On Saturday evening, as the Texas Longhorns battled the Texas Tech Red Raiders to an intense finish at Jones AT&T Stadium, ripples spread through the Twitterwebs when Brian Davis reported that Texas athletics director Chris Del Conte was ejected from the game:
Texas AD Chris Del Conte was ejected from the game by a side judge. He was escorted off the field.
— Brian Davis (@BDavisAAS) November 11, 2018
After the game, Del Conte termed it a “false alarm,” but it wasn’t until he released his weekly newsletter that he shared the full details of what happened:
While I’ve got you, let me clear up something that went viral in the Twittersphere Saturday.