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Posted on 9/10/26 at 11:00 pm to geauxbrown
Ole Miss is so desperate for someone with any power whatsoever to put it in writing how bad Kiffin is and how he done wronged them.
It’s not happening, champs.
It’s not happening, champs.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 12:05 am to LSUGrad9295
Big Dick Lane!
Posted on 9/11/26 at 1:12 am to mikelsu15
quote:
“ I’m standing in front of millions of people with my dick in my hand and I want them to go away”
This.
Sankey has done himself no favors in this whole charade. Now he's going to make it seem like "talks will continue."
I wouldn't be surprised at all if this quietly just evaporates.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:32 am to 1999
I said it before and I will say it again that this is not a win for either side. However, acknowledging I may have some bias. I decided to run it through Grok. And here is what Grok said:
The statement is three sentences and no names:
The presidents and chancellors of the Southeastern Conference met Thursday by videoconference to discuss recent matters involving conference expectations and responsibilities. Those discussions will continue as the conference and its member universities work toward an appropriate resolution.
That is the whole thing. No LSU. No Kiffin. No Wright. No Harris. No expulsion. No lawsuit. No “moot.” No apology. No penalty announced.
How to read it
It is a freeze-frame, not a verdict. Tuesday’s filing said this meeting would decide whether to terminate LSU. Today’s statement does not even admit LSU was the subject. That gap is the story.
Two other facts from the same afternoon matter:
The expulsion item was off the agenda, as reported Wednesday.
Rousse joined only briefly, then left because counsel told him not to sit in a meeting about a case in which he is a defendant.
So the conference held the call it advertised, stripped the nuclear item, talked in private, and issued language that keeps every option open without using any of them.
Interpretation, everything considered
LSU never put the two players on the roster. That remains the controlling fact. The SEC’s own rule is about who is on the roster. On that rule, LSU did not commit the violation the original suit was written to stop. Rousse’s letter said that. The statement does not contradict it. It also does not accept it.
What the SEC is protecting now is not Saturday’s depth chart. It is the right to govern after a Louisiana judge blocked the usual penalties, after Kiffin talked on national TV, and after the attorney general piled on. “Expectations and responsibilities” and “appropriate resolution” are placeholders for: institutional control, future basketball (Luis), whether the Alabama case continues, and whether other presidents still want a pound of flesh.
That is why this is still “nobody won / both won,” with a sharper edge tonight.
LSU won the emergency. No expulsion vote. Still in the league. Roster locked without the two NFL signees, which is what LSU now claims it always intended.
The SEC won the posture. It forced LSU to lock the roster, forced a public letter of compliance, put “lack of institutional control” in a federal complaint, and refused to declare the matter closed. The lawsuit is still alive. Discussions “will continue.”
Neither won a legal rule. The Louisiana injunction still sits on one side of the street. The Alabama First Amendment case still sits on the other. Today resolved neither.
The statement is what institutions say when they cannot punish a member for a completed act, cannot admit they overreached on expulsion, and cannot let Kiffin look like he beat the league. It keeps the temperature down in public and the file open in private. That is not peace. It is a continuance.
Edited to add:
They cannot easily punish LSU for the act they sued over.
The written rule is roster-based. Wright and Harris were never on the roster. A Louisiana judge has already blocked the usual SEC penalties if a school does play those players. So the conference is stuck: the conduct it most wanted to punish did not happen, and the conduct it still hates (recruiting, practicing, leaving spots open, Kiffin’s mouth) is mushy for a formal penalty. That is why today’s statement never says “violation” or “sanction.” If they had a clean hook, they would have used it.
They overreached on expulsion.
Putting “terminate LSU as an SEC member” in a federal complaint on Tuesday, then taking it off Thursday’s agenda after a one-page letter, is an overreach they had to walk back. You do not advertise a founding-member execution and then issue a nameless three-sentence note unless the votes were not there or the lawyers said the emergency had evaporated. The statement is the sound of that retreat without the word “retreat.”
They cannot beat Kiffin.
Not quite. They already beat him on the only football outcome that mattered this season: those two players are not on the team. That is a loss for Kiffin’s project. What they cannot do, so far, is humiliate him or fire him through conference process. He is still the coach, LSU still won 51–10, and the presidents cannot put “Lane talked on TV” in a bylaw and call it a night. So they did not beat the persona. They beat the roster move.
The SEC knows it cannot punish LSU for a roster violation that never occurred, knows the expulsion threat went further than the membership would finish, and knows Kiffin is still standing. So it froze the fight in language that sounds unfinished on purpose. That is not “Kiffin won.” It is “the league ran out of clean tools today.”
The statement is three sentences and no names:
The presidents and chancellors of the Southeastern Conference met Thursday by videoconference to discuss recent matters involving conference expectations and responsibilities. Those discussions will continue as the conference and its member universities work toward an appropriate resolution.
That is the whole thing. No LSU. No Kiffin. No Wright. No Harris. No expulsion. No lawsuit. No “moot.” No apology. No penalty announced.
How to read it
It is a freeze-frame, not a verdict. Tuesday’s filing said this meeting would decide whether to terminate LSU. Today’s statement does not even admit LSU was the subject. That gap is the story.
Two other facts from the same afternoon matter:
The expulsion item was off the agenda, as reported Wednesday.
Rousse joined only briefly, then left because counsel told him not to sit in a meeting about a case in which he is a defendant.
So the conference held the call it advertised, stripped the nuclear item, talked in private, and issued language that keeps every option open without using any of them.
Interpretation, everything considered
LSU never put the two players on the roster. That remains the controlling fact. The SEC’s own rule is about who is on the roster. On that rule, LSU did not commit the violation the original suit was written to stop. Rousse’s letter said that. The statement does not contradict it. It also does not accept it.
What the SEC is protecting now is not Saturday’s depth chart. It is the right to govern after a Louisiana judge blocked the usual penalties, after Kiffin talked on national TV, and after the attorney general piled on. “Expectations and responsibilities” and “appropriate resolution” are placeholders for: institutional control, future basketball (Luis), whether the Alabama case continues, and whether other presidents still want a pound of flesh.
That is why this is still “nobody won / both won,” with a sharper edge tonight.
LSU won the emergency. No expulsion vote. Still in the league. Roster locked without the two NFL signees, which is what LSU now claims it always intended.
The SEC won the posture. It forced LSU to lock the roster, forced a public letter of compliance, put “lack of institutional control” in a federal complaint, and refused to declare the matter closed. The lawsuit is still alive. Discussions “will continue.”
Neither won a legal rule. The Louisiana injunction still sits on one side of the street. The Alabama First Amendment case still sits on the other. Today resolved neither.
The statement is what institutions say when they cannot punish a member for a completed act, cannot admit they overreached on expulsion, and cannot let Kiffin look like he beat the league. It keeps the temperature down in public and the file open in private. That is not peace. It is a continuance.
Edited to add:
They cannot easily punish LSU for the act they sued over.
The written rule is roster-based. Wright and Harris were never on the roster. A Louisiana judge has already blocked the usual SEC penalties if a school does play those players. So the conference is stuck: the conduct it most wanted to punish did not happen, and the conduct it still hates (recruiting, practicing, leaving spots open, Kiffin’s mouth) is mushy for a formal penalty. That is why today’s statement never says “violation” or “sanction.” If they had a clean hook, they would have used it.
They overreached on expulsion.
Putting “terminate LSU as an SEC member” in a federal complaint on Tuesday, then taking it off Thursday’s agenda after a one-page letter, is an overreach they had to walk back. You do not advertise a founding-member execution and then issue a nameless three-sentence note unless the votes were not there or the lawyers said the emergency had evaporated. The statement is the sound of that retreat without the word “retreat.”
They cannot beat Kiffin.
Not quite. They already beat him on the only football outcome that mattered this season: those two players are not on the team. That is a loss for Kiffin’s project. What they cannot do, so far, is humiliate him or fire him through conference process. He is still the coach, LSU still won 51–10, and the presidents cannot put “Lane talked on TV” in a bylaw and call it a night. So they did not beat the persona. They beat the roster move.
The SEC knows it cannot punish LSU for a roster violation that never occurred, knows the expulsion threat went further than the membership would finish, and knows Kiffin is still standing. So it froze the fight in language that sounds unfinished on purpose. That is not “Kiffin won.” It is “the league ran out of clean tools today.”
This post was edited on 9/11/26 at 5:37 am
Posted on 9/11/26 at 6:18 am to 1999
Talks will continue.
Oh frick right off!
Oh frick right off!
Posted on 9/11/26 at 6:50 am to 756
lol bingo Disney sees LSU is their next big brand and they’re not going to allow Skanky to affect their pocket book. Lol
Posted on 9/11/26 at 7:24 am to Lsupimp
Lol Karenham good one
Posted on 9/11/26 at 7:46 am to sarussell01
Dellenger just said on his pod that he fell and broke his leg at a bar this week. fricking degenerate drunk.
This post was edited on 9/11/26 at 7:47 am
Posted on 9/11/26 at 8:14 am to SDTiger15
quote:
That was a lot of words to actually say nothing
It was like half of a word salad. The only thing they accomplished as a group was to dig a bigger, deeper hole.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 8:14 am to CharlesLSU
The only talks that are gonna be taking place is how the SEC is gonna save thier own arse , they know it, the world knows it the sec lost the SEC got thier arse spanked
if i was LSU i wouldn't have rostered the players either unlike 3 other sec schools did
Rouse called SANKEY and the SEC out with the email/letter he sent to Sanky the sec had no choice but to cancell the meeting wed, and it was a moot point as Rouse said hence the Thursday vote to kick LSU out was gone because they knew it all backfired
if i was LSU i wouldn't have rostered the players either unlike 3 other sec schools did
Rouse called SANKEY and the SEC out with the email/letter he sent to Sanky the sec had no choice but to cancell the meeting wed, and it was a moot point as Rouse said hence the Thursday vote to kick LSU out was gone because they knew it all backfired
Posted on 9/11/26 at 8:33 am to TigerChick2018
The whole roster situation is being framed completely wrong.
In my opinion, Kiffin does not care to have an unfair advantage for himself at LSU. I think he just wants to make sure other teams do not have an unfair advantage over him/team.
Lane does not seem like the coach that is going to be last to the party if there is a change in college football. He is going to make sure to keep up with the times and not get passed by like Dabo.
In my opinion, Kiffin does not care to have an unfair advantage for himself at LSU. I think he just wants to make sure other teams do not have an unfair advantage over him/team.
Lane does not seem like the coach that is going to be last to the party if there is a change in college football. He is going to make sure to keep up with the times and not get passed by like Dabo.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 8:35 am to Colonel Flagg
quote:
In my opinion, Kiffin does not care to have an unfair advantage for himself at LSU. I think he just wants to make sure other teams do not have an unfair advantage over him/team.
This is actually a very good framing and one I acknowledge I did not consider.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 9:14 am to TigerinSC
What's to discuss except reorganization of the SEC Commission.
This post was edited on 9/11/26 at 9:15 am
Posted on 9/11/26 at 9:17 am to TigerChick2018
quote:
Those discussions will continue as the conference and its member universities work toward an appropriate resolution.
There is enough ambiguity to be able to pivot in any direction...
At the moment there is no way to tell what the discussions are inside the room. I would guess there are some members that are hell bent on burning LSU down (TN and MS) and others that are "LSU is compliant and non-defiant, why would you want to do anything other than slap the wrist... Maybe, some in the room want to "watch" LSU over the next couple of weeks to see how we behave to determine if we are truly repentant or simply waiting for a more opportune moment...
Having said all that (all of which is speculative of course...) the problem for all members as I see it is they are not thinking strategically based upon the circumstances as they exist today and the current tragectory of College Football... If they attempt to "protect" the past authoritative position they have enjoyed then they may experience a temporary win but hasten their own demise...
Posted on 9/11/26 at 9:56 am to TigerChick2018
quote:
Putting “terminate LSU as an SEC member” in a federal complaint on Tuesday, then taking it off Thursday’s agenda after a one-page letter, is an overreach they had to walk back. You do not advertise a founding-member execution and then issue a nameless three-sentence note unless the votes were not there or the lawyers said the emergency had evaporated. The statement is the sound of that retreat without the word “retreat.”
quote:
The SEC knows it cannot punish LSU for a roster violation that never occurred, knows the expulsion threat went further than the membership would finish, and knows Kiffin is still standing. So it froze the fight in language that sounds unfinished on purpose. That is not “Kiffin won.” It is “the league ran out of clean tools today.”
Yep! Which is exactly why LSU should request the minutes from yesterday's meeting. From what I can tell, the SEC Constitution and Bylaws do not require the SEC to grant LSU's request, but it would be a good idea to make them officially deny their request on record. The bs statement the SEC issued was intentionally ambiguous in an attempt to continue to threaten LSU/Kiffin while allowing plausible deniability to claims that this is what it is, a witch hunt.
This post was edited on 9/11/26 at 9:57 am
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:41 am to DBG
No shocker there
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:46 am to DBG
quote:
Dellenger just said on his pod that he fell and broke his leg at a bar this week.
well well well
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:43 am to 1999
All LSU did was call out the hypocrisy of the NCAA's lack of leadership. The SEC will be broken up in 5 years or so along with a couple other conferences. There will be a super conference in the future. Just too much money in the sport for it not to happen.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 12:05 pm to 1999
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