Before all the social media defenders of the Texas Tech football coaching staff come riding to the rescue of Matt Wells and Co. by pointing out that I have never coached a single college football game, I will readily admit that the Red Raider coaches have more knowledge of the game in their left pinky toenail than I have in my entire brain.
Now that we have that out of the way, let’s look at some truly puzzling and questionable coaching decisions that proved impactful in Saturday’s 33-30 come from ahead loss to Baylor. Though we all feel that it is our birthright to be armchair play-callers, we do not usually understand the context of each call because we are not in the team meetings during the week nor are we listening to the conversations between the coaches during the games.