Texas Tech Coach Begs Fans To Stop Throwing Tortillas On The Field

Texas Tech soccer coach Joey McGuire has flat-out had sufficient.

After Saturday’s 42-17 victory over the College of Kansas, McGuire used his postgame press convention to beg Texas Tech followers to chorus from what’s change into a beloved custom: hurling tortillas onto the sector.

“Is {that a} Purple Raider?” McGuire, steamed, requested reporters after the sport. “You got here to the sport and you like this workforce and also you’re obsessed with this workforce, however but you’re going to throw one other tortilla and you realize it’s in opposition to the principles?”

The Purple Raiders in the end got here out on high regardless of impassioned hucksters twice drawing penalties on their very own workforce. For McGuire, it appears there’s no such factor as an off-the-cuff (flatbread) fling.

The 2 calls of unsportsmanlike conduct ― which got here after two warnings ― mixed for 30 yards in penalties. The primary interrupted a 17-point run by Kansas, and the second got here after a definitive 55-yard Raiders speeding landing.

Athletics administrators within the Huge 12 convention voted 15-1 in August in favor of disciplinary measures for followers throwing issues on the sector. The lone holdout? Texas Tech Athletics Director Kirby Hocutt.

“I’m pissed off,” McGuire lamented Saturday. “We’ve acquired a brand new rule on this league. We all know the rule and we didn’t comply with it and we acquired penalized tonight.”

“You made it about you,” he continued, addressing the tortilla renegades. “In the event you’re throwing tortillas greater than as soon as, it turns into all about you.”

Texas Tech doesn’t enable followers to open carry the meals merchandise, forcing would-be tortilla wielders to take issues into their very own palms.

The professional-tortilla-tossing weblog TechTortillas.com advises fans “to slip a ten or 20 pack of tortillas” of their cowboy boots to get previous safety. Alternate methods embrace taping them to your chest or folding them inside a cowboy hat.