If this kind of incident keeps happening I think the SEC will be forced to take more severe action. I'm hopeful anyway.
How about the SEC Office send out memos with “example tapes” to each school’s coaching staff with a STERN message that this type of behavior & basketball will not be tolerated. Further, Coach and player suspensions could result. THEN, send the same to the SEC Officials and let them know, THEIR JOB, is to curtail this type of play and THEY could be suspended IF it’s determined they let these things happen. That’s just not the kind of play any conference should condone. I’m all for playing a physical brand of in-your-face basketball. But goonish behavior does not belong .
Is it possible to go one step further and say play like that could forfeit the game? Nothing is going to change unless the possibility of a loss is at stake. Suspensions probably don't mean anything to the guys that will do that to begin with.
Your idea is good. I'd change "could" to "would" result in suspensions. Both player and coach who put him on the floor and either had no control over his player or put him there knowing he was prone to that behavior. Start with 1 game minimum for the coach. 3 games minimum for the player. I bet we'd see them stop fast then.
that was even worse than a punch, the elbow if thrown like that can really split someone's face open or target an eye and do some irreparable damage. He should be suspended indefinitely.
arch, I hadn’t really thought about forfeiture. I do think the suspensions could work. My hard line take is the Coach gets just as many games suspended as the player. Again, I don’t have any issue with physical play. I played pick up in the 1980’s, when everything was legal & nothing was a foul…Lol. There were a couple of unwritten rules though. No elbows to the head or face & no going after someone’s knees/ legs. Even in some of the roughest games, guys normally abided those two things.
Maybe harsher suspensions that don't rely on the coach doing it because they aren't going to. The bama player that hit Condon was the same one that stomped Auburn's Johni Broome. Maybe since Wague isn't a star player the suspension goes to the team's best player. It's like enforcers in hockey or half ass u starting that fight in Tally in the late 90's. They lose a scrub and we lose our best DB.
Ohhhh, completely agree. These suspensions should be mandated from the league office. Definitely wouldn’t trust coaches on this.
It should be 2 strikes you're out. Happens once and it's an automatic 3-game suspension. Happens twice and you're out indefinitely, ESPECIALLY if there is very clear intent to cause harm. This nor Wague's (2) were "inadvertent", they were MMA-style. The MMA doesn't even allow you to bring an elbow down on someone's head if the other guys is on the ground, so Condon's wouldn't have been allowed in the MMA. Let that sink in for a moment. "...downward strikes with the elbow are illegal under the Unified Rules of MMA."
