Even the original UFC had two rules: no biting and no eye gouging.
Several years ago Rob Reynolds got busted pressing on Jim Sorgi's adam's apple in a pile. He got suspended for a game and Tressel publicly called him out. We'll see if the Teabag licker does the same.
For those of you that say this "happens all the time", you are full of it. Not eye gouging. No way.
Beat me to it; I was looking for a video of the incident.
There's a lot of stuff that is illegal today that wasn't illegal 50, 70, or 90 years ago. But the reason it was made illegal was for two reasons:
1) Danger to opposing players, and (this is the big one)
2) Six officials cannot control two benches that empty; no football league provides an automatic punishment for players leaving the bench and will only punish those who engage in "extreme acts". As a result, anything that is likely to provoke a fighting reaction is usually outlawed.
Why are chop blocks outlawed? Because it's dangerous to the player getting chopped and because either the player getting chopped or his teammate is likely to pummel the perpetrator. Why is head-slapping illegal? Because it's dangerous and because it's likely to provoke a fight. Why is hitting the long snapper now illegal? Same reasons. Why is roughing the passer illegal? Same. And so on.
Eye gouging falls into the same category of "flagrant unnecessary roughness" as kicking in the head. And I think I know a thing or two about that....we once suspended a starter for the big rivalry game because he kicked an opposing player in the head. Yet, consider this.
-- He had just had his nuts grabbed and twisted by the player
-- The officials didn't see the nut grab or the kick, so no penalty was called
-- The opposing team's coaches didn't see it live or on tape, so no one ever reviewed it
-- The conference and OHSAA didn't see it
-- He was still suspended
If a pileup was truly "anything goes", I highly doubt a bunch of guys with multiple state championship rings would have made the decision that they did and gone with an unproven sophomore to oppose a senior D-1 prospect (who became a three-year D-1 starter).
WOW... What a friggin' scumbag. 
