SEC official makes ‘Horns Down’ penalty decision as college football season nears [Video]

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.

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“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.”

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