Texas Tech fires FB Coach Matt Wells

Clonefan32

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Thought it was a little crazy at first but the more I think about it the more sense it makes. You look at their schedule and 5-3 is a bit misleading. Beat some pretty bad non-conference teams. Got 70 hung on them by Texas. I do think there's some merit to the idea if you know it's not working cut bait and start working towards a solution.
 

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I’m just glad it’s a week before our game because it seems like the coach fired team always plays great the next week

Yep, the surprising thing about the timing is that it wasn’t the week of the Iowa State game, so the players come out with their hair on fire and play a crazy game to win for their new coach. Hasn’t that happened to ISU a couple of times? I know Colorado was one.
 
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The prior Texas Tech coach (who was fired), Kliff Kingsbury (2013-2018), coaches the Arizona Cardinals. I don't follow the NFL that closely, but I see that they are currently 7-0.

It's gated, but it is such a good article I am going to link it. The Wall Street Journal had a really good feature article this last Friday (Oct. 22, print edition) on their QB Kyler Murray:
Kyler Murray was about to be flattened. Two Minnesota Vikings defenders were bearing down on him last month when the Arizona Cardinals quarterback had no choice but to turn his back to his own receivers for the sake of his own well-being.

Nothing about what happened next was scripted. Murray scrambled nearly 30 yards to the opposite sideline and heaved the ball—on the run and across his body—45 yards in the air, where receiver Rondale Moore had carefully positioned himself. Moore carried the ball another 40 yards into the end zone.

It was a dazzling play that captured how the Cardinals have mastered a style of offense that’s taking over the NFL. ...

“It’s not as helter skelter as people think,” Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury says. ...

What looks like total anarchy—Murray running every which way before making a pass that slacks everyone’s jaws—is actually something Kingsbury has the offense practice three times a week. ...

The article raises issues that are brought up on this board, it seems to me, about Purdy -- whether or how much he might be allowed to do his own thing.
 

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Texas Tech is going to be a cellar team in the Big 12 moving forward.

No respected coach will consider that job because there's a possibility they will be canned with a 5-3 record.

Their recruiting classes for the past three years are dog meat. On top of all the current big 12 schools and A&M, they have to add Houston to the mix of P5 to compete against for recruits. Cupboard is bare.

I expect a 200 yard performance out of Breece
 

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They should have never sent The Pirate away. I also would have gave their home boy Kliff a little while longer. He was too young and raw when he took over and needed time to figure it out.

I'm not sure what I'd do to turn their program around. They have the potential to fall off the map the same way we've been talking about KState.
 

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Tech would be smart to bring in Traylor from UTSA. The guy has very strong connections with the THSCA, and has done a great job of finding the overlooked guys that aren't from the big metros in Texas to come to UTSA.
 
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