What a miserable turd bucket of a school

Texas Tech AD Kirby Hocutt just announced that they will no longer "encourage or permit" tortillas to be thrown at opening kickoff of home games.

Hocutt joined Joey McGuire for his weekly press conference and opened it with a statement about the tortillas.

— Sam Khan Jr. (@skhanjr) October 20, 2025

Techies are very smart and will find a great workaround. like punting the tortillas on to the field instead of throwing them.

Someone got fined!

I anticipate a run on pita bread in the Lubbock area... iffin they have any.

Breaking News: Trash school is trash.

It is time for the Tortilla fad to die.....

Raiderjay said:

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It is time for the Tortilla fad to die.....

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The only unique thing about Tech and you want it gone.

TPS_Report said:

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Raiderjay said:

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It is time for the Tortilla fad to die.....

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The only unique thing about Tech and you want it gone.

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Is herpes considered unique?

BohunkAg said:

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TPS_Report said:

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Raiderjay said:

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It is time for the Tortilla fad to die.....

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The only unique thing about Tech and you want it gone.

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Is herpes considered unique?

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Not really.

Listen, I'm old enough to remember how the tortilla tossing tradition started. Before the Marsha Sharp Freeway being built, 4th Street ran in between Jones Stadium and a shopping center that had a grocery store. Said grocery store had a sale on a bag of tortillas and some students bought some, brought them to the game, and began tossing them around. That was it, and it caught on.

Then something that started organic became commercialized with t-shirts, etc. Now it may cost the university money and quite possible a game with a penalty. Time for it stop during the game, but I think it should be kept for the Red Raider walk-in pregame or incorporated into a tailgate tradition.

Leave it alone. Let them throw tortillas.

Big 12-0 said:

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Listen, I'm old enough to remember how the tortilla tossing tradition started. Before the Marsha Sharp Freeway being built, 4th Street ran in between Jones Stadium and a shopping center that had a grocery store. Said grocery store had a sale on a bag of tortillas and some students bought some, brought them to the game, and began tossing them around. That was it, and it caught on.

Then something that started organic became commercialized with t-shirts, etc. Now it may cost the university money and quite possible a game with a penalty. Time for it stop during the game, but I think it should be kept for the Red Raider walk-in pregame or incorporated into a tailgate tradition.

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That's not how it started, amigo.

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Back in the mid-90's, Kirk Bohls (sports writer for the Austin American Pravda) wrote an insulting article about Tech. In the article, he referred to Tech as "Tortilla Tech".

The year before, David Benedict McWilliams (Mac 1) had left Tech to go coach for the Horns, and Spike Dykes was the new coach.

At the Tech-UT game that year, the Tech fans showed up carrying tortillas and threw them during the game, thus the "tradition" was started. Not certain, but I think Tech won that game.

Corn tortillas fly far better than flour ones, and for some reason unknown to me, they fly better still if you tear a little hole in the middle of them.

The frozen tortilla thing is a total urban myth. For one, if you froze them, they would stick together, and for two, they would thaw before you could get them to the game. And believe it or not, Tech fans aren't out to hurt anyone - especially not other Tech fans... as well as tortillas fly, they really can't be aimed very well at all, and it's mostly Tech fans that get hit by tortillas when other Tech fans throw them.

I was at the 94 cotton bowl, and threw tortillas that day as Tech got obliterated by USC.

I've long since quit throwing tortillas and think the whole thing is pretty stupid.

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Love ya,

Skubs (aka, TechDiver)

As an aside, it wasn't mid-90s as I stated above. It was 1988. It started small and grew.

Skubalon said:

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Big 12-0 said:

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Listen, I'm old enough to remember how the tortilla tossing tradition started. Before the Marsha Sharp Freeway being built, 4th Street ran in between Jones Stadium and a shopping center that had a grocery store. Said grocery store had a sale on a bag of tortillas and some students bought some, brought them to the game, and began tossing them around. That was it, and it caught on.

Then something that started organic became commercialized with t-shirts, etc. Now it may cost the university money and quite possible a game with a penalty. Time for it stop during the game, but I think it should be kept for the Red Raider walk-in pregame or incorporated into a tailgate tradition.

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That's not how it started, amigo.

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But… I was there. Tortillas started way before McWilliams.

Big 12-0 said:

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But… I was there. Tortillas started way before McWilliams.

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When were you there? I was there from 85-89. I never saw them before 1988.

The real story goes back to 1968 when Joan Rivers, Tech's most famous alum, made a joke about her lack of bosom... claiming to be "as flat as a tortilla". Ever since, Tech faithful have honored her by throwing her chest on the field.

TPS_Report said:

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The real story goes back to 1968 when Joan Rivers, Tech's most famous alum, made a joke about her lack of bosom... claiming to be "as flat as a tortilla". Ever since, Tech faithful have honored her by throwing her chest on the field.

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you're conflating the ol john steinbeck origin story of the tech tradition w the joan rivers origin story, but I'm not sure if this tortilla tossing tradition actually predates the microwave oven.

TPS_Report said:

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The real story goes back to 1968 when Joan Rivers, Tech's most famous alum, made a joke about her lack of bosom... claiming to be "as flat as a tortilla". Ever since, Tech faithful have honored her by throwing her chest on the field.

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Everyone knows tceh's most famous alum is John Hinckley Jr.

Texas velvet maestro said:

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TPS_Report said:

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The real story goes back to 1968 when Joan Rivers, Tech's most famous alum, made a joke about her lack of bosom... claiming to be "as flat as a tortilla". Ever since, Tech faithful have honored her by throwing her chest on the field.

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you're conflating the ol john steinbeck origin story of the tech tradition w the joan rivers origin story, but I'm not sure if this tortilla tossing tradition actually predates the microwave oven.

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I had no idea about the Steinbeck connection, but it all fits now. Everyone wondered where he got the inspiration for Lenny.

then there's the Head East theory....but by the time you get around to that...nobody wants to throw the syrup.

Skubalon said:

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Big 12-0 said:

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But… I was there. Tortillas started way before McWilliams.

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When were you there? I was there from 85-89. I never saw them before 1988.

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I've been going to Tech games since the 1970's. It started as a thing where some students bought tortillas from the supermarket across the street from the stadium when there was no Marsha Sharp Freeway. There was a huge shopping center over there, with a supermarket, department stores, and even a "Copper Caboose" that was a cool hangout for the time. It started with students just innocently tossing them around, then more students, and even more. That is why Kirk Bohls referred to Tech as "tortilla tech" because of the students flinging them around. If I had to put a finger on the exact year, it would have been 1982 or 1983. Of course, it started small, something you might have not even noticed or cared about while watching a game.

Don't forget the despondent horse.

It's a better tradition than penn state's

Texas velvet maestro said:

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It's a better tradition than penn state's

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Or Baylor's for that matter

On the TxTech administration's hardcore 'no tortilla' policy .............guys, is this really the hill you are willing to die on?
Football, students, weekend fun, etc. I think I'd just let it go and hope you don't get whapped in the head during a TV interview .

OMeara said:

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On the TxTech administration's hardcore 'no tortilla' policy .............guys, is this really the hill you are willing to die on?
Football, students, weekend fun, etc. I think I'd just let it go and hope you don't get whapped in the head during a TV interview .

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My understanding is that the conference could fine Tech $100,000 for an errant tortilla landing on the field. Plus, the first ceremonial kick-off toss is a warning, and then a 15-yard penalty for any further tortillas tossed on the field, so it could cost a game in theory in the future.