We know this much: Anytime an athlete or anyone else does the “Horns Down” hand signal at a Texas sporting event, it’s going to make headlines and tick off Longhorn Nation.
So, here you go: After UCF took down Texas on Wednesday night, video shows Knights players flashing the Horns Down as they started the postgame handshake like, and Longhorns head coach Rodney Terry screamed at them: “That’s classless! Don’t do that [expletive]!”
Both Terry and UCF head coach Johnny Dawkins — who said he didn’t see what happened that led to the confrontation — addressed it after the game, which you can watch below (WARNING: NSFW language ahead):
Scene of the crime. pic.twitter.com/aPuceYYQus
— Tyler Feldman (@TylerFeldmanTV) January 18, 2024
UCF upset Texas as 8.5-point underdogs tonight and celebrated by doing Horns Down after the game…
Texas head coach Rodney Terry was not happy and called them "classless"pic.twitter.com/xN2kbWOfXy
— Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) January 18, 2024
Here's what #Texas head coach Rodney said happened in the handshake line with #UCF:
"About 6 or 7 guys putting the horns down. We don't do that because when you do those kinds of things, it looks very classless."#HookEm | @KVUE pic.twitter.com/qV0nVNgb24
— Tyler Feldman (@TylerFeldmanTV) January 18, 2024
Here's #UCF head coach Johnny Dawkins on the handshake line situation between RT and some Knights. Dawkins said he did not see/know what happened. pic.twitter.com/MuEQqmmCh4
— Tyler Feldman (@TylerFeldmanTV) January 18, 2024