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DALLAS — Horns down? Maintain up.
Oklahoma gamers might be assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty if sport officers decide it was used for taunting.
However that may proceed to be a judgment name within the Sooners’ new convention, very similar to it was within the Massive 12.
That’s what Southeastern Convention coordinator of officers John McDaid stated Tuesday at SEC Media Days.
John McDaid, SEC’s coordinator of officers, on penalizing for Horns down sign: “Unsportsmanlike conduct wants to suit 1 of three classes: Is it taunting an opponent? Is it making a travesty of the sport? Is it in any other case compromising our potential to handle the sport? There’s a…
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) July 16, 2024
“Unsportsmanlike conduct wants to suit one among three classes,” McDaid stated. “Is it taunting an opponent? Is it making a travesty of the sport? Is it in any other case compromising our potential to handle the sport? There’s a distinction between a participant giving a sign immediately in face of an opponent, versus doing it with teammates celebrating after a TD or on the sideline.
McDaid made an fascinating analogy in regards to the Horns Down, saying “should you take the act out of a soccer stadium or put it in a shopping center or in a grocery retailer, is it one thing that might offend the senses of the vast majority of cheap individuals?” He does not suppose it is offensive.
— Kirk Bohls (@kbohls) July 16, 2024
“To web all that out, each single prevalence just isn’t an act of unsportsmanlike conduct.”
SEC coordinator of officers John McDaid explaining the horns down penalty in 2024. pic.twitter.com/qUIUZsl6co
— Daniel Homrok (@danielhomrok) July 16, 2024
McDaid clarified that might be the identical consequence if Florida gamers do the “Gator chomp” within the face of an opponent, or if Ole Miss gamers execute the “land shark” gesture in a taunting vogue.
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JOHN E. HOOVER
John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans 5 a long time in Oklahoma, with a number of state, regional and nationwide awards as a sportswriter at varied newspapers.
Throughout his newspaper profession, John coated the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and far more.
In 2016, John modified careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has constructed a profitable unbiased media firm, DanCam Media. From there, John has written beneath the banners of Sporting Information, Sports activities Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of native and nationwide magazines whereas internet hosting day by day sports activities discuss radio exhibits in Oklahoma Metropolis, Tulsa and statewide.
John has additionally spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma Metropolis in a profitable effort to place extra licensed athletic trainers in Oklahoma public excessive colleges.
Among the many dozens of awards he has gained, John most cherishes his nationwide “Beat Author of the 12 months” from the Related Press Sports activities Editors, Oklahoma’s “Finest Sports activities Column” from the Society of Skilled Journalists, and Two “Excellence in Sports activities Medication Reporting” Awards from the Nationwide Athletic Trainers Affiliation.
John holds a bachelor’s diploma in Mass Communications from East Central College in Ada, OK.
Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John performed soccer and wrote for the college paper at Ada Excessive Faculty in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, motion pictures and journey, and lives in Damaged Arrow, OK, together with his spouse and two children.
