{"id":1166115,"date":"2025-06-06T09:16:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1166115"},"modified":"2025-06-06T09:16:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:16:41","slug":"sec-changes-method-of-fines-for-field-and-court-storming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/sec-changes-method-of-fines-for-field-and-court-storming\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Changes Method of Fines For Field and Court Storming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last several seasons, court and field stormings after upset victories have become a major topic of conversation in college sports.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC came into the center of focus when it recently implemented an escalating fine system to help curb the practice. Although a timeless tradition, stormings have been criticized for putting players and coaches in dangerous situations.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the conference had fined schools $100,000 for the first offense, $250,000 for the second offense, and $500,000 for the third offense.<\/p>\n<p>Last week at the SEC Spring Meetings, Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey announced that all fines are now $500,000, and the sliding scale is being done away with:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: Greg Sankey says the SEC will no longer use an escalating scale for field and court storming fines.<\/p>\n<p>Stormings will now cost the home team $500,000.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jordankaye_23?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jordankaye_23<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qa9iSDQUIY\">https:\/\/t.co\/qa9iSDQUIY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YCH2JoPH3G\">pic.twitter.com\/YCH2JoPH3G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 On3 (@On3sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/On3sports\/status\/1928186578150502671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alabama brought in a fair amount of revenue itself last season after the field was stormed on them three times during losses. A chunk of the fine from stormings, according to league rules, goes to the losing opponent.<\/p>\n<p>All three of Vanderbilt, Tennessee, and Oklahoma fans rushed the field upon defeating the Crimson Tide.<\/p>\n<p>By the sounds of it, there could be a whole lot more cash flowing through the league office when an upset loss happens now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Over the last several seasons, court and field stormings after upset victories have become a major topic of conversation in college sports. The SEC came <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/sec-changes-method-of-fines-for-field-and-court-storming\/\" title=\"SEC Changes Method of Fines For Field and Court Storming\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1078823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1166115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-news","8":"category-sec"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ehd230930001083_bama_at_msst.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166117,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166115\/revisions\/1166117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1078823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}