ESPN - East Carolina looks into police roll during celebrations - College Football (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3578424)


East Carolina's big upset over West Virginia on Saturday has prompted a police investigation.
USA Today reported on Tuesday that the university is looking into allegations of excessive force by police during postgame celebrations. The school has received complaints that some in the sellout crowd of 43,610 were struck or thrown to the ground by officers.


Best part of the article-

Drew Griffin, president of the student government association, said that students felt that officers taunted them.
"None of us was being confrontational," Griffin said, according to the newspaper. "We just wanted to be on the field and celebrate what might have been the biggest win in school history."


The students weren't going to come down to the field I bet...but these cops probably called them wimps, so then they decided to show those cops who were wimps. Terrible.

Good thing this never happens at Pitt football games. The cops outnumber the fans 2 to 1 there.

Fans rushing the field/court after a game used to be cool because it was spontaneous and rare.

Now, the fans expect to rush the field anytime they beat a team that has been ranked anywhere in the top 25 within the last 10 years.

Good thing this never happens at Pitt football games. The cops outnumber the fans 2 to 1 there.

Actually, don't you need to beat someone first?

What's a police roll?
Like a Rickroll, but with kickass mustaches.

Good thing this never happens at Pitt football games. The cops outnumber the fans 2 to 1 there.

Maybe we can beat Notre Dame again at some point and think about it

Maybe we can beat Notre Dame again at some point and think about it

Better do it this year...but that game is at South Bend.

Fans rushing the field/court after a game used to be cool because it was spontaneous and rare.

Now, the fans expect to rush the field anytime they beat a team that has been ranked anywhere in the top 25 within the last 10 years.

Maybe we can beat Notre Dame again at some point and think about it

Does not compute.

I was trying to dig up some links to the articles from a few years back when they had some folks hurt, which led to teams increasing security to stop fans from storming fields/courts.

I was trying to dig up some links to the articles from a few years back when they had some folks hurt, which led to teams increasing security to stop fans from storming fields/courts.

I linked to several stories on the subject in this thread (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=60994&highlight=Cimino)

Is it me getting older or is just the fact that I work for a major American university that my initial response to this is to believe the police?

Must be the getting older part. I don't work for a university, but still think the people doing this are idiots.

Is it me getting older or is just the fact that I work for a major American university that my initial response to this is to believe the police?

Anything short of that kid having a gun or a bomb strapped to his chest, there was no reason for the beating that the one officer was giving which was caught on video. There were probably 10 full haymakers thrown at a body on the ground.

Fans rushing the field/court after a game used to be cool because it was spontaneous and rare.

Now, the fans expect to rush the field anytime they beat a team that has been ranked anywhere in the top 25 within the last 10 years.

I call them douchebags. It happens in basketball as well.

If schools want to stop people from rushing the field/court, the schools should threaten with discipline, including being expelled.

Giving all the cops/security guards tasers would make it way more entertaining.

SBI to investigate ECU post-game incidents :: WRAL.com (http://www.wral.com/sports/story/3535816/)

Not only is the state SBI investigating the brutality reports, but Conference USA has chimed in as well, fining ECU $100,000 for allowing fans to storm the field, as it violates their sportsmanship rules. I thought I remembered these rules being instituted a few years back during a rash of incidents...