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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (November 6, 2022) – The Southeastern Convention introduced today that Louisiana Condition College will be fined for a violation of the league’s obtain to level of competition area policy because of to admirers getting into the discipline following its football sport versus the College of Alabama on November 5.
LSU will incur a great of $250,000 for its fourth offense under the league’s obtain to opposition space plan. After three violations of the plan, the good stays at $250,000 for all subsequent violations. LSU was previous fined for a violation pursuing its soccer match in opposition to Ole Miss earlier this period.
Fines levied in opposition to faculties for violation of the accessibility to competition place policy are deposited into the SEC Article-Graduate Scholarship Fund.
The plan states that “access to opposition places shall be restricted to participating university student-athletes, coaches, officers, guidance staff and thoroughly-credentialed men and women at all occasions. For the protection of participants and spectators alike, at no time before, all through or soon after a contest shall spectators be permitted to enter the competition area. It is the duty of each and every member establishment to put into action techniques to assure compliance with this coverage.”
Monetary penalties are imposed for violations in all sporting activities sponsored by the Meeting. Institutional penalties variety from $50,000 for a initially offense to fines of up to $100,000 for a next offense and up to $250,000 for a third and subsequent offenses. The plan was at first adopted by a vote of Conference users in 2004 and fiscal penalties were being enhanced by action taken by the membership all through the 2015 SEC Spring Meetings.
The SEC declared final week that a Convention doing the job team on function stability will evaluation and update procedures meant to deal with write-up-activity spectator incursion on level of competition fields and courts in the SEC with any new polices to be carried out for the 2023-24 athletic yr.