Kent Hance: The TT Interview
It can be difficult at times for the Texas Tech University System, removed from the state’s media centers, to emerge from the shadows of the University of Texas System and Texas A&M University System, the state's largest.
Last year, when a heated higher-education reform debate engulfed the Capitol community, the Texas Tech system went largely unmentioned, despite its strong ties to some of the reformers and having taken steps to implement some of the controversial reforms.
Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance said he didn’t mind being overlooked in that instance. The media storm that has primarily ...
Comments (9)
Samantha Smoot via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Well, that's why he's at Tech
Kurt Johnson
I am really not sure how Kent Hance has so much control. Why would a Division 1 Head Coach say such a think to the Chancellor of the University? How does the Chancellor let a relationship, as profitable and motivational as Lubbock had with Mike Leach, deteriorate to the point that the University would want to withhold earned bonus money?
This shows lack of self discipline on both sides of the argument and the Chancellor is supposed to set the example. However, all Texas Tech is left with is the legacy of a shyster Chancellor and a terrible football program, which as it turns out, has a shyster (accused) of a head football coach.
The question is, How is Kent Hance good for Texas Tech, Lubbock, and the South Plains? He has the blessings of the Gov, a stacked BOR, and a new A/D that will turn his head when rules are broken, as demonstrated by his tenure at Miami, and Kent Hance will use these pawns to ensure that his name is the most visible on Campus for years to come.
Only when Hance and his cronies are gone will Texas Tech retrieve it's most precious assets, Honor and Integrity.
Anne Solomon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I wonder what he knows about subject/verb agreement. "kinds. . .is good." Maybe he could brush up on simple English grammar and some Shakespeare. Literary scholarship is almost always peer reviewed so he really is off the hook on that one.
Richard Salvucci via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Do we really need another paper on Jesus Christ? Oh, yeah, this is Txxas, so that's ok.
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Tech should stick to researching the planting of turnips.
Merryl Redding via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Folks can study research & write about whatever they want, but not at taxpayer expense. Haven't you noticed the country is broke!
Josh Stuckey
Great article. I'm proud to have Kent Hance as our Chancellor.
J Woodman
Hance is at Tech to use it as a big customer for his family businesses and he is getting rich out of the deal....he will claim education is first at Tech, but the fact is fund raising is first to him at Tech so he can brag about how he got the school to Tier One....it is all an ego trip for him at snooty cocktail parties while our football has to suck due to his ignorance of the subject - football means more to Tech fans than him and his snooty friends glad handing at parties.....
James Kendrick
Kent can sugarcoat it all he wants but the facts show how much of a blatant liar and unethical SOB he really is. By conspiring with the Tech Board of Regents on how to fire Leach and screw him out of his legally entitled bonus before the ink was even dry on the contract (facts that are fully documented in the public record in e-mails between Hance and the regents), it was Hance (a former Business Law instructor at Tech for crying out loud) that first committed a material breach of the contract, not Leach. Granted, Kent can raise money, but he has forever besmirched Tech's proud legacy with his corruption, dishonesty, and deceit. I am a former longtime member of Texas Tech's Century Club of alumni donors. After this sorry episode with Mike Leach, Texas Tech will not get one damn penny from me ever again until Kent Hance dies, gets fired, or resigns in total discrace. He has violated his sworn oath as an attorny and member of the State of Texas Bar to uphold the law, andhe should be disbarred at the least. Hance's loyalty is to his own ego, not to Texas Tech
James W. Kendrick Tech BA '74, MBA '83