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FILE - Texas Tech football coach Spike Dykes responds to a question during the Big 12 Conference football media day in Dallas, Thursday, July 23, 1998.
Spike Dykes, the former Texas Tech head football coach who retired as the program's leader in wins, died early Monday of a heart attack, Don Williams of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported.
Dykes was 79.
Dykes joined Texas Tech's staff as an assistant coach in 1984, which was led by Jerry Moore.