The Texas Tech athletic department has long struggled to raise enough money to remain competitive in the college sports arms race. But now two former Texas Tech football players could be poised to become the mega donors the program desperately lacks.
Just like in every avenue of American society, the gap between college football’s upper and middle class continues to grow. Texas Tech has always been an earnest hard-working member of that middle class. But now it is far more difficult for the middle class to stay in the same neighborhood as the blue bloods of the sport.