Penalties for rushing field

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SIAP, scanned the board and didn’t see it but two possible scenarios are on the table if a school rushes the field.

1) School loses a home game to that school. The next time they are scheduled to play that team at home, it will be at opponent’s stadium instead. Theoretically, means you could have to play away for 3 straight years at opponents stadium if it’s a permanent opponent.

2) Forfeiture of game. This makes zero sense to me. You are punishing the players for fans interactions. How horrible would it be if they took away a win? Players would hate their fans.

Think both are over the top but think they put #2 out there as an attention getter with no intentions of doing it, so they can say they ‘compromised’ and chose #1.
 
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Impossible to hold back 100K fans. Potential arrest/ big fines may deter some but others with too much Moonshine in them won't care at that time.
 
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A devous group of people, from another college, could rush the field just to get the ban for next season....All you would need would be about a 100 people, or less.
 
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GameTime said:
A devous group of people, from another college, could rush the field just to get the ban for next season....All you would need would be about a 100 people, or less.
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Part of the debate would be a threshold of activation. It’d almost certainly be higher than that number (or say, the number of a handful or bunches of fraternity seniors who the penalty wouldn’t apply to since they’re graduating).
 
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77' Vol said:
Impossible to hold back 100K fans. Potential arrest/ big fines may deter some but others with too much Moonshine in them won't care at that time.
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I presume that’s partially the idea behind that proposition here? Considering the result would essentially be the loss of a whole home game’s worth of revenue (for reference, last year Tennessee’s revenue was around $11.5 mil per home game), the thought would be the school feeling the need to go above and beyond putting measures in place to prevent it from ever happening (as it’s one thing for these schools to lose $100,000 to $250,000, but it’s another to lose $12,000,000)…not to mention further pressure from the university’s city to make sure such wouldn’t happen (Knoxville claims to receive about $42 mil in revenue on home game weekends, so I imagine the city would also press the school for the more favorable postgame).

Edit: I feel I might have the wrong revenue amounts per home game. I’m going to look more into it, and I will come back and edit this post if I can find the correct/most accurate numbers.
 
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JohnWardForever said:
Frankly my Dear, I don't see the disconnection.
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TN and LSU stormed the field after beating Bama at home, now all of a sudden “someone” wants it completely banned. I wonder who that could be?…

If passed, just another Saban rule. I will say it would be a good measure to increase security around the opposing team to let them safely leave the field if this is truly their intent.
 
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secking said:
TN and LSU stormed the field after beating Bama at home, now all of a sudden “someone” wants it completely banned. I wonder who that could be?…

If passed, just another Saban rule. I will say it would be a good measure to increase security around the opposing team to let them safely leave the field if this is truly their intent.
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I saw no incidents (other than the Alabama player slapping at the Tennessee fan) During all that Celebration. Just because I called it "Wild" (and it definitely was) didn't deserve you attaching me with that hated bastard. lol
 
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GameTime said:
A devous group of people, from another college, could rush the field just to get the ban for next season....All you would need would be about a 100 people, or less.
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I was just about to say what happens if 10,000 of our closest friends show up in Tuscaloosa and storm their field. Does that mean they have to play in Knoxville 3 straight years??
 
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If they tried this there would be so many lawsuits it would never happen. Not from the schools but from the cities, economic development groups in the cities, etc. Not saying they win but they could get so many delays it would never happen. Can’t imagine how many lawsuits would be filed in Texas if Texas or AM stormed the field and was going to lose a game. The legislature would pass a bill making it illegal in Texas.
Of course, I do like the question, what happens in the scenario that UT clinches the SEC at Vandy and storms the field.
 
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OrangeVolMan said:
If they tried this there would be so many lawsuits it would never happen. Not from the schools but from the cities, economic development groups in the cities, etc. Not saying they win but they could get so many delays it would never happen. Can’t imagine how many lawsuits would be filed in Texas if Texas or AM stormed the field and was going to lose a game. The legislature would pass a bill making it illegal in Texas.
Of course, I do like the question, what happens in the scenario that UT clinches the SEC at Vandy and storms the field.
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If a group of more than 10 Vandy fans show up let me know
 
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Why is it that Bama gets to dictate the basic operations of their opponents? Time to call the SEC’s hand on their team preferences.
 
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wear Bama stuff and storm their field... What body of water should we toss their goalposts in??

GO VOLS!!!!
 
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We play Virginia in Nashville on the same day Vandy plays Alabama A&M. Feels sort of dirty even thinking it, but can we all go buy anchor down t-shirts and storm their field if they win? That’d be a fun warm up to the real game.
 
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Never gonna happen... From the Forde article:

Proposals for a new policy to deal with fans rushing the field or court are expected to be presented to the league’s full roster of athletic directors soon for discussion.
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The mere prospect of losing a home game will cause ADs vote against this measure - no way will they risk that.
 
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Who came up with these stupid rules? Just stupid. Who is thinking this? Might as well have Swat teams on the ground. So a player hits slaps a female on the field and we come up with an order like this?
The Satan Saban Rule!
 
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77' Vol said:
Impossible to hold back 100K fans. Potential arrest/ big fines may deter some but others with too much Moonshine in them won't care at that time.
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Just 3 years after we approve alcohol sales at football games, now we decide fans acting out who might be under the influence of the "fire water" and storm the field will cause their team to forfeit a game. This is nuts. I smell Nick Saban, again. He wasn't content when he failed to get the rule changes he wanted because of UT's too-quick offense, so now he wants to implement the equivalent of death penalties for parking violations one year after he loses to us and we storm the field in an epic post game celebration.
 
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The greatest moment in CFB in 2022 was the scene in Knoxville after the Alabama game. That was from ESPN College radio today. It wasn’t the blowout in the Playoff game.

If you want to kill enthusiasm, don’t bitch when nobody cares anymore.
 
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How about penalties to the SEC leaders for lousy ref calls in games that affected the out comes or just "what the hell was that call for" calls.
 
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