The storming the field rule is stupid, IMO

18IsTheMan

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It's shameful that our own fans did this:



I mean, come on. That's absurd
 

92Pony

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It's shameful that our own fans did this:



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.)
 

18IsTheMan

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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.)
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.
 

KingWard

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and why does A&M get the money???
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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
I loved the SEC Shorts take on it as the 250k was ''taken'' as payment toward Jimbo's buyout
 

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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.
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.
 
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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,
Pretty darn depressing at the thought of that but true.
 
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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.
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.
 
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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.
 

Benjdan

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I thought it was embarrassing. I left when I saw it starting after we went up 37-20. IMO storming the field should only be an instant reaction to a last second victory in a big game.
 

will110

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I thought it was embarrassing. I left when I saw it starting after we went up 37-20. IMO storming the field should only be an instant reaction to a last second victory in a big game.
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.
 

18IsTheMan

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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?
 
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atl-cock

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I think stoming a field, pitch, court, etc. is sophomoric and am completely opposed to it. Go dance in the streets if you must.
 
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