re: You can forget it.

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I have 3 degrees from LSU including graduating Summa Cum Laude for one of them

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The SEC always had the power and LSU could never roster those 2 players

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I am so fricking sick of this SEC bullshite. Seriously. What the hell are we doing here? LSU tried to bring back two former players after a Louisiana judge said they were eligible, and the SEC immediately went into full-on fricking meltdown mode. Lawsuits. Threats. Talking about suspending Lane Kiffin. Talking about taking a huge chunk of LSU’s football money. And now they’re actually talking about kicking LSU the frick out of the SEC. Are you kidding me? Over TWO GUYS who aren’t even on the damn roster anymore? LSU literally did what the SEC wanted. They left them off the 105-man roster. They’re not playing. They’re not taking snaps. They’re not even part of the damn team. But somehow the SEC is still acting like LSU just robbed a bank.

And let’s get something straight. LSU didn’t just wake up one morning and say, “Hey, let’s screw the SEC today.” The rules are a complete fricking mess. College football has been turned upside down by NIL, the transfer portal, eligibility changes, lawsuits, court injunctions and God knows what else. Everybody is making shite up as they go. LSU went to court because it believed these guys were legally eligible. A judge agreed with them. That’s how this country works. You don’t like the ruling? Fine. Appeal it. Fight it in court. But this whole “LSU has a lack of institutional control” crap is ridiculous. LSU wasn’t hiding anybody in the equipment room. They weren’t sneaking NFL players onto the field wearing fake mustaches. They were following a fricking court order.

And the hypocrisy is what really gets me. The SEC has spent YEARS turning college football into professional football. NIL? frick yeah. Transfer portal? Sure. Coaches making $10 million a year? No problem. Schools throwing millions and millions of dollars at recruiting? Go right ahead. Players jumping from school to school every damn offseason? That’s the new normal. The SEC is perfectly happy with all of that because everybody is making a shitload of money. But LSU tries to use a legal ruling involving two former players and suddenly everybody becomes the guardian of the sacred traditions of college athletics. Give me a fricking break. Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining. This isn’t about the purity of college football. This is about control. Sankey and the SEC office want everybody to know who the boss is, and apparently they’re pissed off because LSU didn’t just bend over and say “yes sir.”

And then we get the Lane Kiffin shite. This might be the dumbest part of the whole thing. LSU is absolutely skull-dragging Clemson, and Kiffin makes a smart-arse comment about what might have happened if they had the former players. That’s Lane fricking Kiffin. What did everybody expect? The man has been running his mouth since the Stone Age. Now the SEC wants to use something he said at halftime as evidence that LSU doesn’t have “institutional control.” Jesus Christ. If that’s the standard, half the coaches in the conference need to be suspended by Monday morning. You mean to tell me that a coach making a sarcastic comment during a football game is somehow evidence that the university is out of control? That’s fricking laughable. Apparently we’re one sarcastic Lane Kiffin comment away from the collapse of Western civilization.

Here’s the part that really pisses me off: LSU already fricking blinked. They left the guys off the roster. They moved on. They went out and beat the absolute shite out of Clemson anyway. Fifty-one to ten. 644 yards. First game of the Kiffin era and LSU looked like a damn freight train. So what the hell does the SEC want now? What more do you want from LSU? Do we need to apologize to Greg Sankey on live television? Do we need to send him a fruit basket? Maybe Brian Kelly can personally write him a fricking handwritten note saying, “Sorry, Greg, we promise never to challenge the SEC again.” This has gone way beyond the players. This is the SEC trying to flex its muscle because LSU had the nerve to push back.

And I’ll say this as an LSU fan: frick that. I’m not interested in hearing about how LSU needs to “fall in line.” LSU isn’t some damn expansion school that showed up five minutes ago. LSU is one of the biggest football programs in the entire conference. We were here before the SEC became the fricking NFL South. We were here before NIL, before the transfer portal, before super conferences and before Greg Sankey apparently decided he was the commissioner of the universe. If the SEC wants to pick a fight with LSU, then pick the fricking fight. But don’t pretend this is about “integrity.” It isn’t. It’s about power. LSU did what it had to do, the players aren’t on the roster, and the damn issue should be over. Instead, the SEC keeps moving the goalposts because apparently they can’t stand the idea of LSU telling them to go frick themselves. Go frick yourself, SEC.

STTDB

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Serious question: what the frick is wrong with you? For as long as I can remember you thrive on being disliked by this board and continue to just post your bullshite. You bring nothing to this entire site. All you do is argue with everyone about everything. It’s tiring

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LSU went to court because it believed these guys were legally eligible. A judge agreed with them.

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Dude, LSU didn't go to court or file any lawsuits...the players did that. Nor did LSU ever roster the players in question. The players enrolled in school and practiced with the team with permission of the SEC. They were never on the roster.

The SEC was afraid we would roster them based on the TRO the players won and yet we didn't.

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I see it differently. It’s a cost benefit analysis. Why cause all kinds of conflict over 2 players who are of little value to LSU? They aren’t difference makers so what would be the advantage of LSU going against the SEC? It’s not worth the possible trouble.

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