You’ll just have to take their word for it this spring and summer that Texas Tech football players are, in fact, Texas Tech football players, minus the emblem with which they’re synonymous.
The Red Raiders spent the off-season not allowed to wear the Double T around the Tech football facilities. Such are the motivational tactics for a team that finished 5-7 last year with a late-season 66-10 lay-down at Iowa State.
“As a program, players included, we didn’t feel like we earned the right to represent that logo that means a lot to a lot of people,” Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said Wednesday.