.  Becoming a coach in 1999, Kittley is still in that capacity and has guided his school to 36 individual NCAA Championships.  Derrell Mitchell will also be honored with the Heritage Award.  He was a former Red Raiders Wide Receiver, and would eventually enter the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the impending members of the Texas Tech Red Raiders Athletic Hall of Fame.

E.J. Holub was an All-American at Texas Tech, where he was such a great player that the Red Raiders would later retire his number.  Drafted 6^th Overall by the Dallas Texans in 1961, Holub played at Linebacker, and in the first five of his six years, he was an AFL All-Star and was named a First Team All-Pro in both 1962 and 1963.  In those two seasons, he finished sixth and third respectively, in Approximate Value, a testament to his skill.

Undrafted out of Texas Tech in 2004, Wes Welker would be signed by the San Diego Chargers who released him shortly after and he was able to carve out a niche as a backup Wide Receiver and Return Specialist with the Miami Dolphins.  That itself would be a decent career for an undrafted player but the New England Patriots (who are we kidding, Bill Belichick) traded for him and he would become an elite wide out in the National Football League.