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Texas head coach Rodney Terry calls to his team during the first half of a game against LSU, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023, in Houston. | Kevin M. Cox, Associated Press
Texas basketball can’t shake the “Horns Down” drama.
Texas head coach Rodney Terry makes a “Hook ‘em Horns” gesture after the Longhorns’ defeated Baylor in a game, Saturday, Jan 20, 2024, in Austin, Texas, | Sara Diggins, Austin American-Statesman via Associated Press
Two weeks after coach Rodney Terry criticized UCF players for mocking Texas’ famous hand signal after a Jan. 18 game, fans of other Big 12 teams won’t let him forget his comments.
On Saturday, ahead of Texas’ game at TCU, a group called Barstool TCU will reportedly hand out 500 “Horns Down” T-shirts to TCU students in the school’s student section.
Last week, a small group of BYU students took part in a similar stunt, but they were asked by BYU officials to remove their shirts early in the first half, as the Deseret News previously reported.
BYU coach Mark Pope commented on the shirts after the game, describing them as a “miscalculation.”
“That is not something that we are supporting,” he said.
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The Texas coach did not weigh in on the “horns down” shirts during his press conference after the BYU game, as the Deseret News previously reported.
After the UCF game, Terry ranted about the efforts to mock his school’s hand signal, calling the UCF players’ actions “classless.”
“I was letting those guys know, you don’t do that. You guys won, we shake your hand, tip my hat to you. But we’re not going to let you act that way in our building. You’re not going to put your horns down and do all that nonsense,” he said, according to an NBC affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Terry later apologized for his…
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Publish date : 2024-02-02 18:31:00
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