One of the most frustrating aspects of the 2017 Texas Tech football season was the woeful performance of the kickers. Of course, everyone remembers how painful it was to watch the Red Raiders continually miss field goal attempts that one would expect a high school kicker to make.
But another problem plagued Texas Tech’s ill-fated kickers in 2017 and it is a problem that should never befall a collegiate football team. Last year, Texas Tech kicked the ball out-of-bounds on eight different kickoffs, a number that is unacceptable by any standard. Meanwhile, Tech’s opponents committed the same faux pas just three times.