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Hey look, everyone. We’re hand-wringing again!
Those mean coaches and players, fresh off a high-intensity game where their very financial livelihood is dependent, are bullying the poor, misunderstood clowns from the stands just trying to post their latest TikTok and chase social cred, that’s all.
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Or as we like to say in these most wonderful United States, storming the (insert your playing surface).
Here’s what I call it: a world of no rules.
Not to mention reckless, dangerous and a false sense of security.
Yet with all of that, and even after another dolt from the stands shoved a phone in the face of Nebraska coach Fred Hoiberg seconds after a loss to rival Iowa, and screamed at him; even after Hoiberg tried to knock the phone from said dolt, missed and his swing connected with an Iowa staffer in the handshake line, we refuse to end this nonsense with clear and unambiguous rules.
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If you storm the court (or field) before players and officials have exited, you’ll be arrested and lose ticket privileges forever. Period.
Instead, university presidents have decided to fine each other. The ACC fined North Carolina $50,000 earlier this month when its fans stormed the court after beating rival Duke, and the Big Ten will no doubt fine Iowa for its latest breach of rules.
The same North Carolina that is currently fueling its football NIL to the tune of $20 million. That 50K might be a bridge too far, baby.
But as the NCAA (also, collection of university presidents) has shown decade after decade, having rules and enforcing them are two distinctly different things.
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This isn’t a matter of want, it’s a mater of will.
Know why the NFL doesn’t have problems with field storming? Because the most successful sport in the history of the planet doesn’t put up with it.
There’s a police presence, and there are rules. There’s no gray area about what happens when you enter the field of play at an NFL stadium.
You’ll spend the next…
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Publish date : 2026-02-19 09:47:00
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