South Carolina President Harris Pastides is More Than Happy to Pay the Court-Storming Fine

New Mexico State and Utah Valley showed the world everything that is wrong with court storming. With the emotional high that fans of the winning team are on and the absolute low that the losing team is feeling it's a recipe for disaster.

So when South Carolina managed to beat No. 17 Kentucky for a rare conference win the school should have been concerned about fans storming the court--but it wasn't.

The SEC does have rules against such things and the Gamecocks are going to get hit with a $25,000 fine, but university president Harris Pastides is okay with that.

USC President Harris Pastides on the UK court storm: "Once I realized I was paying [the fine] anyway, I ran down … I enjoyed every dollar."
— Thad Moore (@thadmoore) March 3, 2014

He's got a point. The fans are going to do it, so since it is going to cost the school $25K no matter what you might as well.

If there was a game where it should happen this was it. Here you had a team that is underperforming and still a top 20 team playing one that means it when it said it's just happy to be there. There is no way in hell that South Carolina should have won that game, but it did.

When you have only won a handful of games and than win one like this it makes your season. For a game like that you should storm the court.

The Utah Valley/New Mexico State game have a lot of people questioning whether court-storming should be allowed. Does the process need to be more controlled? Absolutely. Abolished? No. It's things like this that help make the college experience what it is.

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