Texas Tech’s Chris Beard feigns outrage about food served at Big 12 Media Day in KC
There was controversy at the Big 12 Media Day on Wednesday ... about the food.
OK, controversy is way too strong of a word, but Texas Tech men’s basketball coach Chris Beard pretended to be outraged about the food served at the Sprint Center. Eric Kelly of KAMC in Lubbock shared a Twitter video of Beard in which he lamented the lack of something along the lines of Raising Cane’s being served.
“Not to be critical here of a great league, but little disappointed in the meal here,” Beard said with a straight face. “When I was in the Lone Star Conference, D-2, we had Raising Cane’s. ... We’re in the Big 12 here, you know how much money this conference makes? I’m going to go in there and I think it’s sliders and salad. Again, I respect this league, we don’t think we’re better than anybody, do we? But we do believe that we can be who were are.
“I think the Big 12, after a year after where we put teams in the Big Eight, Final Four, championship, revenue is at an all-time high, I think there should be prime-rib sliders, shrimp cocktails, lobster, lemonade bar ... I’m out.”
A lemonade bar and lobster? Now that’s quite a combination.
Here is the video:
This story was originally published October 24, 2019 at 1:58 PM.
