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SEC Announces Field Storming Punishment For 2025 Season
Tiger Droppings ^ | May 30, 2025 | Larry Leo

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...


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How is this legal? The body imposing the fine does not own the facility or the athletic organizations. If students, after an athletic event wish to storm the field, is it not an expression of their free right to expression? Regardless, the theory of "attractive nuisance" certainly can be argued.

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?

1 posted on 05/30/2025 8:05:16 AM PDT by Racketeer
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The SEC gives teams huge dollars from the TV broadcast revenue.

Take the king’s coin, do the king’s bidding.


2 posted on 05/30/2025 8:09:53 AM PDT by JParris
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Is it storming if the target is just one white girl ?


3 posted on 05/30/2025 8:10:11 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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How is this legal? The body imposing the fine does not own the facility or the athletic organizations.

LOL. Wanna bet? These big conferences own those programs lock, stock and barrel.

4 posted on 05/30/2025 8:10:48 AM PDT by Ditto
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"free right to expression"???

What the heck are you talking about???

5 posted on 05/30/2025 8:12:09 AM PDT by thefactor
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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?


6 posted on 05/30/2025 8:12:24 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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LOL. Wanna bet? These big conferences own those programs lock, stock and barrel.

For years SEC fans who weren't Bama fans said that Bama controlled the SEC's leaders.

7 posted on 05/30/2025 8:14:16 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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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.


8 posted on 05/30/2025 8:14:40 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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> 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.


9 posted on 05/30/2025 8:14:43 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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I’d just allow the opposing team to give unlimited wedgies to anyone who storms the field.


10 posted on 05/30/2025 8:18:48 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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“Can’t do it on a Ford dealership parking lot.”

Let’s assume you do. Does Ford Motor Company or the National Auto Dealers Association fine you? The Ford dealer, whose lot you are trespassing on, should have the claim of trespass.

I guess the pimps are the Conferences and the prostitutes are the individual teams.


11 posted on 05/30/2025 8:27:21 AM PDT by Racketeer
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That’s right - if one fat blue haired girl jumps onto the field and takes out one of the players is that considered storming?


12 posted on 05/30/2025 8:28:43 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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That’s right - if one fat blue haired girl jumps onto the field and takes out one of the players is that considered storming?


13 posted on 05/30/2025 8:28:45 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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It appears that we don’t care about making dumb decisions, this is one of them.


14 posted on 05/30/2025 8:29:43 AM PDT by Rappini ("In hoc Signo Vinces" In this sign, you shall conquer.)
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Financially speaking, it also depends on how often the fans storm the field. Obviously, no football program wants their fans to storm the field after every home win and, thus, have to pay a $500K fine each time.

But once per decade or so, the programs might willingly pay the fine if the field storming helps market the win as a legacy win. For example, Vols fans will probably many years talk about the time they stormed the field, tore down the goal post, carried it down the street, and threw it into the river after Tennessee beat Bama for the first time in a dozen years. Sure the Vols had expenses for both the fine and repairs to the field. But it was worth that expense to add to the "Remember when..." folklore of the win that they can market on for a while.

15 posted on 05/30/2025 8:33:43 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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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.


16 posted on 05/30/2025 8:44:27 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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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.


17 posted on 05/30/2025 8:45:20 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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right to free expression

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.

18 posted on 05/30/2025 8:48:43 AM PDT by SSS Two
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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.


19 posted on 05/30/2025 8:48:47 AM PDT by GMThrust
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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.


20 posted on 05/30/2025 8:48:52 AM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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