Nick Saban announces discipline for DeVonta Smith after receiver was ejected from Texas A&M game
According to Nick Saban, Alabama will be down a receiver when it welcomes Tennessee to Tuscaloosa this weekend.
The team’s outstanding junior receiver DeVonta Smith will remain on the sidelines for the first half Saturday night as the Crimson Tide take on the Volunteers after he was ejected late against Texas A&M last weekend.
Smith was involved in a back-and-forth exchange with Texas A&M defensive back Leon O’Neal but it was the Alabama receiver that was ejected from the game.
Following the conclusion of that game, Nick Saban weighed in on what he saw on the play.
“Basically, he got hit — punched and he retaliated,” Saban said on Saturday. “We’ll have to wait for the conference office to see what his status is. It was offsetting fouls. Obviously their player shouldn’t have punched him but he should have had the discipline not to hit him back because that’s a foul. We would have got a 15-yard penalty and that would have basically ended the game.”
After reviewing the film, Saban announced Smith will miss the first half against Tennessee, claiming it was his decision and not a decision that was handed down by the SEC.
“When you make bad decisions it leads to consequences,” the Alabama coach said on Monday.
If you missed the sequence from the Texas A&M game, you can check it out below:
https://twitter.com/SouthernbeLLSU/status/1183157046851657731?s=20
The A & M player should get something too.
Real easy to say that when your team is playing Tennessee next week in a gimme game. Not so easy when your team is playing in a must win game. That being said Fisher will likely do the same thing Saban is even if the Aggies actions didn’t cost the team in the same manner.
Yet he still threw a punch and actually did it first. Just because he got away with it doesn’t mean he was innocent…
That being said I don’t care if he is suspended or not. Bama spanked that a$$ already..
So what are trying to say?
I totally agree that the A & M player should get something too. I must admit if someone grabbed me by the shoulders and threw me on the ground I’d be pretty ticked. All Smith was doing was defending himself but it’s always the second guy who gets called for the penalty. I agree with Saban that it should have been offsetting penalties.
I get the emotions of the game, but I’ve never been able to figure out why the heck you even bother punching another player in the helmet. If anything, you’ll break your hand or jam a finger before you have any affect on the guy you’re punching.
Smith took a pretty good shot on the chin before he got ejected, no helmet there.
Since they do replays to get Targeting right, why not look at the entire play to see if they get that EJECTION correct! If players knew they could depend on the OFFICIALS to get it right they might not retaliate – might not, but in most cases like being slammed to the ground and then punched, probably WOULD! Both players should have been penalized with the INSTIGATOR being EJECTED!
At Kentucky, the model program in the SEC, we sat Kash Daniel for a series after he caught trying to twist an ankle off of the Florida quarterback.
Yep, ‘Twister’ Daniel ain’t been quoted as much as he was before auditioning for his professional wrestling career.
Nicks coming down too hard on devonta — Bama needs his game big to blow out UT
So much for military bearing in a “military school”
So the M in Texas A&M stands for military?
Originally the M stood for mining.
Then it was changed to Mechanical.
When was it changed to Military?
I’ll wait for your answer.
He never said the “M” stood for military. He called it a military school, which it was established as and still has cadets today…
TAMU is a senior military college, one of only 6 in the country (The Citadel is another).
Also, the students literally wear uniforms to the games, the band performs military-style drill, etc. It’s definitely a military school.
What does the M stand for in the school’s name?
It doesn’t stand for military.
Unless you all want to change it.
@ GamecockMike89 & CarolinaPhoenix, thanks for the clarification. Now let’s all wait for Paris10 to answer you guys… or even better take a shot at me.
Why would I take a shot at you?
And I simply said that the M didn’t stand for MILITARY.
You give yourself too much credit.
See you are posting less.
Make sensible comments and no one is going to take a shot at you.
Start those ‘pep rally’ comments, be prepared to have to defend yourself.
I see this comment went over the heads of Kentucky fans. The Corps of Cadets which makes up 40% of the student body, granted there isn’t much to do in College Station than to pretend to be military. Those of us who have been in the military laugh at them.
Not even close to what A&M is doing or the percentage of students in the Corps. The Corps is around 3000 of 65000 students. It is also one of the largest ROTC detachments in the US. If you are prior service, there is a fairly good chance you had an Aggie officer at some point.
No. It was always Agriculture and Mechanical like all other land grant A&M’s.
TA&M isn’t a military school. It is listed as one of six senior military colleges, which points to the fact that it maintains a ROTC Corps of Cadets under Title 10 of the US Code. The student population for TA&M is listed at 68,600. The Corps has ~2,000 cadets. Of the 2,000, roughly 45% actually commission per their website. It’s not USMA 2.0.
That’s interesting. I know Auburn has a big ROTC program. You always see them in either Army, Navy or Air Force ROTC uniforms in the student section.
Hey, be careful.
It’s web site says you get financial assistance if you show an interest in joining a branch of the arm forces after graduation.
I have learned the posters on here care little about facts but wouldn’t that ruin most of the discussions.
“Arm Forces” Paris, You are alway good for a chuckle!
I would be interested to see the site you are mentioning. ROTC scholarships are not funded by the school or alumni, and are subject to the government “borrowing” the funds.
And the Sr Military college allows for A&M Corps members to wear their distinctive uniform for all three of the main ROTC units, and for some special programs to join the Coast Guard.
I read it on one of the admission sites for A&M.
It indicated over 70 percent of the students qualify for some type of aid.
And still the “M” doesn’t stand for military.