{"id":12767,"date":"2025-10-20T20:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/12767\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:25:06","slug":"texas-tech-banning-throwing-of-tortillas-at-opening-kickoff-of-home-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/12767\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech banning throwing of tortillas at opening kickoff of home games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt announced the athletic department will no longer permit the throwing of tortillas at opening kickoff. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAs we move forward, we are no longer going to encourage nor permit the throwing of tortillas at the opening kickoff for our home football games,\u201d Hocutt said Monday during a weekly news conference with coach Joey McGuire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The announcement comes after Texas Tech received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/10\/15\/texas-tech-kansas-fined-by-big-12\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/10\/15\/texas-tech-kansas-fined-by-big-12\/\">fine from the Big 12<\/a> for fans continuing to throw tortillas onto the field well after kickoff during the homecoming game against Kansas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/10\/17\/big-12-increasing-penalties-objects-thrown-field-100000-fine\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/10\/17\/big-12-increasing-penalties-objects-thrown-field-100000-fine\/\">the Big 12 announced increased penalties for throwing objects on the field<\/a>. The first violation will be a warning from the public announcer, the second violation results in a 15-yard penalty and a $100,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story; check back for updates<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt announced the athletic department will no longer permit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[315,319,8089,251,168,170,169,154,1769,873,6439],"class_list":["post-12767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-big-12","tag-kcbd","tag-kirby-hocutt","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-sports","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-university","tag-tortillas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}