LEXINGTON (AP) — The University of Kentucky has released new rules for tailgating to address concerns over fighting and disorderly behavior in areas near Commonwealth Stadium.
The new plan was issued Tuesday and will be in effect for Saturday’s game against Georgia. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that the area where students are allowed to tailgate will be expanded but it will be closed off an hour after the game’s kickoff. The plan comes in response to fighting and arrests at the Kentucky-Western Kentucky game on Sept. 15.
Banned are any open flames, including grills. The expanded area is along Cooper Drive near the stadium.UK officials say the plan is the result of discussions among student government, university officials and law enforcement.
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Not trying to pile on here but is this really even an issue anymore? Are the students showing up at all? Is ANYONE showing up? UK football has bigger problems than this. Eli could offer free booze, bbq, grant money, etc and the students aren’t going to show up; that ship sailed when he punished the good, law-abiding students after a few idiots lost their sh!t after the WKU game.
This is the UK, Eli – not some Bama community college.
No grilling? At a tailgate? Unreal. Eli Capaluto, redefining tradition.
This is another knock on UK Football. If the culture doesn’t change the Football will not change. Try to tell the students at Alabama, Tenn, LSU no grilling for tailgating before their home games. It is pretty obvious UK does not want students at the games. Next they will be putting in rules saying you can’t standup or yell during the game. It disturbs the long time fans that like to sit the whole game and don’t like loud noises
Pacman and Juan, amen. other sec schools would laugh at this
Capiluto may be the most misguided president UK has ever had when it comes to UK football. When you treat students like babies, they disappear from the football games. On TV the student section looks empty. Thanks Capiluto.
agree that students have been bullied in some ways
no grills? after seeing this , what might be insignificant at first, UK football as a whole is doomed.. The thought of having a marquee coach is just a pipe dream because if the stands were packed and UK was remotely relevant with a new coach , one would think this would be a no brainer as to having grills and celebrating a decent team. There is a bigger picture at play here and it is not good . It means do not expect anything to get better.
No grilling for those students? Say what?!!!
Oh, too, FWIW, this longtime fan prefers to STAND UP, even the entire game, and to MAKE NOISE on every defensive snap — to behave like SEC fans, actually. Ironically, I specifically remember Brooks’ first game against Florida in Commonwealth. I had been doing screaming and stomping on the bleachers during those defensive stances. Meanwhile several young people in the stands around me had noticed and were slapping me on the shoulder in approvement BUT, unfortunately, neither screaming nor stomping themselves! Go figure. Obviously, age does not define the fanship. GO CATS! BEAT THOSE DAWGS!
I think Capiluto is turd, when it comes to dealing with this situation. I had no opinion of him, before this, because he hasn’t done anything press worthy. I heard a local tv anchor mutter under his breath (I hope this works), after he announced President Turd’s new counter measure to disenfranchise the students of the college football game day experience. He is a moron as well.
Well if he wasn’t trying to run them off before the game, he has certainly succeeded now. I’m wondering when he will lay into the so called adults next. What will be our rules for tailgating. Will you and me be allowed an open flame. Will we be allowed a cooler to be open 30 mins before game time. What will he be taking away next. I honestly didn’t know I lived in pre war Germany. Zeig Heil