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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (October 13, 2024) – The Southeastern Conference announced today that Louisiana State University will be fined for violation of the league’s access to competition area policy due to fans entering the field following its football game vs. the University of Mississippi on October 12.

LSU will incur a fine of $250,000 for a second offense under the league’s current access to competition area policy that was revised at the SEC Spring Meetings in 2023.

For Conference contests, fines are paid to the opposing institution.

The policy states that “institutions shall limit access to competition areas to participating student-athletes, coaches, officials, support personnel and properly credentialed or authorized individuals at all times. For the safety of participants and spectators alike, at no time before, during or after a contest may spectators enter the competition area.”

Financial penalties are imposed for violations in all sports sponsored by the Conference. Institutional penalties range from $100,000 for a first offense, $250,000 for a second offense and $500,000 for a third and subsequent offenses.

The policy was originally adopted by a vote of Conference members in 2004 and financial penalties were increased by action taken by the membership in 2015 and again in 2023.

(Release via LSU Athletics)
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6R1219 days
Just more money for OM to buy some more players in a hurry to compete for the next game they have.
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TBoy19 days
Does this mean that the field stormers had a theft budget of $250,000 from the opposing team? If they had known this, they could have gotten our money's worth. Next time the fans will have a $500,000 budget? (Maybe the SEC should rethink this.)
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cajunmud19 days
Give it up SEC. Just give it the fck up.
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Tenntig19 days
This is nonsense. The universities have no way to keep fans off the field after a big win short of building a 20-foot fence with razor wire on top. Ole Miss makes an extra $250,000 for losing and LSU is out a quarter-million for winning. The NCAA and SEC seem to be massive thuggish bureaucracies that never seem to get anything right. The SEC motto, "It Just Means More" should be changed to, "Ok, Everybody. Let's Calm Down."
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Giantkiller19 days
I assumed it was up in the $700K range by now.
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Epaminondas19 days
The SEC is a bunch of Karens.
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udtiger19 days
Tate should announce that for every home game where LSU wins, immediately following the game there will be a mandatory student meeting on the field.

SEC cannot fine a school for a required student assembly.
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DByrd219 days
This is actually quite genius. If we lose? Meeting was cancelled. Haha
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Furious19 days
It is a stupid rule, outside of having the national guard there, they have no way of stopping that mass amount of fans. I guess they could put in hockey style windows. The SEC is idiotic on this one
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Crusty19 days
Well the schools are the ones who actually voted and approved this policy, so...
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Celery19 days
A moat might do it.
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rattlebucket19 days
Lawyers voted. Or they advised to approve the rule. Furious is right…what rule or fence really gonna stop 5,000+ people
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Jayjoe19 days
Worth it.
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So the number of times does not reset every year, since this is the 2nd time..?

And doesn't the money ho to ole miss?
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Homesick Tiger19 days
Yep. If it's a nonconference team the money goes to the SEC office, I think.
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