Posted on 02/12/2025 9:38:47 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — As the SEC reviews ways to halt field and court storming, Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne has come up with a proposal, according to a recent interview.
"I truly believe [in forfeiting wins] — if we said that the home team, if they storm the field or the court, they're going to lose that game right then and there, that will stop it."Alabama AD Greg Byrne told ESPN The league has seen rise in recent years of fans taking celebration to playing surfaces and Arkansas is one of them. After upsetting then No. 4 Tennessee in Razorbacks Stadium Oct. 5, fans rushed the field for the first time since defeating Texas in 2021.
To this point of the 2024-25 athletic calendar, the SEC has collected $2.6 million from league members who don't comply with league parameters. Razorbacks athletics director Hunter Yurachek voiced his indifference about these types of fines before, encouraging fans to bask in the glory of unforgettable moments.
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That said, any violence against the other team is unacceptable.
New strategy… losing team’s fans storm the field!
Sounds like it’s time for Byrne to forfeit his position.
InB4 road teams learn they can get cheap wins by traveling heavy and having their fans storm the court...
Auburn would do that.
Scroo you, SEC! If that’s your REAL name. The fans paid for that field. And your ridiculously lucrative salaries.
Its dangerous. There are good reasons why the league has sought to ban it. My own alma mater UF hasn’t seen fans storm the field in over 40 years. The field being ringed by cops complete with police dogs and the universal knowledge that you’ll face stiff penalties if you try it might have a little something to do with that.
If other schools actually wanted to stop fans from storming the field, they could.
I could see the opposing team getting some friendly “fans” to charge the field as if that team’s fans.
I was thinking: Auburn V. Alabama would be an interesting test case.
Punish the players for the sins of the fans? Lame.
“Punish the players for the sins of the fans? Lame.”
It’s the chicken way out. Hickory shampoos is the right answer.
Well lets just take ALL the fun out of sports while we’re at it.
losing teams will storm the field in order to gain the W... bring two shirts to each game...
Rinsed with a fire hose.
What counts as a “storm?” 10 fans? 25? 100? 250? ...
Fans storming the field and tearing down the goal posts used to be a regular thing.
Sounds good to me. It’s silly, it’s dangerous, it often damages the playing surface, and course in football frequently ends in tearing down the goal posts. Some traditions need to end.
Happens a lot. Throwing stuff on the field can result in penalties against the home team. They can try to get the fans, but it’s not always easy due to how many people there are, but get them at what they care about usually works.
Outrageous. Why should a team — or anyone else— get punished for third party actions that they cannot control?
This country simply cannot restrain itself from crushing good clean innocent fun. EVERYTHING has to be deeply organized, regulated, controlled and follow a tangle of arbitrary rules.
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