Tommy Tuberville gets physical with an assistant (GIF)

Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville will need to answer questions about his sideline demeanor after television cameras caught him yanking the headset and hat off of the head of one of his assistant coaches during the Red Raiders' game against Kansas.

Shortly after his team drew a penalty for having 12 men on the field, cameras caught Tuberville in a verbal altercation with graduate assistant Kevin Oliver.

After a brief back-and-forth, Tuberville grabbed Oliver's headset and yanked it off his head. In the process, Tuberville also yanked the assistant's hat to the ground.

Oliver is an offensive graduate assistant -- one of several GA's on Tuberville's staff -- who also works with the Red Raiders' specials teams. According to Tuberville, he was angry after a special teams player ran onto the field just as Texas Tech was attempting to convert on fourth-and-2.

Tuberville told Don Williams of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that "We got two back-to-back penalties. That's what I was hot about."

It was the penalties that upset Tuberville, not Oliver himself, Tuberville told Williams. Asked if his anger was directed at Oliver, Tuberville said, "Well, not at him. We couldn't get the right personnel."

In fact, Tuberville told Williams that he grabbed Oliver to remove him from the field of play. ""He was on the field, and I reached to grab him and pull him off. When I pulled, I missed his shirt and I grabbed his (headset).

"He's out on the field, and we're trying to get him off. I missed his shoulder, and grabbed his ... . It wasn't anything to it," Tuberville said.

The incident occurred with Texas Tech ahead 21-17 in the third quarter. The Red Raiders would go on to beat Kansas 41-34 in double overtime to move to 7-3.