Stallion wrote:the AAC can impose substantial financial penalties for violation of its rules. In fact, if the home team charges the field after a victory I think that's an automatic $10,000 penalty that is assessed to the home team no matter the excuse. Ole Miss just got charged $50,000 by the SEC for charging the field after Alabama victory. You are expected to have enough security to handle the crowd. I'm sure the penalty for seating the students behind the home team would be much higher.
Always find it hilarious at the end of our games when we have 50 cops out on the field lining each goal line like they are protecting the goal posts when the stadium is 3/4 empty. Wonder how much all of this unnecessary security costs us?
Stallion wrote:the AAC can impose substantial financial penalties for violation of its rules. In fact, if the home team charges the field after a victory I think that's an automatic $10,000 penalty that is assessed to the home team no matter the excuse. Ole Miss just got charged $50,000 by the SEC for charging the field after Alabama victory. You are expected to have enough security to handle the crowd. I'm sure the penalty for seating the students behind the home team would be much higher.
Always find it hilarious at the end of our games when we have 50 cops out on the field lining each goal line like they are protecting the goal posts when the stadium is 3/4 empty. Wonder how much all of this unnecessary security costs us?
i'm assuming that there is a required level of security personnel required based upon tickets purchased or expected attendance, not expected attendance at the end of the 4th quarter. i don't believe they are just adding extras just to spend the money.
It's because we did tear down the goal posts after a win back in like 2005. They fell and injured a bunch of people. I'm sure the school decided they would rather pay some police officers over time rather than risk getting sued. Seems very simple to me.
SMU SID wrote:Student tix can't be within first 20 rows behind opposing teams’ benches between the 25-yard lines per AAC policy.
Did SMU vote in favor of that rule and why is it necessary in the AAC but apparently not the Big 12?
CUSA had similar rules: Basketball - "No students are permitted to sit in the first six rows directly behind the visiting team's bench and that additional security is added to this area." Football - "Student Seating. Host institutions shall refrain from seating students in the first 15 rows behind the visiting team area between the 25-yard lines"
We actually did let students sit there for one game several years back. It was on Halloween, on a Thursday night. Some of the costumes beat out the white dresses in August in terms of camera appeal. That was in the CUSA days and I specifically remember the SID mentioning that we had gotten a waiver to do this one time only.
Heck, hate to be repetitive but we had a student in the opposing teams huddle one game wearing their helmet. Not sure if there was a specific rule against that or not at the time, other than 12 men on the field for Nevada.
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mrydel wrote:Heck, hate to be repetitive but we had a student in the opposing teams huddle one game wearing their helmet. Not sure if there was a specific rule against that or not at the time, other than 12 men on the field for Nevada.
That was classic.
SMU's first president, Robert S. Hyer, selected Harvard Crimson and Yale Blue as SMU's colors to symbolize SMU's high academic standards. We are one of the few Universities to have school colors with real meaning...and we just blow them off.
That was classic.