{"id":116662,"date":"2015-12-03T13:07:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T21:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=116662"},"modified":"2023-06-13T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:38:07","slug":"byus-nick-emery-sucker-punches-player-then-tells-him-to-stay-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/byus-nick-emery-sucker-punches-player-then-tells-him-to-stay-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"BYU's Nick Emery Sucker Punches Player Then Tells Him \"To Stay On The Ground\""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4qG6Lu1MAFk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Very foul. Those are the words Utah's Brandon Taylor used to describe what BYU's Nick Emery said to him after Emery sucker punched him during Wednesday's win over BYU. Taylor's coach, Larry Krystkowiak, said Emery told his player to \"stay on the ground\" after the punch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw him basically punch Brandon then tell him to stay on the ground after he punched him. That\u2019s what got my undies in a little bit of a bunch. Crazy things happen in this game and I just hope that\u2019s something we would never do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emery was given a flagrant 2 foul and ejected for the dirty play and I'm sure a suspension is also coming.<\/p>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H33AuAu9V5Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-I63V3-Dkwc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>You can read more about Emery's \"anger issues\" at <a href=\"http:\/\/thebiglead.com\/2015\/12\/03\/byus-nick-emery-appears-to-have-a-history-of-losing-his-temper-on-the-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TheBigLead.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nick Emery has always been a dirty player and a sore loser. Nothing new. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QZ2MSdz17m\">pic.twitter.com\/QZ2MSdz17m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; connor (@connorgrigsby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/connorgrigsby\/status\/672282552615362560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very foul. Those are the words Utah's Brandon Taylor used to describe what BYU's Nick Emery said to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":116665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8316,1444,5,39,23],"tags":[9241,6148],"featured":[],"class_list":["post-116662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-all-blogs","category-college","category-college-videos","category-video","tag-brandon-taylor","tag-nick-emery"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BYU&#039;s Nick Emery Sucker Punches Player Then Tells Him &quot;To Stay On The Ground&quot; - Ballislife.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/byus-nick-emery-sucker-punches-player-then-tells-him-to-stay-on-the-ground\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BYU&#039;s Nick Emery Sucker Punches Player Then Tells Him &quot;To Stay On The Ground&quot; - Ballislife.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Very foul. 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