By Jamie Barton, NCS
(NCS) — Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire pleaded with fans to cease throwing tortillas onto the sphere on Saturday night time after the custom price his team 30 yards in penalties.
Big 12 athletic administrators voted 15-1 in the course of the offseason in favor of a coverage which disciplines house groups when spectators throw particles onto the gridiron. Saturday was the primary time the Red (*30*) have confronted sanctions for the decades-old follow.
“I’m frustrated,” McGuire instructed reporters after the sport, through which No. 9 Texas Tech defeated Kansas 42-17. “We’ve got a new rule in this league. We know the rule and we didn’t follow it and we got penalized tonight.”
“You made it about you,” he added. “If you’re throwing tortillas greater than as soon as, it turns into all about you.
“Like, really? Is that a Red Raider? You came to the game, and you love this team and you’re passionate about this team, and yet you’re going to throw another tortilla when you know it’s against the rules?”
After an preliminary warning, the primary 15-yard penalty got here within the second quarter and compelled Texas Tech to start a drive from inside its 15. That setback got here half approach by a interval of 17 straight factors for Kansas because it fought again after going 21-0 down.
“It’s going to catch up with us,” stated McGuire. “The first one nearly did because the game was a little bit tighter than what you wanted. But it’s going to catch up with us.”
The second penalty handed possession to the Jayhawks at their 40 in the course of the fourth quarter, as soon as the Red (*30*) have been already out of sight. McGuire and Kansas head coach Lance Leipold might be seen having a heated dialogue after the sport.
Leipold stated in his postgame press convention {that a} pocketknife had been thrown in the course of the sport and had hit a member of Kansas’ employees.
“It’s ridiculous,” he instructed reporters. “Eventually someone’s going to be seriously hurt, unfortunately.”
NCS has reached out to the University of Kansas and Texas Tech for remark.
There has been some division inside Texas Tech following the introduction of the brand new guidelines. The school’s athletic director, Kirby Horcutt, was the only real dissenting voice within the vote, and has since suggested ways through which the custom could be saved in line with the brand new rules. Red (*30*) fans have been inspired by the faculty to solely throw tortillas earlier than the sport, in holding with the brand new guidelines.
The Red (*30*)’ subsequent house sport is in opposition to Oklahoma State on October 25.
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