Texas Tech football: How transfers that left performed in 2018

With the 2018 college football regular season now in the books, let’s take a look at how some recent players to transfer from the Texas tech football program performed at their new schools this year.

The Texas Tech football program is in the midst of a significant transition as Matt Wells replaces Kliff Kingsbury.  But though turnover at the top of a college football program is rare, the names and faces inside every program are going to change from year to year.

Every year, fans obsess about players that transfer to other schools because of thier discontent or because they are removed from the roster for violating team rules.  Though Kingsbury was always viewed by casual observers as all style and no substance, the truth is that he ran a tight ship when it came to off-field discipline.

The son of a high school football coach and a teacher, Kingsbury placed the highest value on how players conducted their business off the field.  As a result, many players were unable to cut it when it came to the Red Raiders’ no-nonsense approach to discipline.

Kingsbury and his coaching staff refused to cower to the whims and wants of even the highest-profile players on the roster and at times, it cost them some big names.  He also had a very strict attitude towards misconduct violations dismissing quite a few players that ran afoul of the law (Dakota Allen, Quan Shorts, Nigel Bethel).

As a result of the number of high profile transfers that occurred early on in Kingsbury’s tenure, especially at the QB position, many began to wonder if there was something wrong inside the program.  But the reality was that the problem almost always originated with the player and not with the way the head coach ran his program in terms of off-field discipline.

When well-known players transfer, fans often fear that their departures will set the program back.  However, that is rarely the case.  As proof, let’s look at how some recent transfers from the Texas Tech football program fared in 2018 and whether their absence was truly felt by the Red Raiders this season.