SEC Fines South Carolina For Fans Storming The Field After Texas A&M Win

by Staff Reporter

November 4, 20244 Comments

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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (November 3, 2024) – The Southeastern Conference announced today that the University of South Carolina 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. Texas A&M University on November 2.

South Carolina 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. South Carolina’s first offense under the revised policy occurred when fans entered the court following a Gamecock victory over Kentucky in men’s basketball in January.

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 SEC Sports)

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PeleofAnalytics•1 month

Why would a university really try and stop this? The publicity of winning the game and having students run onto the field is a boon for recruiting students. 16-17 year olds around the country seeing how much fun the students are having is great advertisement for a university and worth whatever fine a university gets.

If a school really wanted to stop it, all you'd need to do is put up a bunch of cameras on the field facing the student section and video all the kids jumping the railing and running onto the field. During a break on the field you make an announcement that students would lose future tickets and the students think twice.

Bham4Tide•1 month

They actually should. Who the frack storms the field for Texas A&M? Morons . . .

scrooster•1 month

Who? Drunk students, that's who. And the little $#!+s didn't storm the field because it was A&M, the retards stormed the field because social media hyped the game all week as the ABC Prime Time GotW against the (at the time) 1st place in the SEC team whose fans had desecrated our venerable, historic and hallow Statehouse Capitol Building's grounds the night before. Social media hype, combined with drunkard kids, is the work of satan. That and allowing women the Right to vote. Ray Tanner runs our athletic department like Tim Walz ran Minneapolis. It's time to whoop out billy clubs and tasers and put an end to kids' destructive ways. It should only be allowed at Vandy ... we might all be happy for Vandy fans, but it's unacceptable everywhere else. $250k should be spent on high speed tear gas shootin' paint ball guns and hedge busters should be shot in the throat and crotch the next time it happens. Better yet, 12 gauge bean bag loads and pop'em right in their little drunk patooties. Then, while they're laying there screaming in pain, have the paint ball squad come around and paint them in the forehead with teargas pellets before sicking the dogs on them and then hauling their little out of control asses off to jail.

scrooster•1 month

Ray Tanner should issue shoot to kill orders to prevent it from happening again. It's outta hand and unacceptable from the drunk little brats. Rarely used-to happen anywhere ... and now it's become commonplace. If not StK then hit them with the hotsauce in the eyes, sick the dogs on'em and then spray'em down with firehoses. Whatever it takes, put an end to the bull$#!+.