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Let's Talk About the Elephant in the Room Here Regarding Kiffin

Posted on 9/3/26 at 11:54 pm
Posted by BoarEd
The Hills
Member since Oct 2015
42412 posts
Posted on 9/3/26 at 11:54 pm
I understand that the LSU fans are giddy about this court decision. This is unwise, and the reason why has been stated many times, but whatever. LSU got a temporary win, but meanwhile the SEC is showing that they are going to fight for conference and institutional control. Don't count your chickens yet, guys.

But enough about that. What about the risk versus reward situation here. What does LSU actually gain here if everything shakes out in their favor? Two dudes who weren't going to make it in the NFL? The SEC is full of guys like this, on every team.

Now, what do they stand to lose? Well, potentially a lot. They can potentially be expelled from the conference and end up forfeiting games played this season if everything goes poorly.

So my question is, just how much cocaine does Lane Kiffin use? Does he understand what a risk/reward analysis even is? Because it sounds to me like his time in Florida convinced him he is Tony Montana and he does this simply because he finds it funny.
Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
19434 posts
Posted on 9/3/26 at 11:57 pm to
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They can potentially be expelled from the conference and end up forfeiting games played this season if everything goes poorly.

Unfortunately for the sec they can’t do that because they didn’t when the same thing happened to Bama and Bediako.
This post was edited on 9/3/26 at 11:58 pm
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
135126 posts
Posted on 9/3/26 at 11:58 pm to
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The SEC is full of guys like this, on every team.



Of guys who didn't make the NFL?

Why yes, you're right.

Which is why it's all bullshite
Posted by magildachunks
Member since Oct 2006
36704 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:01 am to
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Now, what do they stand to lose? Well, potentially a lot. They can potentially be expelled from the conference and end up forfeiting games played this season if everything goes poorly.



Posted by BoarEd
The Hills
Member since Oct 2015
42412 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:01 am to
It's not that they didn't make the NFL. It's that they weren't going to make it in the NFL. There is a difference and you know it.
Posted by Lgrnwd
Member since Jan 2018
8898 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:05 am to
The Alabama Bediako situation was actually much worse if you care enough to know the details. Bediako chose to leave college for professional basketball KNOWING he had collegiate eligibility left. Had a contract with an NBA team and played MULTIPLE seasons in the NBA G league.

Any yet, the SEC chose not to punish Alabama for allowing him to play in multiple SEC games based on a TRO.
Posted by dukeg7213
Louisiana
Member since Apr 2023
7357 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:10 am to
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the SEC is showing that they are going to fight for conference and institutional control.


I double dog dare you to listen to what Sankey said on the stand today. Absolute embarrassment he didn’t know what 5 for 5 was until today.

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They can potentially be expelled from the conference


While not ideal, the SEC needs LSU more than LSU needs the SEC. Any other conference would write LSU a blank check to join their conference. So ok expel them and in the process destroy your conference because I promise you, Sankey would frick it all up.

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end up forfeiting games played this season if everything goes poorly.


10 years later? Who cares. Les Miles received vacated games and I couldn’t even tell you which ones and no one else could either.

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he does this simply because he finds it funny.

He’s taking advantage of a broken system that desperately needs control. By doing this, something will finally be done with NIL, transfer portal, etc. Just so happens to be LSU and Kiffin.
Posted by Diesel88
Idaho
Member since Oct 2018
936 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:10 am to
You couldn’t just reply to 1 of the other 17 threads you started tonight?
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
135126 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:10 am to
Teams across the SEC have players who participated in NFL training, didn't make the cut and are now BACK on SEC teams


But apparently you only get your panties twisted about LSU
Posted by BoarEd
The Hills
Member since Oct 2015
42412 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:10 am to
Look, let's not do whataboutisms, ok? The rules are the rules. The Alabama situation is different because the rules were different. Take the example of NIL, you used to not be able to pay players and now you can. You can't retroactively go back and UNpunish programs who were caught paying players simply because it is now ok to pay them. Unfortunately for LSU they are trying to do this too. Which is going to factor in on the SECs ultimate decision whether to allow them to stay in the SEC or not even if they won't come out and admit it.
Posted by FourchonRoad
Member since Jun 2024
293 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:12 am to
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Don't count your chickens yet, guys


If it was not for THE CHICKEN, you guys would have no place to post so show more respect
Posted by Tigerdew
The Garden District of Da' Parish
Member since Dec 2003
15808 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:12 am to
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BoarEd


This mother fricker has been dragging his bleeding vagina all over the board for weeks.

No one takes you seriously.
Posted by jiffyjohnson
1226 miles from Death Valley
Member since Nov 2011
5930 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:14 am to
Seen alot of posters ask about whether the juice is worth the squeeze but ask yourself the inverse.

Is it really a big frickin deal if LSU gets two guys that, if the ncaa had released the 5for5 in February, would never have been considered "ineligible"?

Should LSU allow itself to be singled out by spineless corporate shite heel greed monsters who dont enforce rules equally and fairly?


Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
19434 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:14 am to
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The Alabama situation is different because the rules were different.

No it’s not or someone just perjured themselves. They said today the rule has always existed and all they did was further clarify.
Posted by stopitnow1
Florida
Member since Mar 2013
2819 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:17 am to
You were wrong and have a hard time accepting it. We established this in another dumb thread you posted. STTDB
Posted by BoarEd
The Hills
Member since Oct 2015
42412 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:18 am to
Look man, this isn't difficult. It wasn't against the rules when Alabama did it and now it is against the rules. It's as simple as that. Just like how you can't go back and UNpunish LSU and Will Wade for paying players when it wasn't allowed.
Posted by Boom33
Member since Jul 2026
1269 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:19 am to
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The Alabama Bediako situation was actually much worse if you care enough to know the details. Bediako chose to leave college for professional basketball KNOWING he had collegiate eligibility left. Had a contract with an NBA team and played MULTIPLE seasons in the NBA G league.

Any yet, the SEC chose not to punish Alabama for allowing him to play in multiple SEC games based on a TRO.


Bediako was seen as player going to the courts and getting one. An individual player. When the TRO was over, Alabama stopped playing him.

Personally, I don't think he should have played and Alabama shouldn't have played him to begin with. If they had to forfeit those games, I would say it was 100% deserved.

That is not what the lawsuit against LSU and Kiffin is about. LSU and Kiffin are accused of a deliberate and coordinated campaign to recruit multiple pro players. You have used the local courts to get rulings in your way.

The SEC tried to address the issue by clarifying the rules and the SEC members voted 15-0 that even with the recent changes, this was the way they wished to go. That was the SEC's nice way of saying - please don't do this.

LSU should have ended it there. They did not. LSU has gone even further in defiance of the conference and it's other members.

And that is what the federal case will be about. Not about who is eligible, but about LSU trying to use the courts to overturn league rules.

The entire rest of the conference is currently united against you. That didn't happen randomly.




This post was edited on 9/4/26 at 12:19 am
Posted by BoarEd
The Hills
Member since Oct 2015
42412 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:19 am to
And I notice that nobody wants to address the actual question. It seems to me that the rumors out of Ole Miss and Lane using coke are probably true. Otherwise none of this decision making process makes even a little bit of logical sense.
Posted by LSUtigerNVegas9
Member since Nov 2025
362 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:24 am to
They might stand if the SEC didn’t make the rule until after the players were granted a TRO from the NCAA. Rule should have been in place long before this.

Oh, you say there’s always been a rule you can’t play professionals? Define what a professional is? Well if he says anything other than he doesn’t know he perjures himself in Louisiana. You don’t think that judge is out for blood were he to openly change what he said?
Posted by bamabaseballsec
Member since Dec 2020
4420 posts
Posted on 9/4/26 at 12:25 am to
Unfortunately for the sec they can’t do that because they didn’t when the same thing happened to Bama and Bediako.

Ok why? I’m under the impression that sec membership can be terminated without cause by a 12 member vote
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