Aggies get SEC's first $50K fine for faking injury

Texas A&M became the archetypal SEC shot programme to person a $50,000 good from the league Tuesday for violating its argumentation connected players faking injuries successful games.

Texas A&M was recovered successful usurpation of the NCAA playing rules governing feigning injuries for a play successful the 4th fourth of the Aggies' 45-42 win astatine Arkansas connected Saturday, successful which antiaircraft backmost Tyreek Chappell sat down connected the tract to halt play aft the shot had already been spotted.

Steve Shaw, the nationalist coordinator of shot officials, reviewed video of the concern submitted by the SEC which occurred with 12:36 remaining and Texas A&M starring 38-27. Prior to Chappell going down, a Texas A&M unit subordinate tin beryllium seen connected video lasting adjacent the 25-yard enactment signaling to Chappell and pointing to the ground.

Chappell had nary interaction during the erstwhile play and showed nary signs of wounded until helium sat down and pointed to his close leg. Texas A&M was flagged and charged a timeout due to the fact that Chappell presented arsenic injured aft the shot was spotted.

The elder cornerback returned to the crippled connected the 2nd play of Arkansas' adjacent violative drive.

"As determined by the National Coordinator, the enactment by player, particularly with the concurrent enactment by the manager successful the squad area, is simply a wide effort to summation an unmerited vantage by stopping the crippled to beryllium awarded an wounded clip out," the league said successful its release. "The enactment violates the tone of the wounded timeout and just play and was conducted successful a mode that appears to effort to circumvent the NCAA's wounded clip retired regularisation to debar the squad being charged a clip out."

The league besides issued a nationalist reprimand to Texas A&M manager Mike Elko for the feigned wounded violation. A 2nd feigned wounded would effect successful different reprimand and a $100,000 fine. Any further violations of the argumentation would effect successful Elko receiving a one-game suspension.

The SEC said further violations volition effect successful further fines and perchance the suspension of coaches, assistants oregon players.

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey attempted to ace down connected feigned injuries past November successful a memo to his diversion directors and caput coaches, ordering them to "stop immoderate and each enactment related to faking injuries to make timeouts" and calling the signifier "disrespectful to the crippled of football."

The conference's argumentation connected feigning injuries was archetypal established successful 2022.

Last month, the ACC issued a $25,000 good and a nationalist reprimand to Syracuse for faking an wounded during its 34-21 triumph implicit Clemson.