SWAC Statement on Southern / UAPB Football Altercation


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kendrick said:
I remember my junior year of college we played Alcorn State. We won the game. So our coaches have us gather into short left field for our post-game meeting. All of a sudden one of our guys sees our trainer in a scuffle with a couple of the opposing players in the visitors dugout.

ALL of us sprint from left field to the visitors dugout to confront those guys on the other team.

I mean, all heck is breaking loose. Punches were thrown, objects were used, there was kicking...the whole nine yards. The whole time our coach is screaming at us to not get involved.

NONE of us listened to him. We saw someone on our side in dire straights and proceeded to aid him.

A coach can preach discipline all he wants all day. However, once something happens, nine times out of 10, the athletes on the field will react based on instinct.

There was another case where we got into it with Grambling State. I'm on the bench and two seconds later I'm running on the field with the rest of my teammates right in the middle of everything.

I think athletes get involved in these fights or whatever to stick up for themselves and their teammates for the most part. Sure, it might be stupid, but few actually consider the consequences in the heat of the moment when the situation is developing so quickly.
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Kendrick you know yo ass aint run over there LOL
 
DAHILL said:
Kendrick you know yo ass aint run over there LOL
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I ran over there. But I was trying to be peacemaker. I was 150 pounds at that time. I wasn't throwing no blows at the time. LOL. But like I said, these things get out of hand so fast that it's tough to compose yourself. I remember during that Grambling incident one of our guys got punched in the back of the head by an opposing player even though he was just trying to separate guys.

In the heat of a game or even after an emotionally-charged game, the athletes are super wired.

Emotions are at a heightened state. That's part of the reason why coaches and players need that cooling off period after the game before speaking to the media.

I'm not condoning the behavior of either SU or UAPB. However, it's not always easy being level headed when certain situations arise.
 



225 said:
I think it's safe to say just ignore all of the hearsay. This thing has taken on a life of it's own. Let's talk about how UAPB players were running on the field before the last play was over, I'm just saying. I remember us being called for the same thing maybe like 4 years ago in PB after a blocked kick.
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There was no time left on the clock! Game was over! Refs run to the locker rooms. UAPB celebrate!

Also there was no CAMPUS POLICE......It was the Jefferson County Sheriff department.


Again....UAPB and SU players and coaches were shaking hands then somewhere all hell breaks loose.

Also if any LURKERS from Pine Bluff on here know anyone that posted that video on Youtube where he admitted that he threw a water bottle on the field...the Arkansas State police will be looking at that video. If they don't want to be in court they better take it down. :smh:

The Jefferson County Sheriff's had to use that pepper spray...it was escalating at light speed!



emptyright said:
This is a case of us dropping the ball again. I have been in games as a player and a coach where a brawl or a post game romp has broken out. The "white police" dont use that pepper spray until it is an absolute must. the "black police" come out the gate spraying. Thats the situation here. The State Troopers should not have sprayed any pepper spray unless a full scale riot breaks out. The troopers are to assist coaches and school personnel in breaking up the fight. Not spraying pepper spray.
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It was full scale! lol. Anyway again it was not the campus police..It was the Jefferson County Sheriff department.


Hey look it's over . Lesson learned. You better keep a cool head in public because somebody got a camera rolling! But for Heavens's sake...you know a football game got media all over the field..just because the clock hit's zero don't mean the camera stop rolling. And today cameras are in HD...they can blow up the footage and they count the pores on your skin with clarity.


Seriously though ...all these kids that were involed got family that love them,just like we got family that love us. Sometimes we look at strangers as if they are a character in a video game...with no real life connections. And I guess that make it easier for some to hurt,ridicule,fight and cuss and somtimes unfortunately take someone's life because we fail to realize that is a real person with family rather than a cartoon character. We need to move on.
 
Any for the record PB fans are very classy and we have never had any problems with them In the past. It was just a couple of out of control students that were throwing things at our team during the game.
 
SUjagTILLiDIE said:
Any for the record PB fans are very classy and we have never had any problems with them In the past. It was just a couple of out of control students that were throwing things at our team during the game.
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Did anyone from SU do anything wrong??? smh :smh:
 
SUjagTILLiDIE said:
Any for the record PB fans are very classy and we have never had any problems with them In the past. It was just a couple of out of control students that were throwing things at our team during the game.
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Exactly. Never had a problem with them!
 
Robber said:
Did anyone from SU do anything wrong??? smh :smh:
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Dude why in the hell would SU be throwing bottles DURING the game? It was already stated by many of folks who went to the game that it started during the game sometime in the 3rd quarter.
 
Jag-BR said:
Dude why in the hell would SU be throwing bottles DURING the game? It was already stated by many of folks who went to the game that it started during the game sometime in the 3rd quarter.
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I'm not talking about just bottle throwing bottles.
 
Lewis said:
i am not sure of this. I WAS at the game, and it got pretty bad at one point, players were singing helmets and several players were on the ground surrounded by opposing players. If they had not have sprayed, some could eailey gotten really hurt. It was waaaaaaaay to many players fighting for them to have any hope of breaking it up physically. Either decision could be second guessed.
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damm. :smh:
 



pbla said:
There was no time left on the clock! Game was over! Refs run to the locker rooms. UAPB celebrate!

Also there was no CAMPUS POLICE......It was the Jefferson County Sheriff department.


Again....UAPB and SU players and coaches were shaking hands then somewhere all hell breaks loose.

Also if any LURKERS from Pine Bluff on here know anyone that posted that video on Youtube where he admitted that he threw a water bottle on the field...the Arkansas State police will be looking at that video. If they don't want to be in court they better take it down. :smh:

The Jefferson County Sheriff's had to use that pepper spray...it was escalating at light speed!





It was full scale! lol. Anyway again it was not the campus police..It was the Jefferson County Sheriff department.


Hey look it's over . Lesson learned. You better keep a cool head in public because somebody got a camera rolling! But for Heavens's sake...you know a football game got media all over the field..just because the clock hit's zero don't mean the camera stop rolling. And today cameras are in HD...they can blow up the footage and they count the pores on your skin with clarity.


Seriously though ...all these kids that were involed got family that love them,just like we got family that love us. Sometimes we look at strangers as if they are a character in a video game...with no real life connections. And I guess that make it easier for some to hurt,ridicule,fight and cuss and somtimes unfortunately take someone's life because we fail to realize that is a real person with family rather than a cartoon character. We need to move on.
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Time left or no time left, it's still considered a penalty. I was just making an observation on that particular play because it could have been called causing another dramatic game ending situation similar to what happened 4 years ago in Pine Bluff. That was definitely poor blocking execution by the FG unit on that last play, and the kick appeared to not have the height to get past the line of scrimmage anyway.

As far as security (campus police or not) goes UAPB was exposed in that area, but I'm sure things will be much tighter. I know people say stereotypical things about Mumford, but if there is a problem BRPD or the Sheriff's Dept. will get rid of the problem if they see it or if they are notified about a situation. I may or may not be right in my assumptions, but I'm willing to bet the people throwing bottles weren't UAPB alumni or students. There were no SU fans instigating or throwing anything, it was an older SU crowd in attendance mostly alumni and/or families of coaches and players. A good portion of SU fans left after the last Pine Bluff TD and as soon as the XP was blocked.

Basically, a good game is being overshadowed which involved players from both teams having breakout performances.
 
IB4DemJags said:
this is true....when the fight started the first thing the campus police did was start spraying and they were not spraying randomly in the air, they were spraying directly into SU player's faces....then I personally witnessed them spray one of our LA State Troopers in the face with the pepper spray. The Troopers were in the act of trying to break up the fight and protect coach Mitchel at the same time. I agree this was a tough situation for any law enforcement officer, Campus Plolice included, but if the proceedure was to use the pepper spray, I have a hard time believing that they are supposed to spray it directly into the face or to pick and choose whose face to spray the stuff. I also got some contact of the stuff, but mine came from the stuff just being in the air and that is how UAPB's coach got the stuff on him. Our D Coordinator was also sprayed directly in the face with the spray while trying to gather his players. I understand that you all saw the video of one of our players throwing the first punch, and in no way do I condone this, but I can understand why he did it. After loosing a game in the fashion in which we did, and then to have the opposing team run over to your sideline and taunt you I could see how in the heat of the moment one could loose their head. A lot of us have done things in the heat of a moment that we really have regretted later, or maybe that player and me are the only ones....but once that happened well then at that point you are expecting 17 to 21 year old young men, who have not yet come down from a very intense battle to all of a sudden just instantly become alter boys...it just doen't usually happen that way....again I agree that it was the wrong thing to do and he should be punished for his actions, because we should have to pay for our wrong doings, but again I do understand the situation.
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chile, why even waste your keystrokes on this board. This is TSPN and we are SU...get it?
 
Warndalyn said:
chile, why even waste your keystrokes on this board. This is TSPN and we are SU...get it?
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:lol: Now this is funny.
LAWD...................TOO FUNNY.

Suck it up like ya'll always tell us "crying" JSU posters to do with no mod intervention. :lol:
 
How many different lies, stories and untruths gone be told before this over? Everybody got a story, but ain't nobody telling the truth. :lol: One thing we have learned from this is "A lie don't care how it gets told, but it will get told".
 
What you laughing at, Cee? You had to petition the folks at Bama A&M to give you credit for all those special needs classes you took.
 
kendrick said:
What you laughing at, Cee? You had to petition the folks at Bama A&M to give you credit for all those special needs classes you took.
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ken, you shole been throwing a lot of lil' jabs lately. lol You must've gotten you some ass recently. :) I'm proud of you mane. :tup: The only way to defeat fire is to throw fire right back @ it. :read:
 
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