Started By
Message

Likely outcome to Harris / Wright situation

Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:20 pm
Posted by Tigerbait1998
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2015
465 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:20 pm
They come back to play college football for Ole Miss. SEC blocks them transferring in conference. Someone tell me if I’m wrong but I don’t see the other SEC schools + Sankey letting this fly. Hope to be wrong but feel like this is gonna blow up on us.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
135044 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:22 pm to
I didn't realize the Browns were in the SEC
Posted by Settlement Alliance
Member since Mar 2019
109 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:24 pm to
The same TRO that allows these athletes to overcome the NCAA’s professional-contract restriction also effectively opens a transfer-portal window for them. In other words, restoring their eligibility does not necessarily require them to return to Ole Miss; the TRO potentially addresses both barriers: their professional status and their ability to transfer and compete elsewhere.
Posted by Tigerbait1998
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2015
465 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:26 pm to
Obviously not, but their last team was.Now Pyburn a totally different story. He probably will play for LSU next year. Dont think the conference is in a mood to do any favors for us or set this precedent. But keep your purple and gold shades on and downvote away.
This post was edited on 8/24/26 at 9:27 pm
Posted by BZ504
Texas
Member since Oct 2005
14098 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:27 pm to
Some Louisiana judge will allow them to play at LSU.
Posted by Tigerbait1998
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2015
465 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:28 pm to
Is some Louisiana judge gonna step in and say the SEC can’t make us forfeit every game they play in?
Posted by Veritas
Member since Feb 2005
11154 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:30 pm to
What control do you think Sankey and the SEC actually has?

You think he’s going to block the game like it’s Little Rock School District?

Posted by Maverick14
Sulphur, La
Member since Aug 2014
4607 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:32 pm to
Nothing the SEC can do sorry ! If he plays it will be for lsu
Posted by The Hurricane
Gulf of Mexico
Member since Aug 2011
10602 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:35 pm to
quote:

He probably will play for LSU next year.

Season starts next week.
Posted by Party At LSU
Member since Nov 2005
11232 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:36 pm to
Do you think Lane would have addressed adding them in the press conference today if he wasn’t absolutely sure they’re coming?
Posted by da prophet
hammond, la
Member since Sep 2013
3010 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:37 pm to
quote:

They come back to play college football for Ole Miss. SEC blocks them transferring in conference. Someone tell me if I’m wrong but I don’t see the other SEC schools + Sankey letting this fly. Hope to be wrong but feel like this is gonna blow up on us.

These players left Ole Miss to try out for the NFL. Ole Miss doesn’t own these players. Technically they are not transferring from Ole Miss. Sankey has no case here.
Posted by Tiger in Omaha
Omaha
Member since Mar 2019
6053 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:37 pm to
quote:

I didn't realize the Browns were in the SEC

They'd get their asses kicked in the SEC!
Posted by LesnarF5
Member since Apr 2015
10329 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:38 pm to
They come back to play college football for Ole Miss. SEC blocks them transferring in conference. Someone tell me if I’m wrong but I don’t see the other SEC schools + Sankey letting this fly. Hope to be wrong but feel like this is gonna blow up on us.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hilarious take! Never happen. SEC would get sued up the arse if they did and they know it.
Posted by easy money
Member since Feb 2005
15457 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:40 pm to
Just like a Mississippi judge has done
Posted by yadaddy
Member since Feb 2023
98 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:40 pm to
in theory, if the NCAA/SEC's stance is that they already exhausted their eligibility then it would be a bad look to say they can only play at the school that they were initially at. That would make them backtrack on their own exhausted eligibility stance. Furthermore, if the SEC rules that they either have to return to their previous program or transfer out of conference, and then they transfer out of conference... the SEC would then be directly responsible for improving the roster of a school in another conference. Looks to me that they're best move is to express their disagreement and frustration and then let the courts play it out, but if the conference office meddles in this there's no way they come out looking like the moral hero... which truly is the only reason they'd involve themselves to begin with.


Again, I don't like it. But the NCAA screwed this up and CLK is putting himself in the best position to win with the circumstances the NCAA created. As is Sark, as is Ryan Day, and frankly as is Golding.
Posted by Tiger in the Sticks
Back in the Boot
Member since Jan 2007
1927 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:56 pm to
Other SEC schools are going to pick up players, too. They’re going to contain their “outrage” unless they don’t sign anyone.
Posted by TXTiger81
Houston, TX
Member since Aug 2021
1730 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 10:13 pm to
The SEC’s initial stance is you can’t enter the draft and come back. So that takes Ole Miss off the table as well.
This post was edited on 8/24/26 at 10:16 pm
Posted by Ebridg3
Baton Rouge, La
Member since Sep 2016
3181 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 10:24 pm to
quote:

They come back to play college football for Ole Miss. SEC blocks them transferring in conference. Someone tell me if I’m wrong but I don’t see the other SEC schools + Sankey letting this fly. Hope to be wrong but feel like this is gonna blow up on us.


Even if they didnt leave ole miss for the NFL, they didnt know they were eligible during the portal window.
Posted by LafTiger
Member since Dec 2008
1708 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 10:32 pm to
Lawsuit will go their way. Sankey is powerless as is the NCAA
Posted by Scoob
Near Exxon
Member since Jun 2009
23984 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 10:35 pm to
quote:

Likely outcome to Harris / Wright situation

They play for LSU, as announced. Deal is done. There is nothing the SEC office can do, or SHOULD do.

The ruling made these guys eligible to return to college. One has already signed with UCLA (a Big 10 school). Oh by the way, one has also signed with South Carolina (a fellow SEC team).
That's not who those guys played for last season. UCLA is not going to give a shite about an SEC statement, either.

If you try to impose restrictions on where these guys can go... Harris stated he was open to returning to Ole Miss. He ended up here. So they didn't match the offer.... which seems to be the primary force behind the NIL ruling. You want to tell a player he can't make the money we offered? That would get sued to oblivion in today's environment and everyone knows it.
Texas took a guy who was in NFL minicamps a month ago, so there's your "NFL player" concern. SEC didn't give a frick then.

Sankey has to be careful in this. The Big 10 has won the past 3 national titles in football, and they are getting more money in their TV deal than the SEC gets.
He does not want the presidents of UGA, Bama, Texas, OU, Auburn, Florida (all former title winners, so they care about winning) to see him hamstring an LSU team to the benefit of, say, Indiana or Ohio State, and we go another year with a Big 10 champ. Because if it's us this year, it could very well be them next. That's a good way to get pushed out.
first pageprev pagePage 1 of 2Next pagelast page

Back to top
logoFollow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News
Follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting.

FacebookXInstagram