SMU Daily Campus · Nov 8, 2021
Texas Tech, where Dykes was a reported front runner, hires Baylor assistant as head coach
UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — Texas Tech ultimately went with a Dallas-area head coach to fill its vacancy.
It just wasn’t Sonny Dykes.
According to reports from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Texas Tech reached an agreement on Sunday with Joey McGuire to be its next head coach. McGuire was the long-time high school coach at Cedar Hill, a Dallas-area power.
In almost two decades with the school, McGuire won three state championships. More recently, McGuire was on the Baylor coaching staff. He spent 2021 as the associate head coach for the Bears.
SMU head coach Sonny Dykes was originally reported by multiple outlets to be among the front runners for the Texas Tech job.