{"id":33816,"date":"2018-11-26T02:28:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T02:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33816"},"modified":"2018-11-26T02:28:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T02:28:01","slug":"texas-tech-coach-is-out-despite-all-the-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33816","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech coach is out . . . despite all the love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/th-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33817\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/th-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kliff Kingsbury has been fired as head football coach at Texas Tech University.<\/p>\n<p>He was a fan favorite. Kingsbury played quarterback at Tech. He was reportedly <em>destined<\/em> to be the Red Raiders&#8217; head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Tech&#8217;s athletic director heaped praise on him for his character and for being a great role model for his players. Tech&#8217;s president said much the same thing and thanked Kingsbury all he did to advance the school&#8217;s football program.<\/p>\n<p>Give me a break, will ya?<\/p>\n<p>Neither of them said a word publicly about the reason Kingsbury was canned: He didn&#8217;t win enough football games. He had a losing record as a head coach.<\/p>\n<p>All that happy talk was chock full of platitudes.<\/p>\n<p>I feel badly for Kingsbury. I just wish his bosses wouldn&#8217;t speak with so many clich\u00e9s that don&#8217;t mean a single thing.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kliff Kingsbury has been fired as head football coach at Texas Tech University. He was a fan favorite. Kingsbury played quarterback at Tech. He was reportedly destined to be the Red Raiders&#8217; head coach. Tech&#8217;s athletic director heaped praise on him for his character and for being a great role model for his players. Tech&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Tech coach is out . . . despite all the love<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[8146,8147,4724],"class_list":["post-33816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-kliff-kingsbury","tag-red-raiders","tag-texas-tech-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33818,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816\/revisions\/33818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}