One of the more unusual elements of the 2018 Texas Tech football head coaching change is that the fan base is drastically split when it comes to how it feels about the future of the program. Unlike in most head coaching changes, where the fans are generally optimistic about the future of their school’s football team if for no other reason than they had grown tired of and often had come to hate the previous coach, Red Raider fans are split almost evenly between optimism and pessimism.
There are a number of factors creating this division. Texas Tech is moving on after firing one of the most popular figures in program history, Kliff Kingsbury.