Tasty Sankey Memes

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Sankey let Bama roster and play Charles Bediako

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The SEC had no rule against playing former professional athletes at the time, but Sankey did file a brief in the associated lawsuit in which he advised the court to uphold the NCAA's position and rule Bediako ineligible. The SEC subsequently passed a rule disallowing the play of former professional athletes. That is now the rule in question. This is not hard to understand.

I understand Sankey and the SEC subsequently changed their rules, and I’m not disputing that Sankey opposed Bediako’s eligibility. Sure, he opposed it, but look at the outcome and compare the level of effort and escalation in the two cases.

Alabama actually rostered and played a former NBA G League professional in FIVE regular-season games after he signed a two-way NBA contract with the Spurs. No conference sanctions whatsoever.

Meanwhile, LSU never played either former NFL player and ultimately complied with the SEC’s demands.

Yet the SEC has gone so far as to file a federal lawsuit against one of its founding members and continues arguing that expulsion remains a very real possibility.

Explain how that’s remotely proportionate.

There’s a massive difference between having the authority to enforce conference rules and exercising that authority reasonably and proportionately.

You can defend the rule change all day long. What you haven’t explained is why LSU’s conduct warrants even contemplating the nuclear option of expulsion when Alabama actually put a former professional athlete on the court five times without a single conference sanction.

For what would the SEC have sanctioned Alabama? At the time they were not breaking any conference rules because the rule in question did not exist. Now it does, and you will note that Alabama is no longer trying to play any former pros, while LSU is. That's the difference.

He is obviously mad he got embarrassed on the stand