Stunning video twist in Texas Tech-Kansas sideline knife controversy

The pocketknife controversy stemming from Texas Tech’s game against Kansas on Saturday has a ruling — and it involves the Jayhawks getting fined, too.Kansas was docked $25,000 by the Big 12 after video submitted by the Red Raiders appeared to show a Jayhawks player picking up the pocketknife off the sideline and handing it to a staffer, seemingly squashing the allegation made by Kansas head coach Lance Leipold that a fan threw the knife during the third quarter.Texas Tech director of athletics Kirby Hocutt wrote in a letter to the conference that the Kansas sideline didn’t react as if a pocketknife was thrown, according to KCBD.The Jayhawks, according to a Big 12 statement, received the fine due to “disparaging comments about the Conference and a member institution, and an inaccurate statement regarding a pocketknife by head coach Lance Leipold.”Texas Tech was also fined $25,000 for “repeated instances of objects being thrown onto the playing surface,” with tortillas — a tradition at the university dating back to the 1990s — being hurled toward the field multiple times, according to The Athletic.“Coach Leipold’s comments questioned the integrity and professionalism of both the Conference and a member institution,” Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark said in the statement.“Both actions warranted a financial penalty.

The Big 12 Conference prioritizes integrity and will have no further comment on the matter.”In the immediate aftermath of Texas Tech’s 42-17 home win in Lubbock, Leipold blasted the alleged incident as “ridiculous” and the “culture that’s been accepted to a point.”“It hasn’t changed,” Leipold said during his press conference, “and eventually someone is going to be seriously hurt unfortunately.”Leipold said in a statement Wednesday that “I had an emotional reaction in the aftermath of the game and acknowledge that I need to be better,” while Jayhawks director of athletics and vice chancellor Travis Goff ...