Fewest conference wins for Texas Tech in a two-year timespan:
2 - 1961-1962. We had just joined the SWC and only played seven conference games per season back then, so this is a 14.3% conference win rate.
3 - 1960-1961 (see above), 1981-1982 and 1984-1985. Until 2010s, 1980s = worst decade in program history, only played eight conference games per season back then, so this is an 18.8% conference win rate.
5 - 2010-2011 (Tuberville), 2019-2020 and a bunch of times in the 1950s when they only played a handful of conference games every season.
In terms of a two-year conference win rate, we have not been worse than this in 35-40 years.
Here are Texas Tech coaches’ all-time conference winning percentages since we joined a major conference in 1960.
Sloan - 65%
McWilliams - 63%
Leach - 59%
Dykes - 59%
Carlen - 57%
Dockery - 49%
King - 44%
Kliff - 39%
Tuberville - 29%
Wells - 28%
Moore - 25%
From 1986 to 2010, in 25 years, we had three losing seasons. From 2011 to 2020, one decade of football, we had seven losing seasons.
This is not the way it’s always been or the way it needs to be. Some on this board seem complacent and think there’s nothing that can be done about this. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy; admin knows fans will sit there and take it so they’ll bring back a historically bad coach. I don’t see any way to justify continuing down this road.
2 - 1961-1962. We had just joined the SWC and only played seven conference games per season back then, so this is a 14.3% conference win rate.
3 - 1960-1961 (see above), 1981-1982 and 1984-1985. Until 2010s, 1980s = worst decade in program history, only played eight conference games per season back then, so this is an 18.8% conference win rate.
5 - 2010-2011 (Tuberville), 2019-2020 and a bunch of times in the 1950s when they only played a handful of conference games every season.
In terms of a two-year conference win rate, we have not been worse than this in 35-40 years.
Here are Texas Tech coaches’ all-time conference winning percentages since we joined a major conference in 1960.
Sloan - 65%
McWilliams - 63%
Leach - 59%
Dykes - 59%
Carlen - 57%
Dockery - 49%
King - 44%
Kliff - 39%
Tuberville - 29%
Wells - 28%
Moore - 25%
From 1986 to 2010, in 25 years, we had three losing seasons. From 2011 to 2020, one decade of football, we had seven losing seasons.
This is not the way it’s always been or the way it needs to be. Some on this board seem complacent and think there’s nothing that can be done about this. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy; admin knows fans will sit there and take it so they’ll bring back a historically bad coach. I don’t see any way to justify continuing down this road.
