Of all the elements of the 2011 college football you are salivating months in advance to experience, we will venture to guess the NCAA’s new taunting rule, set to go into effect in September, is not among them. But be not afraid, gentle readers! The officials themselves insist you have nothing to fear!
What, The NCAA’s New Taunting Rule, Worry?
Could a team lose the national championship on an end zone salute? A two-second pose?
John Wright, a Knoxville-based SEC official, says conference officials won’t be "nitpicky."
"If somebody turns a flip or flips a bird at somebody, a team should be penalized," he said. "But if somebody does something borderline, we will not call it. Everybody in the stadium will know (that it was an unsportsmanlike act) if we call it."
Hear that? Only when it’s obvious stuff! Like Jake Locker’s celebration penalty, right? Make that, “Nothing to fear except the heightened emotional impulses of college athletes.” EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE FINE.
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