After a really fun decade full of great passers and plenty of wins for the Texas Tech Red Raiders, a controversial firing of the man who orchestrated it all left the TTU football team in the hands of Tommy Tuberville instead of Mike Leach.
And despite losing Leach and his Air Raid offense that produced so many thrilling seasons and all of those ridiculous passing yards, the Red Raiders were still able to be pretty productive through the air as Taylor Potts continued TTU’s tradition of having quarterbacks throw for 3000 or more yards in a single season.
The quarterback just continued to do what Leach had equipped him to do. He threw the ball a lot. The Red Raiders moved the ball up and down the field. And though Leach wasn’t around in Lubbock anymore, it was still clear and evident that he had assembled this team.
Texas Tech football history: Taylor Potts continued to throw for a ton of yards, even after TTU fired Mike Leach in controversial fashion
And it really was weird following the Leach firing. Texas Tech lost the guy that helped prove that the Red Raiders could have a quarterback throw for 3000 or more yards and his offense (directly guided by him) produced 10 such seasons of that with six different quarterbacks.
He designed the offense that made that possible and paved the way for that sort of offensive tradition to exist in Lubbock.
And Potts still did very well in 2010. He wasn’t perfect, but he managed to throw for 3726 yards and 35 touchdowns against just nine interceptions while he completed 369 passes on 551 attempts.
There were some low points, like against Texas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. In each of those games, Potts didn’t get past 200 passing yards. Still, he was effective and efficient and kept TTU’s streak of 3000 or more passing yards from a quarterback alive.