The storming the field rule is stupid, IMO
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It's shameful that our own fans did this:
I mean, come on. That's absurd
I mean, come on. That's absurd
I’d just as soon see the hedges replaced by some sort of safety barrier, given that there’s nearly zero room from the endzone to the railing. Dalevon Campbell was injured earlier this season after going hard into the hedges. (Ready for the ‘Nancy’ and ‘Karen’ comments.)It's shameful that our own fans did this:
I mean, come on. That's absurd
Crazy thing to me is I saw all these fatsos just plopping onto the hedges and falling over onto the field. I mean, there's a bar there that would have made it so easy to just put a foot on and leap over the hedges.
Maybe some day we won't need to storm the field when we beat a good team. That should be the real goal.
Because that makes it more punitive and because it compensates them for exposing their people actually involved in the game to a certain degree of inconvenience, discomfiture, and peril.
I'm good with them getting the money. Our problem is the unlikelihood of anyone ever having to pay us unless out WBB team loses an SEC game out on the road someplace. Our football team sho' ain't gonna get us any of that easy money, but our fans sho' don't mind p!$$!ng easy money away.
To be honest, I didn't think it was that big of a win. It didn't get us into a championship game, it wasn't a win against a big rival or a traditional major power we had never beaten before or change the overall position we are in regarding the season. Sure, it was a big win and a lot of fun but I didn't see the reason for storming the field.
I tend to agree on this.
It wasn't like the UT game a few years ago. They were massive favorites, and we throttled them in historic fashion. And we have a decently long history with UT. A&M was a slight favorite in this one and we don't have a huge history with them.
And, as I mentioned above, I hope we can eventually get to the point that a win over a good team doesn't necessitate storming the field.
I'm not opposed in principle to court/field storming, but I'm not really sure what the point is.
Given the craziness of fans with potential dangerous consequences more needs to be done to hinder storming.
I loved the SEC Shorts take on it as the 250k was ''taken'' as payment toward Jimbo's buyout
As an alumni and life long fan, I agree with what you said. But, put yourself in the shoes of the young students who maybe weren't there for the 2022 Tennessee win. They don't know when or if the next home upset will happen.
We need to take over Vandys stadium this week and storm the field. Then they will owe USC 150K. 
Instead of paying part of Muschamp's buyout. That's a half-million dollar swing.
We didn’t storm the field when we beat #1 Alabama in 2010. We didn’t storm the field when we beat #5 Georgia in 2012. We didn’t storm the field when we beat #4 Ole Miss in 2009. It starts with the student section, and something about this generation believes every win over a top 15 team deserves storming the field.
I can't say for sure for Saturday night because I wasn't there, but it didn't really look like they had much security or police offices getting ready for it. In 2010, that was a much different case. They were everywhere to keep people off the field.
A little barbed wire would put a stop to it.It's shameful that our own fans did this:
I mean, come on. That's absurd
Lol field storming so annoys you that you couldn't stick around to enjoy the biggest win in a couple years? That's quite a statement.
The storming doesn't bother me. I agree with Lamont when he defended it last year as a unique part of the student experience. What's absurd to me is the abject destruction of our own stuff. Why would our own fans recklessly trash our own field?
I think stoming a field, pitch, court, etc. is sophomoric and am completely opposed to it. Go dance in the streets if you must.
Yea, that would be awesome for a player to get wrapped up in going up for a catch falling into the fence.
On the spectator side. And design the stadium to have more room between the end of the end zone and the bottom of the stands.
Yeah, because there is so much room there that would prevent a player from reaching the other side. Sounds like an awesome idea. They are not going to redesign the stadium to make room for barbed wire. That would be a huge project. Just to put some barbed wire around a football field. It is not something that is realistic nor should it be.
Yes, retrofitting is too expensive.
I'm talking about designing this feature when new stadia are built.
New stadium? I do not see that happening. College is not the NFL. College teams do not build new stadiums every 10 or so years. They are not sinking all this money into Williams Brice to build a new stadium.
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