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You've all seen this video. But you may have glossed over the 1:40 mark.
This game comes from an era in which college football didn't tolerate noise too well. At 1:40, the referee refuses to penalize Alabama for delay of game because of crowd noise from MSU. Trust me, this isn't a typical Alabama ***-kissing from the zebras. This stuff was typical back then. Referees took action against crowd noise.
They would refuse to assess delays of game. They could also stop the game druing pre-snap and ask the crowd to be quiet. And I'm just about certain they also could call unsportsmanlike conduct penalties due to crowd noise.
Folks, this is the era in which the SEC banned cowbells.
Clearly, college football has grown up since then. No referee or administrator gives first or second thought towards taking any on-field action due to crowd noise. Yet, we've still got this cowbell relic on the SEC rule book.
Today, the NCAA is ok with the cowbell and the SEC should be also.
We'll take our lumps this year over cowbells. They'll hit us in the wallet as we all agreed to. But starting right now our AD needs to fight a tactful war over the existence of this rule.
Fortunately, the national media as well as bowl game sponsors love the cowbell. I hope Scott leverages this and everything else he can dream up to pressure the SEC into uncuffing the cowbell.
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You've all seen this video. But you may have glossed over the 1:40 mark.
This game comes from an era in which college football didn't tolerate noise too well. At 1:40, the referee refuses to penalize Alabama for delay of game because of crowd noise from MSU. Trust me, this isn't a typical Alabama ***-kissing from the zebras. This stuff was typical back then. Referees took action against crowd noise.
They would refuse to assess delays of game. They could also stop the game druing pre-snap and ask the crowd to be quiet. And I'm just about certain they also could call unsportsmanlike conduct penalties due to crowd noise.
Folks, this is the era in which the SEC banned cowbells.
Clearly, college football has grown up since then. No referee or administrator gives first or second thought towards taking any on-field action due to crowd noise. Yet, we've still got this cowbell relic on the SEC rule book.
Today, the NCAA is ok with the cowbell and the SEC should be also.
We'll take our lumps this year over cowbells. They'll hit us in the wallet as we all agreed to. But starting right now our AD needs to fight a tactful war over the existence of this rule.
Fortunately, the national media as well as bowl game sponsors love the cowbell. I hope Scott leverages this and everything else he can dream up to pressure the SEC into uncuffing the cowbell.
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