Ole Miss receives hefty fine from SEC for fans throwing trash on the field against Georgia
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Ole Miss was blown out on the field by SEC rival Georgia on Saturday night, and the 42-7 home loss took an ugly turn for the Rebels in the stands, too.
Late Monday afternoon, the SEC announced that it was hitting Ole Miss with a hefty $250,000 fine after its fans caused a game interruption by throwing debris onto the field.
Long before the game was over, a portion of the second quarter of the Week 10 showdown in Oxford was delayed when some Ole Miss fans were caught throwing objects onto the playing field. According to the SEC’s announcement, the debris being thrown on the field was cause for the fine after “interrupting the competitive opportunity for both teams and endangering contest participants.”
The SEC issued the financial penalty to Ole Miss “under the sportsmanship, game management and alcohol availability policies established by the Southeastern Conference.”
Together with the announcement of the fine on Monday came this from the SEC:
The actions taken by the Conference are consistent with SEC Bylaws and Commissioner’s Regulations related to the availability of alcoholic beverages at athletics events which state, ‘If cans or plastic bottles are used as projectiles or otherwise cause game management issues, the institution is subject to an immediate fine and suspension of the alcohol sales privilege.’
Despite that, the SEC also announced that it is “not suspending alcohol sales privileges for the University of Mississippi at this time but reserves the right to do so in the future.”
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
