SEC fines Texas A&M $50,000, issues public reprimand of Mike Elko for having player fake injury

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https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...d-of-mike-elko-for-having-player-fake-injury/

The SEC fined Texas A&M $50,000 fine and coach Mike Elko received a public reprimand Tuesday after the National Coordinator for Football Officiating reviewed tape of an incident in the fourth quarter of the Aggies' win over Arkansas. The review determined Texas A&M directed a player to go down with a fake injury.

 

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The incident in question happened at the 12:55 mark of the fourth quarter after Arkansas completed a pass for a first down at the Aggies' 10-yard line. After the ball was spotted for the next play, defensive back Tyreek Chappell went to the ground after coaches on the A&M sideline signaled "signaling demonstratively to the player, pointing to the ground."

Yeah it's pretty obvious when you got a guy signaling for someone to go down after the ball got spotted.

 

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How did we get here?

 

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How did we get here?

Some other schools were heavily abusing the whole injury timeout thing and would have defensive players go down on command to get their defense a rest. Most visibly in the SEC. SEC coaches got pretty public about it with complaints.

B1G really didn't have many bad incidents or coaches complaining about it (well Kirk was a baby about one event, in a situation where a player was actually out the next week... but that was years ago).