re: will the TRO against the SEC matter?

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Kiffin and Landry have been very vocal and visible in their criticism of the SEC in all of this.

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So?

He isn’t at our school, your school is recruiting him.

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I believe anything that happens during the TRO period is protected from retroactive penalties.

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Not a lawyer, so maybe you are right. But it sure seems like the SEC specifically phrased their rule in a way that was different from the broad category of “eligibility” the NCAA has.

The NCAA determines eligibility separately so a TRO declaring players eligible means the schools are not violating NCAA rules. And when the case is dismissed for moistness, there is no violation for the NCAA to go after.

The SEC on the other hand lists specific actions (signing an NFL deal) that are not subject to interpretations and never says that players are ineligible, just that schools will face penalties for playing them.

If the TRO protects LSU, why aren’t the players on the roster tonight?

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I believe anything that happens during the TRO period is protected from retroactive penalties.

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It's a bit complicated and depends on a a few factors, but the NCAA bylaws give the NCAA recourse here (although I think recently the NCAA has agreed not to take action):

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12.9.4.2 Restitution. If a student-athlete who is ineligible under the terms of the bylaws or other legislation is permitted to participate in intercollegiate competition contrary to such NCAA legislation but in accordance with the terms of a court restraining order or injunction operative against the institution attended by such student-athlete or against the Association, or both, and said injunction is voluntarily vacated, stayed or reversed or it is finally determined by the courts that injunctive
relief is not or was not justified, the Board of Directors may take any one or more of the following actions against such institution in the interest of restitution and fairness to competing institutions: (Revised: 4/26/01 effective 8/1/01, 11/1/07 effective 8/1/08, 8/1/22, 8/31/22 effective 1/1/23, 6/6/25 effective 7/1/25)
(a) Require that individual records and performances achieved during participation by such ineligible student-athlete shall be vacated or stricken;
(b) Require that team records and performances achieved during participation by such ineligible student-athlete shall be
vacated or stricken;
(c) Require that team victories achieved during participation by such ineligible student-athlete shall be abrogated and the
games or events forfeited to the opposing institutions;
(d) Require that individual awards earned during participation by such ineligible student-athlete shall be returned to the
Association, the sponsor or the competing institution supplying same;
(e) Require that team awards earned during participation by such ineligible student-athlete shall be returned to the Association, the sponsor or the competing institution supplying same;
(f) Determine that the institution is ineligible for one or more NCAA championships in the sports and in the seasons in which such ineligible student-athlete participated;
(g) Determine that the institution is ineligible for invitational and postseason meets and tournaments in the sports and in
the seasons in which such ineligible student-athlete participated;
(h) Require that the institution shall remit to the NCAA the institution's share of television receipts (other than the portion shared with other conference members) for appearing on any live television series or program if such ineligible student-athlete participates in a contest selected for such telecast, or if the Board of Directors concludes that the institution would not have been selected for such telecast but for the participation of such ineligible student-athlete during the season of the telecast; any such funds thus remitted shall be devoted to the NCAA postgraduate scholarship program; and
(i) Require that the institution that has been represented in an NCAA championship by such a student-athlete shall be assessed a financial penalty as determined by the Committee on Infractions.

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Division 1 Manual 2025-2026

Apologies for the formatting.

Have we not learned how worthless the NCAA is? Their rules do not mean anything.

Why do you think they are seeking an exemption from antitrust laws.

That is the core of the protect college sports act.

Here’s the thing though, player suits against the NCAA have a direct injury/remedy between parties. The NCAA has declared a player ineligible and the player wants that reversed. The player has standing to sue because they are the directly injured party.

For enforcement against the school, sure, players can argue that the SEC is limiting their earning potential, but in that case the remedy is forcing the SEC to monetarily compensate them for lost wages. LSU would be the party that has standing to sue the SEC over the rule itself and so far they haven’t done that

none of that is true. What the SEC is doing, in essence, is declaring that these players are ineligible to play in the SEC this season. It’s the same thing as the NCAA. The courts are not going to force the schools to file suit. The players have standing.

That’s fine and good and that may very well be an issue on the merits, but that has nothing to do with whether the players have standing.

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I think the players are trying to argue that any order against the NCAA should apply to its member conferences as well.

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Isn’t that a slippery slope though? Everyone agrees that an individual school can decide not to play these players. Why is a 16 team conference more like the 300 school NCAA than individual schools making their own decisions? Where is the bright line? If 2 schools agree not to recruits NFL players can they be sued? What about 4? It’s not like the NCAA told the SEC to do this