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Sept. 4, 2026

Exposed Investigates: LSU Versus the SEC

Exposed Investigates: LSU Versus the SEC
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Season 1

Jim Chapman takes a deep dive into the college football eligibility dispute over the NCAA’s shift from a four-for-five rule to a five-for-five model, and how players from the 2022 class say they were treated differently from others who received extra years.

Jim also explains the new age-based system, its limited exceptions, and the lawsuits and amicus brief challenging the NCAA’s changing eligibility decisions. Jim focuses on the conflict involving LSU, Lane Kiffin, and the SEC, including the SEC’s lawsuit over LSU’s discussions about recruiting players who had received temporary court relief.

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Hey everyone, welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite.

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I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and I'm back with a

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very different episode today. Today we are going to talk

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about if, look, if you are a fan of college

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football period, you love this guy or you hate this guy.

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That is Lane Kiffin, head coach of the LSU Tigers.

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And there has been so much going on the past

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few weeks all over the country. And that's important to

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mention before we go any further. This is not an

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issue primarily with LSU and Lane Kiffin. There are 200

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players from all over the country that a lot of

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people are calling NFL players now coming back to college football.

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And this all stems from the 2022 class of college

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football players. I'm going to break it down for you

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today and I'm going to give you the facts of everything.

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And I'm going to go off of actual lawsuits that

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have been filed as long as tell you the result

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of the most recent lawsuit. And I'm going to break

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down what a lot of people are getting very confused

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about in this case and explain to you. why things

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are happening the way they are. So let's get into it.

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So I'm going to give you a bird's eye view

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of what's happening, and then we're going to get into

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these lawsuits. So the first thing I'm going to do

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is I'm going to break down what issues this class

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of 2022, these players from 2022 have with what's going

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on right now. in college football. Now, the NCAA, they

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used to have what was called a four-in-five rule, but

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they changed that recently to what's known as the five-for-five rule. Now,

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this created a problem with the class of 2022, the

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players that started in that year, and their gripe, their argument,

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if you will, is pretty simple. Everyone around them got

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extra years. They did not They spent their careers competing

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against COVID extras, medical extras, JUCO extras, and think Diego

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Pavia from Vanderbilt. He got an extra year due to

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being in a JUCO. And now they're watching younger players

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get a clean fifth season while they're told they cannot

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have a fifth season. Now they say they are still

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inside the five-year college window. And the only reason they

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are shut out is an arbitrary cutoff date. And I

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agree with that. We'll get into more of that. So

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that's the issue. These guys basically, played four years of

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college football and because they weren't injured or they had

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like medical red shirts things like that they were told

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you can't you have no choice but to go to

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the nfl well They all of a sudden changed the

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rule to where you get a fifth year. Let me

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explain to you what the new rule is. The NCAA's

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5 for 5 rule is an age-based eligibility model. It

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was approved in June of 2026. And it replaces the

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old system of four seasons of competition in five years.

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The NCAA itself says the five for five is not

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fully accurate. Athletes who enroll on time generally get up

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to five years of eligibility and But of course, it's

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not a guarantee for anyone and everyone, especially people who

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delay college enrollment. Now, what this rule is supposed to do,

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Division I athletes who enroll no later than the academic

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year after their 19th birthday, they will get up to

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five years of eligibility in a continuous process. five-year window.

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The window starts at the earlier of these two choices.

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First full-time college enrollment or the academic year after the

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athlete turns 19. So if you turn 19 before September 1st,

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the clock starts in the fall. If you turn 19

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after September 1st, the clock starts the following academic year,

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unless they enroll earlier. Now once that clock starts, It

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will not pause for transferring, injuring, sitting out, and limited

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playing time. And why they changed to this system was

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they were attempting to avoid issues with players getting a

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sixth year, like the quarterback from Ole Miss, Chambliss, got.

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This new clear-cut rule would avoid something like that because

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you don't get injury or sick issues. excuses to use

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to say that's why you didn't get your full five years. Now,

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there are some limited exceptions, and it's important to note

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this doesn't just affect football. This is all sports. So pregnancy,

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active duty military, and if you're going on a religious

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mission somewhere, they say that could qualify as an exception

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to the rule. And I know all of that is confusing.

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It actually breaks it down a lot better in the lawsuits,

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and that is what I'm going to get into now. Now,

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there's been several players for LSU who were interested in suing,

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and that's important. LSU didn't sue anybody. Players chose to

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sue the NCAA players. that were forced out of football,

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being told they did not have a fifth year and

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they went to the NFL to try out, to go

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to training camps, et cetera. And then the NCAA changes

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the rule and they were kind of left out in

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the cold because the NCAA chose not to grandfather that

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class in. And that was the biggest mistake. This is

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the NCAA's fault all around. They should have grandfathered The

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2022 class and they did not do that. Jack Pyburn

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came out. He was an LSU player. He challenged this.

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And I'm going to refer to what's known as an

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amicus brief here. that was put out by Liz Murrell.

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And before I get into it, and she's the Attorney

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General in the state of Louisiana, she just offered an

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opinion on this. But before I get into it, I

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do want to say Jack Pyburn actually got picked up

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by a team. So this opinion now is irrelevant because

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Jack Pyburn could not play anyway in college. He is

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currently on an NFL roster. But I do want to

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read this because it is interesting. a brief written specifically

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on Jack Pyburn's case by Liz Murrell, the Attorney General

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of Louisiana. And it reads... In referring to the case,

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this case is a classic bait and switch. The NCAA

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told plaintiffs, members of the class of 2022 who want

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to play college football, they were no longer eligible for

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play after the typical timeline for collegiate competition had run

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its course. Then, shortly thereafter, the NCAA rescinded that decision

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and promised instead that these individuals could receive an additional

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year of eligibility to play for the sport that they love.

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But around April 27th, 2026, the NCAA changed course again

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and once more stripped plaintiffs of their ability to return

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to the field. Many of those players then took the

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NCAA at its word and moved on from college football.

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And that's important, what she just said. That's completely accurate.

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And basically, they were told they cannot come back to

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college football. So they start applying to go to training

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camps to see if they can make an NFL roster.

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It goes on, but the story didn't end there. Following

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developments across the country, plaintiffs followed the growing trend and

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filed a petition in court seeking relief under Louisiana law

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from the NCAA's eligibility determination. On August 28, 2026, this

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court entered a temporary restraining order allowing plaintiffs to pursue

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the opportunity they had been denied, including by requiring they

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be allowed to enter the transfer portal. The NCAA and

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its conferences, however, have their own rules governing the consequences

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for institutions that allow athletes to compete contrary to those rules.

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The result is a struggle that reaches past the plaintiffs themselves.

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Louisiana's public universities now face the prospect... of having to

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comply with this court's order while risking serious penalties from

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the governing body of the sport. The NCAA's ever-changing rules

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have consequences beyond these individual athletes. They affect the universities

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that recruit them, the other student athletes with whom they compete,

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and coaches and administrators responsible for complying with increasingly... complicated

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rules and those rules can determine who gets a roster

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spot who receives a scholarship who plays in death valley

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on saturday and it forces louisiana's public universities and student

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athletes into a no-win situation the state of louisiana cares

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deeply about that problem louisiana's public universities and their student

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athletes are participants in this convoluted arrangement and have struggled

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under the broken system for years now and they have

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operated there under often without having access to a fair

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and unbiased decision-maker. The Louisiana Constitution protects all Louisiana citizens

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access to open courts and likewise promises them that they

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may rely on resulting court decisions. Ultimately, the state has

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an interest in college sport rules that are fair, consistent,

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and predictable. These plaintiffs entered college expecting to be treated

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as compared to all athletes they competed against. They subsequently

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confronted changes to the rules governing their fifth season of

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competition while their eligibility was ongoing. The NCAA first treated

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these athletes as ineligible, later provided a pathway for additional year,

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and then changed course again. the incessant back and forth

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made compliance with the NCAA rules nearly impossible. By the

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time the rules changed again, some plaintiffs had already graduated,

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pursued professional opportunities, entered pro contracts, or otherwise moved forward

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with their lives based on the understanding that their college

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careers have ended. Others did not enter the transfer portal

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because under the rules, they would have had little practical purpose.

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But all operated under the rules set by the NCAA

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as written. And then it goes on to discuss some

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other things related that really I don't need to repeat.

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But essentially what she's saying is just what I just

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told you. The NCAA told these players you have no

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more eligibility. They start going to these training camps trying

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to make pro teams because what else are they going

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to do? And then the NCAA changes the freaking rules.

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and doesn't grandfather them in. And that is not fair.

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So they're full within their rights to sue the NCAA.

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And it's important to mention, this is not the college

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football of old. These players are getting paid now. Had

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they not been getting paid, it wouldn't have been that

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big of a deal. But the NCAA not grandfathering the

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2022 class in costs them a lot of real money, y'all.

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So LSU, along with Texas and other schools, Missouri, Arkansas,

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and a slew of Big Ten schools and schools all

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over the country, they started looking into this. Now, Lane Kiffin,

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very high profile. In some circles, people just flat out

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do not like Lane Kiffin. So anything he touches, they're

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going to criticize. There were a few players that LSU

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was interested in in Lane Kiffin. And so their stance was, hey,

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If these guys are found to be just in what

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they're saying, in other words, if a court gives them

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a temporary restraining order and allows them to play football,

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we're going to recruit them. They're players. They're in the portal.

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And we're going to recruit them and try to get

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them on our team. But we're going to follow all

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the rules. as it relates to what a court says. Well,

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these players did get a temporary restraining order and LSU

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starts talking to them. The SEC, however, had a problem

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with that because they said, hold up, this violates our rules.

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The true fact is, regardless of what the SEC, which

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it's important to mention, this is not a corporation, y'all.

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The SEC is a club. It's basically made up of

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school presidents for every school that is represented in the SEC.

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They meet and they try to manage that conference, if

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you will. But they're not a corporation. They're just a group.

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It's like a club. LSU is part of that club. Well,

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all these other presidents in this club, if you will,

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basically said, oh, no, y'all can't do that. Y'all cannot

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recruit NFL players. Now, let me make this clear. These

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are not people that, you know, Brett Favre's not coming

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back and playing for LSU. Anyone that is on a

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pro team, on a pro team, has made one and

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has a pro contract is not coming back to college football.

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These are players that went to training camp. Some cases

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they didn't even do that, but some of them did.

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They went to training camp and they got cut. So

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they were never on a team. They practiced and tried

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out and didn't make the cut. Important to mention that.

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But the SEC still doesn't like it. And they were

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making that known all over the media. Before I go

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any further with this, because I'm going to bring you

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in to where these players actually sued in a Louisiana

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court to get the right to play just a few

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days ago. But before I get into that, I'm going

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to play you a series of clips right now. of

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Lane Kiffin actually commenting on this stuff just this past week. Now,

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the first clip I'm going to play you is where

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a reporter in an LSU press conference asked Lane Kiffin

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specifically about these players because there were a lot of

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rumors going around that the team basically was getting the

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red ass because Lane Kiffin was going to let these

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quote NFL players play. on his roster. What about the

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players on the team already? Somebody's already got a spot

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and this person's taking their spot and he answered that

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question right here. Listen to this.

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I probably am in the minority of how I make

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decisions and probably not what most coaches do. I feel

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like my decisions should always be made in the best

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interest of the players that sit in this team room

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and not but for my reputation and how the decisions

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play in the national media or other fan bases.

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I've never been that way, and that could be wrong.

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It's probably part of my story why it is the

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way it is, but those players and the people that

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hire me always know he's constantly trying to do the

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best thing for them. So I struggled with it a lot.

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There's a lot of factors into it and different things,

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and one that I struggled too was, okay, this late,

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even though that's what you do in the NFL, And

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there's an argument these players are paid like that. And

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it's what happened yesterday in the NFL. New players come

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in and take people's spots and added to rosters. And

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other guys have been there working. So I met with

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our leadership committee of our players. And I asked them,

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it's your team. What do you want to do? If

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these players are allowed to be added to rosters, what

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do you want to do? And every one of them

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was emphatic about that. they can help us win, bring them. And,

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you know, we understand that, you know, we have a

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team that's practiced together, worked together all off season, but.

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One of them said, Hey, this is how it works

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at the next level. And this is how the real

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world works.

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You know, there aren't days you can't bring employees into, um,

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certain jobs to help the, help the company. So, um,

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that made me feel a little better in the struggle

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and being torn back and forth.

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Um, So we'll wait to hear for more guidance.

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The SEC issued guidance in our question about that they'll

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follow court orders. And so we'll wait until this week

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to see if there's any more guidance. And the question

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whether myself as the head coach of football and will

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football follow SEC orders, I said it earlier this morning

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when asked, of course we will.

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Now you just heard him right there say, I met

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with the leadership of the team. That's four or five

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players that make up a leadership council for LSU football team.

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They speak for all the players and they said, Hey,

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if they can help the team, bring them. So that

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should have put that to bed right there. But of course,

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some people just can't accept that players are okay with that.

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As a matter of fact, one of those players that's

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on that leadership team came out, verified that that conversation

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did occur with LSU's leadership team inside that locker room

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and that they were all for it. So moving on

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from that, the next clip I'm going to play for

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you is Kiffin speaking on these athletes filing the lawsuits

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and kind of giving his take on that. Here's that.

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Yeah, there was never... First off, a lot of athletes

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filed these.

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Injunctions or temporary restraining orders around the country against the

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NCAA that were in this fifth year and felt their

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attorneys and them felt they should get that year back

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because of the NCAA not handling it properly. So as

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they started to win these cases, obviously, then came in

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conference rules. And so I don't think it was much

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of a surprise very much surprised if those kids' attorneys

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or those kids, they feel they have a court order

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saying they can play, and now if they're restricted by

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someone to not, they brought a court order against the conference.

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So there's no intent, nor there ever was, to play

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somebody that we're not supposed to in order of an

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SEC rule. So I think, again, I'm not the spokesperson.

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I think now you're waiting to see Thursday, you know,

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The SEC had a stance, made a rule.

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A judge felt that they couldn't do that to the players.

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So we'll be practicing, focused on Clemson and spending our

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time on that all week. And they can figure out

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the rest and we'll just wait for guidance.

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I mean, I don't understand why anybody could have a

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problem with this. He explained it pretty good right there.

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And he's saying, look, we're going to follow whatever rules

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the courts decide. And we've been communicating with the SEC

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on this stuff. Now, the next clip I'm going to

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play you is regarding why there's such a rush to

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to get this decision for these players. I mean, obviously,

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it's the start of the season, but it goes a

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little beyond that, and I'm going to let you listen

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to this clip of Lane Kiffin explaining that.

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The SEC has a rule, which I think is the

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only conference, that we make our list the day before

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the first competition for the first game, so for almost

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everybody Friday. We have to turn a list in of

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the 105 to the SEC, and that is locked. That

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cannot move. from my understanding from our conference. So you've

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got to make decisions, unless there's information I don't know,

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by Friday for that. Now, it's not your question, but

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I don't also look at, you know, there's a lot

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of people say, well, how could you take players then

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and then they'll be ready for the game?

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It's a long season.

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So I don't, in my opinion, you don't, just like

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in the NFL, they take people in week one knowing that, hey,

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They'll have them ready by week two, three, four, and

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then they'll be playing their best and they'll know their system.

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Every coach obviously runs their program the way they want

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to and they see things differently and I respect that.

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I think that we create systems that help this for

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people coming late. We did it last year. Trinidad got

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to us in the summer last year. Not that much

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earlier as a quarterback, so I think we could do

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it with other players.

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Then the players that had an interest in going to LSU, well,

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they went to a Louisiana court and they said, SEC

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is trying to stop us from playing. The NCAA is

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trying to stop us from playing. And we're taking this

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to court. We're going to stand in front of a

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judge and plead our case, and that's just what happened

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just yesterday from this recording. When it was all said

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and done, the judge agreed with the players and said,

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I'm going to give you all a TRO, a temporary

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restraining order, because this is certainly going to go through

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the court system.

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But.

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We're not going to allow anybody to stop you from

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playing until this is determined that you cannot play. So

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what that means is these players can play college football. Now,

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they've never played pro ball. They tried out for pro

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ball and got cut. Very important. I'm going to say

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that several times. But here's the shady thing and the

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thing I didn't like, and that was the Southeastern Conference,

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30 minutes into this court session, drops a lawsuit in

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federal court out of the Northern District of Alabama, which

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is where they're headquartered. I know a lot of people

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are saying that was to add insult to injury because

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LSU and Alabama are such rivals. They're headquartered there, so

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that actually made sense to me that they would file

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that in the Northern District of Alabama. But they filed

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this lawsuit, and I want to be fair, and I

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want to give their argument for this. The introduction says,

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For more than 90 years, the Southeastern Conference has stood

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as the intersection of higher education and elite athletic competition.

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Founded in 1933 by university presidents who believed that athletics

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should promote and serve educational values, the SEC is now

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the nation's premier athletic conference. Today, the SEC is a

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16-member association. The presidents and chancellors of the SEC's member

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institutions say, have governed together across generations, operating under a

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set of shared rules that have shaped the athletic and

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educational paths of thousands of student athletes and provided the

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competitive integrity and fair competition necessary for the SEC to thrive.

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Those rules are not fine print. They are the governing

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framework that keeps college sports unique, protects opportunities for high

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school and college athletes, and preserves competitive equity and fair competition.

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The SEC has endured and thrived for nearly a century

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because its members have adhered to a common set of

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rules which each member institution and every coach has agreed

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to follow. Among the most fundamental of those rules are

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the longstanding provisions that prohibit individuals who have entered a

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professional draft, signed professional contracts, or been rostered on professional

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athletic teams from returning to college athletics. Those rules are

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built upon an essential principle. College athletics is reserved for

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students who are actively pursuing an education while competing for universities.

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The rules preserve competitive fairness, protect opportunities for high school

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students and current college athletes, and maintain the distinction between

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college and professional sports. that distinction is critical to the

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SEC's member institutions, their presidents, chancellors, and fans. This case

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arises from defendants' violation of SEC's First Amendment right of

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expressive association, specifically defendants, and in this case, It is

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Lane Kiffin, who is the head coach of LSU, along

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with Virg Osberry, who is the vice president and director

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of athletics at Louisiana State University, and Wade Roos, in

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his official capacity, is the president of Louisiana State University. So,

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It's important to mention they're suing individuals because there is

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a longstanding law that says a federal court cannot sue

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a state court. So the way they circumvent that or

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get around it is to sue individuals involved in the scenario.

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And that's what's going on here. So it says specifically,

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these defendants waged a deliberate and coordinated campaign to recruit

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professional athletes to play football for LSU during 2026-27 season.

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including players who had signed NFL contracts with the Cleveland Browns,

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New Orleans Saints, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Numerous reports have

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shown at least two of these athletes are on campus

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and actively practicing with the LSU football team. Defendants have

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also expressed their unequivocal intent to place those athletes on

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LSU's official roster and allow them to participate in football

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games during the upcoming season. Every SEC institution, including LSU,

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has affirmed that individuals who choose to leave college athletics,

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sign professional playing contracts, and compete professionally should not be

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permitted to return to college competition. Just days ago, on

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August 25, 2026, LSU voted in favor of the SEC

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issuing a policy statement clarifying its longstanding rules prohibit an

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SEC institution from having a professional athlete. on its roster. Nevertheless,

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defendants have continued their campaign to engage in willful efforts

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to recruit and roster professional athletes in direct defiance of

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the professionalism rules. This conduct is detrimental to the conference

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and contrary to its core purpose. Defendants' conduct has already

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harmed the conference and threatens to cause further substantial harm

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if not stopped. Through their actions, defendants have compelled the

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SEC and each of its institutions to associate with conduct

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that every member institution, including until recently LSU, has repudiated.

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As a result, defendants have violated the SEC's Expressive Association

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requirements under the First Amendment of the Constitution. The SEC

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brings this action to vindicate its First Amendment right of

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expressive association, its right not to be forced to associate

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its competitions, brand, or championships with conduct that has expressly

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been condemned since the founding of the SEC. They also

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seek a declaratory and injunctive relief to vindicate the SEC's

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right to dissociate from conduct that directly undermines the SEC's

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purpose and core values. The SEC does not bring this

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action to declare any student athlete ineligible or to prevent

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any student athlete from participating in athletic competition.

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Bullshit.

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That right there, that one sentence absolutely pissed me off

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because you can't file this lawsuit saying any school that

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accepts these players is going to go through suspensions and

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get millions of dollars of fines. You can't do that

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and then say, we don't have any problem with these

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players playing and we don't have any problem from them

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participating in athletic competition, but we just have a problem

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with them doing it here. You can't do that. It

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goes on to say this action is directed solely at

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the member institution and athletic department personnel that have violated

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the SEC's rights under the First Amendment. That's basically how

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that section of the lawsuit ends. reads. Now, before we

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go any further and comment any further on this SEC lawsuit,

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I want to play you Attorney General Liz Murrell, who

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went on Matt Moscona's After Further Review podcast, and she

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was on the phone. She actually called in during court

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for these players that were suing in the Louisiana court.

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during a recess, and she took some time with Matt

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Moscona to explain her thoughts on the SEC filing this

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lawsuit right in the middle of this hearing with these

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players determining if they could play. Listen to this.

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A few questions about today's testimony in a moment, but

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if I could first get a reaction on the SEC

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filing a lawsuit in federal court against LSU, Wade Roos,

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Spurge Osbury, and Lane Kiffin.

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Yeah, I mean, I think it's legal gamesmanship. They're trying to,

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you know, it was pretty clear that that's what it

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was when 35 minutes or 40 minutes into the hearing

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this morning, we find out that they've filed a lawsuit

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in federal court in the Northern district of Alabama against

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LSU and LSU officials. Really it's against the board of

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supervisors and some other LSU officials. You know, the allegations

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are garbage. They, they claim that LSU recruited these athletes

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to file this lawsuit. I can tell you, I'm here

468
00:30:18.490 --> 00:30:21.630
with them. They are, they've been here all day. They

469
00:30:21.670 --> 00:30:25.269
are waiting right now for their opportunity to speak. And they,

470
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:29.059
Two of them have already just testified. And, you know,

471
00:30:29.099 --> 00:30:33.200
it's very clear that they are genuine in their desire

472
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:35.599
to play and to have an opportunity. And they just

473
00:30:35.660 --> 00:30:38.720
wanted a fair hearing and a fair forum to have

474
00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:41.329
that determined because they certainly weren't getting that from the

475
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:42.740
SEC or the NCAA.

476
00:30:43.289 --> 00:30:47.250
You mentioned legal gamesmanship. What is the benefit of the

477
00:30:47.410 --> 00:30:51.970
SEC filing that suit during this court proceeding?

478
00:30:53.450 --> 00:30:58.339
Well, I mean, the... The implication, I think, that they wanted,

479
00:30:58.359 --> 00:31:01.259
and it could be just for press purposes for all

480
00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:04.000
I know, I mean, was to suggest that they could

481
00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:09.440
get a federal injunction that would essentially override any state

482
00:31:09.509 --> 00:31:13.670
court order that allowed these students to play. But, you know, remember,

483
00:31:13.710 --> 00:31:17.670
you're looking at two different parties. You've got student athletes

484
00:31:17.730 --> 00:31:20.849
who are seeking an opportunity to play. And then you've

485
00:31:20.910 --> 00:31:23.269
now got a federal lawsuit over there where they are

486
00:31:23.309 --> 00:31:28.599
trying to enjoin a handful of individuals who work for

487
00:31:28.819 --> 00:31:33.839
LSU or the Board of Supervisors from being able to

488
00:31:34.019 --> 00:31:37.529
do anything that would effectuate the rights that these students

489
00:31:37.619 --> 00:31:43.430
might obtain through an injunction issued by this court. Look,

490
00:31:43.470 --> 00:31:47.390
I think the lawsuit that they filed in Alabama is frivolous.

491
00:31:47.589 --> 00:31:52.069
They're claiming that there is a violation of the SEC's

492
00:31:54.339 --> 00:32:00.529
and their member schools' First Amendment rights to expressive association.

493
00:32:00.630 --> 00:32:03.349
What that really means is that somebody's trying to prevent

494
00:32:03.390 --> 00:32:07.329
them from talking or advocating, and nobody's done that. They

495
00:32:07.349 --> 00:32:09.240
can say whatever they want. They've all been doing it.

496
00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:12.900
They've been out on Twitter and everywhere else all morning

497
00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:16.559
saying that they think the SEC should stick it to LSU.

498
00:32:16.740 --> 00:32:21.190
So nobody has stopped them from expressing themselves any way

499
00:32:21.230 --> 00:32:24.250
they deem appropriate. This is really about the rules that

500
00:32:24.289 --> 00:32:28.509
are being applied by the NCAA and the SEC and

501
00:32:28.569 --> 00:32:31.970
how they are being applied in a manner that affects

502
00:32:32.190 --> 00:32:35.819
the economic and rights and opportunities of these students.

503
00:32:36.859 --> 00:32:39.819
Attorney General Liz Murrell is with us. Something I shared

504
00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:41.900
with our audience that you shared with me earlier via

505
00:32:41.980 --> 00:32:46.000
text is that, was your feeling that LSU, as an

506
00:32:46.059 --> 00:32:49.329
arm of the state, has sovereign immunity and therefore has

507
00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:54.339
the SEC couldn't sue LSU as an arm of, of

508
00:32:54.380 --> 00:32:58.680
the state. Can you explain what that means? Like, like

509
00:32:59.059 --> 00:33:01.589
a five and then how they were able to do,

510
00:33:01.710 --> 00:33:03.690
how they're able to do it if they're not allowed to?

511
00:33:04.670 --> 00:33:04.950
Yeah.

512
00:33:05.029 --> 00:33:09.849
Here's your legal constitutional law minute. You know, it's a,

513
00:33:10.250 --> 00:33:13.150
it's a little confusing. I mean, if people get confused

514
00:33:13.210 --> 00:33:15.319
by it, they shouldn't feel bad. I mean, I think there's,

515
00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:18.960
Everyone else, student, whoever learns about this is probably still

516
00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:21.240
confused about it even after they get out of law school.

517
00:33:21.720 --> 00:33:24.720
But there's, you know, the concept of sovereign immunity is

518
00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:28.599
that the state can't be sued in federal court. So

519
00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:32.099
it's a matter of comedy between the two different types

520
00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:34.640
of government, the federal government and the state's government. So

521
00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:37.829
when we are sued in federal court, we aren't sued

522
00:33:38.109 --> 00:33:42.930
as the state. or a state agency or arm of

523
00:33:42.990 --> 00:33:45.670
the state. And LSU is an arm of the state.

524
00:33:46.450 --> 00:33:51.440
But what they can do is sue individuals who are

525
00:33:52.740 --> 00:33:56.500
employed by the state and who have official duties. And

526
00:33:56.799 --> 00:34:00.359
that's how they get around sovereign immunity, is that they

527
00:34:00.460 --> 00:34:03.799
sue an individual and they say, that individual is violating

528
00:34:03.819 --> 00:34:07.769
my constitutional rights under the color of law. And so

529
00:34:07.869 --> 00:34:13.230
I want that individual to stop violating my rights, and you, court,

530
00:34:13.309 --> 00:34:17.219
should stop them by issuing an injunction. So that's essentially

531
00:34:17.260 --> 00:34:19.900
what the SEC has done. They've claimed that they have

532
00:34:19.940 --> 00:34:24.440
a constitutional right. And remember, it's not even an actual association.

533
00:34:25.260 --> 00:34:29.550
It is a bunch of schools that voluntarily get together

534
00:34:29.619 --> 00:34:33.929
and agree to something. So it's not an incorporated entity.

535
00:34:33.969 --> 00:34:37.869
It's not a corporation. It's not incorporated under any of

536
00:34:38.010 --> 00:34:41.989
our general business rules that would give it any kind

537
00:34:42.050 --> 00:34:47.559
of personhood or constitutional rights. Corporations can have constitutional rights,

538
00:34:47.619 --> 00:34:49.400
but the SEC is not a corporation.

539
00:34:50.059 --> 00:34:50.940
It's just a bunch of.

540
00:34:50.940 --> 00:34:54.860
Component schools that make up its membership. And some of

541
00:34:54.929 --> 00:34:58.849
those schools are state, arms of the state, like LSU,

542
00:34:58.989 --> 00:35:02.889
and so they don't have constitutional rights. So I think

543
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:08.190
there's a lot of defects in that pleading, but we

544
00:35:08.210 --> 00:35:10.829
will have to sort those out as we go along

545
00:35:11.110 --> 00:35:14.070
in the federal suit. And they have to serve us,

546
00:35:14.170 --> 00:35:18.210
for starters. Nobody's been served in that lawsuit. So that's

547
00:35:18.269 --> 00:35:20.909
going to take a little time to sort all that out.

548
00:35:21.190 --> 00:35:23.829
A couple more minutes here with Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrow.

549
00:35:23.849 --> 00:35:25.110
Good enough to join us. She's been down at the

550
00:35:25.150 --> 00:35:28.019
courtroom at the 19th JDC all day. You mentioned some

551
00:35:28.059 --> 00:35:31.159
notable testimony. By the way, do you know which players

552
00:35:31.179 --> 00:35:38.550
have already testified? It's okay if not. I know you're not...

553
00:35:38.449 --> 00:35:40.949
I'm the sports guy. You're the state attorney general. It's fine.

554
00:35:40.989 --> 00:35:43.570
The two soccer players.

555
00:35:43.969 --> 00:35:44.250
Okay.

556
00:35:44.389 --> 00:35:45.610
The two LSU soccer players?

557
00:35:46.150 --> 00:35:46.489
Correct.

558
00:35:46.690 --> 00:35:46.969
Okay.

559
00:35:47.929 --> 00:35:53.650
Do either Commissioner Sankey or the two athletes that you

560
00:35:53.670 --> 00:35:57.929
heard testify, what do you think just from your legal opinion,

561
00:35:58.090 --> 00:36:01.550
was notable in any of the testimony?

562
00:36:04.789 --> 00:36:06.889
You know, first of all, he was evasive. I mean,

563
00:36:06.909 --> 00:36:09.550
he acted like he had never read the five-on-five rule.

564
00:36:09.650 --> 00:36:12.070
I thought that was absurd. I mean, with as much

565
00:36:12.150 --> 00:36:15.590
litigation going on around the country, all of it centered

566
00:36:15.650 --> 00:36:18.230
around the NCAA and the SEC, and here is an

567
00:36:18.269 --> 00:36:22.030
individual who is paid $ 4. 8 million a year to know

568
00:36:22.070 --> 00:36:24.150
what his own rules are, and he said he didn't

569
00:36:24.170 --> 00:36:26.050
know what the rule was. He had never read the

570
00:36:26.090 --> 00:36:29.630
rule until today, which is absurd. So I thought that

571
00:36:29.650 --> 00:36:35.590
was kind of disingenuous and probably, you know, just evasive.

572
00:36:35.690 --> 00:36:37.159
I don't think it you know, I don't think the

573
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:41.760
judge thought it was very credible. You know, he's he's here.

574
00:36:41.820 --> 00:36:44.760
He flew here on his private jet and he did

575
00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:47.099
not have the courtesy to even stay and listen in.

576
00:36:47.940 --> 00:36:51.170
to these students testify about why they want to play

577
00:36:51.210 --> 00:36:53.710
and why they think this is unfair. And I think that,

578
00:36:53.909 --> 00:36:57.550
I think that was, you know, also, you know, for

579
00:36:57.610 --> 00:36:59.550
someone who sat on the stand and acted like he

580
00:36:59.630 --> 00:37:03.960
actually cared about them and that they, you know, his

581
00:37:04.179 --> 00:37:06.980
actions actually show that he doesn't.

582
00:37:07.380 --> 00:37:08.659
Did Commissioner Sankey leave?

583
00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:11.659
He's going down the elevator as we speak.

584
00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:13.090
You want to hand him the phone?

585
00:37:14.130 --> 00:37:14.550
Tell him it's me.

586
00:37:14.590 --> 00:37:15.489
Well, I don't know.

587
00:37:15.510 --> 00:37:19.349
Yeah, he's getting on the elevator with his posse.

588
00:37:19.789 --> 00:37:22.130
Attorney General Lismore. Are they about to resume?

589
00:37:23.710 --> 00:37:24.650
We are shortly, yeah.

590
00:37:24.769 --> 00:37:26.090
Okay, I don't want to take up too much of

591
00:37:26.110 --> 00:37:28.710
your time. It's very much appreciated. If I asked you,

592
00:37:29.030 --> 00:37:31.369
and with a few people out in the courtroom, it

593
00:37:31.389 --> 00:37:34.369
kind of sounds like things might be leaning toward the players.

594
00:37:35.530 --> 00:37:37.369
I don't know that as an attorney you're really in

595
00:37:37.389 --> 00:37:41.530
the prediction business, but what should someone listening, following all this,

596
00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:44.900
think the next steps are going to be in all

597
00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:46.119
of this? Because it doesn't seem like this is going

598
00:37:46.139 --> 00:37:46.679
to end today.

599
00:37:48.320 --> 00:37:50.710
You know, it's really, it's hard to say. I mean,

600
00:37:50.769 --> 00:37:52.690
I think the judge is a good judge. He's a

601
00:37:52.789 --> 00:37:56.849
smart judge. He's been very attentive. You know, I think

602
00:37:56.889 --> 00:38:00.840
that he, I've seen him in other cases where he

603
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:05.860
may be very sympathetic to the plaintiff and still rule

604
00:38:05.900 --> 00:38:08.860
against the plaintiff because that's what the law demands of him.

605
00:38:08.900 --> 00:38:11.800
So I don't know what he will do. You know,

606
00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:17.750
I think that the students, they are getting a fair, unbiased,

607
00:38:17.909 --> 00:38:22.210
I think, forum to be able to air this grievance.

608
00:38:22.349 --> 00:38:24.869
And I think that's something they were not getting before.

609
00:38:24.989 --> 00:38:27.860
So they've been able to benefit from that. What he

610
00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:33.739
will do, I couldn't say. If he does issue an injunction, then,

611
00:38:34.099 --> 00:38:35.780
you know, the next thing we're going to hear is

612
00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:39.889
whether he issues any kind of contempt penalties against the

613
00:38:40.050 --> 00:38:43.230
SEC for trying to do an end run or against

614
00:38:43.269 --> 00:38:45.230
the NCAA, I guess, for trying to do an end

615
00:38:45.269 --> 00:38:50.429
run around his earlier court order by working in concert

616
00:38:50.469 --> 00:38:53.659
with the SEC to try and do kind of through

617
00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:55.480
the back door what they couldn't do through the front door.

618
00:38:56.559 --> 00:38:58.579
So we'll see. I mean, I don't know how that

619
00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:02.179
will all go. The Alabama stuff will have to play

620
00:39:02.199 --> 00:39:04.980
itself out. I mean, there'll be proceedings. We'll file motions

621
00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:08.820
to dismiss that case. or to transfer it, I'm sure.

622
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:11.480
I mean, why it's just in Northern District of Alabama,

623
00:39:11.500 --> 00:39:15.010
it should be, the SEC kind of claims it's not

624
00:39:15.070 --> 00:39:17.670
really a thing. It's just a bunch of member schools.

625
00:39:18.010 --> 00:39:21.610
So it's not, it has no juridical personhood. I don't

626
00:39:21.650 --> 00:39:24.570
know why they would be able to stay in Alabama.

627
00:39:25.349 --> 00:39:28.989
And y'all, this is the Attorney General, Liz Murrell, who

628
00:39:29.210 --> 00:39:32.940
understands the law as good as anybody or better in

629
00:39:32.980 --> 00:39:35.110
the state of Louisiana. And she just broke it down

630
00:39:35.139 --> 00:39:37.210
for you right there. I couldn't agree with her more.

631
00:39:37.590 --> 00:39:42.699
This is ridiculous. These players involved, at least in the

632
00:39:42.900 --> 00:39:46.739
LSU side of things, all testified under oath yesterday that

633
00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:50.260
LSU had nothing to do with their decision to want

634
00:39:50.300 --> 00:39:53.539
to come back and play another year of college football.

635
00:39:54.559 --> 00:39:57.090
They had nothing to do with it. These players said,

636
00:39:57.409 --> 00:40:02.690
we were not recruited by LSU until after we pursued

637
00:40:03.369 --> 00:40:08.409
trying to get that fifth year of eligibility in college football.

638
00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:12.099
That's all that needs to be said. LSU did not

639
00:40:12.199 --> 00:40:18.130
sue the NCAA. These players did. So for the SEC

640
00:40:18.369 --> 00:40:23.829
to come out and sue LSU over this is absolutely ridiculous.

641
00:40:24.570 --> 00:40:29.260
It's BS. And really, LSU ought to turn around and

642
00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:35.289
file a frivolous lawsuit complaint against the SEC. This right

643
00:40:35.329 --> 00:40:39.190
here has become a major pissing contest. And a lot

644
00:40:39.210 --> 00:40:41.909
of people out there that I've talked to and listened

645
00:40:41.929 --> 00:40:44.840
to have said, well, you know what? These are going

646
00:40:44.860 --> 00:40:48.280
to be two or three players. They're going to primarily

647
00:40:48.340 --> 00:40:52.539
be backups, second string people. They're going to play 20,

648
00:40:52.539 --> 00:40:56.820
30 snaps a game. Why doesn't LSU just wave the

649
00:40:56.880 --> 00:41:00.780
red flag? Well, it's kind of become a principle issue.

650
00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:04.539
as well as a legal issue. The SEC right now

651
00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:10.230
is trying to bully LSU into just not pursuing these players.

652
00:41:10.909 --> 00:41:14.949
And LSU is not a school that's going to allow

653
00:41:15.349 --> 00:41:18.750
the SEC to bully them. We bring a lot to

654
00:41:18.769 --> 00:41:22.500
the SEC. Do people realize we are a founding member

655
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:27.110
of the SEC? the Southeastern Conference. So LSU is not

656
00:41:27.230 --> 00:41:31.130
going to back down to this, especially now. And I

657
00:41:31.190 --> 00:41:34.250
don't blame them. I don't have any problem with that.

658
00:41:34.349 --> 00:41:36.639
These players, if they want to play at LSU and

659
00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:40.000
they're good enough to play and a judge has ruled

660
00:41:40.059 --> 00:41:43.880
them eligible to play, they should be able to do that.

661
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:50.380
Nobody on LSU's side is breaking any rules that And

662
00:41:50.389 --> 00:41:53.719
when you give in to somebody trying to big dog

663
00:41:53.780 --> 00:41:57.139
you like the SEC is doing, you're always going to

664
00:41:57.159 --> 00:42:01.840
get big dogged. The SEC is wrong for this. They

665
00:42:01.900 --> 00:42:05.400
need to follow the courts. If the courts say these

666
00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:09.619
boys can play, they need to fall in line with that.

667
00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:13.360
That's my opinion on it. I do not think LSU

668
00:42:13.429 --> 00:42:18.380
should waver a white flag and just say, we give up. Sorry,

669
00:42:18.719 --> 00:42:21.920
that's not the way I feel. These players deserve better

670
00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:26.320
than that. The mess in college football has nothing to

671
00:42:26.380 --> 00:42:30.739
do with LSU. This is a nationwide thing. That's why

672
00:42:30.940 --> 00:42:37.340
Chambliss is in his sixth year at Ole Miss playing quarterback.

673
00:42:38.340 --> 00:42:42.519
College sports right now has some issues. It's kind of

674
00:42:42.539 --> 00:42:46.090
like the Wild West. And it's up to the NCAA

675
00:42:46.110 --> 00:42:49.969
to fix that, not LSU. They're playing within the rules.

676
00:42:50.489 --> 00:42:52.929
So this is just kind of an extra episode. I

677
00:42:52.969 --> 00:42:56.119
wanted to bring that to you for those that may

678
00:42:56.139 --> 00:42:58.420
be interested in it. It's making a lot of news

679
00:42:58.460 --> 00:43:01.739
in the sports world. I don't usually cover sports related

680
00:43:01.889 --> 00:43:05.750
stuff like this, but it is a lawsuit. It is

681
00:43:05.829 --> 00:43:09.590
making big news. And that fits what we do here

682
00:43:09.869 --> 00:43:13.429
on Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite. Thank you so much.

683
00:43:13.510 --> 00:43:17.639
I'm Jim Chapman for Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite.

684
00:43:18.380 --> 00:43:19.039
Much love.