Lane Kiffin went on the Pat McAfee Show to argue that conferences cannot pick and choose which court orders to follow. Nobody is defying a court order — those injunctions bind the NCAA — and by the time he made the argument, the Southeastern Conference had already approved a ban on former professional players returning to college rosters. Per Yahoo Sports, the SEC statement says college athletes, not former professional athletes, have been at the heart of the conference. The Big Ten version carries a coach suspension of half a season plus an institutional fine. The SEC granted commissioner Greg Sankey full and unlimited authority, up to and including suspending a school from competition.
Lane Kiffin went on the Pat McAfee Show to argue that conferences cannot pick and choose which court orders to follow. Nobody is defying a court order — those injunctions bind the NCAA — and by the time he made the argument, the Southeastern Conference had already approved a ban on former professional players returning to college rosters.
Per Yahoo Sports, the SEC statement says college athletes, not former professional athletes, have been at the heart of the conference. The Big Ten version carries a coach suspension of half a season plus an institutional fine. The SEC granted commissioner Greg Sankey full and unlimited authority, up to and including suspending a school from competition.
The honest counterweight: Kiffin is right that nobody told these players in December that a fifth year was coming, and that is unfair to them. That grievance belongs to the NCAA, not to the two leagues closing the hole.
Then the view from inside Ole Miss. Three former Rebels — Dae'Quan Wright, Zxavian Harris and Wydett Williams — were granted a fifth year by a Louisiana court and entered the portal on August 20. LSU is recruiting them. Ole Miss declined, and Golding's reason was a roster list, not a sermon: the available players did not fit a need, and the rooms that actually got thin in camp were cornerback and offensive line.
The version where this gets hard: if Wright played corner, it is a different call entirely.
Would you have taken him anyway? Comments.
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CHAPTERS (derived from the measured word counts above at 155 wpm plus the 20-second ad):
00:00 The Sec Already Voted
2:31 Sponsor break — Kalshi
2:51 Ole Miss Said No