NORMAN — After Ruffin McNeill and Lincoln Riley left Texas Tech for East Carolina following the 2009 season and the subsequent ouster of Mike Leach, the Red Raiders went in a totally different direction.
Tommy Tuberville was brought in to coach Tech, lasting three seasons before Kliff Kingsbury, one of Leach's quarterbacks, returned to coach his alma mater.
Riley said this week that he roots for Kingsbury to have success, pointing that he's brought the program back in the direction Leach took it.
“I think it's fair to say that they absolutely lost track of who they were there for a few years,” Riley said.