Gator Fan (Grabber) Takes Center Stage Against UK

There is already a thread on the fan that was ejected form the game. I thought he grabbed the player seeing it on tv last night but after watching the video posted on another thread I dont think he was even looking at the player and was pointing out at the court when the player ran into his out stretched arm. The fan looked surprised and like he tried to get away from the player at that point. I think they said the shriekers name was Laura.

 

Why were they ejected? It certainly was because he reached and grabbed the player, because he didn't, nor did his buddies. I'm thinking that it could be either they can't stand during play or they can't have any contact with a player, their fault or not. The 2 buddies made no contact, but were ejected also.

 

It looked to me like the fan couldn't get his arm out of the way in time and the player ran through it, making it look like he was being held. Looked like a freak play to me. Not sure I care though.

 

The announcers went apeshit over a tempest in a tea cup, or much ado about nothing.

 

Please don't interview that chick. That just encourages and enables the "hey lookit me" crowd that ruins sports.

 

no grabbing. dude was pointing at another player, UK player rolled into his arm, his elbow bent and he couldn't have pulled it away any quicker. the announcers are drama queens.

 

Agree, a bit overblown.

 

I just changed your title a bit. We can talk about the "grabber" in one and the "shreiker" in the other . . . or both. It's no big deal.

 

Why in the heck were they sitting at courtside? We can't fill the real seats.

 

She has no story. She has a grating voice. She clearly thinks she's the show, and is trying hard to get the attention to propel her to media stardom. Unfortunately, her career will peak with doing unboxing videos on YouTube.

 

They sell absurdly expensive floor seats.

 

Those better be ASMR videos.

 

Thank you. The announcer said the fan should be ejected and not allowed at another SEC basketball game ever. Just so over the top.

So I went back and re-watched it because I thought I must have missed something.
Instead I saw what you just said- more of an accident and a fan who was caught by surprise.

IMO- they were playing to the UK fans.

 

Announcers definitely overreacted and I don’t know how much intention there was in any of those fans actions. What I do think it shows is that their intentions weren’t overtly to NOT impede the action. If your goal is to be out of the way, that last guy isn’t standing between Cason and where he needed to run with his arm out. I think his arm could have moved faster than it did as well.

 

$$ Thaddeus Bullard (aka Titus O'Neil) sat in court-side seats when we played Ohio

pUK dude, you should have stopped while you were ahead. The pUKe player was out of bounds and ran into the fan's out-stretched arm. It's tough to pull out of the way when you're being pulled in another direction. The fan was not even watching the player.

If there is a rule state states fans cannot interfere with players, accidently or not, then the ejection is warranted for ONE fan. If such rule does not exist, the fans are due an apology by the SEC

 

The guy that brought all the attention looked like it was completely unintentional. Obviously you have to eject him, but the way the announcers went on about it was ridiculous. Funny thing is one of the other guys actually did clearly tug the UK players jersey to try and impede him, not in a huge way but you can’t do that at all even if the guy literally falls in your lap. That was the Busch league move out of all that. I’d have no problem with that one guy being banished.