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re: SEC Suing LSU & Kiffin Directly For “Deliberately Recruiting Pro Athletes”
Posted on 9/3/26 at 8:29 pm to themunch
Posted on 9/3/26 at 8:29 pm to themunch
quote:
Stankey says this does not apply to all professional leagues like Europe, Asia, Africa.......
Sankey should just as arbitrarily say,” this doesn’t apply to schools that I like.”
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Posted on 9/3/26 at 8:33 pm to iPad
SEC will lose and this is all that needs to be evidence. This was the first lawsuit filed and led to the rest. Kiffin didnt tell nobody to do shite.
The first lawsuit filed after the NCAA adopted its new age-based “five-for-five” eligibility model (June 23, 2026) was brought the following day, June 24, 2026, in Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas in Ohio.
That action, styled *Borovicanin v. NCAA*, was filed on behalf of 15 men’s and women’s basketball players from the high-school Class of 2022 who had completed four seasons of competition without a redshirt. The lead plaintiffs most frequently identified in contemporaneous reporting were Xavier’s Filip Borovicanin and Cincinnati’s MJ Collins.
The complete original group of 15 plaintiffs was:
- Filip Borovicanin (Xavier)
- MJ Collins (Cincinnati / formerly Utah State)
- Malik Messina-Moore (Xavier)
- Kolby King (Utah State)
- Javon Bennett (Dayton)
- Chevalier Emery Jr. (Cleveland State)
- Jalen Quinn (Drake)
- Savannah White (Xavier)
- Donovan Brown (Massachusetts)
- Christian Henry (Fordham)
- Ziare Wells (Oakland)
- Cristian Carroll (Youngstown State)
- Shawn Phillips Jr. (Missouri)
- Caden Powell (Baylor)
- Josh Reed (Drexel)
The suit, brought by attorneys Ryan Downton and Darren Heitner, sought a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction so the players could compete in 2026–27. It was the first of a series of similar actions filed that week and in the following weeks in multiple states.
An earlier 2025 class-action suit led by Vanderbilt’s Langston Patterson and Issa Ouattara had challenged the pre-existing four-seasons-in-five-years redshirt rule itself; the June 2026 Ohio filing was the first to target the NCAA’s decision, after adopting five-for-five, to exclude the Class of 2022 from the new framework.
The first lawsuit filed after the NCAA adopted its new age-based “five-for-five” eligibility model (June 23, 2026) was brought the following day, June 24, 2026, in Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas in Ohio.
That action, styled *Borovicanin v. NCAA*, was filed on behalf of 15 men’s and women’s basketball players from the high-school Class of 2022 who had completed four seasons of competition without a redshirt. The lead plaintiffs most frequently identified in contemporaneous reporting were Xavier’s Filip Borovicanin and Cincinnati’s MJ Collins.
The complete original group of 15 plaintiffs was:
- Filip Borovicanin (Xavier)
- MJ Collins (Cincinnati / formerly Utah State)
- Malik Messina-Moore (Xavier)
- Kolby King (Utah State)
- Javon Bennett (Dayton)
- Chevalier Emery Jr. (Cleveland State)
- Jalen Quinn (Drake)
- Savannah White (Xavier)
- Donovan Brown (Massachusetts)
- Christian Henry (Fordham)
- Ziare Wells (Oakland)
- Cristian Carroll (Youngstown State)
- Shawn Phillips Jr. (Missouri)
- Caden Powell (Baylor)
- Josh Reed (Drexel)
The suit, brought by attorneys Ryan Downton and Darren Heitner, sought a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction so the players could compete in 2026–27. It was the first of a series of similar actions filed that week and in the following weeks in multiple states.
An earlier 2025 class-action suit led by Vanderbilt’s Langston Patterson and Issa Ouattara had challenged the pre-existing four-seasons-in-five-years redshirt rule itself; the June 2026 Ohio filing was the first to target the NCAA’s decision, after adopting five-for-five, to exclude the Class of 2022 from the new framework.
Posted on 9/3/26 at 8:41 pm to iPad
18 separate lawsuits were filed before Pyburns was filed in August. but its Lanes fault they sued
Posted on 9/3/26 at 9:05 pm to Robcrzy
I really want this to go to discovery so we can find out which schools put Sankey up to this.
I really think they thought LSU would do what we always did and tuck our tails and run. Boy have things changed.
I really think they thought LSU would do what we always did and tuck our tails and run. Boy have things changed.
Posted on 9/3/26 at 9:14 pm to Barbellthor
Why is this the hill the SEC is trying to die on?
Because Dodge Chargers and Challengers don't get it done anymore. Power people in Alabama are very scared. What LSU has rolling isn't going to stop.
Editing to say- The SEC very well could die on this hill. You'd have to be really dense to just look at the surface of all these happenings. Football landscape has changed. LSU seems to be forward thinking and evolving....because of the power of the brand. NCAA is dead.
Because Dodge Chargers and Challengers don't get it done anymore. Power people in Alabama are very scared. What LSU has rolling isn't going to stop.
Editing to say- The SEC very well could die on this hill. You'd have to be really dense to just look at the surface of all these happenings. Football landscape has changed. LSU seems to be forward thinking and evolving....because of the power of the brand. NCAA is dead.
This post was edited on 9/3/26 at 9:51 pm
Posted on 9/3/26 at 9:32 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
Personally id find it hilarious if the federal court put a stay on any player that went through the draft from being eligible.
Now all the other schools are pissed at the sec for this idiocy and costing them players
Now all the other schools are pissed at the sec for this idiocy and costing them players
Posted on 9/3/26 at 9:33 pm to iPad
These people absolutely need their a$$es whipped.
Posted on 9/3/26 at 9:33 pm to iPad
That man would be very, very wise to not step foot in Baton Rouge for a long time. Of course, none of his antics have been very, very wise to-date.
Posted on 9/3/26 at 9:39 pm to iPad
He looks like he has a pickle jar up his butt.
Posted on 9/3/26 at 10:27 pm to iPad
They cant sue la. According to AG. We are sovereign. No worries
Posted on 9/3/26 at 10:32 pm to iPad
So LSU is being sued whether they roster these players or not, but other schools are rostering players based on this decision today with impunity??
Do I have that correct?
Do I have that correct?
Posted on 9/3/26 at 10:34 pm to tigerfan88
quote:
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.
If the SEC had created the new rule at the May meetings as a reaction to Bediako, this all would have been avoided. But, they waited until the TRO was filed last week, indicating they were trying to do what the NCAA had just been prohibited from doing. It's no surprise they got laughed out of court today.
Posted on 9/3/26 at 11:16 pm to SaintLSU
Do you know what “coercing” means? Be honest.
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