Stop Thinking Like A Poor, Texas Tech Isn’t A Poverty Program
Kevin McCullar made it twitter official on Thursday night with his commitment to the Kansas Jayhawks and igniting, as you can imagine, another social media storm with many Tech fans.
Like clockwork the ill-informed comparisons to how McCullar left the program compared to former Red Raider Head Coach Chris Beard made their appearances on social media.
To be sure, McCullar and Texas Tech Basbetball mutually agreed on the decision for him to leave the program, but the mind virus that Tech is a poverty program continues to run rampant through the fan base one zombie bite at a time.
The 247sports.com composite recruiting rankings for Tech gave them the 25th ranked recruiting class among high school recruits and 8th for the 2023 class. When it comes to transfers Tech also has the top class when it comes to transfers for this upcoming year.
It’s high time for Tech fans to drop the poverty mindset when it comes to their basketball program. Everything turned out fine with Mark Adams replacing Beard with a 27-10 record and Sweet 16 appearance on the South Plains.
Thanks to the transfer portal and the Name, Image, and Likeness programs college athletes can be paid for their efforts and skills on the court and field. The facade of College Athletics being an amateur endeavor has long been dead, but the actions of some fans keep holding up this farcical notion like it’s Weekend at Bernie’s.
While much kvetching has come about player loyalty and supposed betrayal, this is akin to having these same feelings when major professional athlete would leave and sign with another team. It’s silly and juvenile.
Sports fandom can be beautiful and nothing exemplified that more than the last couple of months in the Premier League with Everton’s great escape from relegation. Each home game the Everton fans willed their club to victory and in turn earned the Toffees safety for another season of top flight football.
That same fandom can turn ugly with low IQ fans making threats to a player for a poor shooting night in a double overtime loss to Kansas. Sound familiar?
Allen Corbin is a Special Contributor to Raiderland. He calls Utah home, but grew-up in Lubbock. He enjoys fine craft beers and whiskey. And long walks in the desert. And stuff.
