Texas Tech football: What we need to see over the final two games

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LUBBOCK, TEXAS – OCTOBER 05: Head coach Matt Wells of the Texas Tech Red Raiders looks on during the second half of the college football game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys on October 05, 2019 at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images) /

Rational coaching decisions from Wells

There’s nothing Matt Wells could do that would help repair his reputation with the Texas Tech football fan base and help make us feel a bit better about his inevitable return in 2021 than for him to stop being himself. What I mean is for him to stop making moronic in-game decisions.

At this point, we’ve dissected all of his pre-Baylor gaffes enough. If you want to go back over them, you can click here.

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But against Oklahoma State and Kansas, it would be nice if he would just call two controvery-free games. That would require him to stop being a slave to analytics and start coaching by instinct and logic.

After beating Baylor, it seems almost a given that Wells will return. A win over Kansas would give him four wins and that seems like it would be enough to prompt Wells to bring him back.

But fans don’t want him to continue to put this program at a disadvantage by making seriously strange calls during games. After all, this team isn’t good enough to overcome head coaching gaffes like that.

He could separate himself from his in-game blunders just a bit by coaching two clean games to end this year. While that wouldn’t erase the memory of the earlier failed gambles, it would at least send us into the offseason talking about other aspects of this program and Wells needs the offseason focus to be as positive as possible when it comes to the perception of his constituency.

Most people are predicting two blowouts (one against Tech and one for Tech) in the next two games. Thus, that might eliminate the likelihood of controversial decisions from Wells.

But I think at least one of those two games will be in doubt in the fourth quarter. Call me crazy but I’m predicting that to be the OSU game given that every Cowboy game this year, other than the Kansas game, has been decided by 14 points or less.

So if that game is up for grabs next weekend, Wells simply has to make the right coaching decisions. And if he does, it will be a nice reprieve from one of the themes that has dominated this season. And a reprive from 2020 is certainly what we all need in the most drastic of ways.

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