Texas Tech Head Coaching Search: Where do the Red Raiders go from here?

With the firing of Texas Tech head coach Matt Wells now official, athletic director Kirby Hocutt comes into a pivotal time of his tenue. His two football hires, one initially seen as a homerun in bringing program legend Kliff Kingsbury back and the other a complete 180 in terms of long-term program building, have both failed.

Conference rival Baylor has lapped the program with back-to-back hires that have the Bears positioned just outside of the upper echelon in the Big 12. Now with a new-look conference on the horizon, Tech is in position to make a move toward the top if they make the right hire or get left wallowing in the unsexy middle.