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USA Today with SEC hit piece on LSU
Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:54 am
Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:54 am
Top RepliesPosted on 10/30/26 at 9:12 am to tigbit
I know when I make decisions for my business my first thought is "how can I make my competitors happy". Why should LSU given even the slightest of shits what people who, at best, don't care about LSU and, at worst, want to see LSU fail because they are a competitor, think.
The SEC is not necessarily its own "thing". It is an agreement between 16 individual schools to be affiliated which each other. Those other 15 schools aren't going to "kick a member of the group out" because its coaches tried to do what every other member has done over the last 5 years, tried to stretch the limits of the NCAA's lack of rules and consistency, to roster the best players possible. The reason is that NONE of the other 15 schools have "clean hands" and getting into a big legal dispute would open up a whole can of worms the other schools don't want to get into.
It would be mutually assured destruction of the SEC. This lawsuit is NOTHING more than performative posturing by the SEC to try to set precedent that the commissioner is in charge. He's not. The marketplace is. And that marketplace is that 16 individual schools will try to do whatever they can to be the best...because that's what their "customers" (fans and donors) DEMAND.
The SEC is not necessarily its own "thing". It is an agreement between 16 individual schools to be affiliated which each other. Those other 15 schools aren't going to "kick a member of the group out" because its coaches tried to do what every other member has done over the last 5 years, tried to stretch the limits of the NCAA's lack of rules and consistency, to roster the best players possible. The reason is that NONE of the other 15 schools have "clean hands" and getting into a big legal dispute would open up a whole can of worms the other schools don't want to get into.
It would be mutually assured destruction of the SEC. This lawsuit is NOTHING more than performative posturing by the SEC to try to set precedent that the commissioner is in charge. He's not. The marketplace is. And that marketplace is that 16 individual schools will try to do whatever they can to be the best...because that's what their "customers" (fans and donors) DEMAND.
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Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:56 am to tigbit
Boringggg
Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:56 am to tigbit
Kim Jong Sankey
Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:59 am to tigbit
USA Today musta been paid by the SEC or Sankey to write that
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:01 am to tigbit
That is a terrible article.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:02 am to Hold That Tiger 10
I hope Mascona gets this clown to come on his show…
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:04 am to tigbit
USA Today the number one choice for wave top reporting.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:06 am to tigbit
Damn this article might be hallucinating more than the SEC Lawyers. He hops from the Nov 18th Hearing without understanding what that hearing is even about let alone the lawsuit itself to "LSU lost 2 games" to "Alabama 2:30 Kickoff" to "Fire Lane Kiffin"
Matt Hayes clearly has a tepid relationship with reality
Matt Hayes clearly has a tepid relationship with reality
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:06 am to tigbit
Like I said on the SEC Rant, USA Today is a left wing rag and this article is only about one thing. Jeff Landry
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:06 am to tigbit
Still can’t delineate what rules were broken other than exhausting all legal means to roster said players and bringing Sankey to court about it. If merely questioning authority is all it takes to get kicked out the SEC, don’t love the precedent that sets.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:09 am to tigbit
I'm being serious, I didn't realize USA Today still existed.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:12 am to tigbit
I know when I make decisions for my business my first thought is "how can I make my competitors happy". Why should LSU given even the slightest of shits what people who, at best, don't care about LSU and, at worst, want to see LSU fail because they are a competitor, think.
The SEC is not necessarily its own "thing". It is an agreement between 16 individual schools to be affiliated which each other. Those other 15 schools aren't going to "kick a member of the group out" because its coaches tried to do what every other member has done over the last 5 years, tried to stretch the limits of the NCAA's lack of rules and consistency, to roster the best players possible. The reason is that NONE of the other 15 schools have "clean hands" and getting into a big legal dispute would open up a whole can of worms the other schools don't want to get into.
It would be mutually assured destruction of the SEC. This lawsuit is NOTHING more than performative posturing by the SEC to try to set precedent that the commissioner is in charge. He's not. The marketplace is. And that marketplace is that 16 individual schools will try to do whatever they can to be the best...because that's what their "customers" (fans and donors) DEMAND.
The SEC is not necessarily its own "thing". It is an agreement between 16 individual schools to be affiliated which each other. Those other 15 schools aren't going to "kick a member of the group out" because its coaches tried to do what every other member has done over the last 5 years, tried to stretch the limits of the NCAA's lack of rules and consistency, to roster the best players possible. The reason is that NONE of the other 15 schools have "clean hands" and getting into a big legal dispute would open up a whole can of worms the other schools don't want to get into.
It would be mutually assured destruction of the SEC. This lawsuit is NOTHING more than performative posturing by the SEC to try to set precedent that the commissioner is in charge. He's not. The marketplace is. And that marketplace is that 16 individual schools will try to do whatever they can to be the best...because that's what their "customers" (fans and donors) DEMAND.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:13 am to doya2
quote:
I hope Mascona gets this clown to come on his show…
Mascona can be off putting and has things we often take issue with him here in his own right, but he is really good at exposing clowns like this that put out one-sided poorly researched articles like this.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:13 am to tigbit
Lemme guess Pat Forde
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:14 am to tigbit
He has and always will be an idiot.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:15 am to tigbit
Matt Hayes wrote that hit piece in October 2026.
The same Matt Hayes who wrote this hit piece in September 2026:
The same Matt Hayes who wrote this hit piece in August 2026:
LSU is just begging to get kicked out of the SEC | Opinion
The same Matt Hayes who wrote this hit piece in September 2026:
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If tweet fails to load, click here. The same Matt Hayes who wrote this hit piece in August 2026:
LSU is just begging to get kicked out of the SEC | Opinion
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:20 am to Alt26
Excellent summation. 
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:20 am to tigbit
quote:
There’s no safe exit, LSU. But there is a prudent choice.
Make it for the first time in four months.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:21 am to tigbit
Yahoo is also littered with crap hit pieces about Lane......
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:21 am to tigbit
quote:
Much like the original missed move of forbidding the rostering of professional players, Rousse could’ve stopped Kiffin intentionally embarrassing the league before it happened. He simply could’ve told Kiffin to steer clear from agitating the league office or the commissioner - or he will be fired for cause for embarrassing the university.
Drivel
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