Was trendy society partially in charge for Texas edge rusher Colin Simmons pretending to urinate on the sector in celebration in opposition to Tennessee?
It could appear to be an odd query to ask. However the chance was raised by Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian in his postgame information convention after No. 1 Texas’ 20-17 win over the No. 14 Volunteers. Simmons apologized after the sport for his celebration that drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. After one in all his 5 sacks, Simmons made it appear like, properly, he was relieving himself on the sector.
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Sarkisian stated that the teaching workers “addressed” the penalty with Simmons and, understandably, stated that the crew wasn’t going to bench him for the remainder of the sport over one unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.
After which he continued.
“We took him out, we addressed it and put him again in,” Sarkisian stated. “At that time, I’m not going to provide the man the dying penalty, proper? Over an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. We’ve gotta repair it although. That may’t proceed as we transfer ahead. In order I touched on with the crew within the locker room. We’ll tackle that on Monday and what that appears like. And the best way to management our feelings and one of the simplest ways — I do know guys are excited once they’re making performs. The most effective factor you’ll be able to go do is rejoice with a teammate.”
“And sadly in our society proper now, we dwell on the have a look at me society. And all you guys have your Twitter accounts and as quick as you’ll be able to kind one thing, since you need everybody to take a look at your account and get clicks. Effectively that’s the world that we dwell in. So we’ve bought to get to it’s concerning the crew and deal with the crew and never a lot have a look at me. And so we’ll attempt to enhance on that. However 5 sacks was fairly cool at the moment too.”
Simmons’ celebration was not the one groin-related one displayed by a Texas participant. Nonetheless, it was the one one flagged. After scoring a landing with lower than six minutes to go within the sport, Raleek Brown did this. Maybe society performed a task in that one as properly.
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Simmons completed the sport with three different tackles to associate with his 5 sacks. And he’s additionally grateful that Tennessee didn’t get factors on the drive the place he was flagged. The Vols went for it on fourth down on the finish of that drive however Faizon Brandon’s move fell incomplete.
The No. 1 Longhorns are off in Week 5 earlier than their rivalry sport with Oklahoma in Week 6. We’ll see if the week off results in some totally different celebrations in opposition to the Sooners.