The most broken part of this story is not the incident itself but the explanation of
the incident. Tuberville’s explanation was downright insulting and I would be very surprised if he does not correct his error and apologize sometime this week.
Texas Tech played Kansas on Saturday. In a tight game in the fourth quarter, the following ensued:
The Red Raiders were going for it on fourth and 2 leading 21-17 midway through the fourth quarter. But they ended up taking a penalty for having 12 men on the field. Tuberville lost it and took out his anger on an assistant, later to be identified by the Avalanche-Journal as offensive graduate assistant Kevin Oliver.
Which led to this:
Asked about the incident after the game, Coach Tuberville responded with the following:
“He was on the field, I reached to grab him and pull him off, and when I pulled I missed his shirt and I grabbed his facemask —
or his microphone — and it just ripped off his head,” Tuberville said at his postgame press conference, via Star-Telegram.com. “I was trying to get him off the field.”
