Regardless, how does an entity without any ownership rights at all to the facility, turn the "attractive nuisance" into a cash register by removing your right to free expression?
The SEC gives teams huge dollars from the TV broadcast revenue.
Take the king’s coin, do the king’s bidding.
Is it storming if the target is just one white girl ?
LOL. Wanna bet? These big conferences own those programs lock, stock and barrel.
What the heck are you talking about???
Great!! They’re a bunch of crazed vandals invading insufficiently monitored athletic fields. Why not allow them to “streak” in the middle of the third quarter?
But they do own the sport and the rules. And that’s what matters. And by doing that they say “work with your venue, and your fans, and make this not happen or else”. Field storming is stupid, way past time for college sports to put it in the past.
> is it not an expression of their free right to expression? <
Rights do not apply on private property. For example, I can hold a sign mocking Ford cars in a city park. Can’t do it on a Ford dealership parking lot.
I’d just allow the opposing team to give unlimited wedgies to anyone who storms the field.
It appears that we don’t care about making dumb decisions, this is one of them.
THE University of Florida in the SEC hasn’t allowed storming their football field or their basketball court for at least 20 years. They just post cops around the perimeter so the fans know better.
I don’t think schools should be punished for the actions of their students provided the school has rules against and punishments for intolerable behavior and makes a proper effort to impose them.
Trespassing is not a right to free expression.
The schools own their athletic facilities and have full right to limit access to them as they see fit. If the conference says you must keep spectators off the field in order to receive funding from the conference, you better believe the schools will prohibit spectators from accessing the field. The conference, with its purse strings, can provide a hell of an incentive for member schools to stop spectators from storming the field.
do they think that students really care if the school gets fined? I can see the SEC hiring actors to storm fields to generate more money.
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.