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If SEC members are conspiring to expel LSU, do we even want to stay?

Posted on 9/8/26 at 8:50 pm
Posted by NeverLightningInTS
Member since Sep 2026
15 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 8:50 pm
It's not 1990.

Live sports are the hottest television/streaming properties and companies will jump at the chance to broadcast LSU games. Why share revenue with bottom feeders and people who hate us?
Posted by GhostofAlfredBlue
Member since Nov 2023
195 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 8:53 pm to
No
Posted by thelawnwranglers
Member since Sep 2007
42838 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 8:54 pm to
I am out


Nothing wrong with big 12
Posted by stopitnow1
Florida
Member since Mar 2013
2885 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 8:57 pm to
Nope, lets get out after this year.
Posted by TigerWatch
Metairie
Member since Feb 2004
3462 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 9:04 pm to
Yes, we want to stay. Going to a lesser conference or making a suicidal attempt at being an independent is, at best, foolish. We would lose clout, players, recruits and money.
Posted by Brainwashed890
Member since Nov 2016
255 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 9:27 pm to
I have 2 concerns with leaving the SEC. If LSU goes the independent route, will they still be able to put together a competitive schedule? Sankey will put pressure on SEC schools not scheduling them, and outside of a handful of teams, there's not many prime time worthy opponents that would voluntarily come to Baton Rouge. Go look at Notre Dame's schedule and tell me how uninteresting those games will be this year. Secondly, the other sports outside of football. Think about what LSU baseball outside of the SEC looks like. I hate the idea of a whole season of playing mid tier teams. I don't know if there's a good resolution at this point, but I think LSU and the SEC need each other more than both think
Posted by idlewatcher
Planet Arium
Member since Jan 2012
99231 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 9:31 pm to
I’d also be happy with leaving. We get battle tested in all sports due to the SEC but we could make it up in another conference.
Posted by JPLSU1981
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2005
28549 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 9:32 pm to
Let the SEC be the bad guys and kick us out. We’ll be back in in short order after the backlash and Sankey is fired.
Posted by Missouri Waltz
Adrift off the Spanish Main
Member since Feb 2016
1745 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 9:33 pm to
Not if we could get an offer from the ACC.
Posted by olgoi khorkhoi
priapism survivor
Member since May 2011
17209 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 9:33 pm to
quote:

companies will jump at the chance to broadcast LSU games.




No program will draw more eyes than LSU with Kiffin.
Posted by NeverLightningInTS
Member since Sep 2026
15 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 9:33 pm to
quote:

I hate the idea of a whole season of playing mid tier teams.


This year we play:

LA Tech
McNeese
Kentucky
Miss State
Auburn
Arkansas

We already play a lot of mid tier teams.
Posted by Mike da Tigah
Bravo Romeo Lima Alpha
Member since Feb 2005
61937 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 9:34 pm to
Not really. If nothing else is a certainty, the fact that things will be awkward going forward is.
Posted by BZ504
Texas
Member since Oct 2005
14265 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 9:37 pm to
Joining the ACC almost guarantees a playoff every year. Miami is currently the only team with any real talent in the conference. The home opponents would be trash other than FSU and Miami, well maybe VA Tech too.
Posted by Pedropatterstine
Member since Aug 2026
760 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 9:37 pm to
And about the same high quality teams...so what's your point? Tougher schedule than most
Posted by im4LSU
Hattiesburg, MS
Member since Aug 2004
34699 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 9:40 pm to
Yes. It’s always been this way. This is nothing new, they’ve just said it in public now. And now we know that they look at LSU and Louisiana as the weird cousin.

But we looked the other way. Not anymore. Now we know their true colors and get to use it to our advantage. Take this and use it as motivation and run absolute roughshod through this bitch this year.

Posted by Brainwashed890
Member since Nov 2016
255 posts
Posted on 9/8/26 at 9:45 pm to
That's fair, but the counter point is they play

Alabama
Tennessee
Ole Miss
Texas
Texas AM

LSU has the 11th toughest SOS this year, and the upcoming Ole Miss game will probably be promoted as the game of the year. Was pointing out negatives with leaving the SEC. It does feel like divorce is inevitable, but it feels like it will be leaving one bad scenario for another.
This post was edited on 9/8/26 at 9:47 pm
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