When Texas Tech mercifully put an end to the Kliff Kingsbury experiment, several names emerged as potential replacements but only one stood out to me - Sonny Cumbie, the former Red Raider quarterback who brought TCU to Big 12 contention in the mid-2010s.
I saw how Cumbie turned former receiver Trevone Boykin into a Heisman-contending quarterback. He worked wonders with Kenny Trill, too.
Look at Sonny Cumbie dialing up scoring plays in spite of the quarterback trash can that is Kenny Hill.
— Viva the Matadors (@vivathematadors) December 29, 2017
It amazes me to this day Hill was a starting quarterback in the Big 12, but it just provided more evidence for Cumbie’s offensive genius.