Over the past several years, there’s been a number of incidents at BYU Cougars away games where fans of the home team chanted derogatory things directed at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which sponsors BYU.

On Saturday morning ahead of the marquee football matchup between the No. 7 Cougars and the No. 8 Texas Tech Red Raiders in Lubbock, one of the more prominent figures at Texas Tech made a plea with Red Raiders fans to not do so.

Prior to kickoff, Texas Tech head men’s basketball coach Grant McCasland addressed the crowd at Jones AT&T Stadium with a short message.

“Hey, I love the energy in this place, so let’s not lose the energy, but let’s do this in a way that helps our team win,” he said. “Everybody with me?

“So I know everybody has some chants against BYU that

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