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Report: Program’s Boosters Want Art Briles As Head Coach

December 14th, 2020

Art Briles hasn’t been a major college football coach since getting ousted from Baylor following the 2015 season.

That could be changing, though.

According to a report by The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Briles is being targeted by the boosters of a Big 12 football program.

Texas Tech is reportedly unhappy with the performance from Red Raiders’ head coach Matt Wells. The 47-year-old head coach is in his second season with the program. Texas Tech went 4-8 in 2019 and is 4-6 on the 2020 season.

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From the report:

"There is growing anger and frustration at the second-year football coach in Lubbock, and support to remove him immediately and replace him with a former Texas Tech assistant."

According to a source, support to hire former Baylor coach Art Briles is growing within the Tech community. This is a complicated, noisy, expensive and controversial process.

Briles was ousted from Baylor due to a sexual assault scandal within the football program. Reports stated that Baylor failed to handle several allegations against student-athletes in appropriate form.

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Maya Gupta writes from the fault lines of a world that refuses to stay quiet. Focused on the collisions between culture, power, and accountability, her work cuts past polished narratives to expose what’s really moving beneath the surface. From the rise of creator-driven influence to athlete activism and grassroots resistance, she tracks the momentum shaping a generation unwilling to wait its turn. Her reporting doesn’t cater to comfort, it confronts it, challenging institutions that lean on legacy instead of legitimacy. With a voice rooted in urgency and a lens tuned to those often ignored, Maya delivers coverage that reflects the stakes as they are, not as they’re packaged. This is journalism that doesn’t just observe change, it stands in the middle of it, documenting the push, the backlash, and the undeniable shift underway.

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