Texas Tech: Ranking Kirby Hocutt’s coaching hires in Lubbock

Here’s how the 13 coaching hires made by Texas Tech Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt look at this point.

It’s been a little more than a decade since Kirby Hocutt took the reins of the Texas Tech athletic department from Lubbock legend Gerald Myers. In that time, he’s made a number of coaching hires with varying degrees of success. With that in mind, it’s a good time to take a look at how the hires of his first ten years here have gone.

For this exercise, we’re looking at the sports of football, basketball, baseball, softball and volleyball. The coaches overseeing the soccer, track and field, tennis and golf programs have been at Texas Tech since before Hocutt arrived. Excluding interim coaches, that gives us a total of 13 hires to examine, seven of which are from the basketball teams alone.

We all know the story — women’s basketball and football have been stuck in the mud while men’s basketball and baseball have reached new heights. No athletic director is going to bat 1.000 on his hires, and Hocutt has certainly had some great ones and some bad ones. So without further ado, here’s how I would rank his 13 hires thus far.