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...
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?
For years SEC fans who weren't Bama fans said that Bama controlled the SEC's leaders.
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.
“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.
That’s right - if one fat blue haired girl jumps onto the field and takes out one of the players is that considered storming?
That’s right - if one fat blue haired girl jumps onto the field and takes out one of the players is that considered storming?
It appears that we don’t care about making dumb decisions, this is one of them.
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.
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.
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.
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