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West Virginia's penalties were based on NCAA Rule 9-2-1, which says, "No player, substitute, coach or other person subject to the rules shall use abusive, threatening or obscene language or gestures, or engage in such acts that provoke ill will or are demeaning to an opponent, to game officials or to the image of the game."
Brown, now at North Carolina, told ESPN.com this offseason he thinks Horns Down qualifies.
The Hook 'Em sign is "an iconic hand signal when you think of college sports," McDonald conceded. But simply turn it upside down, he said, and it has "become this untouchable signal you can't do as opposed to the 2,000 other hand signals in American football."
"It's a childish gesture," said Diane Gottsman, a national etiquette expert and founder of The Protocol School of Texas. "It can easily escalate into an act of aggression when emotions, liquor and the wrong personalities are involved."
But manners aside, should it be a penalty in a football game?
"If you can't throw the Horns Down, what can you do?" he said. "It's the most polite disrespect that you can do in the game of football. It's not a kick in the nuts."
And Switzer, well, he's got his own reasons.
"S---," he said. "It's just fun!"
A camper from Norman, Oklahoma, did it while standing next to Herman at a Texas football camp.
Greg Andrews @LawyerGreg405
I took my soon-to-be 9th grade son, @Parker32Andrews , down to a Texas last Sunday for football camp and he had an opportunity to meet Texas’ coach, Tom Herman. Parker never wastes an opportunity!
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My personal opinion is Texas fans, players and coaches are being petty about the gesture. What about the horns up sign they throw after a big play or touchdown? Where's the penalty?
Big 12 and others teams come to WVU and stomp on the WVU logo and no flag is thrown. Where is the unsportsmanlike penalty?
Will we now penalize fans for the gesture? What about all the other hand symbols that become mocked and disrespected by teams? Is it just Texas or will teams get that break of unsportsmanlike calls. College football is becoming a wimp sport when little baby's crying about hand gestures.
Now a middle finger to an official yeah probably a bad idea.
West Virginia's penalties were based on NCAA Rule 9-2-1, which says, "No player, substitute, coach or other person subject to the rules shall use abusive, threatening or obscene language or gestures, or engage in such acts that provoke ill will or are demeaning to an opponent, to game officials or to the image of the game."
Brown, now at North Carolina, told ESPN.com this offseason he thinks Horns Down qualifies.
The Hook 'Em sign is "an iconic hand signal when you think of college sports," McDonald conceded. But simply turn it upside down, he said, and it has "become this untouchable signal you can't do as opposed to the 2,000 other hand signals in American football."
"It's a childish gesture," said Diane Gottsman, a national etiquette expert and founder of The Protocol School of Texas. "It can easily escalate into an act of aggression when emotions, liquor and the wrong personalities are involved."
But manners aside, should it be a penalty in a football game?
"If you can't throw the Horns Down, what can you do?" he said. "It's the most polite disrespect that you can do in the game of football. It's not a kick in the nuts."
And Switzer, well, he's got his own reasons.
"S---," he said. "It's just fun!"
A camper from Norman, Oklahoma, did it while standing next to Herman at a Texas football camp.
Greg Andrews @LawyerGreg405
I took my soon-to-be 9th grade son, @Parker32Andrews , down to a Texas last Sunday for football camp and he had an opportunity to meet Texas’ coach, Tom Herman. Parker never wastes an opportunity!
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-wonderful-delightfully-weird-rise-horns-down
My personal opinion is Texas fans, players and coaches are being petty about the gesture. What about the horns up sign they throw after a big play or touchdown? Where's the penalty?
Big 12 and others teams come to WVU and stomp on the WVU logo and no flag is thrown. Where is the unsportsmanlike penalty?
Will we now penalize fans for the gesture? What about all the other hand symbols that become mocked and disrespected by teams? Is it just Texas or will teams get that break of unsportsmanlike calls. College football is becoming a wimp sport when little baby's crying about hand gestures.
Now a middle finger to an official yeah probably a bad idea.
