Texas Tech football: Reasons to fire Matt Wells now are plentiful

Send a message to the program

Sometimes, when things are approaching rock bottom, a clear and discernable message from the top is needed.  It is clear that such a time is now for the Texas Tech football program.  And Hocutt needs to be the man to deliver that message by firing Wells.

Unfortunately, this is a program that has become accustomed to losing.  It’s become a way of life on the South Plains just like cotton farming and church on Sundays.

Thus, it’s time to shake up the status quo and deliver an unmistakable message that what we’ve experienced over the past decade is no longer acceptable.  If you can’t get the job done, you are gone.

Those inside the football building appear to need to be reminded of that.  Sure, as far as we can tell, there hasn’t been a lack of effort from the coaching staff.  But there has been a lack of competence and that’s actually worse because effort can be increased while competence is set in stone.

Firing Wells now would hopefully snap the program back to reality like smelling salts do for a dazed boxer in his corner.  It would let everyone inside the program know that what’s been going on for the last three years is unacceptable and it might start the process of building a new culture within the walls of the facility.

But Hocutt has spent the last six or seven years sending the message to this program that mediocrity is acceptable.  He continued to retain Kingsbury after several mediocre seasons and then he hired a mediocre coach to replace him, a coach who had as many losing seasons on his ledger as winning seasons.

If you plant the seeds of mediocrity, the best you can hope for is…you guessed it…mediocrity.  And what’s more likely is that you are going to get worse than that as your yield.

So Hocutt should take a stand right now and start to change the narrative around this program.  No longer is mediocrity or incompetence going to be rewarded.  No longer is a losing culture going to be allowed to sink its roots into the foundation of what is trying to be built.  Rather, if you don’t get the job done, we will find someone who will and we won’t stop until we do.  Oh, if only Kirby had the fortitude to take such a stance.