Syracuse fined for faking injuries vs. Clemson

The ACC fined Syracuse $25,000 and publically reprimanded the schoolhouse Monday for faking injuries successful a 34-21 triumph implicit Clemson past weekend, calling its actions "unethical and contrary to the tone of the rules."

In a statement, the ACC said Syracuse violated a NCAA regularisation established this twelvemonth aimed astatine stopping teams from faking injuries to dilatory down play.

With 9:25 near successful the 4th quarter, the ACC said the enactment of 2 players and a manager "were a wide effort to summation an unmerited vantage by stopping the crippled successful bid to unafraid an wounded timeout."

Clemson backmost Cade Klubnik accused Syracuse of faking injuries aft the nonaccomplishment arsenic a mode to dilatory down its tempo.

"We were playing with tempo and props to them, they stopped america connected immoderate 3rd downs and past they person an wounded oregon thing similar that erstwhile we truly got going," Klubnik said. "That's up to them if they privation to beryllium honorable astir that.

"That was decidedly pugnacious for america to truly get successful a rhythm. We're playing accelerated and unluckily they had a feline get wounded oregon a timeout oregon thing similar that."

The ACC bureau and the National Coordinator of Football Officials reviewed the play. According to the ACC, the nationalist coordinator "agreed that the enactment violated the tone of the wounded timeout and just play and was done successful a mode to circumvent the caller wounded timeout regularisation to debar the squad being charged a timeout."