When Jack Bicknell Jr. left Lubbock to become the offensive line coach at Boston College, it left Texas Tech scrambling to fill the void. It now appears that Red Raiders have secured Bicknell's replacement. Mike Leach has hired Matt Moore who spent last season as offensive line coach at Troy. Moore is one of Leach's former players, as the two crossed paths at Valdosta (Ga.) State, an NCAA Division II school, where Leach coached from 1992-96.Leach has shown a penchant for hiring former players and is excited to have Moore in Lubbock.
"He's had a great career at a variety of high schools, one of them being Hoover (Alabama) High, when they ran offenses very similar to ours and borrowed from ours and where they had a lot of success and won a lot of Alabama state championships,'' Leach said. "He's done well in college, too. It's exciting to have him on board and get going.''Moore, who is 34, served stints as both the offensive line coach and offensive coordinator at Hoover, the Alabama powerhouse featured on the MTV series Two-A-Days. Despite missing all of the Red Raiders' spring practices, Moore is confident he can fit right in with Leach and his staff.
"It'll be a little different not getting to go through spring with the kids before you start the season,'' Moore said. "But I'm confident, having played in this system and having run this system for the past eight years, that I'll be able to fit right in from a technique standpoint and from a terminology standpoint.''
