Eric Morris was seemingly just here roaming the campus and scoring touchdowns. After brief stints at Houston and Washington St., Morris returns to Lubbock to be the co-offensive coordinator and coach inside receivers.
Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury completed his off-field hires with the hiring of Kenny Bell as chief of staff, retaining Tommy McVay as director of football operations, Danielle Bartelstein as assistant of football operations and David Raih and Scott Parr in off-field capacities.
Sonny Cumbie remains as the lone holdover from the Tommy Tuberville staff and helps maintain relations and consistency with Kliff Kingsbury's new coaching staff.
Texas Tech has reportedly hired defensive line coach John Scott, Jr., who has only coached at smaller schools, but his defensive lines have produced quite well at these lower levels.
San Antonio Cibolo Steele High School head coach Mike Jinks has been hired by Texas Tech head football coach Kliff Kingsbury as the running backs coach.
Chad Dennis has been hired in the all-important role of strength and conditioning coach. Dennis has spent a majority of his career at Texas A&M and Houston and has coached along side the current Texas A&M strength and conditioning coach, Larry Jackson, for most of their time at Houston and TAMU.
A couple of weeks or so ago, Chancellor Hance was on with one of the 104.3 radio shows and they were discussing the hiring of Kliff Kingsbury and there wasn’t anything revolutionary, per se, but there was something that really caught my attention. There's been a little bit of criticism with Kingsbury and who he is hiring for his staff. Quite a few former players and other coaches that he's coached with at Houston. First, coaching is a small fraternity and you hire who you think can do a good job and who you trust. Obviously, Kingsbury's circle is smaller than a coach who has been around for 20 years, but this is part of the learning process with Kliff. I can promise you that one of these hires for an assistant coach is going to fall flat on it's face. It's the nature of the business in that not every coach will be the right fit. That's to be expected.
As linked within, it is being widely reported that current wide receivers coach Trey Haverty has resigned at TCU and will be the safeties coach at Texas Tech for head coach Kliff Kingsbury.
