Posted on 05/30/2025 8:05:16 AM PDT by Racketeer
Last season, SEC teams would fine schools $100,000 if their students storm the field. If it happens a second time, the fine would jump up to $250,000. Any subsequent offenses would cost $500,000. During this year's SEC Spring Meetings, league commissioner Greg Sankey announced that fines for field stormings will be much more...
Death caused when goalpost torn down link.
We shouldn’t storm the field anyway, we expect to win.
I love what the Vandy fans did after beating Bama, walking the goalposts and then throwing it into the river.
That’s what makes College Football great, the traditions. But sadly more and more traditions in College Football are being abandoned.
Like staying on the same team your whole 4 years in College.
Like staying on the same team your whole 4 years in College.
That’s a big one.
Excellent point.
The conference, with its purse strings, .....”
Some of these highly rated teams could easily follow the Neuter Dame model and go independent. Storming the field should be a right of passage. It has been done throughout history!!
“Death caused when goalpost torn down link.”
Death caused when car was driven while on cell phone link.
Death caused when lightening struck while taking picture of lightening with cell phone link.
Death caused when falling into a storm drain while walking and on cell phone link.
Alive because I paid attention when goalpost was torn down link.
etc., .....
It’s the Golden Rule. He who has the Gold, rules.
Alive because they paid attention when goalpost was torn down link.
I had a front-row seat to hearing this explained to a particularly unruly fan about 35 years ago. This fan was part of an unruly group of middle-aged, opposing fans sitting right in the heart of season-ticket holders section. Initial pre-game banter turned ugly quickly and I was surprised that fights didn't break out. Right before halftime, a large contingent of security guards appeared, led by a deputy sheriff. The group was informed by the deputy that they were being re-seated (to comparable seats right behind their team's band).
Turns out the particularly unruly fan was a thoroughly-drunken attorney. Go figure, huh? You can imagine the A-hole-ness level here. After listening to the profane rant from the attorney and the threats of all the legal avalanches coming, the deputy calmly responded. He informed the attorney that because of his profession, the attorney knows that the deputy was operating within the law. He told the attorney that he could leave the stadium or go to his reassigned seat but if he tried to return to his current seat, he would be arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. He would be handcuffed, taken to the holding cell at the stadium and because it seemed apparent that he was drunk, he would have a breathalyzer sample taken at the cell and his possessions would be searched looking for alcohol because some security guards had seen him drinking from what appeared to be a liquor bottle. Alcohol was prohibited in the stadium. At that time, additional charges could be added and/or the initial charge could be upgraded. He would appear in front of a judge before the day was over.
At this point, he became quiet and some lady (probably his wife with his possessions) quickly took him by the arm and led him away. The deputy followed him out to applause and high fives. The group did go to their reassigned seats and the guy looked like he passed out a while later.
The university owns the facility and can make reasonable rules. Violating them can have legal ramifications as I learned that day.
As a Bama fan, I always found those claims to be hilarious, delusional and absolutely psychotic.
If Bama owns the SEC, then why are we always penalized more than other squads? Why are our opponents allowed to “hold”with impunity against us?
Why did the NCAA collude with the filthy Phat Phil Fulmer to destroy the Alabama program? And they almost succeeded. But, we enjoyed our revenge, although we will never forgive nor forget how the entire SEC colluded with UcheaT against UA. That’s one reason why I always pull against the SEC teams when they play non-conference games.
Tennessee, Auburn and LSU are the darlings of the SEC office and the referees. FACT.
“A few years back Tennessee fans stormed the field after beating Alabama in football. They raised the money to cover the fines before the people even left the stadium. To them, it was worth it.”
Tennessee promised to storm the field in Columbus and throw our goalposts in the river. Didn’t happen though:)
I did it a couple of times in the late 70s attending the U of Ark.
Once the Hogs were playing TX in Austin and beat them.
Thousands of us went to the stadium in Fayetteville and took down one goalpost and carried all the way down Dickson St, the local campus strip of bars and restaurants.
The police helped us and blocked off the street so we could party.
Beating Texas in football is huge in Arkansas.
Bama/Vols is the same.
During that uncivilized melee, a few Tennessee fans saw fit to physically go after former Bama player Kerry Goode, who was attending the game. Those hillbilly cretins should have been arrested for assault for attacking a defenseless man.
Goode is suffering from ALS and is confined to a wheelchair. Until last fall, he would occasionally post videos and keep Bama fans updated on his progress. Sadly, his condition has deteriorated to the point that he is unable to post videos.
Lol. Okay I got your point.
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