Every time the Texas Tech basketball team faces TCU, I can’t help but be struck at how different the two coaching situations for the respective programs are. Without question, Texas Tech is in a much more advantageous position now, but there was a time not long ago when most of the nation did not feel that way.
When Jamie Dixon came back to his alma mater in 2016 after a successful run at Pitt, the move was lauded as a coup by nearly every observer. In fact, most were even predicting that he, not Beard (who was hired the same year by Tech) would be the one to bring unprecedented success to a Big 12 school that has long considered itself a football school.