re: SEC punishment

AG was right. Bait and switch. Collusion. Intentional and Vindictive. Arbitrary and capricious
Elements of anti-trust, LUPTA are front and center.
Judge easily could have held Sankey in contempt and he could have watched Week 1 in jail.
SEC may be freaked

AG has the money to hire any firm she wants to defend LSU too.

Nothing really.

AG also believes LSU has immunity and can’t be sued in north Alabama.

The sec didn’t think LSU would stand for rule of law. Then threatened this through gay boy Ross and we still stayed with we follow court orders.

Now they are trying to sue a member institution. The problem they have is they did not sue Alabama over bediko

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Edit: bc if what Todd Monken was saying is true that Lane reached out before the TE was cut that’s recruiting professionals

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What rule does that break?

Calling a coach and asking if he’s cutting a player who has eligibility left and can play one more year in college isn’t breaking any rules. The SEC made a rule about what their definition of a professional athlete is and wether they can play, and nowhere is there a mention of contacting eligible players. You also can’t retroactively punish someone for a rule that wasn’t in place at the time of alleged infraction.

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AG also believes LSU has immunity and can’t be sued in north Alabama

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That's not belief. That's an immutable fact.

Clinging to the last thread of relevance the SEC has. If they do it it’ll be the beginning of the implosion of the SEC and conferences generally at least as we know them.

Oh, and LSU would sue the shite of them and win bigly.

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Todd backed off that

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I suspect Todd was told by the legal team that what he was doing was slander....that he better have the facts.

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Might be time for new leadership.

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It was an embarrassing performance by him on the stand. It made the SEC look very weak in its top leadership. This whole situation does. What the hell is the SEC trying to do here? They already have multiple former professionals playing in the league. If this isn't selective enforcement against LSU I don't know what is. They have allowed players in the league that were much less justified than these 22' players.

I do too suspect that Sankey will be removed. The problem is that it APPEARS that all the schools are all falling in line with the SEC...so who is going to fire him? It is all going to get interesting, and this is all Sankey's doings. Ultimately, I do not believe that the SEC will come out on top of any of this, and this selective enforcement towards LSU was an attempt to tarnish the reputation of LSU across the country, and I believe the judge alluded to that yesterday when he stated he did see some potential damages, during his ending summary.

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I understand that, they aren’t stopping the players from playing though. They’d be punishing Lane for not following conference rules

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Punishing Lane or LSU could be viewed as a coercive tactic used to force LSU to defy a court order.

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bc if what Todd Monken was saying is true that Lane reached out before the TE was cut that’s recruiting professionals

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Difficult if not impossible to prove for one

Besides was there a rule that prevented that? It is not like he was recruiting Jammar Chase or Justin Jefferson to come back, he was recruiting kids who were wrongfully (according to more than just the decision yesterday) unlawfully denied the right to return for their 5th year

And finally, it seems very relevant that the SEC did not file suit agains Nate Oats and Alabama after playing a guy spent 3 YEARS in the NBA G League. That fact alone sets a precedent and shows selective enforcement by the SEC