Next season, quarterback Nic Shimonek is expected to take over running Texas Tech's high-powered offense.
Yet, long before, Shimonek was running his own furniture restoration business out of Lubbock. And if Tech’s offense goes the way Shimonek’s furniture venture did, the Red Raiders will be in business.
Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury calls Shimonek a “renaissance man” and “the hardest worker on our team.”
Within the football program.
And previously, as college football’s version of a budding entrepreneur.