If you happen to mess with the Longhorns, you get asked to alter your attire.
During a Texas-BYU matchup on Saturday on the Marriott Center in Utah, some fans of the Cougars decided to throw some shade on the opposition with “Horns Down” shirts.
A bunch of fans — each wearing a letter to spell out the phrase — were sitting within the front row behind one among the hampers and near the Texas bench throughout the Cougars’ 84-72 win were asked to take off their shirts, KSL Sports first reported.
BYU coach Mike Pope expressed his disappointment within the fans’ actions after the sport in his postgame press conference.
“That’s just not us,” Pope told reporters. “That’s not how we roll, only a miscalculation on a few eager kids — which we love the eagerness of those fans. But that’s not what we do here. … Just so you already know, that’s not something we’re supporting.”
Per KSL sports, it was BYU personnel who asked the fans to remove the T-shirts.
The “horns down” phrase is the other of Texas’ popular “Hook ‘Em Horns” slogan and hand signal that Texas fans use, which has drawn the ire of the basketball team on at the very least one other occasion this 12 months.
During a game earlier this month, UCF players celebrated their win over Texas with the “horns down” gesture, which incensed Longhorns head coach Rodney Terry.
“That’s classless!” Terry shouted as he made his way down the handshake line. “That’s classless! Don’t do this s–t! That’s classless!”
Terry elaborated during his press conference after that loss.
“I’m an enormous believer in you win the appropriate way, you lose the appropriate way. … You carry yourself the appropriate way,” Terry said. “You don’t undergo the handshake line, or prior to attending to the handshake line, and have about six or seven guys putting the horns down. We don’t do this.
“If you do those sort of things it looks very classless and it also looks such as you were just hoping to win.”
Texas dropped to 14-6 with Saturday’s loss and 3-4 in Big 12 play.