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SEC Files New Brief Ahead Of LSU Eligibility Hearing, Greg Sankey Defends Former-Pro Ban

By Staff Reporter•Sep 2, 20265:02 pm•

The SEC filed a new brief with a Louisiana court on Wednesday ahead of Thursday's preliminary injunction hearing in Baton Rouge over the ongoing eligibility dispute involving LSU and former professional players.

According to Yahoo Sports' Ross Dellenger, the filing includes an affidavit from SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and lays out the conference's argument for why it should maintain the authority to enforce its eligibility rules against member schools.

The SEC also argues that Sankey should not be held personally liable in the case.

In his affidavit, Sankey explained why the conference remains opposed to former professional players returning to college rosters.

"Each roster spot filled by a former pro athlete is a roster spot that becomes unavailable to a high school student-athlete or another less-developed athlete who would benefit from the educational & athletic growth opportunities uniquely available through college sports," Sankey said.

The filing comes one day before Thursday's key hearing in Baton Rouge, where a judge will consider whether to extend the current court protection preventing the SEC from enforcing its new eligibility rules and associated penalties.

LSU has been at the center of the dispute as the Tigers explore adding former NFL players to their roster. Lane Kiffin has maintained that LSU will follow whatever SEC rules are ultimately enforceable once the court provides further clarity.

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Run DMC•5 hours

What about the roster spot the guys coming back would have never given up had the NCAA not created this mess to start with?

ninthward•5 hours

Greg Sankey - seriously frick You dude, you have an axe to grind with LSU, and its 100% obvious. Secondly the players are not taking roser spots for another player, does he not know how this works?

Croozin2•5 hours

"Each roster spot filled by a former pro athlete is a roster spot that becomes unavailable to a high school student-athlete"

student-athlete. We playing school again?

JackieSonnier•5 hours

This isn’t about feelings anymore. Millions of dollars being payed to players has made it a business. In business the best person gets the job. These people don’t care about highschool athletes give me a break

YMCA•5 hours

If those open spots could be filled with someone that would benefit the team now or in the long run better than the so called NFL guys, I imagine LK would sign them. They're going through all of this shite for guys that may not even start and only have one year to play before trying their hand at the NFL again. This is some of the dumbest shite ever and I watched an Ole Miss judge grant a QB, that would've gone in the first round, another year bc he had a sore throat 4 years ago that can't be verified.

HuntinFishin25•4 hours

Skanky is a complete MORON. Clearly he is thinking with his compassion lobe/Libtard and not his consequencial lobe. He needs to be fired effective immediately!

king47•5 hours

Missouri nfl rb rules eligible.. outrage,?

Capo•3 hours

These guys are only looking for their 5th year of eligibility like everyone else.

That argument is absurd considering that there are 6 and 7 year guys playing this year.

It’s definitely punishment to LSU for taking Kiffin.

LSUDAN1•4 hours

Sankey is a bitch

IM_4_LSU•5 hours

Ignorance at its finest.

Purple Spoon•4 hours

Now we are worried about high school athletes? Now??

LSUDUCKMAN67•2 hours

If the Gumps were doing this would be a completely different situation. We all know Sankey is a Gump!

2ManyChampionships79•2 hours

Oh more TMZ Ross the clown

2geaux•2 hours

Hey Stankey you doth protest a little too much! You didn’t protest the basketball player at Bama that played 3 yrs of pro G League

tirebiter•3 hours

It's pathetic that Sankey put forth weak arse sauce the day prior to the hearing tomorrow. He needs to be shown the door as these past two years from him have been useless to the conference.

TutHillTiger•6 min

Good luck with that ??

markthetiger•8 min

What roster spot is being taken away from a HS athlete when the signing day is in February and the ruling came down in June?... Also, this won’t happen in other time, because the ruling is new to 2022 class. Won’t be new now.

CalTiger53•1 hour

"Each roster spot filled by a former pro athlete is a roster spot that becomes unavailable to a high school student-athlete or another less-developed athlete who would benefit from the educational & athletic growth opportunities uniquely available through college sports," Sankey said."
So it says players should not play more than 4 years because they take opportunity away from HS and younger players. Don't we have players in their 5th or 6th year with other teams right now? How about Ole Miss QB that even NCAA banned?

CeasarA291•1 hour

So...we care about educational growth now. Got it.

Tiger on the Rag•2 hours

Ross is so anti lsu

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