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re: SEC Suing LSU & Kiffin Directly For “Deliberately Recruiting Pro Athletes”
Posted on 9/3/26 at 4:03 pm to tigerfan88
Posted on 9/3/26 at 4:03 pm to tigerfan88
Sankey and the SEC team have gotten absolutely railed so far.
They can’t actually answer any of the questions about how or why their rules are enforced so unevenly, because they would have to lie under oath.
They couldn’t answer “what is a professional” or “what is an amateur”, because if they did it would open the door to “every player being paid to play in college is a professional”.
It’s been embarrassing for them and a federal hearing against LSU would go the same exact way.
They can’t actually answer any of the questions about how or why their rules are enforced so unevenly, because they would have to lie under oath.
They couldn’t answer “what is a professional” or “what is an amateur”, because if they did it would open the door to “every player being paid to play in college is a professional”.
It’s been embarrassing for them and a federal hearing against LSU would go the same exact way.
This post was edited on 9/3/26 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 9/3/26 at 4:24 pm to RB10
Could LSU countersue for defamation?
Posted on 9/3/26 at 4:49 pm to Kirk Herbstreit
quote:YES!, but LSU should not until this initial SEC liar's process is over.
Could LSU countersue for defamation?
Posted on 9/3/26 at 4:50 pm to RB10
This is so ridiculous. The players sued for eligibility like many others have. Multiple teams recruited the 5 for 5 guys.
What in the world is with the SEC?
What in the world is with the SEC?
Posted on 9/3/26 at 4:50 pm to iPad
bring it on SECPosted on 9/3/26 at 4:53 pm to iPad
I hate Skankey!
Posted on 9/3/26 at 4:56 pm to beauchristopher
Nowhere was there ever a distinction drawn between minicamp participants and training camp participants until last week when news broke that Wright and Pyburn were considered returning to LSU if they won their court cases.
As soon as that news came out there was a big rush to draw an arbitrary line and say “those are pros” and minicamp guys are not.
It’s already a horseshite distinction. But the really egregious bald faced lie is Sankey and other SEC presidents/AGs trying to gaslight everyone into believing that has always been considered a crucial distinction between pro and amateur, as opposed to one they came up with last week to carveout an avenue to go after just Lane and LSU.
As soon as that news came out there was a big rush to draw an arbitrary line and say “those are pros” and minicamp guys are not.
It’s already a horseshite distinction. But the really egregious bald faced lie is Sankey and other SEC presidents/AGs trying to gaslight everyone into believing that has always been considered a crucial distinction between pro and amateur, as opposed to one they came up with last week to carveout an avenue to go after just Lane and LSU.
Posted on 9/3/26 at 5:02 pm to iPad
frick THE SEC!
Posted on 9/3/26 at 5:12 pm to LNCHBOX
Let’s go independent like Notre Dame
Posted on 9/3/26 at 5:15 pm to The Real Drooby
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From live testimony just now in the Pyburn v NCAA hearing:
Mr. Downton: Mr. Sankey, you’ve testified that the SEC follows all NCAA by-laws and incorporates them into your conference’s by-laws, which I appreciate, but did I just hear you say that as the SEC Commissioner, you don’t know what the current NCAA 5 for 5 bylaws that took effect 8/1/26 actually say?
Answer: I don’t. It’s the first time I’ve seen this new manual.
Oh my...
So he is suing based on a bylaw he has not seen? Is that what he admitted?
Posted on 9/3/26 at 5:16 pm to iPad
Posted on 9/3/26 at 5:20 pm to BayouBengal51
So what about TX and all the other sec schools who recruited these guys?
Posted on 9/3/26 at 5:43 pm to TopWaterTiger
quote:
So what about TX and all the other sec schools who recruited these guys?
Fair question that I've asked a few times on social media. You either get one of two reactions:
1: "Exactly!"
2: "Those players never played in the NFL! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" (The majority of those comments come from Texas, Clemson and Ole Miss fans.)
Posted on 9/3/26 at 6:13 pm to tigerfan88
quote:
Proof that LSU did something before it was against the rules? The SEC didn’t have anything explicit banning pro players until after the initial Louisiana state court ruling.
Their suit says different. Says there are longstanding SEC rules.
I don’t know. Don’t care at this point. But that’s what their suit says, according to ESPN.
Posted on 9/3/26 at 6:19 pm to The Eric
quote:
Is that in the rule book? Was it in the rule book prior to the little vote last week.
LINK
SEC's federal lawsuit said. "Among the most fundamental of those rules are the longstanding provisions that prohibit individuals who have entered a professional draft, signed professional contracts, or been rostered on a professional athletics team from returning to compete in college athletics (the "Professionalism Rules").
Posted on 9/3/26 at 6:57 pm to iPad
Why would the SEC even have standing LSU over this? There wasn’t, to my knowledge, even a rule prohibiting this type of action until the SEC made one recently. Also, if they violated the rules, then the SEC should simply enforce whatever sanctions it has in place for violation of rules. This is not something that the court should even entertain. The SEC did not suffer any damages by what LSU did.
Posted on 9/3/26 at 7:22 pm to p226
All of the rookie minicamp guys that they aren’t fighting entered a professional draft. So that’s disingenuous on its face.
Posted on 9/3/26 at 7:24 pm to iPad
Meanwhile, no one can or will define what a pro athlete is. If they connect it to payment for play, the college athletes can unionize and demand collective bargaining for everything. The NCAA will be over.
Posted on 9/3/26 at 8:08 pm to CovingtonTiger
The SEC is trying run the EXACT same Sorsby play to try to get LSU to back down.
DON’T!…This is NOT the Sorsby case
It was very likely the SEC as we know it was eventually going to blow up. Sankey is unwittingly starting its demise.
I like the SEC. But everything dies, baby that’s a fact. So let’s put our makeup on a get the wrecking ball out
DON’T!…This is NOT the Sorsby case
It was very likely the SEC as we know it was eventually going to blow up. Sankey is unwittingly starting its demise.
I like the SEC. But everything dies, baby that’s a fact. So let’s put our makeup on a get the wrecking ball out
Posted on 9/3/26 at 8:17 pm to p226
quote:
SEC's federal lawsuit said. "Among the most fundamental of those rules are the longstanding provisions that prohibit individuals who have entered a professional draft, signed professional contracts, or been rostered on a professional athletics team from returning to compete in college athletics (the "Professionalism Rules").
Stankey says this does not apply to all professional leagues like Europe, Asia, Africa.......
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