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He who counts the votes wins, not he who donates the most money.

The most important thing that needed to be accomplished was to fix the voting fraud and everything else falls into place.

But that didn’t happen and we are just an election or two from it all being undone.
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Caleb needs to get a real job


What is your job, Mr Perfect?
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nah they literally played for the coach with no balls


The internet never disappoints. Wow
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"Over the next decade, United will train 5,000 pilots who will be guaranteed a job with United, after they complete the requirements of the Aviate program – and our plan is for half of them to be women and people of color,"


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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 5.6% of pilots are women, and 6% are people of color. Obviously, there is a lot of unrealized potential there.


This isn't obvious at all. Your logic is incredibly flawed. How many women and people of color are training to become pilots? According to the FAA, about 16% of people training to become pilots in 2025 fit this description.

CEO Kirby wants to take 16% of trainees and make it work out to be half of their pilots. To do this, they must hire based on sex and skin color vs looking at who is the best candidate.

In what world does it make any sense to hire based on those characteristics.

I will tell you, a world based on discriminating against one population in order to cater to another.

"Let's fight discrimination by discriminating." What an incredibly stupid position to take.
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It's a real lawsuit.


Tell us, what is the SEC seeking in the lawsuit?

1) Authority for the SEC to govern itself- LSU responded to the lawsuit stating the SEC does have this authority.

2) An injunction to prevent LSU from interfering in SEC governance- LSU did not interfere and says it will not interfere. Hold your meetings and vote however you wish.

3) Confirm its ability to terminate LSU's membership under conference bylaws-- LSU responded in agreement that the SEC has that ability.

So tell me ballguy, what is it that the SEC is suing for that LSU has not already agreed they have the right to?

This case will be dismissed. It is moot.
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I don't know. All good questions.



Exactly. Sankey has a major problem in that the SEC Bylaws say that all NCAA rules must be followed.

Trinidad was ruled ineligible by the NCAA. Trinidad took it to court and got relief. Sankey did not challenge it.

Players that LSU wants to play sought the same remedy. Sankey doesn't like it and gets a new rule passed. LSU obeys the new rule.

Now other schools have players they want seeking court relief and crickets from Sankey.

Sankey is making up rules as he goes and that is why he will ultimately lose.

If he had taken a stance in the Trinidad situation he would have much firmer ground to stand on.

Instead, he has chosen to make decisions based on whatever he feels is necessary, and in doing so, he ignored the SEC Bylaws.

That is not a good way to conduct business.
SEC Bylaws state that NCAA rules are to be followed by SEC schools. The NCAA ruled him ineligible.

Of course Sankey ignored that with Ole Miss and Trinidad.

Are they going to start parsing each case to decide what they allow or are they going to actually follow their own bylaws?

Sankey better choose wisely.
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LSU is trying to gaslight people by claiming they never intended or worked to do something they very clearly did and would have done if the SEC hadn't' filed the lawsuit.



LSU definitely wanted to roster those players. They hoped they would become eligible. Just like Ole Miss wanted Trinidad eligible, along with countless other schools that have looked and are still looking to get eligibility waivers for players. There is no debate to that at all.

In the middle of it all, the SEC put a new rule in place with stiff penalties.

LSU decided the juice wasn't worth the squeeze and did not roster the players.

Decisions were made as circumstances changed and advanced.

In the end, no violation occurred. I know you wished LSU did do something to warrant punishment, but as of now, all you got is
"they considered rostering those players!"

Good Luck.

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Look, you continued to make two points until you moved the goalposts.

You say there are two issues-

1) Did LSU violate any eligibility rules? I have seen no remarks by the SEC, either publicly or in the lawsuit, that claim a violation. That seems to tell the story to me.

2) Can the SEC enforce its rules/bylaws? LSU says yes, in both the public sphere and also in court where they state the SEC has the authority.

What is there left to discuss? If LSU violate a rule, then it seems the SEC would have dropped that in the lawsuit or, at least let it leak publicly. Their credibility is dropping daily. If they had something they would have already put it out is my opinion.
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And a coach saying he'd make the same decision again doesn't establish that Alabama violated an enforceable rule.


BINGO!

You just made the point that every LSU fan has been making since the lawsuit was filed against LSU. Just considering adding a player to a roster doesn't establish that LSU violated an enforceable rule. :cheers:
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The larger question still is whether the SEC has sufficient grounds under its governing documents to take action against LSU.


:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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If Alabama were challenging the SEC's authority in federal court


You have stated this a few times. Show us where LSU is challenging the SEC's authority in federal court.

They are not. In fact they have agreed that the SEC has the authority to enforce its rules when LSU responded in court to the lawsuit.
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LSU has considerably less leverage than some of its fans seem to believe.


If LSU violated a rule in which expulsion is warranted, you would be correct.

If the SEC kicked LSU out and did not follow its own bylaws, then LSU would have tremendous leverage.
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3 possible outcomes I see.

1. LSU gets in line, takes the penalties, it gets established that the SEC has the right to enforce it's standards and everyone moves on.



I can't wait for the SEC is state the rule or rules that were broken. Of course, the SEC could just vote them out and let the chips fall where they may.

I think the lawsuit gets dismissed as LSU has stated in its rebuttal that the SEC has the authority to enforce its rules. Not sure how a court would keep it going forward if the primary reason for the lawsuit is not disputed by the defendant.
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they certainly could ruin LSU sports.


and most likely the SEC as well.
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LSU can and should just admit fault
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Just because a judge grants a TRO doesn't mean it's an order that the SEC has to roster or play them


Ole Miss and Trinidad say hello.
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won't expel LSU while acknowledging that it has the authority to do so


No one disputes that. Even LSU stated it in the lawsuit that the SEC had the authority.
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If LSU doesn't like those rules, it can work to change them.


Like Ole Miss did with Chambliss?
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The larger issue remains the SEC's authority to establish and enforce its membership standards.



LSU’s brief argues the conference has the power to remove LSU from its membership at any time under its own bylaws, so any “forced association” the SEC is complaining about is self-inflicted and doesn’t count as the kind of injury that lets a federal court get involved. “No one is forcing the SEC to associate with LSU,” the brief states.

LSU, in its legal rebuttal to the lawsuit, has stated that the SEC can enforce its bylaws.