{"id":5608,"date":"2025-10-15T22:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/5608\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:09:17","slug":"texas-tech-releases-footage-of-pocketknife-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/5608\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech releases footage of pocketknife incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech Athletics released footage it submitted to the Big 12 Conference regarding the claims of a pocketknife being thrown at the Kansas sideline in the Red Raiders\u2019 42-17 Homecoming win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During his postgame press conference, Kansas coach Lance Leipold claimed the pocketknife was thrown at a staff member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE: <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\/\">Texas Tech, Kansas fined by Big 12<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In Texas Tech Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt\u2019s letter to the Big 12, it included a screenshot of communication happening during the game between Kansas and Big 12 staff members in an in-game operations WhatsApp thread immediately sent when the claim was made.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Texas Tech releases footage of pocketknife incident\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/UGDSTMUV6BFVLG53NWFOEDUB6A.jpeg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1168\" \/>Texas Tech releases footage of pocketknife incident(Texas Tech Athletics)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Texas Tech was issued two 15-yard penalties throughout the duration of the game. According to the letter to the Big 12, the second penalty was issued \u201cin response to KU\u2019s claims on the sideline that a pocketknife was thrown into the KU bench.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The first penalty was because of Texas Tech fans continuing to throw objects\/tortillas onto the playing surface after its traditional opening kickoff throw and warnings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Wednesday, both teams were fined $25,000. Texas Tech received a public reprimand and the fine for throwing objects onto the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Kansas was fined for \u201can inaccurate statement regarding a pocketknife\u201d by Leipold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech Athletics released footage it submitted to the Big 12 Conference regarding the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,1890,317,5781,300,5780,305,2764,319,309,66,168,223,304,303,5779,311,318,154,27,29,28,1769,299,310,5782],"class_list":["post-5608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-big-12","tag-big-12-conference","tag-brandon","tag-brett","tag-football","tag-jayhwaks","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-kcbd","tag-ku","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-news","tag-raiders","tag-red","tag-red-raider","tag-red-raider-football","tag-soliz","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-tech","tag-ttu","tag-ttu-football","tag-yormark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608","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=5608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}