When it comes to covering Texas Tech football, no one has done it longer than Don Williams of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. He began covering the Red Raiders in 1986, the same year that Spike Dykes was elevated from defensive coordinator to head coach. If there’s been a story concerning Tech football in the last three decades plus, Williams has covered it.
But he completely missed the mark with Sunday’s piece titled “When fans turn against a program”. In it, Williams essentially chalks up the thousands of empty seats at Jones Stadium on Saturday to the fact that a significant portion of the fan base wants head coach Matt Wells to fail.