Mike Locksley gave a personal take on a new rules emphasis in college football.
If you've watched college football in 2024, you may have noticed a new rules emphasis this season. Officials are cracking down more and more on celebrations in which players pretend to brandish guns and other weapons, freely giving out 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalties.
“There’s a list of automatic unsportsmanlike conduct fouls. One of them in our rule book is simulating firing of a weapon,” Steve Shaw, the NCAA’s national coordinator of officials,"Let me just say this to you guys so everybody hears me very clearly," Locksley told his team earlier this month, as he recounted to Barry Svrluga ofpublished Wednesday afternoon. "I had a son that was murdered with a gun.
Patrick Andres is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He joined SI in December 2022, having worked for The Blade, Athlon Sports, Fear the Sword and Diamond Digest. Andres has covered everything from zero-attendance Big Ten basketball to a seven-overtime college football game. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a double major in history .
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