Texas Tech football: Matt Wells hire signals end of one era, beginning of another

Five years ago, Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt decided to hire a little-known baseball manager who had only led a junior college program. Two years ago, Hocutt decided to bring in a basketball coach from Little Rock.

Since then, Texas Tech baseball has reached three College World Series. The basketball team reached the Elite Eight for the first time in school history, and the basketball coach ended up on the cover of Dave Campbell’s Texas Basketball (on bookshelves now, hint hint).