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I was literally born on campus (University Hospital, OKC). Both my parents were big fans. One of my earliest memories is attending a game.

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...every member institution should be just as alarmed about this as we are. This entire conference will continue to play second fiddle to the B1G as long as Sankey is at the helm.

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Yep, we all know where the problem is. The solution should have been implemented years ago.

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Given what was at stake for the Tigers, the result should not come as a surprise. According to the school's filing with the NCAA, of its athletic department's $223.5 million in total revenue for fiscal year 2025, nearly a third was tied to its membership in the SEC, including $53.1 million from media rights and $16.4 million in conference distributions. The $69.5 million total topped the $65.7 million the athletic department received in donations and its $53.6 million in ticket sales. No other revenue stream exceeded $11 million

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And that is less than what Rutgers brought in from their 2025 B1G distributions.

That fact alone tells you who should Really be expelled.

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If there is no vote tomorrow, Sankey is gone.

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Wonderful news if true. And long overdue. But I suspect life just isn't going to work out so conveniently as that.

I'm thinking a Goodfellas mobster style ending for Sankey. He idiotically tries to expel a school for embarrassing himself badly in front of the entire CFB nation with that lousy media contract, bumbling court appearance hypocrisy, and suggesting voting out a member of the conference. But he ends up being the one voted out.

I go there often for movies/shows I'd never heard or previously. If the general consensus (no matter what the rating) is that it's the kind of movie I thought it was upon hearing about it, then I'm likely to give that flick/series a go. I will investigate further if the rating is far lower or far higher than I might expect, in particular looking out for spoilers to get a real grip on why that might be.

Never knew that IMDB once had dedicated message boards. That must have been a golden age. Wish they still had something like that.

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"Defendants waged a deliberate and coordinated campaign to recruit professional athletes to play football for LSU during the 2026-27 season."

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Does anybody have the exact wording of the lawsuit? Because recruiting NFL players doesn't really sound like a sueable thing.

If we can stay away from granting exemptions from following the established laws of the land, and squashing the legal protections and rights of student athletes, I think there is a vast opportunity for college sports to thrive.

Hearing myself profess this reminds of arguments I've made about immigration law: We don't need new laws and 'rights' and appalling exemptions. Just follow and adhere to the laws that already exist and everybody who wants to make money can make plenty of money.

Will I miss the days bag men, and the illicit houses/jobs for parents, 'grey' shirting, injuries equalling loss of scholarship, coaches/admins making seven figures while the athletes are getting in trouble for having an extra meal? No.

No. Surprisingly, I won't miss those days.

I will miss knowing the rosters inside and out. I already miss the days when I knew every head coach in the conference and a pretty large percentage of those at the major schools - something I lost track of years ago. I've never been a fan of the NFL and that was part of the reason. But I'd rather have NFL-lite than ever have the disgusting NCAA have any disgusting exemptions. The NCAA can burn in every plane of existence. Hell is already assured.

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This is exactly why suits against the SEC or other conferences are meritless. The NCAA is vulnerable to antitrust cases as a monopoly.

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Not quite. Certainly monopoly is one plausible weakness. But there plenty existing commerce, anti-trust, and labor laws that are at the forefront of all of the winning lawsuits. And even more applicably, these are almost all state and federal funded public institutions, meaning they far more sensitive to Constitutional concerns.

There is the argument that since a conference is smaller, maybe it can slip through. But these are interstate conferences - again composed of mostly public institutions. The laws are decidedly not on their side on this issue. It will be very difficult.

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You disagree with what?

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That college sports can't operate just fine without exemptions and squashing the legal protections of student athletes. In fact, I think it could thrive.

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There are no rules in this business model. Antitrust exemptions exist for every sport that has a contract, but not college sports.

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Because college sports is almost entirely composed of state and federally funded institutions. That's a BIG DIFFERENCE.

And to be strictly picky, not every sport. The NFL, NBA, and, indirectly through a Supreme Court ruling, MLB. That's it as far I'm aware.

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So I have no idea what you think is being violated here.

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Generally, trying to artificially limit the mobility of citizens to legally earn money wherever they can is prohibited (anti-trust, commerce laws, some labor laws indirectly). It's a big reason why the courts are slamming this stuff facedown into the ground. Also these are public institutions, so trying to capriciously, in broad strokes, say that some group of students can't even try to participate at a sponsored program at that institution (whether they qualify or not) is a BIG NO NO.

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So you don't like him, so what? He's not always right, but he certainly isn't always wrong. The conferences are going to have to fight rogue judges every step of the way. Again, so what? You don't give in, and you don't give up. The SEC and B1G will fight NFL transfers as long as it takes. This court move was more than predictable; that's not a Greg Sankey problem.

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The problem is interstate commerce and anti-trust laws. The Supreme Court historically has dimly looked down on any attempts to get around those. In order to convince the courts that you should especially be allowed from under the thumb of those laws, you need to either have a life-or-death argument (with actual dead bodies and a supporting coroner's report to show for it) or you'd better have very a specific tailored Congressional antitrust exemption in hand.

Neither the NCAA or the SEC have either of those, I'm pretty sure.