CHAPTERS (three, derived from the measured word counts at 155 wpm plus the 20-second ad): ▪ 0:00 — Cold open and the menu ▪ 0:28 — A Sunday opener and a six-day week ▪ 2:40 — The job Golding almost said no to DESCRIPTION: Every headline in America says the SEC got humiliated in court. Here is the contrarian read, and it comes from the best possible source for an Ole Miss audience. What happened: Thursday, Dallas County judge Martin Hoffman issued a temporary restraining order naming the SEC and commissioner Greg Sankey personally. Friday, Baton Rouge judge William Jorden amended his order to add the conference and Sankey, blocking the SEC from imposing the penalties it had just voted in - a half-season head-coach suspension, a fine equal to half of a sport's annual operating budget, and loss of voting rights. Saturday, the SEC told opposing counsel it would comply. Tom Mars - the attorney who won Trinidad Chambliss his year of eligibility - posted that the conferences will ultimately prevail. His reasoning: every state-court win against the NCAA rests on breach of the implied covenant of good faith, and a player can only bring that claim as a third-party beneficiary of the NCAA's contract with its member schools. Mars argues nothing in a conference constitution or bylaws makes players third-party beneficiaries, and that the new conference rules have not been applied inconsistently, arbitrarily or in bad faith the way the NCAA's were. The Ole Miss receipt: in February, Judge Robert Whitwell granted Chambliss his injunction and found the NCAA had breached its duty of good faith and acted in bad faith. Same lawyer, same doctrine, opposite answer. A restraining order is temporary - complying costs the SEC nothing it cannot reclaim at Thursday's preliminary injunction hearing, in federal court, or at trial. Then later - the six days nobody has counted. Ole Miss opens SUNDAY Sept. 6 vs Louisville in Nashville, then plays Charlotte on Saturday Sept. 12. Six days between game one and game two while everyone else gets seven. Honest counterweight: Mars is not a neutral party. He sued Ole Miss on behalf of Houston Nutt in 2017 and won a settlement and a public apology. And his analysis is a post on his own account, not sworn testimony. Did the SEC fold, or did it wait? Make your case in the comments. Locked On Ole Miss Hits - quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy. #OleMiss #HottyToddy #SEC #CollegeFootball #Eligibility #RebelNation #LSU
CHAPTERS (three, derived from the measured word counts at 155 wpm plus the 20-second ad):
▪ 0:00 — Cold open and the menu
▪ 0:28 — A Sunday opener and a six-day week
▪ 2:40 — The job Golding almost said no to
DESCRIPTION:
Every headline in America says the SEC got humiliated in court. Here is the contrarian read, and it comes from the best possible source for an Ole Miss audience.
What happened: Thursday, Dallas County judge Martin Hoffman issued a temporary restraining order naming the SEC and commissioner Greg Sankey personally. Friday, Baton Rouge judge William Jorden amended his order to add the conference and Sankey, blocking the SEC from imposing the penalties it had just voted in - a half-season head-coach suspension, a fine equal to half of a sport's annual operating budget, and loss of voting rights. Saturday, the SEC told opposing counsel it would comply.
Tom Mars - the attorney who won Trinidad Chambliss his year of eligibility - posted that the conferences will ultimately prevail. His reasoning: every state-court win against the NCAA rests on breach of the implied covenant of good faith, and a player can only bring that claim as a third-party beneficiary of the NCAA's contract with its member schools. Mars argues nothing in a conference constitution or bylaws makes players third-party beneficiaries, and that the new conference rules have not been applied inconsistently, arbitrarily or in bad faith the way the NCAA's were.
The Ole Miss receipt: in February, Judge Robert Whitwell granted Chambliss his injunction and found the NCAA had breached its duty of good faith and acted in bad faith. Same lawyer, same doctrine, opposite answer. A restraining order is temporary - complying costs the SEC nothing it cannot reclaim at Thursday's preliminary injunction hearing, in federal court, or at trial.
Then later - the six days nobody has counted. Ole Miss opens SUNDAY Sept. 6 vs Louisville in Nashville, then plays Charlotte on Saturday Sept. 12. Six days between game one and game two while everyone else gets seven.
Honest counterweight: Mars is not a neutral party. He sued Ole Miss on behalf of Houston Nutt in 2017 and won a settlement and a public apology. And his analysis is a post on his own account, not sworn testimony.
Did the SEC fold, or did it wait? Make your case in the comments.
Locked On Ole Miss Hits - quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy.
#OleMiss #HottyToddy #SEC #CollegeFootball #Eligibility #RebelNation #LSU