SECmeister

If they were coming until OM beat Georgia, it's a shame Kiffin didn't get to coach that game.

Kiffin is 13 and 26 life-time against top 25 teams. That's 33.33 percent so looks like a one in three chance for a win.

White Tiger, no doubt everyone has an opinion and like mine, it is 90% speculation.

The problem I see for LSU is that it likely cannot win the long game. When all 16 members of the Conference voted a week ago to formalize a long standing policy regarding athletes in the disputed classifications, the die was cast. The SEC is a voluntary organization and has an inherent right to make its own rules.

Assuming the athletes prevail in the state court action, which I anticipate will happen, the elephant in the room is the federal lawsuit filed today in Alabama. Discovery and depositions will be forthcoming in the future along with a tro staying the state court decision.

The penalties are simply too great to risk everything on a very tenuous argument in federal district court. I suspect if this matter continues on its current track in a year or two a lot of good folks in Louisiana will look back and say, what were we thinking.

Rousse spoke when he joined in the unanimous 16 to 0 vote in favor of the rule.

This will be his fourth season to actually play (one redshirt and one medical redshirt).

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The gamble is definitely by LSU and this is why all of the players in question will never be placed on any LSU roster until final adjudication.

READ the SEC penalties starting with 50% of the sport’s operating budget. For football, that amounts to tens of millions of dollars the conference won’t have to try to collect. They will simply withhold it from LSU’s share of revenues for the season.

I see no way any state or federal appellate court, not some forum shopped local judge, will issue a final order in this matter until months from now. No one in their right mind is going to take a chance when tens of millions are at stake.

Chambliss and Johnson, and many others, are in completely different factual situations than the disputed professional class cases. Most people realize this but some are just to obtuse to see it.

Chambliss’ case involved his attempt to play a fourth year of college football. Because the NCAA did not present any evidence in the hearing to refute his documentation of medical issues during one year at Ferris State, the Judge granted Chambliss’ request to play a fourth year of college football. Clear precedent, including by the NCAA in many cases, and thus nothing unusual about the case.

My preference would be to allow all class of 2022 members to be grandfathered into the 5 for 5 rule regardless of circumstances. However, the league voted not to do so and that will be that. Any judicial modification will likely come well after the season ends.

Kiffin . . . . I know. Let's roll the dice. . . . . LOL.

Much better OM team this year than last year. Beard went out and brought in three new starters from the portal. I don’t believe they are super talented as a whole but a blind msn can see they are very well coached and hustle their tails off.

A 9-9 conference record will get any and all SEC teams into the dance. That means all Ole Miss has to do from this point (3-0) is finish the conference schedule at 6-9. They are sitting in excellent shape to make the dance in Beard’s second year.