Six years ago this December, Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt made a hire designed specifically to reunite a fractured Texas Tech football fan base. Following three years of bickering between the pro-Mike Leach and the pro-Kent Hance / Tommy Tuberville factions, there was little unity among the Red Raider faithful.
So when Tuberville climbed out the bathroom window of the 50 Yard Line steak house in the middle of a recruiting dinner to take the Cincinnati job, Hocutt made the one hire that could have united the fan base: Kliff Kingsbury. But in the most ironic of twists, the lack of success in the Kingsbury era has caused another gulf to form in Raiderland.