There has to be severe penalties that affect the team for fans rushing the field.
No exceptions. The penalties have to hurt. And that's how these idiots will learn.
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I disagree — Rushing the field is something I hope all students experience at least once.
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Why? How about rushing the ice or the court or the Lacrosse field?
Rushing the field used to be reserved for once in a lifetime moments. Rushing the field after beating Utah for crying out loud changed everything. Is beating a two loss non Top Ten Colorado a once in a lifetime moment? Add in the fact that these idiots don't know how to read a scoreboard clock so why wait for the game to actually end? And when did ripping down goalposts and throwing it in a river become a thing? Should every student experience that? I myself have been at ground zero for 4 or 5 student field rushes. One of those rushes the game hadn't ended and we lost. Good times at that one.
My brother in law was a cop that helped tear down the goal post in 1968 in Green Bay after the Ice
Bowl. so it goes back at least that far. (He was not on duty and he was a police sergeant in a neighboring community.). He still had a piece of it in his basement when he died a few years ago. A nephew now has it. It will likely be passsed down for generations in my wife’s family.
I had a daughter at Purdue a few years ago and I was at their victory over tOSU for Father’s weekend for her sorority, and went down on the field afterwards with her.
Rushing the court at the ACC after ND beat UCLA was also fine with me.
Link: https://youtu.be/R-a9-gUSX1c
Damn those kids having fun
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Apparently, college has taught them to read a scoreboard clock.
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