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Conclusions: How should Tennessee be penalized for the unpleasant incident in Knoxville?

Tennessee’s reputation for having the worst college football fan base grew steadily as the countless objects, including water bottles, a mustard bottle, and a yellow golf ball, dropped onto the field. A rich history of collective classlessness was enriched with new empirical evidence as each item crashed to the turf.

Tennessee football fans displayed a degree of misbehavior that we haven’t seen in college football this generation as the minutes passed and the hailstorm persisted. Never before has a college football game been so dangerous that the dance team, cheerleaders, and band had to evacuate their home field for safety. Some of the cheerleaders covered their heads with placards intended to support the team.

Somehow, a vocal fan base that has consistently traded in the sport’s sewer dropped to a lower level. The Tennessee football team’s supporters also reached new heights on a night when they ultimately lost to Ole Miss.

Following Ole Miss’s thrilling victory over Tennessee in Lake Kiffin, a 20-minute delay caused by objects being hurled onto the field overshadowed an incredible match. Additionally, it shifted the sport’s attention to Tennessee’s supporters, whose most recent public outburst led VolTwitter to select the SEC’s most inept coach and athletic director duo this generation.

This time, where will the depths of Tennessee lead them? That is the dilemma that SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and Tennessee chancellor Donde Plowman must resolve as they consider possible sanctions for this historic instance of fan misconduct.

Plowman will face an extremely uncomfortable situation for a leader as her actions in the coming days will be recalled for much longer than any dean she appoints or academic building constructed during her tenure.

Plowman must take action to demonstrate to her SEC colleagues that Tennessee values player safety above all else in sports. She will also have to put up with the same level of hate that descended on her own team, band, and cheerleaders on Saturday night in order to accomplish it.

She will need to inflict enough pain on the Tennessee fan base to make them uncomfortable and discourage them from throwing objects and putting the players, coaches, and cheerleaders in danger. Tennessee is securely ensconced in the behavior basement of the SEC. Furthermore, the severity of Plowman’s and Sankey’s decisions will indicate whether or not there is a sincere desire to repair that reputation.

Plowman specifically will have to deal with the kind of awkward, unnerving, and insane behavior that has come to be associated with the periphery of Tennessee’s supporters. Donde, stop mentioning things; this is going to be awkward.

Following midnight, the SEC commissioner and chancellor both made remarks expressing disapproval of the proceedings and implying harsh penalties. Will they be as good as they say they are?

The Neyland Stadium crowd outburst became a landmark event for college athletics, a low point in fan conduct that will likely serve as the standard for disorderliness for many years to come. Consider this: The situation deteriorated to the point where Tennessee officials had to remove their own cheerleaders from the field in order to shield them from projectiles being thrown by home fans. It all began with a contentious remark made against Tennessee.

This reporter certainly doesn’t recall a college football game being postponed for this long due to spectator behavior in the previous 20 years.

There must be some sort of punishment. Saturday night’s 20-minute satire of the toxicity that personified Vol Nation’s fellowship of the miserable embarrassed Tennessee, the SEC, and the entire state of sports. The situation deteriorated to the point where Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin ordered his players to put on helmets for protection. The yellow golf ball that was thrown at him during the post-game interview was in his hands; it will always be a memento of this terrible night and will endure for decades. Tennessee triumphed in Lane Kiffin’s return to Neyland and succeeded in making him a likeable character.

Plowman expressed her seriousness about the situation by expressing her shock and disgust at what happened. “We will not tolerate behavior that endangers student athletes, coaches, visitors, or other fans.”

Here’s a notion. The Tennessee Vols should play in front of a stadium devoid of Vols supporters on November 13 when they host Georgia at home. Every ticket holder ought to receive a refund. More importantly, though, is that the big benefit of playing a home game in front of home fans ought to be eliminated. With the voices of over 90,000 people silenced, the Vols’ chances of defeating the top-ranked Bulldogs are slim. (It would be nice to let in about 5,000 UGA fans, or whatever their normal allotment is.)

It should go without saying that anyone found tossing projectiles should have their tickets revoked and face an indefinite ban if caught on camera or in real time. That’s the stuff that’s tangible and easy.

What will Tennessee do, then? Something big is needed in response to the stupidity that was on show at Neyland Stadium on Saturday night. Years will pass before Tennessee can overcome its reputation as the state with the worst fan base in sports. The Schiano Sunday uprising demonstrated that this was not a one-night stand of madness for Tennessee’s supporters. Although most Vol supporters aren’t crazy and not all Tennessee fans were throwing bottles on Saturday night, there are undoubtedly enough powerful fans to put the dance team in danger. Thus, something needs to alter.

At 1:29 a.m. EST, Sankey issued a statement describing the Tennessee behavior as “unacceptable under any circumstances.” He went on to say that the commissioner’s “power to impose penalties” and the policies will be examined by the SEC. His objective? “To ensure that this circumstance doesn’t happen again.”

Tennessee is not going to benefit from a mere fine. Compared to the significant coaching buyouts and NCAA legal fees it has accrued in recent years, it will just be one more debt drop in the bucket.

Nothing like what transpired at Tennessee on Saturday night should ever take place in college football, not in the SEC or anywhere else. It was needless, improper, and dangerous. Many people acted in this way because they thought there would be no repercussions, and Plowman and Sankey must constantly remind people that engaging in illegal activity has consequences.

The thousands of elegant and well-behaved Tennessee supporters were particularly embarrassed by what happened, as they should be able to support their team without having to witness a group of fools mock the players, Kiffin, and the school’s marching band. Many honorable Tennessee supporters ought to be upset this morning because they are now being referred to as members of the sport’s laughingstock.

Following Tennessee’s last great drama of fan outcry in 2017, the team received karmic punishment in the form of Jeremy Pruitt’s coaching and Phil Fulmer’s stewardship. These two are so inept and bumbling that they will serve as the next generation’s low parallel bars for SEC incompetence.

For the majority of the ensuing ten years, Tennessee fans will be plagued by the NCAA problems and legal bills in addition to the product on the field that they had to put up with under Pruitt.

This time, the harm cannot be contained to a trickle of poor choices that are motivated by sentimentality rather than reason. Administrators in Tennessee need to examine themselves closely this time and demonstrate that the university is uncomfortable being the SEC’s laughingstock.

It’s unfortunate that Tennessee’s tormented soul has halted new coach Josh Heupel’s progress. Reputations are damaged, recruiting is harmed, and the ongoing dysfunction that Heupel and the new AD Danny White have been working to address is furthered by this.

Rather, it’s Tennessee as it always was. The entire world is waiting to see if the school will receive a harsh enough punishment to prevent it from sinking to these depths in the future.