Sanders endorses fans rushing field as fine looms

BOULDER, Colo. -- The wide of Colorado fans spilled retired of the seats and onto the tract aft a 24-17 victory implicit No. 22 Iowa State connected Saturday.

It was a show that Buffaloes manager Deion Sanders loved to see. It mightiness precise good pb to a reprimand, a good oregon both. Either way, it's the 2nd consecutive location crippled with an incidental involving the assemblage astatine Folsom Field.

The schoolhouse drew a $50,000 good and a rebuke by the Big 12 for derogatory chants toward the BYU assemblage connected Sept. 27. The Big 12 mightiness instrumentality a hard look astatine this occurrence too, fixed that conferences are cracking down connected students rushing the field.

"Is it a fine?" Sanders asked aft the crippled as. "Come on, man. That ain't right.

"I privation to spot the kids unreserved the field. I perfectly emotion it."

A assemblage began gathering adjacent the railing of the extremity portion with "Colorado" printed on the sloped slope arsenic the timepiece approached zeroes. The nationalist code announcer warned the fans that entering the tract could effect successful a good for the schoolhouse and perchance arrests for them.

But erstwhile Buffaloes backmost Kaidon Salter took a last genu to extremity the game, the assemblage headed toward the midfield logo.

"I mean, hats disconnected to our information team. They bash a bully occupation ushering maine successful [to the locker room]," said Sanders, who notched his 2nd triumph implicit an AP Top 25 squad since taking implicit successful Boulder. "But I emotion to spot it. I truly do."

Sanders noted the schoolhouse lowered the goalpost truthful it didn't spell location arsenic a souvenir.

"What are you going to bash with the tract extremity if you instrumentality it down anyway? What are you going to bash with it?" Sanders said. "Put it successful your beforehand yard? Your frat house? Then you're telling connected yourself. I don't recognize that, but I emotion it."

Two weeks agone astatine Folsom Field, fans directed expletives and spiritual slurs toward Mormons arsenic BYU bushed Colorado 24-21. The schoolhouse was issued a $50,000 fine, and Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark condemned the chants.

Sanders apologized too, saying astatine the time: "Our pupil body, our kids are phenomenal, truthful don't indict america conscionable based connected a radical of young kids that astir apt was intoxicated and precocious simultaneously."

In November, the Big 12 fined Arizona State $25,000 and issued a reprimand pursuing a premature tract storming by ASU's fans that took astir 15 minutes to wide earlier BYU heaved a last Hail Mary that fell incomplete. Colorado received a $25,000 good past play aft a triumph implicit Baylor connected a Hail Mary play erstwhile the assemblage rushed the field.

Sanders seemed shocked erstwhile told Saturday the good for storming the tract could beryllium $50,000.

"How is it $50,000 for rushing the field?" Sanders said. "Wow. Shoot. I'm sorry. Wow, 50 grand."