Rushing the field...

I mean it's a terrible football conference in general, since there are not part of the BCS, but it appears that their administrators are equally as incompetant as their football teams. C-USA has fined the upstart East Carolina University because fans rushed the field...

The State Bureau of Investigation is looking into reports that some police used excessive force on football fans during East Carolina's dramatic win last weekend against West Virginia.

Officials said Friday that the SBI will consider video that shows fans being knocked down and punched by officers as fans rushed the field after the Pirates' 24-3 upset win over the then-No. 8 Mountaineers.

East Carolina is being fined $10,000 by Conference USA after football fans charged the field.

The conference said Friday the school violated a policy that prohibits public access to competition areas until the visiting team and officials are in the locker rooms.

Isn't rushing the field or court a common part of college athletics? I remember when Eagle fans did it when EWU made it to their first NCAA Tournament ever in basketball. Trust me, there's no stopping thousands of students and fans jumping onto the field. Unless of course you want to have a crowd control staff equal to the size or bigger than the amount of fans in the stadium. That's just stupid, C-USA, why would you punish a school that's making your conference actually revelant?

And ironically the state investigating the university for using excessive force trying to stop people from rushing the field?

I don't know how they do it in Carolina, but isn't it normal for a fan that rushed to field to get a load of smackdown for their stupidity. This who situation seems to contradict itself.

And does anyone remember what a field-rushing is like at Ohio State? The cops surrounded the field goal posts and had fire hoses that shot out mace into the home crowd.

Look up at the picture above this post. The Pac-10 is cool with it. You know, a real college football conference.