It’s an inevitability in the game of football; injuries are going to take a toll on every team’s season. The difference between the elite programs and the rest lies in the ability to absorb those injuries. That’s one area where the Texas Tech football program has come up short far too often in recent seasons.
Years of poor recruiting by the Kingsbury regime have left the ranks depleted of Big 12-caliber depth meaning that the devastation brought on by a single broken bone or pulled muscle often has more drastic consequences that similar injuries would for better programs.