{"id":13054,"date":"2025-10-21T00:12:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/13054\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T00:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:12:32","slug":"texas-tech-is-ending-a-longtime-tradition-over-a-big-12-rule-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/13054\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech is ending a longtime tradition over a Big 12 rule change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/colleges\/texas_tech_red_raiders\/63\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tech Red Raiders<\/a> are putting a stop to a longstanding tradition after the NCAA cracked down on it. <\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt said Monday that the school will no longer \u201cencourage or permit\u201d tortillas to be thrown on the field ahead of the opening kickoff of football games. The tradition dates back to 1989.<\/p>\n<p>For years, the Big 12 has turned a blind eye to the practice in the name of tradition. However, the league has started a crackdown this season on fans throwing objects onto the field by ramping up enforcement of fines and penalizing teams whose fans misbehave.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech initially encouraged fans to continue the tradition but only during the opening kickoff, but that has proven ineffective, as tortillas have continued flying at other points in the game. The Red Raiders were hit with two 15-yard penalties for tortilla throws in last week\u2019s game against Kansas. The school was also fined $25K, and those fines will increase if the behavior continues.<\/p>\n<p>The tortilla throwing was <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/college-football\/dana-holgorsen-gave-important-advice-to-houston-fans-ahead-of-texas-tech-game\/603817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">definitely something opponents took notice of<\/a>. Fans will have to find something new to mark their home kickoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Tech Red Raiders are putting a stop to a longstanding tradition after the NCAA cracked down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-13054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054","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=13054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}