Schools Will Likely Re-think Whole Rushing Field, Court

Razorbacks now will have to pay other schools half a million when home team floods field

(Nelson Chenault / USA TODAY Sports)

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — While some fans think it's cool to hold a riot on a football field or basketball court after a win, it's going to get expensive. Let's face it, they aren't the ones that have to pay the money so they really don't care, but Arkansas officials probably will now.

Just expensive is probably an understatement. Lost among all the discussion about the 2024 football schedule last week was a little item increasing penalties for fans rushing out on Razorback Stadium (Texas in 2021) or Bud Walton Arena (Auburn in 2022). Since they piled up at least two, now it's going to be $500,000 per offense. Ouch.

What hurts even more is the money now would go to Texas or Auburn. If you're a fan that participates in that sort of stupidity, how do you feel about your beloved Razorbacks paying a half-million bucks to Texas because YOU rushed YOUR OWN field? The guess here is aside from athletics director Hunter Yurachek probably not laughing much about those amounts, most fans could dismiss it as going to the league for some sort of fund.

The question, though, is what can be done to stop it? That's a police issue, not the yellow shirts at athletic events. Many of them are not physically equipped to stop anybody from running out on the field and they aren't carrying a gun, which would probably discourage most semi-sober fans. It might not stop at a half-million bucks, either. Fayetteville and Washington County law enforcement officials are going to have to be out in force and ready to stop folks.

"I have the ability to impose additional penalties," SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said, "and those fines will be paid directly to the opposing institution. So, if you’re a visitor who is rushed in this conference, then you will be the recipient of that fine money."

Yes, it may sound like a harsh move but it should have been done years ago. The concern was someone getting killed in one of these things (and may have already happened and I just missed it). That is more costly than any financial fine that has permanent issues.

HOGS FEED:

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DON'T EXPECT CONGRESS TO PROVIDE MUCH HELP WHEN IT COMES TO NIL

FORMER RAZORBACK COACH IN JUNIOR COLLEGE HALL OF FAME, BUT AT LEAST LATE IS BETTER THAN NEVER

DECISION BY JIMMY JOHNSON BEFORE DAN HAMPTON ARRIVED IN FAYETTEVILLE WHY HE SHOULD BE IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME

RAZORBACKS' QUARTERBACK KJ JEFFERSON HAS LEFT THE YARD FOR CALIFORNIA

WE DON'T KNOW 2024 SCHEDULE YET, BUT WE KNOW TWO TEAMS WHO WILL MOST LIKELY BE ON IT

LATEST TRANSFER RANKINGS MAY BE HELPING WITH RAZORBACKS' BASKETBALL SIGNEES

RAZORBACK BASEBALL HAS PICKED UP A LUNATIC FRINGE OF FANS JUST LIKE FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL

WHAT SCHEDULE COULD LOOK LIKE FOR HOGS, LONGHORNS, SOONERS UNDER NEW SCHEDULE FORMAT ... AT LEAST FOR A YEAR

SEC KICKS CAN DOWN THE ROAD FOR 2024 SCHEDULE FORMAT

DAVE VAN HORN HOPING FRESHMAN HAS PROBLEMS OF LAST THREE OUTINGS SOLVED FOR REGIONAL

SEC, ESPN LOSE IF LEAGUE GOES WITH NINE-GAME CONFERENCE SCHEDULE IN FOOTBALL

IF CHOICE WAS BETWEEN INVESTING IN HOLLAND OR DAVIS, THEN THERE WAS NO CHOICE TO BE MADE

RAZORBACKS GET THEIR LEADER BACK WITH RETURN OF DAVIS

GAME TIMES, TV NETWORKS SET FOR RAZORBACKS' FIRST THREE FOOTBALL GAMES (IF YOU CALL OPENER TV)

SHOULD THE SEC START MOVING TEAMS OUT OF CONFERENCE, RAZORBACKS WON'T BE ON THE BLOCK

ARKANSAS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

FAYETTEVILLE WEATHER UPDATE

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