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Rushing the field has become increasingly expensive for universities in recent years.
And it just got potentially costly for Mizzou students and fans, too.
University of Missouri System President Mun Choi and Mizzou athletic director Laird Veatch, in an effort to curb field- and court-storming, published a joint statement Tuesday with a clear-cut message: “Mizzou students and fans will no longer rush the field.”
The SEC announced during the conference’s spring meetings in May that any team whose fans rush the playing surface will incur a flat $500,000 fine.
Against SEC opponents, that money will go directly to the visiting institution. In nonconference events, it goes to the league office and postgraduate fund.
“In this era of revenue sharing, we cannot afford — literally or figuratively — to give our opponents a large sum of money,” Veatch and Choi wrote in their joint statement.
To enforce their new rules, Mizzou has announced it will use “cameras in the stadium to record and identify perpetrators.”
“Perpetrators will be held to account,” Veatch and Choi wrote in the statement. “They may be trespassed from campus, fined, suspended or expelled.”
Under the previous set of rules, teams were fined $100,000 for a first infraction, $250,000 for a second infraction and $500,000 for a third or any subsequent infraction.
Mizzou had already incurred $100K and $250K fines, courtesy of fans rushing the field in 2023 after a win over Kansas State and then again for storming the court after Missouri basketball beat Kansas in the Border War last December.
But the rules have changed ahead of the upcoming football season, and now every team faces a $500,000 penalty every time fans rush the field.
There is a caveat in the most-recent rules change that some teams are opting to utilize. The league can choose not to…
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