The SEC will not immediately penalize players who use the 'Horns Down' taunt toward Texas Longhorns players, a conference official said this week.
SEC coordinator of officials John McDaid made it official this week. The 'Horns Down' taunt will not result in an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for teams in the conference. The celebration is directed at Texas Longhorns players across all sports, but mostly in football. The taunt was a penalty while the school was in the Big 12 Conference but McDaid changed course.
The act itself needs to be offending to the senses,' he said, via the Austin American-Statesman. 'If you took that act out of a football stadium and did it in a shopping mall or a grocery store, would it offend the senses to a majority of the reasonable people in the area? That signal would not. 'You might have some people that share that signal with you, if you did that at a grocery store or a shopping mall, depending where you are. We're going to evaluate it in context.
If you do a Horns Down to a Texas player as an opponent, that's probably going to be a foul,' the Big 12’s coordinator of officials Greg Burks said at the time, via SI.com. '. . . Please all of you note, I said 'probably.’ We have to consider intent and consider the situation. We'll leave it to officials.' Not only is Texas joining the SEC, but Oklahoma is coming with them. 'Horns Down' will almost certainly be used when the two teams matchup on October 12.
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