The real problem- I sat through the entire hearing yesterday

The SEC is saying that it is against former professional players playing in the SEC.

No one has been able to define what a former professional player is.

The problem is that not only can the SEC not define this, but their own definition and standard changed at least 5 times during the hearing.

At the beginning the judge flat out asked the SEC attorney "what is amateurism" and the attorney said he couldn't answer at that time, but would answer later. He never ended up answering that question.

Sankey had multiple occasions where he moved the goalpost on what a professional is. After attempting dodge the question he eventually was forced to give some kind of an answer.

For basketball he said players that come from professional leagues overseas may not be professionals because some of them play for clubs. He said G League players are professional players, but anyone who plays through the full summer league is not a professional. These were just his opinions and clearly not based on any facts.

For football he had different answers also. He said signing a contract makes someone a pro. Later with a different line of questioning he said that participation in an NFL mini camp does not make someone a pro, but participation in training camp does make them a pro.

The NCAA and SEC attorneys had an even different view of what a professional is saying that anyone who decides to leave college knows that they were making a choice to be a professional and giving up their right to come back to college.

Attempts were made to define a professional as someone who has been paid. Well one player only got paid $190 by the NFL. The highest paid in the case received $25k. So if receiving $25k makes you a professional athlete then there are professional athletes on every team in the SEC. That same player that received $25k said he received 6 figures at Ole Miss last year and could have received 7 figures this year if he would have been allowed to stay in college.

So if the SEC is going to punish a school for playing a former professional athlete then which standard of professional are they going to use? They can't even set a standard.

Hopefully the new 5 for 5 age based rule will solve most of these problems, but ultimately new rules need to be made defining at what point a player exiting for a professional opportunity is no longer eligible for NCAA and that definition can not be given with the current rules.