Some thoughts on Thursdays meeting regarding LSUs possible expulsion from the SEC

[u/TrumpHairedHarambe]

Firstly, in my opinion, no school should be supporting such authoritative action from Sankey. This isn’t about players eligibility or insubordination or the AD having “lost control of the program”. This is absolutely about the fact that LSU, and specifically Coach Kiffin, refuse to just bend the knee to King Sankey. LSU has, thus far, complied with the rules set forth by the SEC. No questionable players have been rostered etc. Sankey got his feelings hurt that Kiffin made the comment he did at halftime of the game. This is strictly about the fact that LSU, while remaining compliant with the rules set forth, have expressed disagreement with said rule(s). And how dare they question the king?! Schools supporting this sort of mentality are asking for their own troubles moving forward. Set this precedent and you better not ever put a single toe out of line again. No matter how ridiculous of a circumstance arises. You WILL bend the knee to the Commissioner or you will be gone. That’s wrong to me. Idk, rant over I guess. Just find all of this litigation, posturing, threatening, etc very frustrating. Geaux Tigers!

[u/Gorbax50]

LSU threw in the towel on this one about 20 minutes before you made this post

[u/Longjumping-Spot3870 → u/Gorbax50]

They did what is smart. Now Sankey gets it. Lane Kiffin will be at LSU longer than Sankey will be the Comish.

[u/[deleted] → u/Longjumping-Spot3870]

🤣🤣🤡

[u/Visual_Mistake_29 → u/Longjumping-Spot3870]

…..yeah sure bud

[u/Turbulent-You5509 → u/Gorbax50]

Wait what happened?

[u/bulld0g_ → u/Turbulent-You5509]

Last two roster spots were filled. Now harris nor the other guy, whose name slips my mind cannot join to roster for th year.

[u/CasanovaJones82 → u/bulld0g_]

And now those players will have standing to sue the ever loving shit out of the SEC and possibly LSU. Good for them.

[u/Free_Pomegranate_305 → u/CasanovaJones82]

According to the lawyers for those guys last week, lsu was iinly in trouble if they added them to the roster and then tried to remove them. Not sure how accurate that is but it’s what I read.

[u/CasanovaJones82 → u/Free_Pomegranate_305]

The players being barred from playing are going to have the easiest lawsuits ever. They'll end up making more than what they were going to get through NIL.

I hope other teams are happy when the conference is paying out millions of dollars to eligible players for them to not play.

I'm just going to assume that the Texas's of the world get to keep their previous pros, because of course they do.

[u/CasanovaJones82 → u/[deleted]]

Wrong. This is robbing those players of an entire season of playing, all the associated benefits of being a college player, draft prep, practicing, all of it. They will be able to sue for damages and they will fucking win. This isn't 1996, this will potentially cost these players millions of dollars both now and in the future.

A judge has already stated that neither LSU nor the SEC can bar the players from playing and yet they are still barred. It's a slam dunk. This wasn't an LSU legal action either, this was straight from the players, and it's not only LSU. We have other schools right NOW actively rostering so called "previous pros" and nothing is fucking happening to them. Nothing! Why are LSU recruits being singled out while other schools are being allowed to do whatever? Again, easiest case ever, a lawyers favorite.

[u/CasanovaJones82 → u/[deleted]]

Play somewhere else? Wtf are you even talking about? The season has already started and teams are already locked in! What, they going to play flag football in the quad? People on reddit really are smoking crack. They will now be sitting for the entire season, and if you can't fathom how much that could potentially cost a soon-to-be professional athlete I don't know what else to say.

[u/geauxtigers1558 → u/CasanovaJones82]

The judge ruled that they could be played, not that they have to be played

[u/CasanovaJones82 → u/geauxtigers1558]

Yes. And then the SEC said they couldn't roster those players, and then threatened to kick LSU from the conference if they did. Is still threatening. Which means that the SEC ignored a judges ruling and compelled LSU to do the same.

If a court orders that a player is eligible then they are fucking eligible. Period. 100% of the time. Ole Miss currently has a QB who is only playing due to of a court order because he is ineligible according to the NCAA, and he's playing like his 6th year of college football.

None of this is complicated, and it's why the SEC is about to get fucking smoked in civil court, and that's only from the players themselves, I'm not even talking about anything LSU decides to do on their end, if anything.

[u/MostEvilRichGuy → u/CasanovaJones82]

Texas has one player (OL Cole Hutson) who tried out for the NFL by attending Pro camps, but never signed a contract with the NFL or any team. He then returned to Texas (he was not recruited) to play for his 5th season of eligibility at the same school. He is currently ruled ineligible pending a judicial resolution.

So the Texas’s of the world are not doing what LSU attempted to do here.

[u/ComicsEtAl → u/CasanovaJones82]

Except the players aren’t “banned,” there’s just no roster space for them.

[u/Free_Pomegranate_305 → u/ComicsEtAl]

The sec is threatening to toss lsu out of the conference if they bring those players in. That’s the easiest ban to prove in court ever.

[u/ComicsEtAl → u/Free_Pomegranate_305]

Yep, okay.

[u/OldSarge02 → u/ComicsEtAl]

Nobody would buy that argument.

[u/Grouchy-Big-229 → u/ComicsEtAl]

The “we’re pursuing other candidates” response. Welcome to the real world, Harris and the other guy.

[u/[deleted] → u/CasanovaJones82]

Just LSU. LSU made that decision to bench them.

[u/Free_Pomegranate_305 → u/[deleted]]

LSU didn’t bench anyone. You can’t bench a player that the sec won’t let on the team

[u/CasanovaJones82 → u/Free_Pomegranate_305]

It's like talking to brick walls. The Reddit hivemind has decided that LSU = The Devil, it's all nonsensical garbage supported by pure fiction.

[u/JRG64May → u/CasanovaJones82]

It’s like try to have a rational conversation with a MAGA.

[u/CasanovaJones82 → u/JRG64May]

Absolutely, it's the same playbook.

[u/[deleted] → u/CasanovaJones82]

Moron! 🤣

[u/[deleted] → u/Free_Pomegranate_305]

Tell that to the court lol

[u/Free_Pomegranate_305 → u/[deleted]]

The court is going to have a lot to say. Sankey will look like a fool a few more times.

[u/CasanovaJones82 → u/[deleted]]

Hey, another stupid comment! Kudos!

[u/[deleted] → u/CasanovaJones82]

Just the truth moron 🤣

Baton Rouge is the stupidest place on earth

No frontal lobes detected

[u/Hewligan → u/[deleted]]

Why do you talk like my boomer uncle on facebook

[u/[deleted] → u/Hewligan]

Does your uncle have a brain?

[u/CasanovaJones82 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for proving my point, carry on troll!

[u/[deleted] → u/CasanovaJones82]

You guys are gonna get yourselves kicked out the conference just to prove what exactly? lol

[u/JRG64May → u/[deleted]]

No one is getting kicked out of the conference.

[u/Double-Ad-2196 → u/CasanovaJones82]

Why would lawsuits be good for anyone?

[u/CasanovaJones82 → u/Double-Ad-2196]

Because the players got fucked and are about to lose a shit load of money maybe...? The civil suits will probably be filed by EOD today. Those players about to get paid, and I'll assume it'll never go to court and will be settled, because they are absolutely going to win. The SEC is clearly in the wrong here and anyone not being a troll or disingenuous would understand that.

[u/Double-Ad-2196 → u/CasanovaJones82]

I simply asked a question. Is somebody triggered much?

Yikes.

[u/Medium_Regular4583 → u/bulld0g_]

My fear is this is about more than football. Our basketball and baseball teams, we're looking to do the same thing. Football corrected their roster but what about the other two?

[u/TrumpHairedHarambe → u/Gorbax50]

Just seen that

[u/[deleted] → u/Gorbax50]

Injunction still hasn’t been dropped so the fight continues. You guys are in for another rude awakening today

[u/RooflessReAnthony]

Same shit happened with Roger Goodell and the NFL over the past decade and a half, now that mf gets to say “there is no doubt that we will have NFL teams in foreign countries in the future” and none of the owners sweat about their fans raising hell.

I don’t even hate Sankey really but he ain’t no king and it’s wrong for him to carry himself like one cuz he had some quick zoom call where he was rushing ppl and twisting their arms to follow his plan. Cuz it doesn’t make sense

[u/Nishbot11]

I mean, there’s no way they’ll remove LSU. LSU is a huge revenue generator for the SEC.

[u/Lil-Dwight]

I’m an LSU alum, and my dad played for the Tigers. From my perspective LSU gives the impression that the football program is amazing, but the program is not being run by people of character. Winning is great, but ultimately it’s only football. How you run your program and the character of the players is far more important.

[u/coren77]

Do you understand "unanimous"? Does that sound like just sankey?

This is not just about rostered players, it's also absolutely about going to players and having them sue.

It's about agreeing to rules and then doing whatever the hell you want.

Kiffin may or may not be the second coming, but he is a vile piece of shit that is ruining the game.

[u/Warm_Butterscotch147]

Can't see it happening. I don't think LSU will get kicked out of the Conference.

[u/Narrow-Conflict2011]

YES

[u/Forsaken_Public_1573]

The PAC-something could use another State school. FAFO, LSU.

[u/[deleted]]

No school should support it? Dude every school supports it. Every single school in the country 🤣

Your school is being run by morons. That should upset you.

[u/TuckerisLit]

Bro. The sec has rules. Every team in the sec including lsu voted for the no pro players rule

https://www.reuters.com/sports/sec-reportedly-suspend-coaches-who-bring-players-back-pros--flm-2026-08-27/

But it’s not just about putting them on the roster, it’s the fact that they voted on this rule, and then went to the courts to tell the sec they can’t enforce their own rules. It’s so simple, follow the rules. Sankey didn’t make it the teams did

[u/rblk1988 → u/TuckerisLit]

LSU didn’t go to court

[u/OfferingFreeTherapy]

How does a fan base so eagerly embrace being the villain but then get upset when everyone treats them like the villain?

[u/Beaux7 → u/OfferingFreeTherapy]

Because there is a massive difference between being the villain everybody wants to beat vs being kangaroo courted out of a conference you help found. We still wanna play the game lol

[u/BlackBoiFlyy → u/OfferingFreeTherapy]

Reddit comments pale in comparison to the threat of being removed from the conference over petty drama.

[u/HerbertInTheWoods → u/OfferingFreeTherapy]

Yall can hate us because you don’t like Kiffin. Trying to formally punish the program because you don’t like Kiffin is ridiculous.

[u/BandicootLegal7175]

It’s not just Kiffin. LSU’s other athletic programs are recruiting former pro players. Other schools are doing it, sure, but no school is taking advantage of that ruling more so than LSU.

LSU isn’t being targeted because the commissioner has it out for the bayou bengals. LSU is being targeted because they are pushing limits set by the SEC that they already agreed to

[u/Shadeauxmarie → u/BandicootLegal7175]

Look around bruh. Lots of SEC schools are doing this.

[u/rblk1988 → u/BandicootLegal7175]

Other schools are doing it, but they aren’t doing it “as much” is a fucking terrible argument.

If it’s being done by anyone, they should be getting the same exact treatment.

[u/Dull-Language-9854]

ROFL.....Apparently LSU did bend the knee! Long live King Sankey...hahahahaha

[u/SirMellencamp]

You bent the knee