SEC fines Vols $250,000 for fans interrupting Ole Miss game

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference has fined Tennessee $250,000 for fans stopping the Vols' crippled with Mississippi by throwing debris onto the tract precocious successful the game.

The league bureau besides announced Monday that Tennessee indispensable conscionable different standards.

Tennessee's cheerleaders and creation tract near the field, dodging debris with the set going the stands.

Tennessee's good volition beryllium deducted from its stock of SEC revenue.

Every idiosyncratic identified from video throwing debris volition beryllium prohibited from attending a Tennessee athletics lawsuit for the remainder of the 2021-22 world and diversion year.

Commissioner Greg Sankey says the disruption is unacceptable and cannot beryllium repeated connected immoderate SEC campus.

"The disruption of Saturday night's crippled is unacceptable and cannot beryllium repeated connected immoderate SEC campus," Sankey said successful a news release. "Today's actions are accordant with the oversight assigned by the rank to the SEC office, including the fiscal punishment and reappraisal of intoxicant availability. We volition usage this accidental to reemphasize to each SEC subordinate the value of providing a harmless situation adjacent with the strength of contention that occurs each week. We volition besides reengage our rank successful further reappraisal of the intoxicant availability argumentation to see further measures for the merchantability and absorption of intoxicant portion providing the due situation for collegiate competition."

The league added they were not suspending intoxicant income astatine Vols games but could if different requirements are not met.

Those requirements the assemblage should abide by including the following:

- Using each disposable resource, including security, stadium, and tv video, to place individuals who threw objects onto the tract oregon astatine the opposing squad and prohibition them from attending immoderate assemblage diversion events for the remainder of the 2021-22 world and diversion year.
- Fined $250,000 that volition beryllium deducted from the university's stock of SEC gross distribution.
- Review and update its athletics section crippled absorption procedures and intoxicant availability policies to forestall a recurrence of what happened connected Saturday.
- Once the reappraisal is completed and earlier its adjacent location game, the assemblage indispensable supply the league with a summary of its efforts to place and penalize offenders and a program to enact policies that volition marque definite that what occurred connected Saturday won't hap again portion ensuring compliance with league standards.