SEC to implement drastic punishments for home schools that allow fans to rush fields

Schools within the Southeastern Conference will face more durable penalties subsequent season if they permit followers to hurry the soccer discipline after a sport.

SEC officers introduced new tips on Thursday, which states that the house faculty must pay a $100,000 tremendous after a primary offense. It will price the house faculty $250,000 the second time followers storm the sector, and $500,000 for subsequent violations.

Every SEC faculty will enter the 2023 soccer season with zero offenses.

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Tennessee Volunteers fans rush the field

Tennessee Volunteers followers rush the sector after defeating the Alabama Crimson Tide at Neyland Stadium n Knoxville, Tennessee, on Oct. 15, 2022. (Donald Page/Getty Images)

According to the SEC, discipline storming happens “when the visiting team and/or game officials are still on the playing surface.” 

However, faculties could have the choice of implementing a coverage that enables followers to enter the sector after everybody on the opposing group has exited.

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Each faculty can even be required to create a safety contingency plan in an effort to stop discipline speeding. In addition to the brand new safety measures, the tutorial establishments can even should implement a communication plan that deters fan from storming the taking part in floor. 

The data that’s communicated to the followers should embody particulars on the penalties a person would face in the event that they violated the coverage.

Tennessee Volunteers fans tear down goal post

Tennessee Volunteers followers tear down the objective put up whereas celebrating a win over the Alabama Crimson Tide at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Oct. 15, 2022. (Donald Page/Getty Images)

Last season, the LSU Tigers had been fined $250,000 twice. The followers stormed the sector after LSU defeated Ole Miss, and some weeks later Tigers followers took to the sector after an time beyond regulation win over the Alabama Crimson Tide.

The SEC created a working group made up of athletic administrators, occasion administration administrators and campus safety personnel who had been tasked with wanting into discipline speeding. 

Fans and students as they rush the field

Fans rush the sector to rejoice after the Texas A&M Aggies’ victory over the LSU Tigers at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas, on Nov. 26, 2022. (Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports)

Conference officers primarily based the modifications on the group’s findings.

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“The SEC’s Working Group on Event Security will focus its efforts on reviewing existing policies, developing new strategies and identifying best practices to enhance crowd management and more effectively address field and court incursions at future SEC athletics events.” SEC commissioner Greg Sankey stated final fall.

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