Kliff Kingsbury, Texas Tech players project confidence at Media Days

If people think Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury is in the “hot seat,” you might want to reconsider discussing it with him. For Kingsbury, it’s business as usual, and then some.

Kliff Kingsbury has been involved in an endless circulation of “hot seat” discussion since last season. While defensive issues have been the primary reason for Texas Tech’s shortcomings, as head football coach, Kingsbury takes the brunt of the blame, and with good reason.

Texas Tech’s defense has been statistically bad through much of the program’s history, and in a league where offense is king, teams must learn to adapt. For Kliff Kingsbury, the adaptation process was a long time in the making, and time will only tell if his new mentality of splitting his time on both sides of the ball is effective, but one thing fans can agree on, is that something is finally being done.

Kingsbury addressed media members on Monday by saying if you’re the coach of a team outside the Top 4 {in the nation, presumably), you’re always on the hot seat. That’s certainly one way of looking at a situation nobody every feels comfortable talking about, but for Kingsbury, focusing on championships is the exact forward thinking Texas Tech needs right now.

As many fans noticed with Texas Tech players, Keke Coutee, Cameron Batson, Jah’Shawn Johnson, and Dylan Cantrell at Media Days on Monday, the suit game resembled that of a scene in HBO’s “Ballers.”