SEC assesses Texas penalties for bottle-throwing

[Deej 76791]

38 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

I think that behavior is not funny.
Instead it is a disgraceful embarassment and a stain on the University of Texas. 
It puts our fan base on the same level with the Arkansas trash in the eyes of the country.

 

[Victor R. Franko 90]

Maybe none of our business, but could the University take advantage of this situation in some way? Any benefits to be gained here?

Would strong leadership pointing out that the SEC is to valuable and important not to have professional officials trained and dedicated full time to officiate all SEC men's and women's events? Show how the penalty triggered this event and similar ones around the conference. Make a case for professional full time refs, and bring to other schools, kind of sidestepping Sankey until a clear alignment solidifies with other schools. 

If UT got the ball rolling on this,  could it help establish a new pecking order more fitting UT? Or would we get used and crapped on?

Just seems like an opportunity to explore upgrading the officials from part time realtors or insurance salespeople. 

Edited October 21 by Victor R. Franko

[Tex Pete 20354]

Imagine how much complaining there would be of our “destroying the conference” if we both called out putrid officiating and provided an actual solution to it. We’d be the most toxic motherfuckers on the planet. 
 

Kirby would probably murder a ball boy over it. 

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2652]

1 minute ago, Victor R. Franko said:

Maybe none of our business, but could the University take advantage of this situation in some? Any benefits to be gained here?

Would strong leadership pointing out that the SEC is to valuable and important not to have professional officials trained and dedicated full time to officiate all SEC men's and women's events? Show how the call triggered this event and others around the conference for the last few years. Make a case for this and bring to other schools kind of sidestepping Sankey until a clear alignment with others form.

If UT got the ball rolling on this,  could it help establish a new pecking order more fitting UT? Or would we get used and crapped on?

Just seems like an opportunity to explore upgrading the officials from part time realtors or insurance salespeople. 

And risk the good old boy county "rich" rednecks in birmingham losing their little fiefdom built on corrupting sec bureaucracy ? no way. pulling the sec to the modern age is going to be a long process 

[Surly Bevo 24908]

1 minute ago, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

And risk the good old boy county "rich" rednecks in birmingham losing their little fiefdom built on corrupting sec bureaucracy ? no way. pulling the sec to the modern age is going to be a long process 

It's going to take whatever may be cooking with the B1G to get that ball really rolling.  

[Victor R. Franko 90]

Well, no guts, no glory. 

10 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

It's going to take whatever may be cooking with the B1G to get that ball really rolling.  

Maybe that's the way. B1G and SEC develop a plan, any plan to start discussing the topic.  Throw in acc and b12 as interested parties, as they'll have to go along. Develop an "Officials Association " that the P4 must use. After thought on this is to have all P4 TV contracts provide an item line budget based on percentage of contracts. Make TV pay so conferences don't squabble over costs.

   BUT, most important is that  Texas starts it and gets the credit.   What starts here, changes the world! 

Edited October 21 by Victor R. Franko

[Hank_Hill 18807]

56 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

I think that behavior is not funny.
Instead it is a disgraceful embarassment and a stain on the University of Texas. 
It puts our fan base on the same level with the Arkansas trash in the eyes of the country.

 

Baylor raped women and 95% of college fandom doesn’t remember or care. This is a whole lot of nothing. 

[burntorangebongos 10710]

53 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

I think that behavior is not funny.
Instead it is a disgraceful embarassment and a stain on the University of Texas. 
It puts our fan base on the same level with the Arkansas trash in the eyes of the country.

 

This. While it was a spontaneous natural reaction to egregious fuckery, it is still bullshit that should be called out as beneath us.  This is a teachable moment for our students and we must rise to the occasion and teach them the way of our Texas culture. That shit won't stand. 

[Bullneck 19090]

4 hours ago, yoladu said:

look, does Texas have a history of fans throwing water bottles on the field? No.

something pretty egregious must have happened for it to have happened Sat night. Anyone want to look into that?!

Ahem . . .

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/20972731/the-wild-bottle-throwing-badly-officiated-1947-ou-texas-game

Edited October 21 by Bullneck

[Lhorn 4913]

Thank goodness we didn’t have celebrity guest Whitey Ford at a game with a free pretzel giveaway. 

[Your Mom 4806]

1 hour ago, Hank_Hill said:

 

I’m down with the spirit of all this but I don’t think this video does much to prove a point. I had to watch it five times before I could find where a bottle might’ve been thrown.  No even remotely close to what happened last night.   Georgia water bottle throwers definitely not SEC ready. 

[Hank_Hill 18807]

4 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

I’m down with the spirit of all this but I don’t think this video does much to prove a point. I had to watch it five times before I could find where a bottle might’ve been thrown.  No even remotely close to what happened last night.   Georgia water bottle throwers definitely not SEC ready. 

Video’s late. Dude in black is already picking them up in the endzone. But yea the majority just had weak ass arms 

Edited October 21 by Hank_Hill

[Newdoc 3440]

4 hours ago, RexWilson said:

What does the conference do with this money? Who benefits from the 250k?

2025 supply of visors and Vagisil for Kirby.

[dcar00 14210]

11 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Video’s late. Dude in black is already picking them up in the endzone. But yea the majority just had weak ass arms 

shocker that UGA students are rag arms...

[Pods 7552]

9 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Video’s late. Dude in black is already picking them up in the endzone. But yea the majority just had weak ass arms 

Our fans showed why the state of Texas produces so many quarterbacks. 

[Valmy77 13226]

1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

I think that behavior is not funny.
Instead it is a disgraceful embarassment and a stain on the University of Texas. 
It puts our fan base on the same level with the Arkansas trash in the eyes of the country.

 

I mean I have seen our fanbase do that and worse in the past. You most certainly remember those days. Were you ritually whipping yourself back then? I was at the game where our fans threw garbage on the field at the 1995 Sugar Bowl for no reason at all besides our team was playing bad. I was there at the Stanford game in 1999 when our fans booed the marching band and I was there in 1992 when our fans booed our own offense for sucking against Baylor. And those are just incidents I witnessed in person. I was a little surprised this version of the UT crowd did this. We have been a very politically correct crowd for years.

Anyway don't worry. UT has no sense of humor for this kind of thing. I am sure a bunch of new policies will be wheeled out.

Edited October 21 by Valmy77

[ztejas 43449]

57 minutes ago, Lhorn said:

Thank goodness we didn’t have celebrity guest Whitey Ford at a game with a free pretzel giveaway. 

And heeeeeere come the pretzels...

[ITHorn 801]

The self righteousness from SEC fans of all people is hilarious to me. I have a hard time taking anything anyone says seriously about class and embarrassing behavior from schools who condone what Georgia has had happen off field last few years let alone of the other SEC bullshit. 

[Nivek 16930]

I am glad they did it. And I hope they do it again.

They killed a nice return for a holding call that wasn’t as egregious or obvious as to what their line was doing all game.

They had their thumbs on the scale.

[Knighthawk 284]

Dear SEC.  
 

We see your $250K and will make it a cool $1M under the following stipulations:

- $250K for the water bottles on the field

- $250k for a 3 game suspension of the UGA head coach for assaulting an opposing teams QB in the prior week.   

- $250K for another 3 game suspension of the UGA head coach for criticism of the highly proficient SEC officials.  
 

-  $250K for termination costs for the sideline judge who does not understand pass interference as well as backfield judges who will not enforce offensive line holding by UGA

It’s all or nothing.  Not a dime unless all are implemented.  
 

Sincerely,

Daddy 

[Tex Long 4398]

2 hours ago, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

ok, boomer

My young friend, Armybrat, was incorrect in his assessment, I believe.

However, while I agree with your apparent disdain for his attitude, I must point out that you are incorrect in his (and my) generational designation. Neither of us is a "boomer". We are, in fact, War Babies.

I hope you will take this information to heart, and use the preferred nomenclature from now on.

[TOR 5579]

1 hour ago, Tex Long said:

...Neither of us is a "boomer". We are, in fact, War Babies.

...

Which one of you is Civil War?

[Hook1997 5354]

I saw the first few bottles thrown but after that I was eventually too busy bitching about the call to the people around me in the stadium to notice how bad it got.  Damn it was a lot, but obviously Texas fans hate water because they didn’t throw any beers.  lol 

Edited October 21 by Hook1997

[Texas Flood 1356]

1 hour ago, Tex Long said:

My young friend, Armybrat, was incorrect in his assessment, I believe.

However, while I agree with your apparent disdain for his attitude, I must point out that you are incorrect in his (and my) generational designation. Neither of us is a "boomer". We are, in fact, War Babies.

I hope you will take this information to heart, and use the preferred nomenclature from now on.

[A-Tex Devil 2446]

We are going to run this place soon.   Like others said, CDC should pay the fine and ignore the rest. They aren’t going to follow up, and if anything with Bama sitting on two losses now, they need us.  CDC’s response should be the first clear signal that shit won’t be run from Birmingham much longer. 
 

And Hartzell needs to sit this one out.  

[txexlonghorn23 20]

Hartzell sent out an email today too I saw on r/UTAustin

[scottsins 1966]

This. While it was a spontaneous natural reaction to egregious fuckery, it is still bullshit that should be called out as beneath us.  This is a teachable moment for our students and we must rise to the occasion and teach them the way of our Texas culture. That shit won't stand. 

Can we prioritize getting the “bouncy hand” during the Eyes to go away first? Then work on the throwing objects deal?

Other than this “behavior”, I would like to acknowledge that our student section fucking brought it on Saturday. I honesty was somewhat surprised. I didn’t know that they had it in them.

[TrashMaster G 17557]

8 hours ago, The Dog said:

Username checks out.

[Hank_Hill 18807]

14 minutes ago, scottsins said:

Can we prioritize getting the “bouncy hand” during the Eyes to go away first? 

Nobody cares

[scottsins 1966]

Nobody cares

I really don’t either, but if we are airing grievances, I care even less about the throwing bottles isolated incident.

[Clintonaldo 2574]

No mustard bottles ? Pathetic 

[Alien Octopus 516]

8 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

I mean I have seen our fanbase do that and worse in the past. You most certainly remember those days. Were you ritually whipping yourself back then? I was at the game where our fans threw garbage on the field at the 1995 Sugar Bowl for no reason at all besides our team was playing bad. I was there at the Stanford game in 1999 when our fans booed the marching band and I was there in 1992 when our fans booed our own offense for sucking against Baylor. And those are just incidents I witnessed in person. I was a little surprised this version of the UT crowd did this. We have been a very politically correct crowd for years.

Anyway don't worry. UT has no sense of humor for this kind of thing. I am sure a bunch of new policies will be wheeled out.

Maybe they can swap out some statues and greenspoint can give another cautionary tale.

[Chuckie Finster 22694]

I used to care a lot about what other people thought of my sports teams, but as I’ve aged I’ve realized that’s just something to hang your hat on when you don’t win on the field. And if I’m being honest, given where we were a few years ago, it’s sort of refreshing to have a student section THAT into the game that there was a universal, uncoordinated display of disgust at a call that horrendous.
The people who already hate us are talking mess about us, THE HORROR.

[Dennis Taylor 18824]

14 hours ago, hookem48 said:

anyone that can throw that onto the field put *there ass on the oline.

* Their

He was there Saturday 

 

[Longboard Horn 40323]

$250k that's it? With how much money Texas has that's like lunch money to them. That little fine ain't shit. Moral: don't like a bad call, throw trash and it gets overturned because SEC refs are pussies. 

[Dennis Taylor 18824]

14 hours ago, Helobious said:

There’s a pretty unanimous negative reaction towards Texas online after that. The people on Reddit is expected, but the people on Twitter are having the same reaction. That’s a huge fucking deal

[Macklemore 2872]

Fucking bullshit if this is true.

Edited October 21 by Macklemore

[freyguy 4272]

any confirmation that this is real?

Regardless, the students deserve a fucking medal.

[jimmyjazz 45953]

10 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

I mean I have seen our fanbase do that and worse in the past.

Night games must have some correlating factor that leads to more raucous behavior, but I'll be damned if I can figure it out.

[Nivek 16930]

Hartzell sent out an email today too I saw on r/UTAustin

To hell with that dipshit.

[dcar00 14210]

8 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

I saw the first few bottles thrown but after that I was eventually too busy bitching about the call to the people around me in the stadium to notice how bad it got.  Damn it was a lot, but obviously Texas fans hate water because they didn’t throw any beers.  lol 

I was going to say we shouldn't do that but damn I was proud that our student section is smart enough to throw 4.00 water bottles v. 9.00 beers.

[dcar00 14210]

16 minutes ago, freyguy said:

any confirmation that this is real?

Regardless, the students deserve a fucking medal.

"My Heroes Have Always Been Bottle Throwers" new Willie single.

[ChiTownDoc 21154]

15 hours ago, Helobious said:

There’s a pretty unanimous negative reaction towards Texas online after that. The people on Reddit is expected, but the people on Twitter are having the same reaction. That’s a huge fucking deal

Me reading Helobious posts around here…

[Tex Long 4398]

8 hours ago, TOR said:

Which one of you is Civil War?

I believe you refer to the conflict known more precisely as the War of Northern Aggression, do you not? In which case, the correct response likely would be "Pour quoi non les deux?" or perhaps "Warum nicht beides?" if you prefer more brutal language.

[AnTiM 1666]

Far cry from the Arkansas game I attended as a child, which we won on a late TD.  The whiskey bottles looked like hail coming out of the southwest stands.

[JBJ 3654]

30 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

Fucking bullshit if this is true.

Is it normal for a university phone to be coming from Santa Barbara?

[Helobious 9454]

31 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

Fucking bullshit if this is true.

Fakest text I think I’ve ever seen. Not surprised you fell for it

[Scheiss Meister 8407]

Throwing things on the field is Tech/aggy/okie/arkie level trashy.  That was an embarrassment.

[dcar00 14210]

I mean the horror of plastic water bottles being tossed on to a football field.  fuck there is a better chance of someone getting killed or hurt really badly on a field storming or driving with a Georgia player/assistant.

[Helobious 9454]

The water bottle thing was dumb but more of just a bad look. But I saw that first beer can fly over the Georgia sideline which originally stopped play, it looked large and very full. Whoever threw that should be banned from the stadium.