Texas Tech football fans will no longer be allowed to throw tortillas at opening kickoff of home games inside Jones AT&T Stadium.

Tech director of athletics Kirby Hocutt joined head football coach Joey McGuire for his weekly Monday press conference to announce the new rules. This comes on the heels of last week's memo sent by the Big 12 Conference to league institutions that calls for a $100,000 fine for schools that are penalized for fans throwing items onto the field during games.

"The stakes are too high," Hocutt said, "and we need to help not risk penalizing our team again for throwing tortillas. Simply, let's not do it."

Hocutt said Tech staffers will monitor the stands during games to monitor tortillas throwers, if there are any. Any fans caught throwing tortillas onto the fiel

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