Arkansas Fined $25,000 For Storming Field After LSU Win

The Arkansas Razorbacks beat the LSU Tigers 17-0 on Saturday but fans stormed the field afterwards, leading to a fine

What do you do as a fan if your team just shut out the number 20 team in the country in NCAA Football? You storm the field, right? Well personally I don’t but a lot of fans do. In Arkansas they did after shutting out LSU Saturday night. Now the SEC wants $25,000 from the Razorbacks for doing so.

More from College Football

The SEC has a rule that bans fans from storming the playing field, any sports field, at any time, including after the game. Per Si.com, Arkansas was fined $25,000 because it was a second offense. Their first offense was in 2006 in basketball after beating the Florida Gators. The first offense is $5,000 and the the third and beyond is $50,000 per offense.

Can you blame the fans though? It is very hard for security to stop a mob of people from jumping fences or storming courts after victory. There is simply a numbers problem.

On Saturday night there were 70,165 people at Razorback stadium. Even if you had 100 security and police protecting the field, you aren’t stopping potentially 70,000 from storming a field.

SEC Commissioner Mike Silve though doesn’t buy it. He doesn’t believe storming a field after a big victory is appropriate.

"Celebration of a victory is understandable and appreciated but should be exhibited in the appropriate manner"

Whose to say that storming the field isn’t appropriate though when your team just scored a huge victory over a conference rival, a ranked conference rival?

Silve went on though. He wanted to play the safety factor.

"We cannot forget that significant risk of injury for student-athletes and fans alike can result from incidents such as this"

True, there is always concern someone will get hurt. However you are never going to stop a 70,000 person mob and in doing so, you might just do more harm than good.

More from FanSided

Home/College Football