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Texas A&M The SEC football program became the first SEC football program on Tuesday to receive a $50,000 fine from the conference for violating its policy on players faking injuries in games.
Texas A&M was found to be in violation of NCAA game rules by faking injuries for a play in the fourth quarter of the Aggies’ game. win 45-42 But arkansas on Saturday, in which the defensive back Tyreek Chappell After seeing the ball, he sat on the field to stop the game.
National coordinator of football officials Steve Shaw reviewed video of the situation submitted by the SEC, which occurred with 12:36 remaining and Texas A&M leading 38–27. Before Chappelle went down, a member of the Texas A&M staff can be seen in the video standing near the 25-yard line, gesturing to Chappelle and pointing to the ground.
Chappell had no contact during the previous game and showed no signs of injury until he sat down and pointed to his right foot. Texas A&M was flagged and charged a timeout because Chappell was ruled injured after the ball was snapped.
The senior cornerback returned to the game on the second play of Arkansas’ next offensive drive.
“As determined by the national coordinator, the player’s actions, particularly the coach’s concurrent actions in the team area, are a clear attempt to gain an unfair advantage by preventing play from occurring until injury time,” the conference said in its release. “This action violates the injury timeout and the spirit of fair play and was conducted in a manner that appears to be an attempt to circumvent the NCAA’s injury timeout rule to avoid being charged with a timeout.”
The conference also issued a public reprimand to Texas A&M coach Mike Elko for the fake injury violation. A second appearance of feigned injury will result in another reprimand and a $100,000 fine. Any further violations of the policy will result in Elko receiving a one-game suspension.
The SEC said further violations would result in additional fines and potentially suspension of coaches, assistants or players.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey Attempts to fake injuries In a memo to its athletic directors and head coaches last November, they were ordered to “cease any and all activity related to faking injuries to make up timeouts” and called the practice “disgraceful to the game of football.”
The conference’s policy on feigning injuries was first established in 2022.
Last month, ACC issued a $25,000 fine and public reprimand To Syracuse For faking an injury during a 34-21 win. CLEMSON,
