You might remember East Carolina's upset of West Virginia waaay back on Saturday, and at some point this might have even seen what happened to a handful of ECU students who decided to celebrate good times on the field (heads up: some brief PG-13 language):

It got much rougher than that, at least for one unlucky kid. As a veteran stormer who's met stadium security face-to-face while wrapped around a goal post he couldn't let go of if he wanted to, the Doc says with confidence that a hands-off observation will suffice in these cases -- as you can see, it's not like a handful of guys and girls armed primarily with a uniform and testosterone have a prayer of actually corralling 10,000 buzzing 19-year-olds moving en masse toward even closer physical communion with other 19-year-olds. This is not a realistic expectation. So why would guards even have the idea they should try?

East Carolina is being fined $10,000 by Conference USA after football fans charged the field to celebrate the Pirates' upset of West Virginia last weekend.

Conference USA said Friday the university also is subject to a possible suspension of future hosting privileges.

The conference says the school violated a policy adopted in June that prohibits public access to competition areas until the visiting team and officials are in the locker rooms.

Oh, lawyers: you're always right. There's a definite, legitimate safety issue with kids running onto the field (just ask this guy) that no university wants any part of. But outside of Attorney Island, there's also a chicken-and-egg quality to fining an institution for behavior it can't realistically control, since, presumably, the fine will lead to the school attempting to control said behavior in ways that lead to, say, cops wailing on students for no particularly good reason. Or, I dunno,

Cops assault kids, school still gets fined. I guess the moral is that -- while it may cost you later -- sometimes, maybe it's better to ignore the rules when they don't make sense and nobody's getting hurt. Do you hear that, Pac Ten refs? Or better yet: don't make zero-tolerance rules against people expressing non-violent excitement to begin with.

(Although, aside from the 'police brutality' part, it was worth the ten grand, wasn't it, ECU?)