It’s not just a handful of Texas Tech football players who are coming back from surgery each August.
Lee Hays might be treading lightly over the next month, too. The Texas Tech offensive line coach underwent L5-S1 spinal fusion surgery in his lower back shortly after spring practice ended in April.
“I’ll know how good here in a couple of days,” Hays said Tuesday at the team’s on-campus media day. “It goes back a while, and at the end of spring I was having trouble getting through practice.”
The 48-year-old coach said his back problems dated to his time in the U.