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Calling for Joey McGuire’s dismissal after a loss to Cincinnati is an overreaction that ignores the measurable progress he has delivered and is mind boggling that people even have the thought of it. McGuire was hired in November 2021 and has compiled a 35–18 record through four full seasons (2022–2025). In 2025 the Red Raiders finished 12–2, won the program’s first outright conference championship since 1955, and earned the first College Football Playoff appearance in school history. Those results exceed any single-season peak Mike Leach achieved at Texas Tech. His best was 11–2 with a Big 12 South division title in 2008. Leach’s ten-year record of 84–43 (.661) remains the program standard for longevity, yet McGuire has already produced a higher single-season win total, a conference title Leach never captured, and a CFP berth in roughly half the time. The post-Leach era from 2010 through 2021 produced no conference championships, only intermittent bowl eligibility, and multiple coaching changes. McGuire has reversed that pattern by securing a bowl berth in every season and recording at least five Big 12 wins in each of his first four years, the only coach in program history to do so. He has also generated a consistent recruiting and transfer pipeline, evidenced by multiple top-ranked portal classes and a school-record nine NFL Draft selections in 2026. A single loss does not erase a 2025 campaign that ranked among the most dominant in recent college football, with all 12 wins by 20 or more points, or the structural foundation now in place. McGuire has been retained through 2032 precisely because the program has moved from mid-tier consistency to conference and national relevance. Sustained evaluation of the 2026 season and the incoming classes of 2027–2029 will provide a clearer measure of whether that foundation continues to produce results