Sankey Laid The Law Down About Fake Injuries

[Wild Turkey]

Greg Sankey Says SEC To Fine And Suspend Coaches For Obvious Faking Of Injuries; Full Memo Obtained

SEC's Greg Sankey Will Start Fining And Suspending Coaches For Faking Injuries

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"As plainly as it can be stated: Stop any and all activity related to faking injuries to create time-outs."

Sankey also said the following regarding the matter.

"Moving forward, I will consider a feigned injury to have been determined when the National Coordinator states it is more likely than not that a feigned injury occurred, that a player attempted a feigned injury, or any other general statement from the National Coordinator establishing the probability that a feigned injury has occurred."

The penalties for being caught faking an injury include the following.

The first offense will see the head coach receive a public reprimand, along with a $50,000 fine. The second offense will be fined $100,000.




Honestly, I can't wait for someone to get hit with a fine and start bitching.

 

[Brutus]

 

[TheReal_NU]

3rd time is a 1-game suspension of the coach.

Well done Sankey

 

[RubinRock]

Probably mostly lip service. Even tho it’s egregious and obvious a lot of times, especially ole miss, they aren’t actually going to do anything about it

 

[SoonerC]

Probably mostly lip service. Even tho it’s egregious and obvious a lot of times, especially ole miss, they aren’t actually going to do anything about it

I really don’t think that’s how Sankey operates

 

[Wild Turkey]

I really don’t think that’s how Sankey operates

It is not.

That announcement was done without dotting I’s and crossing T’s and making everyone aware before it went out.

I imagine behind the scenes the bitching has been intense and now everyone is in the principal’s office. These public rebukes are rare and fines being placed extremely rare. Sankey ain’t playing.

 

[WhosYourDawggy]

Probably mostly lip service. Even tho it’s egregious and obvious a lot of times, especially ole miss, they aren’t actually going to do anything about it

Why would you believe that? I mean that's really a stupid observation. You think that they got together, spent valuable time evaluating the problem - which is obvious, by the way - and then promulgated these detailed rules that clearly had the feedback of all the coaches, for what? PR? LOL. It's like flopping in soccer - it ruins the game. The NHL penalizes players for embellishing. I am glad to see Sankey do this and I am quite confident he will follow through on it.

 

[Dolemite censored]

Greg Sankey Says SEC To Fine And Suspend Coaches For Obvious Faking Of Injuries; Full Memo Obtained

SEC's Greg Sankey Will Start Fining And Suspending Coaches For Faking Injuries

www.outkick.com

"As plainly as it can be stated: Stop any and all activity related to faking injuries to create time-outs."

Sankey also said the following regarding the matter.

"Moving forward, I will consider a feigned injury to have been determined when the National Coordinator states it is more likely than not that a feigned injury occurred, that a player attempted a feigned injury, or any other general statement from the National Coordinator establishing the probability that a feigned injury has occurred."

The penalties for being caught faking an injury include the following.

The first offense will see the head coach receive a public reprimand, along with a $50,000 fine. The second offense will be fined $100,000.




Honestly, I can't wait for someone to get hit with a fine and start bitching.

How can you disprove an injury occurred? The standard is too ambiguous and subjective and a court will throw it out.

 

[WhosYourDawggy]

It is not.

That announcement was done without dotting I’s and crossing T’s and making everyone aware before it went out.

I imagine behind the scenes the bitching has been intense and now everyone is in the principal’s office. These public rebukes are rare and fines being placed extremely rare. Sankey ain’t playing.

Just a stupid take by Rubbing Rock.

 

[WhosYourDawggy]

How can you disprove an injury occurred? The standard is too ambiguous and subjective and a court will throw it out.

This will never get to a court. Every coach and AD, and probably President, was consulted on this. It's the coaches who have been bitching about it. It took Lane doing back to other teams what they had done to them for the SEC to take this step.

I am assuming you've never seen one of these fake injuries ... it will be the easiest thing in the world to determine. Then the school can get their trainers to say that the player actually was injured the few times the injury was legit.

 

[antone112]

 

[Hu War Yu]

Gotta be honest: if Carolina needs a fake injury timeout to beat A&M tomorrow night, I'll help Beamer pay the fine

 

[Deep Creek]

Gotta be honest: if Carolina needs a fake injury timeout to beat A&M tomorrow night, I'll help Beamer pay the fine

I’m thinking something similar. We’ve seen booster pay off the school’s fine for court/field storming without batting an eye. What’s to keep them from covering the coaches fine?

 

[SoonerC]

How can you disprove an injury occurred? The standard is too ambiguous and subjective and a court will throw it out.

Are you serious? There won’t be no damn court involved in this. Every member of the conference give Sankey the authority to do what he sees fit.

 

[outofyourmind]

Teams will just get better at faking injuries.
You know, make it look like a real injury instead of looking at the sidelines, then dropping to the ground.

It's not rocket science usually, but these guys are football players.

 

[Bring Back The Oilers]

How can you disprove an injury occurred? The standard is too ambiguous and subjective and a court will throw it out.

Obvious is obvious.

When the player is walking around, looking at the coaches and the coaches are waving their arms at him to fall down and then he falls down and it's caught on camera....

that's obvious.

Like @outofyourmind said, be smarter about it. Have a plan where a player goes down during or at the end of the play.

Don't look like complete fucking morons when faking an injury.

 

[outofyourmind]

And when the player fakes the injury, don't limp to the sideline only to be 'just fine' seconds later when you get off the field.

 

[NinerSpartan]

It is not.

That announcement was done without dotting I’s and crossing T’s and making everyone aware before it went out.

I imagine behind the scenes the bitching has been intense and now everyone is in the principal’s office. These public rebukes are rare and fines being placed extremely rare. Sankey ain’t playing.

Why would you believe that? I mean that's really a stupid observation. You think that they got together, spent valuable time evaluating the problem - which is obvious, by the way - and then promulgated these detailed rules that clearly had the feedback of all the coaches, for what? PR? LOL. It's like flopping in soccer - it ruins the game. The NHL penalizes players for embellishing. I am glad to see Sankey do this and I am quite confident he will follow through on it.

This confirms it.

An excellent take by @RubinRock

 

[trojanfan12]

Obvious is obvious.

When the player is walking around, looking at the coaches and the coaches are waving their arms at him to fall down and then he falls down and it's caught on camera....

that's obvious.

Like @outofyourmind said, be smarter about it. Have a plan where a player goes down during or at the end of the play.

Don't look like complete fucking morons when faking an injury.

Yeah, some of these players are worse at flopping than Lebron. lol

 

[fordman84]

Teams will just get better at faking injuries.
You know, make it look like a real injury instead of looking at the sidelines, then dropping to the ground.

It's not rocket science usually, but these guys are football players.

The only downside I could see is that it could lead to more guys taking "preemptive" injuries, meaning we all see they are fake when after a play the hop up and are walking around before dropping. So more players who think the team may be in that slowdown situation spend a few extra seconds on the ground.


Still a win and I can't wait for the first public shaming for fake injuries. Fingers crossed it is Ole Piss.