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Miami’s Chuck Martin slams Speedos in videoboard upright penalty rant

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Miami RedHawks head coach Chuck Martin had a bizarre, lengthy and memorable reaction to the team’s penalty for showing multiple uprights on the videoboard during a Mid-American Conference football win Nov. 10 against Ohio at Oxford’s Yager Stadium.

With the Bobcats leading 17-7, Ohio kicker Brack Peacock attempted a field goal that hit the right upright and missed. Miami was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct for showing multiple uprights on the videoboard behind the uprights themselves.

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“On the previous play, there were depictions of the field-goal uprights on the scoreboard,” the official announced just before halftime. “That is a foul for unsportsmanlike conduct against Miami. Half the distance to the goal, automatic first down.”

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Miami RedHawks wide receiver Brady Simmons (2) takes a knee before the football game between Cincinnati Bearcats and Miami RedHawks at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati on Saturday, September 19, 2026.

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“It was so weird, because he missed the kick,” Martin told reporters Nov. 12. “There was no flag. We huddled up. We sent our offense out. There’s two seconds left. We were going to take a knee, obviously. There’s two seconds left. Our guys are on the field. The ball’s there. There’s still no flag. Now we’re two minutes past the play. And there’s a group of officials standing there, and I didn’t think nothing of it. There’s nothing going on. We’re just waiting for them to put the ball in play. And the next thing I know, I see the guy just drop a flag, like literally standing there talking, and then he just puts a flag on the ground.”

Miami RedHawks head football coach Chuck Martin takes questions during a press conference to announce the neutral site for the upcoming Battle of the Victory Bell football game at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. The rivalry college football game between the University of Cincinnati Bearcats and the Miami RedHawks will be played at TQL Stadium.

Miami RedHawks head football coach Chuck Martin takes questions during a press conference to announce the neutral site for the upcoming Battle of the Victory Bell football game at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. The rivalry college football game between the University of Cincinnati Bearcats and the Miami RedHawks will be played at TQL Stadium.

“I was like, what’s going on?” Martin continued. “And at that point, I just thought somebody said something. One of the players on the two teams was complaining about something. Got an unsportsmanlike (flag). That’s what I just figured, like, where else? And then a guy comes up to me on the sidelines, and again, it was, their job is to de-escalate the situation. Good officials de-escalate everything. Bad officials escalate everything. Doesn’t matter what sport it is.”

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“In my wildest dream, did I think we’d be getting an unsportsmanlike conduct on something we put on a videoboard?” Martin asked. “One, I didn’t even know that was possible. I know there’s a rule that said, like, you can’t play music on third down. … I’ve seen the pictures now, because I didn’t even know what was on the scoreboard. Like, they had goal posts on the scoreboard.”

“I was like, ‘So what?'” Martin added. “They had goal posts on the scoreboard. They had Casper the Friendly Ghost on the scoreboard. Who cared? Like, who cares what they put on the videoboard? Like, if I kicked, like, there’s zero percent chance that’s a distraction. Like, zero percent. I kicked. I kicked in high school and I kicked in college. I know a lot of kickers. Like, there’s zero percent chance that’s a distraction. Zero percent. And then I saw the picture from behind. … Like, was he confused which goal posts they, I mean, it was, I mean, the picture from behind is ridiculous.”

“Like, there’s no confusion there,” Martin said. “There’s zero confusion. I mean, it’s ridiculous. And then you put your, you take your steps, you put your head down, and then you roll. Like, it’s not like you’re looking at the goal posts when you’re kicking, okay? Now I’m shooting a free throw, right? And there’s a glass backboard that you can see through, right? And that’s really where my line of sight is. Like, I can see, and there’s all these students, and there’s grown men, you know, college-age grown men in Speedos with shower caps on, jumping up and down in front of me, you know, in little Speedos. Like, they’re not big Speedos. Like, they’re really tiny Speedos. Like, when I’m not shooting free throws at basketball games or if I’m watching games on TV, it’s really uncomfortable.”

“It’s uncomfortable that someone would come to a game and do that,” Martin said. “I really appreciate it because we’re trying to throw off the other team. Like, so I don’t even, like, but that’s not a distraction.”

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“There’s no, underneath, like, it looks like stick figures (on the videoboard),” Martin joked. “Like, somebody looks like your fourth grader was drawing stick figures. Like, whoever came up with the graphic, isn’t, like, isn’t, like, on the cutting edge of, like, you know, if we were trying to distract them, we could be a little better. So, but again, it’s just par for the course. It is what it is. And I don’t, not anything like any, like, you saw my reaction. I was like, okay, we got to play the next play. You know, got to play the next play.”

RedHawks basketball coach Travis Steele told ESPN college hoops analysts before the MAC tournament that he planned to wear a Speedo at the watch party in March. He changed his mind.

“I’ve gotten a bunch of (Speedos) sent to me in the mail, believe it or not,” Steele had said. “I gotta see which one fits and which one’s gonna flatter me the most. Listen, when Rece (Davis) put me on ‘GameDay’ and put me on the spot, I said, ‘Listen, that’s a heckuva problem to have if I have to wear a Speedo.’ So I’ve gotta get some extra workouts and watch my diets here over the next week.”

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Miami’s Chuck Martin slams Speedos in videoboard upright penalty rant

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