How is the LSU vs the SEC going to go down? Don’t ask your Vegas odds maker (note: I couldn’t find odds on any betting site for this), just ask college sports attorney extraordinaire Tom Mars:
In case it doesn’t work for you:
Former NFL Players v. SEC: You only need to get to page 2 of the SEC’s brief to realize this lawsuit against the SEC and Greg Sankey is going to be tossed in the trash pretty quickly – maybe as soon as tomorrow.
Page 2 includes citations to a 1996 Louisiana Supreme Court decision and two Louisiana Court of Appeals decisions going back to 1973 – all three of which clearly stand for the proposition that the SEC may enforce its own rules based on the undisputed facts of this case. Therefore, unless the courts in Louisiana are willing to ignore or overrule 30 years of Louisiana Supreme Court precedent, and more than 50 years of precedent from the Court of Appeals, this entire case against the SEC and the Commissioner is going to be thrown out as a matter of law. The SEC’s brief makes other compelling arguments, but the very first one is enough to end what’s become the most momentous legal battle in college sports history. So much for the lawyers’ fifteen minutes of fame.
I don’t see how the players’ lawyers could possibly respond to the SEC’s legal arguments with a straight face. In all seriousness, I won’t be surprised if they withdraw their claims against the SEC and the Commissioner before tomorrow’s hearing. But I suspect that pride will cause them to choose a public ass-whipping instead.
Pride? Will pride goeth before the fall camp is over? Also, this is the same program doing this:
What if it was all just a distraction, just like the Jayden Daniels situation with the squabbling over the number 5? What could they be covering up? Has there been an appearance of a romantic Cajun named Jeaux Eau Douce?
Meanwhile, even Georgia’s Attorney General Chris Carr is getting in on the action:
It’s the world against LSU, and, more specifically, Lane Kiffin.
But for Lane, it’s a big whataburger…after all, he had to endure the agony of serving on Saban’s staff, so what does he have to lose?
I suspect he wanted this fight all along. He is looking to get that team into an “us against the world thing”. He just drips drama. I don’t think he can build a long term power program on that. He’s just an immature super egomaniac. I might be way off base but l guess we’ll find out! Been wrong before.
Agreed. Put another way: The Kiffin Kancer defiles everything he touches.
Hard to get mercenaries to buy into that sort of ethos IMO….
“I don’t see how the players’ lawyers could possibly respond to the SEC’s legal arguments with a straight face.”
To whoever wrote that: SON, THAT’S WHAT LAWYERS DO! If you can say it with a straight face after practicing in front of a mirror you’ve had a good day.
“That’s what the money is for!” – Don Draper
All of this depends on the Louisiana court system’s commitment to stare decisis in its dealings with LSU. Unless there’s a Tulane Law judge hearing the case at some point, there’s no way a judge subject to reelection is going to deny the LSU side of this.
I’ll be pleasantly surprised if the courts throw out the case, but I’m not hopeful. The best we can hope for is that the other 15 members take action if LSU decides to defy the rules they voluntarily agreed upon.
It’s is pretty fascinating political theater. If the judge rules in favor of the players to save his own career, the SEC appeals and there is a stay. Can the players then play until an appeal is heard? There’s no way it gets heard until after the season. Then LSU has to decide if they want to challenge the conference for reals.
When said player$ (not student athletes) participate in conference games, if said player$ are later ruled ineligible, would or should those games, no matter the out come, be forfeited….
I don’t think I saw that as a punishment, it was more about fines to the school and suspension of the head coach.
I’m not hopeful either. The judge is an elected official and he can rule for the players then be reversed on appeal and come out with clean hands. That is what I think will happen, but I hope not.
There is a sufficiently strong argument the new 5 yr rule discriminates against the class of 2022. Sankey should not take the stand because he’ll get nailed on a rule the NCAA developed and a judge may clearly see that since no one is really in charge let’s split the baby and make this group eligible while affirming it’s the conference that must set and enforce the rules…making this a potentially final nail in the coffin for the NCAA. A more cynical person might even speculate this is what Sankey et al have wanted all along…?
The SEC’s rule has zero to do with 5 for 5. They are stating that member institutions cannot play certain athletes who have traditionally been considered professionals in the US.
Was the timing of the NCAA’s rule making bad? Yes. That has zero to do with the expansion of the defendants to include the SEC.
Every rule made in any walk of life that has a timing associated with it affects different people in different ways. That doesn’t make discrimination in a legal sense (there is no specific protected characteristic).
Exactly. They raised the drinking age in Georgia my freshman year at UGA. Was not legal until I was a senior. Sometimes life isn’t fair. Everyone used to understand that.
I dont think year of graduation is a protected class. The SEC is free to discriminate however they see fit. SEC membership is a choice. If a member steps outside of the SEC mandates, then they are subject to fines/discipline.
Anybody pulling for Clemson other than me???
Hell, yes. I’m pulling for Clemson.
(Goes and washes mouth out with soap)
Oh yeah! But l refuse to wear urange, besides l don’t have any. Also will hold my nose and pull for Prime!
Yes. 🤮
Negative! I want an undefeated black hatted Kiffins’ Konquering Kajuns struttin’ into the SECCG and seeing our OLine eatin’ chicken wings in the 3rd quarter wishing they were TCU. If nobody else will plant their boots in the hindquarters of those corndog scented charlie sierras, Kirby’s Red Clay Hounds will be their Huckleberry. #GoDawgs