Each of the flagship sports has had success in the last decade, but the four have been trending the wrong way in recent years.
Kirby Hocutt can’t hide from the fact his flagship sports programs had disastrous results last season.
He doesn’t want to, either.
Tech’s athletic director, fresh off his first full year on the job, is using the 2011-12 performance as a call to arms for West Texans.
“We’ve seen the highest levels that we can achieve when we’re all together as one, when we’re riding together as a team,” Hocutt said. “We have got to continue to make strides in reigniting that swagger that comes with being a Red Raider. And reigniting the importance of us all being together as one.”