With the 2020 NFL Draft now in the rearview, we can essentially put to bed the 2016 college football recruiting class while getting a clearer picture of how the 2017 class turned out as a number of the stars from that class also heard their names called over the weekend. And when you look back at those two classes, we can see that they were the beginning of the end of the Kliff Kingsbury era at Texas Tech.
That’s because the former Texas Tech head coach struggled in his attempted to fortify his program in what were his fourth and fifth recruiting classes at his alma mater.