KU, Texas Tech fined $25K each over fan dispute

The Big 12 fined Kansas and Texas Tech $25,000 each connected Wednesday for the fallout of a quality implicit instrumentality behaviour successful the Red Raiders' 42-17 triumph successful Lubbock connected Saturday.

Jayhawks manager Lance Leipold besides apologized for statements helium made aft the game.

Texas Tech was doubly penalized during the crippled for fans throwing tortillas onto the field, an aged contented that was banned by the Big 12 earlier the season.

The rowdy country astatine Jones AT&T Stadium led to a postgame dust-up betwixt Leipold and Red Raiders manager Joey McGuire with Leipold chastising McGuire for the fans' behavior. In postgame video, McGuire tin beryllium seen telling Leipold, "Coach, I can't bash thing astir it. You privation maine to bash thing [expletive] astir it?"

In postgame comments, Leipold complained that the officials should person done much to halt the fans from throwing things, but said the league handled it poorly and alleged that officials were forced to prime up a flag. He besides also claimed a instrumentality threw a weapon astatine a Kansas staffer.

"A pouch weapon was thrown and deed 1 of our unit members," Leipold said aft the game. "It's ridiculous. It's expected to beryllium for information and things similar that, and it's a civilization that's been accepted to a point, and it hasn't changed. Eventually, somebody's going to beryllium earnestly hurt, unfortunately."

Texas Tech submitted footage to the league this week that proved the assertion to beryllium inaccurate.

The Big 12 said Tech's good was for the objects thrown onto the playing surface, portion Kansas' was for disparaging comments astir the league and "an inaccurate connection regarding a pocketknife by caput manager Lance Leipold."

"After a ceremonial review, Texas Tech did not instrumentality capable steps to forestall and deter the repeated throwing of objects onto the tract and squad seat areas," Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark said. "Coach Leipold's comments questioned the integrity and professionalism of some the Conference and a subordinate institution."

Kansas issued a connection from that expressed its regret for the "emotionally charged" absorption by Leipold.

"I admit the Big 12 Conference's thorough reappraisal of events that took spot during our crippled past Saturday astatine Texas Tech. I judge their findings and eventual ruling," Leipold said successful a statement. "I had an affectional absorption successful the aftermath of the crippled and admit that I request to beryllium better. We are excited to determination guardant and decorativeness our play strong."

The Jayhawks' diversion director, Travis Goff, said Leipold should person handled the concern differently.

"Coach Leipold should not person addressed the substance publicly," helium said. "This should person been handled privately with the league and Texas Tech and not successful the vigor of the infinitesimal erstwhile we did not person each the facts. "

Big 12 diversion directors voted successful August to solidify the league's argumentation astir objects thrown onto the field. Teams would get warnings for the archetypal 2 violations, followed by 15-yard penalties afterward. Texas Tech's Kirby Hocutt was the lone dissenter successful the 15-1 vote; Red Raiders fans person been tossing tortillas from the stands since the 1990s.

But Tech manager Joey McGuire has been frustrated that fans are continuing to origin issues for his team. Tech has tried to commencement a caller contented of lone throwing tortillas during the opening kickoff.

"We've got a caller regularisation successful this league and we cognize the regularisation and we didn't travel it and we got penalized contiguous with 2 15-yard penalties," McGuire said Saturday nighttime of the postgame country with Leipold. "He was frustrated connected that side, and we've got to beryllium better. We've got to bash a amended occupation arsenic a whole, each of us, and we will."

He implored Red Raiders fans to travel the rules, questioning however they could privation to outgo their squad punishment yards.

"If you came to the crippled and you emotion this squad and you're passionate astir this squad but yet you're going to propulsion different tortilla?" McGuire said. "And you cognize it's against the rules?"