Coastal Carolina player attacks BYU Quarterback, a breakdown

Dec 7, 2020 1.3M views 3:36

What Happened

On December 5, 2020, undefeated Coastal Carolina (9-0) hosted undefeated BYU (9-0) in one of the biggest games of an otherwise scrambled COVID season. Jomboy's breakdown zeroes in on Coastal defensive lineman number 94, Tarron Jackson area edge type defender referred to as Gunter, who spent the night antagonizing BYU quarterback Zach Wilson. The clips show him jawing 'I'm gonna kill you,' driving Wilson's face into the turf after a goal-line interception, slamming the back of his head, and adding a late forearm before officials stepped in. The video tracks repeated collisions between the two all game, with the defender claiming his coach told him to hit everyone.

Why This Matters

This game was the regular season's marquee Group of Five showdown, with both teams unbeaten and Coastal trying to crash the College Football Playoff conversation. The hits on Wilson sit right on the line between hard football and targeting, the NCAA rule that ejects players for leading with the crown of the helmet or hitting a defenseless player above the shoulders. None of it changed the result: Coastal won 22-17 on a last-play goal-line stop. The aftermath mattered more for Wilson, who turned that 2020 season into the No. 2 overall pick by the Jets in 2021. Coastal finished 11-1 and ranked in the final top 15, the program's high-water mark. Jomboy framing it as 'Mullets versus Mormons' captured a chippy, fun night that became one of the year's signature college games.

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Key Moments

Who / What Is Involved

Players: Zach Wilson.

coastal carolina and byu both 9-0

they put on a show the other day zach

wilson the byuqb drops the ball there

recovers it gunter number 94 for coastal

cuts in his face says i'm gonna

kill you later as [ __ ] that's kind of

scary man you're pretty big

pretty athletic wilson drops back number

94 coming after him drops him but

pass is skidded incomplete coach says

hit him

head ham head ham

just very intense coastal carolina

now wilson drops back evades him throws

up

way down field waits to see what

happened it's picked off in the end zone

number 34 on coastal starts blocking

them that's fair number 94

comes and smashes his face into the

ground picks him up

then smashes the back of his head into

the ground then smashes him again

and not the nicest of sequences comes up

now the quarterback's arms are kind of

pinned behind him so the first thing

that hit the ground is his face

and that sucks and then he's like damn

okay let me get up and then number 94

keeps going

and now he spears him this way and his

head hits the ground

back of his head pretty hard and then he

thinks he's free and then he gets a

little forearm to the neck and then the

ref comes in and says hey

chill out 994 gets up and says who else

wants some my coach told me to hit

everyone

then you get a big scrum here and a lot

of people rushing to the middle

saying hey get out of the middle and

then more people rush into the middle

and saying hey

get out of the damn middle i'm here

and i'm telling you to leave and

everyone kind of leaves

and that's all that's all it really is

and they through the hail mary and the

and the half they come back up oh these

fans are pointing it out

they're like oh [ __ ] look at that and

this guy's going

let's go let's

go talking to number 94 like hey man

we love the intensity we love the

intensity style back a touch

style back a touch later on in the game

in the second half and third quarter

number one zack wilson in 94 they team

up again steps out of bounds and 94 lays

the late hit on him

he doesn't go down kind of just looks

over him then all of the mormons

crowd over this dude like a golf course

array at the masters

just like huddling over like i got it

it's right here here he is

he stands up he leaves he's all cool

nothing bad later on in the game number

one got it again

number 94 they meet up again nice little

tackle there

they met up a couple times a couple more

times and now number 94

is going to cause the fumble right there

gunter causes the fumble

and i like what coastal carolina does

here he runs over to the defense

they all hang out he drops that due to

the ground and then they got like the

the throne like that that blanket like

they're like

throning the king let's go

let's go coastal yeah

it's a cool environment man everyone was

having fun they were high-fiving when

coastal won i mean it was a crazy ending

and then all the families come this

guy's like hey this is my son

i'm not being crazy anymore and they

hang out and he's with his wife and

it was cool and i like this guy's vibe

like everything about this guy's vibe

and you know

just putting on a damn show mullets

versus mormons

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