Assessing Kliff Kingsbury’s legacy at Texas Tech will be complicated. Because of the presence of the scoreboard, sports fans generally operate in a very black and white mindset. Win more than you lose and you are a success. But in some situations, the scoreboard does not tell the entire story and that is certainly the case with Kingsbury.
We must not forget the awful state of Texas Tech football in December 2012. Just the three years prior to Kingsbury’s hiring, Tech had fired its most successful coach in program history, Mike Leach, because of an ugly off-field scandal that involved player mistreatment and a public war with the university’s chancellor Kent Hance.