re: Losing a future home game on the table for those storming the field per SI

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But I laughed considering you are a fan of the fanbase known for being the drunkest at games.

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hence why what im saying resonates with the SEC rant faithful, they know that i know what im tombat

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Coach Bryant said
win with dignity and class.

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An alcoholic who cheated by paying players?

How many more must die before we come to our senses?!?!?…

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The futility of the sanction

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Just considering this reality, let's play devil's advocate here for a moment and assume that it cannot feasibly be stopped (which I agree, it can't, and probably shouldn't).

Wouldn't a more logical approach be to devise a simple, standard way for players and staff to exit the field if they choose?

In other words, instead of the fun police ruining everyone's enjoyment of a sport they choose to financially support, how about the actual local police, private security, whatever, worry about cordoning off one area on the field?

Jump the hedges? Fine. Break through the absolute-off-limits safety area? Get your arse whipped with a baton.

It seems silly to try and stop 50,000 people when you really only need to safely secure a few hundred.

If they could somehow reasonably guarantee safety, it would then be up to each individual institution to determine if they want to pay for new goal posts after a huge win, for example, and enforce their own rules for their own facilities.

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Here's a thought, let fans congregate on a specific side of the field away from where the visiting team leaves the field.
At LSU the students are no where near the visiting team so they could congregate in the north end zone.

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One of the great things about Tiger Stadium is how the visitor's locker room is located near the visitors section. All stadiums should be similarly set up. I know in the past, they haven't been many years ago, the visitor section at Florida Field was in the corner where the Florida band was, and the visiting team entrance was surrounded by Florida fans. Thankfully they have fixed that. Currently at Bama, the visitors come out totally opposite where the visiting fans come out.

I know that a lot of that can't be fixed because of how the stadiums are built, but any new stadium should be required to fix it.

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One of the great things about Tiger Stadium is how the visitor's locker room is located near the visitors section. All stadiums should be similarly set up. I know in the past, they haven't been many years ago, the visitor section at Florida Field was in the corner where the Florida band was, and the visiting team entrance was surrounded by Florida fans. Thankfully they have fixed that. Currently at Bama, the visitors come out totally opposite where the visiting fans come out.

I know that a lot of that can't be fixed because of how the stadiums are built, but any new stadium should be required to fix it.

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A&M's visitor locker room is in almost exactly the same position as at LSU, relative to the visitor's bench. The difference is, we have some student seating in between the bench and the locker room.

I dislike field storming. To me, it just screams entitlement, making it about you and not about the team on the field. But, then again, I sit up so high that it's not even an option. Instead of forfeiting a home game and the revenue that goes with it, perhaps a student seating ban for the next home game would be an effective deterrent?

This is the only feasible solution. Protect the visitors and their equipment and get them TF off the field as quickly as possible. Anything else is pissing in the wind and creating a potentially more dangerous situation.

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These players and staffs deserve to be able to enter and leave a field safely with no box cutters being brought on the field or state troopers having to punch out some drunk frat boy who wants to fight a coach.

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So right now the tally on this is 4 upvotes, 27 downvotes. That is a bad look for this place.

I guess BYOB now means bring your own boxcutter.

Just kidding.

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I can't wait to storm the field in Alabama

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it’s happened at an away game before……twice.

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Jim Valvano terminated NC State’s scheduling of East Carolina after Pirate fans tore down goal posts and the playing surface at Carter–Finley in 1987.[2] NC State’s athletics administration had publicly warned ECU and Pirate fans after two consecutive years of minor vandalisms to the stadium. The schools would not meet again until the 1992 Peach Bowl.

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But this time it was against Miami at ncstate due to hurricane Floyd.

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East Carolina capped the comeback with a 79-yard, 10-play drive that ended a tough week. When time ran out, fans ignored pleas to stay off the field and tore down both goal posts. Security officers kept overzealous fans from taking both sets of uprights and crossbars out of Carter-Finley Stadium.

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