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SMQ: Are alma maters really the best destinations for head coaches?

By Zach Bigalke

ANN ARBOR, MI - OCTOBER 01: Michigan Wolverines head football coach leads his team onto the field prior to the start of the game against the Wisconsin Badgers at Michigan Stadium on October 1, 2016 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Michigan defeated Wisconsin 14-7. (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images)
ANN ARBOR, MI - OCTOBER 01: Michigan Wolverines head football coach leads his team onto the field prior to the start of the game against the Wisconsin Badgers at Michigan Stadium on October 1, 2016 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Michigan defeated Wisconsin 14-7. (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images) /
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Kliff Kingsbury and the Texas Tech Red Raiders

  • YEARS AT TEXAS TECH AS PLAYER: 1998-2002
  • YEARS AT TEXAS TECH AS COACH: 2013-present

Kliff Kingsbury was a record-setting quarterback for Texas Tech between 1998 and 2002, helping cement Mike Leach’s resume as a big-time Air Raid aficionado and Kingsbury as an ideal person to lead such an offense. He was one of two Texas Tech players who have ever defeated both Texas and Oklahoma as the starting quarterback.

Once he left school in Lubbock, Kingsbury spent several years bouncing around various professional leagues both in the United States and abroad in NFL Europe and the Canadian Football League.

Kingsbury made his way back into college football as an assistant under Kevin Sumlin, first at Houston and then at Texas A&M. He helped groom Case Keenum with the Cougars and Heisman winner Johnny Manziel with the Aggies before his old school came calling for a new head coach. Kingsbury jumped at the chance to return to Lubbock in his first chance to lead a program.

Since taking over at his alma mater in 2013, things have never really gone very right for Texas Tech. The Red Raiders got off to a 7-0 start in his first year at the helm, but bombed out in the back half of the season to finish 8-5. That ultimately has been the best record of his career to date. Regardless of his background as a Red Raider alumnus, Kingsbury finds himself on the hot seat as Tech is in danger of missing a bowl game for the third time in his five seasons.

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