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"Once again the NCAA is beginning the process of creating a rule that will directly impact another SEC team.
The latest rule will target fans of the Alabama Crimson Tide and the "Rammer Jammer" chant.
NCAA Committee member and ESPN college football analyst Mike Bellotti said, "The student is as much a part of this as the student-athlete, and if we're going to treat everyone the same it has to include the actions of the fans, as well."
"It's going to be a 15 yard penalty for each documented chant. The sum will be tallied up on the first possession of the season, effective for the opener on September 4th, 2010 against San Jose State."
On February 12, 2010, the NCAA recommended that the University of Alabama be punished for the fan's "Rammer Jammer" chant. The penalty would include the nullification of the play "for taunting during a live play."
The problems with such a ridiculous rule are almost too many to count.
Several years ago the NFL tried a similar rule in their attempts to corral crowd noise. The home team was penalized five yards for "delay of game" when the crowd noise became so great that the opposing team couldn't hear the quarterback.
That rule was deemed ineffective and unfair and didn't even make it through one season. The NFL decided it was a bad idea to punish a football team for something that was beyond their control.
If the "Rammer Jammer" chant begins after the game clock hits zero, what then? Will the Crimson Tide be penalized fifteen yards during the kick off of the following game? Penalties from one game have never been assessed in a different game.
The possibility that an opposing team's fans will start the "Rammer Jammer" chant in order to punish the Tide is a very viable threat as well. Every penalty is attributed to a certain player on the field. Can the NCAA assure the University of Alabama that the same standards will be applied to the fans?
Bellotti states that the "Rammer Jammer" penalty would be fifteen yards for "each documented chant." When the Bama fans do the "Rammer Jammer" chant they always repeat it more than once. Just how many yards will be marked off against the Tide if the chant is repeated four times? A sixty yard penalty?
Bellotti also stated that "the student is as much a part of this as the student-athlete." Maybe Bellotti is unaware that tens of thousands of the fans at Bryant Denny are not students of the University of Alabama.
Another problem will be what hand signal the officials use to call the penalty. I would suggest the official face the Alabama student section and give them the middle finger.
LSU will be up next. During the game against Ole Miss the Tigers fans will chant "Geaux to Hell Ole Miss. Geaux to hell" and hang signs with the same chant all over Death Valley.
And they do it all game long.
And then Ole Miss answers with "Go to hell LSU."
When the NCAA starts policing the fans of college football is when they start overstepping their boundaries.
The NCAA seems to have appointed themselves as the "hurt feelings police."
Trying to stop a school fan tradition that is decades old is not the purpose of the NCAA. Fair play and the safety of student-athletes are.
Nick Saban has appealed the ruling.
What kind of PC bullshit is this? We are now policing the fans by punishing the team?
"Once again the NCAA is beginning the process of creating a rule that will directly impact another SEC team.
The latest rule will target fans of the Alabama Crimson Tide and the "Rammer Jammer" chant.
NCAA Committee member and ESPN college football analyst Mike Bellotti said, "The student is as much a part of this as the student-athlete, and if we're going to treat everyone the same it has to include the actions of the fans, as well."
"It's going to be a 15 yard penalty for each documented chant. The sum will be tallied up on the first possession of the season, effective for the opener on September 4th, 2010 against San Jose State."
On February 12, 2010, the NCAA recommended that the University of Alabama be punished for the fan's "Rammer Jammer" chant. The penalty would include the nullification of the play "for taunting during a live play."
The problems with such a ridiculous rule are almost too many to count.
Several years ago the NFL tried a similar rule in their attempts to corral crowd noise. The home team was penalized five yards for "delay of game" when the crowd noise became so great that the opposing team couldn't hear the quarterback.
That rule was deemed ineffective and unfair and didn't even make it through one season. The NFL decided it was a bad idea to punish a football team for something that was beyond their control.
If the "Rammer Jammer" chant begins after the game clock hits zero, what then? Will the Crimson Tide be penalized fifteen yards during the kick off of the following game? Penalties from one game have never been assessed in a different game.
The possibility that an opposing team's fans will start the "Rammer Jammer" chant in order to punish the Tide is a very viable threat as well. Every penalty is attributed to a certain player on the field. Can the NCAA assure the University of Alabama that the same standards will be applied to the fans?
Bellotti states that the "Rammer Jammer" penalty would be fifteen yards for "each documented chant." When the Bama fans do the "Rammer Jammer" chant they always repeat it more than once. Just how many yards will be marked off against the Tide if the chant is repeated four times? A sixty yard penalty?
Bellotti also stated that "the student is as much a part of this as the student-athlete." Maybe Bellotti is unaware that tens of thousands of the fans at Bryant Denny are not students of the University of Alabama.
Another problem will be what hand signal the officials use to call the penalty. I would suggest the official face the Alabama student section and give them the middle finger.
LSU will be up next. During the game against Ole Miss the Tigers fans will chant "Geaux to Hell Ole Miss. Geaux to hell" and hang signs with the same chant all over Death Valley.
And they do it all game long.
And then Ole Miss answers with "Go to hell LSU."
When the NCAA starts policing the fans of college football is when they start overstepping their boundaries.
The NCAA seems to have appointed themselves as the "hurt feelings police."
Trying to stop a school fan tradition that is decades old is not the purpose of the NCAA. Fair play and the safety of student-athletes are.
Nick Saban has appealed the ruling.
What kind of PC bullshit is this? We are now policing the fans by punishing the team?
