Texas Tech football: Matt Wells gives interesting 2020 insights in radio interview

Friday, Texas Tech football head coach Matt Wells gave a telling interview about his program as we head into a summer unlike any we’ve ever seen before.

Though the attitude towards him among Red Raider fans is split, it is hard for anyone to argue that Texas Tech football head coach Matt Wells is anything but charming and inspirational when he speaks.  That was evident from the moment he began talking to the media after being hired in 2018 and it was again proven on Friday when he appeared on the Matt Mosley Show (which airs daily on 1660 AM and 92.3 FM in Waco).

Listening to Wells during this interview, I began to wonder if this global pandemic has been more of a detriment to Tech on the recruiting trail given his ability to win people over with his interpersonal skills or whether it has actually been a factor that has oddly been somewhat beneficial to the program’s recruiting efforts because it has taken other factors like facilities and geography down a few pegs while placing a higher emphasis on relationships, which Wells seemed to be skilled at creating.

But what is obvious is that it has limited the information we’ve been able to glean about where this roster is as the summer begins.  With the cancellation of pring practices after just four sessions, Tech fans did not get to see any scrimmages or the annual spring game nor did we have any media availability with the coaches, which is what fans truly live for during the spring as that is where the biggest news usually comes from during that time of the football year.

It’s a shame that Wellls has been unable to continue to build upon the groundwork he had attempted to lay with the fans.  From the moment he signed his contract, he’s been as engaging and publically present as any coach in program history, even rivaling Spike Dykes in that regard.

But a 4-8 debut season erased much of, if not all of, the good will he had accumulated in his first eight months on the job.  Thus, we were likely to get another offseason of the Matt Wells campaign tour with stops around the state to meet with various local Red Raider Club branches as well as face-to-face meetings with as many high school coaches as possible.

Of course, that hasn’t happened and as a result, we’ve lost an important aspect of the football calendar.  Spring is the time when new faces begin to emerge and the hardcore fans start to formulate their thoughts on what may be in store for us this fall.  And summer is when the anticipation begins to build for the upcoming season.

But now, we have no idea which players have made the greatest strides, which players have adjusted best to their new positions, and which newcomers are turning heads.  Thus, the 2020 team is likely to be more of an unknown to us than any version of Texas Tech football in ages.

So that’s why Wells’ in-depth interview with Mosely was so interesting to many.  (To hear it in its entirety, you can click here.)  There were quite a few topics covered so let’s take some time to wade through them and see what we can glean from one of the few Matt Wells interview thus far in 2020.