The Texas Tech football team will be at the center of one of the most ridiculous college football controversies in recent memory this week when the Texas Longhorns come to Lubbock. Tuesday, Kliff Kingsbury told reporters that he has instructed his players to refrain from using the Horns down hand signal after West Virginia wide receiver David Sills and quarterback Will Grier were penalized for the gesture last week in Austin.
“We addressed it last year when we had a costly penalty doing that last year on the road, and you can’t do that against a quality football team and cost yourself 15 yards on a kickoff.