Texas Tech underachieved in Year 2 of the Joey McGuire era. Don’t believe me?
“Last year was really hard. Part of me died a little bit last year because we had such high expectations,” he said in my recent stop in Lubbock for the summer magazine. “You never want to make excuses, but there’s always reasons things happen. You could have never convinced me that we’d play three quarterbacks in Year 1 and Year 2. The number of injuries we went through last year was more than I’d seen in any of my 29 years coaching football.”