A Campus in Crisis
The Texas Tech University System has faced severe criticism this summer for its administration’s aggressive censorship and poor athletic performance.
Chancellor Brandon Creighton, a former politician with no academic background, has reshaped the curriculum to advance a radically conservative agenda, targeting left‑leaning topics and even prompting warnings to professors about discussing subjects such as Viking mythology, *Romeo and Juliet*, and *Moby‑Dick*.
Faculty members have reported being admonished for any material that could be perceived as progressive, and a mock funeral for academic freedom was staged on campus to symbolize the topics now deemed off‑limits.
The controversy extended to the football program when the school aggressively recruited transfer quarterback Brandon Sorsby, whose gambling addiction led to an NCAA suspension and a series of legal battles.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened on the school’s behalf, securing a donation from a Tech alum to support Sorsby’s reinstatement, a move that further entangled the university in political controversy.
Ultimately, the NCAA and the Big 12 Conference upheld Sorsby’s suspension, leaving the Red Raiders without a viable quarterback and deepening the institution’s reputational crisis.
The combined fallout has turned Texas Tech into a national embarrassment, with no other teams willing to schedule games against them and a campus culture marked by academic censorship and athletic disarray.