Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville says he doesn’t plan to be heavy handed with scooter usage in the wake of having two players involved in accidents while riding scooters this summer. Backup safety Austin Stewart ran into a bus on campus in late April, and freshman defensive tackle Anthony Smith suffered an ankle injury while riding a scooter on the eve of practice starting.

Tuberville acknowledged the bad luck, but said he has no plans to ban scooters when asked if he'd do so.

“We haven’t had a whole lot of problems,” Tuberville said. “We talk to them all the time about it, but it’s just part of it. Everybody in the country’s got them. It seems like we’re the only ones having scooter problems.

“I would think the ones that are on them hopefully would use common sense, and if you’re 320 pounds, you don’t get on a scooter. You get in a car.”

The latter was a playful reference to Smith, who will miss the first few weeks of practice. The 5-foot-10, 312-pound defensive tackle from Spring Westfield is in a protective boot and has spent much of the first two workouts on a stationary bike. When Tuesday’s practice ended, he used crutches to join the team at the middle of the field.