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Texas Tech AD Kirby Hocutt on Kliff Kingsbury: "I'll be pulling for the Cardinals next year"

Kliff Kingsbury went from being dismissed at Texas Tech to the offensive coordinator at USC to the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals in a span of 46 days.

That strange turn of events give Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt the interesting distinction of being the only current Big 12 AD to have fired a current NFL coach.

"I'm happy for Kliff Kingsbury," Hocutt said Wednesday at a Texas Tech function in Dallas. "I think the world of him. I've stayed in contact with him and wish him only the best. He's a Red Raider and he gave everything he had to his alma mater and worked extremely hard.