re: The Surrender Gene is embedded deep into the DNA of the French part of every Cajun. So ...

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They might break the rules.

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What rule was broken?

None of you shitbags can answer that.

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You think?


So in other words they weren't for sure gonna follow the rules. They might break the rules.

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Sure, if the courts found the rules to be unlawful. Which I said was always a long shot. The SEC has plenty of leeway to enforce its own rules, if you read the bylaws. LSU was never going to risk anything, so they'd have to know they 100% wouldn't face any consequences, which was always highly unlikely.

Just my opinion.

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You realize you aren't the only school to change coaches and you hired yours first. So somehow all of the others were able to get 105 players rostered but you who had two contracted NFL players enrolled, but might have been saving those two spots for someone else.

Listen to yourself man.

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Please link your evidence showing that "all the others" have rostered 105 players.

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You never answer this

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WHAT RULE DID LSU BREAK?


ETA: Is it a violation of SEC or NCAA rules to not fill the roster to it's limit? Or do you want LSU punished for something they COULD have done? Not actually, did - right?

No? Then other than a bleeding vagina, what are you actually pissed about? Because you certainly can't define a rule being broken, nor can you articulate a reason for wanting LSU to be "punished", other than your vag hurts.

The country of France has won more military victories than anyone in World History. The meme of French surrender came about because of the National Socialist invasion in 1940. Anti-Bolshevik/Communist National Socialist sympathizers in the government allowed it to happen. Most people are ignorant of that.

Attorney Opinion.

Straight facts.

Try to keep up.

Strip away the pearl-clutching and read the SEC's own complaint and Sankey's declaration. The conference seems intent on doing something regardless. Complaint ¶ 94 and Sankey ¶ 44: the CEOs will proceed "whether LSU renounces its intention to roster and play professional players on its football team, or not." Paragraph 81 goes further, saying the same thing whether or not LSU ever rosters anyone at all. That language was drafted to survive precisely what happened Tuesday night when LSU filled its roster to 105 and left no room for the pros. I get that it may succeed procedurally. It fails catastrophically as persuasion because it concedes that the expulsion has nothing to do with the conduct the lawsuit is about.

So look at what is actually left. Kiffin's press conferences, his obnoxious halftime remark, his GameDay appearance, and LSU's supposed alignment with the Baton Rouge plaintiffs who hold that wacky, overbroad injunction. Compl. ¶¶ 77, 89-92. That is the gravamen. If the SEC disciplines LSU on that record, and asks a federal court to bless it, what it is really punishing is a public employee's speech about a matter of public concern.

That is a First Amendment case. It just isn't the SEC's. It's Kiffin's. Fifteen of the sixteen members are public universities, and the conference is governed by their presidents, who are themselves state actors. Brentwood Academy v. TSSAA, 531 US 288 (2001), held that a private athletic association can be a state actor through pervasive entwinement with the public institutions that constitute it. Whether the SEC clears that bar is a serious question, and I wouldn't call it a foregone conclusion. But the irony writes itself. The SEC's entire theory depends on LSU officials being state actors, and the SEC pleads at ¶ 96, citing West v. Atkins, that Kiffin is one. Ironically, if not shockingly, that supplies the predicate for Kiffin's claim against it.

Kiffin is a public employee criticizing his governing body's policy, which puts him on the side of Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 US 563 (1968) (teacher fired for a letter to the paper criticizing how his school board spent money, where the Court held a public employee does not surrender the right to speak as a citizen on matters of public concern, and courts must weigh that interest against the employer's interest in running its operation). If Kiffin pleads retaliation as a counterclaim, it will be a much, much better First Amendment claim than the one the SEC is asserting in its complaint.

To be clear, I think LSU and Kiffin instigated this mess, and I think conferences can write product-defining eligibility rules. Alston did not bless such rules, but it did not condemn them either. Justice Gorsuch's opinion for the Court was careful to decide only what was in front of it — education-related benefits — and it left undisturbed the finding that some restraints preserving the line between college and professional sports can be procompetitive. The SEC has a real defense there, subject to the rule of reason like anyone else. I am on Team SEC.

But the conference is missing a lot. It meets today to consider punishing LSU and Kiffin. It can punish a violation of its rules. What it cannot do is punish speech alone. After Tuesday night, speech is all that is left. LSU filled its roster to 105. No professional will play a down. The harm the SEC went to federal court to prevent never happened.

LSU and Kiffin just talked about it.

Didn’t Lane’s backup reserve coaches embed themselves deep in UGA during the playoffs last year?

With a much smaller dick than they are going to have this year?

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Sure, if the courts found the rules to be unlawful.

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So , then you were going to break the rules while saying we're not going to break the rules.

Again. you can't hold a gun and threaten someone. Then put the gun down when the police arrive and walk away like "I didn't kill anybody. We're good here."