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Lane Kiffin + LSU Football Just EXPOSED SEC & SPEEDS UP NFL Players RETURN? · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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  Speaker 1: Boys, it is getting crazy around here. What's up, Tigers fans?
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  Speaker 1: What's up, LSU and Lane Kiffin haters? Because I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you guys are tuned in for this one as well.
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  Speaker 1: College athletics has found another massive standoff that we've all
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  Speaker 1: forced ourselves into. We are college football addiction, and we
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  Speaker 1: But LSU Tigers football is currently sitting at the center
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  Speaker 1: of of a high-stakes legal collision between conference authority and
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  Speaker 1: the courtroom. The lawsuits don't actually mention LSU, and LSU
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  Speaker 1: hasn't sued anybody. But when you look at the drama
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  Speaker 1: that is happening right now in our sports, they are
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  Speaker 1: clearly in the middle of it. There have been aggressive
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  Speaker 1: roster maneuvers, and there are brand-new league policies that have
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  Speaker 1: pushed tensions in this field to a boiling point over
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  Speaker 1: the last few days. The stakes for really not only
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  Speaker 1: LSU's program, but every program in the country could not
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  Speaker 1: be much higher than they are right now. That's true
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  Speaker 1: for LSU, both on the sideline and behind closed doors.
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  Speaker 1: And depending on how this battle plays out, the potential
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  Speaker 1: fallout could reshape the entire season and sport. If you've
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  Speaker 1: been following the drama this week, you know just how
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  Speaker 1: rapidly the landscape is shaping. There is a critical calendar
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  Speaker 1: deadline that is looming, and the next ruling will decide
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  Speaker 1: who actually holds the power. We've got a lot that
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about today, so let's jump right
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  Speaker 1: into it. And I'd love to hear your thoughts before
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  Speaker 1: I even get to the end of this on what
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  Speaker 1: the heck is going to happen next in college football
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  Speaker 1: with this Lane Kiffin drama and LSU and NFL players
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  Speaker 1: and courts and the SEC and everything else. The SEC
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  Speaker 1: this week put a price tag on defiance. and the
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  Speaker 1: number is large enough to reshape how a program plans
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  Speaker 1: an entire season. This week, the league finalized the penalty
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  Speaker 1: structure attached to its new professional sports rule. If an
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  Speaker 1: SEC school puts a former pro on its roster, that
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  Speaker 1: sports head coach must sit out for 50% of the season.
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  Speaker 1: The school will also pay a fine equal to 50%
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  Speaker 1: of that sports annual operating budget. On top of that,
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  Speaker 1: the school loses its SEC voting privileges to on league
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  Speaker 1: business matters. And the suspension is not just a sideline ban.
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  Speaker 1: It completely bars the coach from all coaching, all recruiting,
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  Speaker 1: all administrative duties, mirroring the language the NCAA already uses
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  Speaker 1: in its ghost transfer sanctions. That means no texting recruits,
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  Speaker 1: no staff meetings, no quietly running the operation from the
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  Speaker 1: back office. The rule itself is written with an intentionally
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  Speaker 1: and an exceptionally wide scope. It bars any SEC roster
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  Speaker 1: from including an athlete who declared for the NFL, NBA,
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  Speaker 1: or WNBA draft without properly withdrawing. It also covers anyone
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  Speaker 1: who simply appeared on a pro roster. The league passed
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  Speaker 1: the ban 16-0 on Tuesday night. Every school voted yes,
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  Speaker 1: including the LSU Tigers president. But then came the second
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  Speaker 1: vote a day later, the one that actually attached punishment
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  Speaker 1: to And that one finished 15 to nothing. LSU abstained,
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  Speaker 1: according to multiple reports from not only ESPN, but The Athletic.
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  Speaker 1: One abstination out of 16 is not a clerical accident.
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  Speaker 1: It is a message from LSU. And the reason for
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  Speaker 1: that message is sitting on LSU's roster board right now.
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  Speaker 1: Within days of a Louisiana temporary restraining order, Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 1: landed former Ole Miss tight end Daquan Wright, who posted
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  Speaker 1: 39 catches for 635 yards. He earned second-team All-SEC honors
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  Speaker 1: and received an NFL Combine invite. He also landed 6'7, 6'7.5, 6'8,
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  Speaker 1: based on where you're reading it, 330-pound defensive tackle Xavier Harris,
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  Speaker 1: who recorded 58 tackles last year, nine for loss, three sacks,
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  Speaker 1: across 15 starts. Wright's timeline is the spark that lit
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  Speaker 1: the fuse. He dressed for the Browns' preseason game against Buffalo.
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  Speaker 1: He was waived on Monday, and he cleared waivers on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: That exact sequence, a player moving from an NFL sideline
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  Speaker 1: to a college transfer portal in roughly 72 hours, is
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  Speaker 1: what triggered the SEC's emergency action. Kevin has also recruited
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  Speaker 1: former Notre Dame edge junior Tui Halamaka, who would reportedly
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  Speaker 1: be permissible under the rule because he never signed a
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  Speaker 1: pro contract. So the league did not just build a wall.
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  Speaker 1: It built one with a very specific door left open.
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  Speaker 1: There's another detail that explains the design. CBS Sports' Matt
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  Speaker 1: Norlander reported the SEC and the Big Ten power brokers
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  Speaker 1: believe the rule survives legal challenge precisely because the penalties
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  Speaker 1: target coaches and programs rather than the athletes. You punish
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  Speaker 1: a player and you probably have an antitrust fight over
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  Speaker 1: an individual's right to earn. But if you punish a
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  Speaker 1: coach and a budget, then the league is simply governing
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  Speaker 1: its own members. Neither Kiffin nor LSU's administration has commented publicly,
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  Speaker 1: which leaves the Tigers standing between a conference and their
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  Speaker 1: compliance in a courtroom. And that theory of the case,
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  Speaker 1: that the SEC is untouchable because it only punishes its own,
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  Speaker 1: is exactly where a problem starts. That's because a court
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  Speaker 1: had already looked at this same question and answered it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit differently. I'll get to that in just
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  Speaker 1: a moment, but first I do want to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: all of this drama off the field is hopefully coming
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  Speaker 1: to an end because tomorrow we get actual real life football.
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  Speaker 1: And I could not be more thrilled about that. I
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  Speaker 1: got two picks for you. I'm wearing the FSU polo.
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  Speaker 1: I've been called out for it enough, not wearing it
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  Speaker 1: on certain shows. So we're taking Ashton Daniels is more
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  Speaker 1: on his rushing total there. I'm also taking the more
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  Speaker 1: on the TCU passing total. I know it's Dublin. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's rain. I know it's nasty, but I like
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  Speaker 1: the more on both of those. I think UNC is
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of trouble in this game. The spread
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  Speaker 1: keeps moving up and up and up towards TCU. I
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  Speaker 1: think TCU is going to be able to throw the
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  Speaker 1: ball around a little bit. It's a low total because
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  Speaker 1: it's in Dublin. Give me the more on both those.
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  Speaker 1: in this entire fifth-year eligibility fight came out of Texas,
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  Speaker 1: and it did something the Louisiana orders only implied. A
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  Speaker 1: Texas court explicitly identified the SEC as a restrained actor
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  Speaker 1: rather than treating the NCAA as the sole defendant. Tied
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  Speaker 1: to the eligibility case of former NBA player Bryson Warren,
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  Speaker 1: that ruling is now being cited by the LSU-bound players'
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  Speaker 1: legal team as the roadmap for neutralizing the conference's brand
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  Speaker 1: new ban. What's all that mean? Break that down a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Take it out of the legalese. The Louisiana
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  Speaker 1: TRO issued by Baton Rouge Judge William Jordan restrains the
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  Speaker 1: NCAA's officers from agents, employees, reps, successors, and it assigns
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  Speaker 1: all persons acting in concert or participation with it. That
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  Speaker 1: last phrase is really the whole ballgame. The players argue
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  Speaker 1: that that language captures the SEC and Commissioner Greg Sankey
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  Speaker 1: directly without either of them ever being sued. Darren Heitner,
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  Speaker 1: who represents Wright and Harris, posted that the SEC is
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  Speaker 1: no stranger. It is at a minimum a participant. And
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  Speaker 1: his proof is not just a theory. It is Sankey's
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  Speaker 1: own paperwork. Sankey submitted an affidavit on August 13th in
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  Speaker 1: Lewis's case and another before Judge Roland Johnson in East
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  Speaker 1: Baton Rouge Parish. In those filings, he wrote that letting
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  Speaker 1: pros return fuels disruption and creates fundamental unfairness for athletes
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  Speaker 1: who stayed in the collegiate model. That is the trap.
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  Speaker 1: By filing affidavits inside these specific lawsuits, the commissioner arguably
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  Speaker 1: documented himself as a participant in the very litigation the
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  Speaker 1: order governs. The scope of that order is also larger
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  Speaker 1: than most people realize. The underlying Louisiana TRO covered 33 athletes,
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  Speaker 1: including 16 football players. It allowed them to enter the
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  Speaker 1: portal outside the January window. It enjoined both the ghost
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  Speaker 1: transfer rule and the NCAA's rule of restitution, which is
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  Speaker 1: the provision the NCAA normally uses to claw back wins
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  Speaker 1: and punish schools after court rulings get reversed. The condition
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  Speaker 1: was straightforward. The players had to terminate their pro contracts
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  Speaker 1: and repay their earnings. Eight players entered the portal immediately,
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  Speaker 1: including Wright, Harris, TJ Harden, Waylon Lupacho, and Trent Hendrick.
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  Speaker 1: Former LSU defensive end Jack Pyburn, who participated in the
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  Speaker 1: Buccaneers' preseason, is also still a plaintiff, and he still
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  Speaker 1: faces the choice between the NFL and college. For LSU fans,
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  Speaker 1: the practical stakes of all of this could be reduced
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  Speaker 1: down to one sentence. If the courts treat conferences as
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  Speaker 1: agents of the NCAA, then Kiffin's additions can take the
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  Speaker 1: field and the SEC's penalties further. lose their threats or
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  Speaker 1: their teeth entirely if the courts do not. LSU is
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  Speaker 1: looking at a suspended head coach and a fine worth
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  Speaker 1: half of its football operating budget. But there is a
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  Speaker 1: hard limit sitting on that argument, and it has a
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  Speaker 1: limit on its date. A temporary restraining order is temporary
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  Speaker 1: by definition. and this one expires on Saturday, which is
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  Speaker 1: why one attorney is no longer arguing that the SEC
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  Speaker 1: broke a rule. He is arguing that the SEC broke
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  Speaker 1: a judge's order, and he wants the commissioner, Greg Sankey,
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  Speaker 1: brought into a Baton Rouge courtroom to answer for it.
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  Speaker 1: Baton Rouge attorney Tony Clayton is assisting the 33 plaintiffs,
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  Speaker 1: and he separately represents LSU basketball signee R.J. Lewis Jr.
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  Speaker 1: He told Tiger Rag that the SEC's new policy flat-out
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  Speaker 1: violates Louisiana law. His core argument collapses the distinction the
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  Speaker 1: SEC is counting on. He said SEC schools, by operational law,
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  Speaker 1: are derivatives of the NCAA. They are the NCAA. So
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  Speaker 1: if the NCAA is prevented from taking any punitive action
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  Speaker 1: against these young players, then the SEC is too. Then
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  Speaker 1: he went past legal theory and made it personal. He said,
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  Speaker 1: why doesn't he come down here to Louisiana and explain
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  Speaker 1: to a judge how he can overrule a judge's injunction?
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  Speaker 1: He said, that's the craziest thing I've seen in quite
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  Speaker 1: some time. I don't know the commissioner. I've never met him.
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  Speaker 1: Don't care to meet him. But he needs to follow
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  Speaker 1: the rules of the courts here in Louisiana. And he's
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  Speaker 1: not the only lawyer that's using that word. Texas-based attorney
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Downsend said the SEC's actions put the NCAA in
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  Speaker 1: contempt of multiple court orders. And he called it cartel-like conduct.
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  Speaker 1: Downton told Yahoo's Ross Dellinger he plans to seek a
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  Speaker 1: contempt ruling against the NCAA for letting conferences violate court orders.
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  Speaker 1: This is, to me, a little more than just Twitter
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  Speaker 1: fingers going off. These are very serious and significant escalations
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  Speaker 1: because contempt is not about whether the rule is fair.
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  Speaker 1: It's solely about whether the order was obeyed. Clayton's argument
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  Speaker 1: is the one that LSU fans will recognize instantly because
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  Speaker 1: it is about fairness. The class of 2022 was excluded
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  Speaker 1: from the new five for five eligibility model. So those
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  Speaker 1: players made their pro decisions before they ever even knew
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  Speaker 1: that a fifth year might exist. He said, you can't
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  Speaker 1: deprive these young athletes who would have stayed in college,
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  Speaker 1: but for you not having this rule in effect. It's
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  Speaker 1: now in effect, and they have a right to take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of it. Now, today is where the calendar takes over.
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  Speaker 1: The Jordan TRO expires on Saturday with a hearing set
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  Speaker 1: for Monday in Louisiana's 19th Judicial District Court, where Clayton
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  Speaker 1: will seek a broader injunction. He said the SEC and
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  Speaker 1: the commissioner can do whatever they want to do, but
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  Speaker 1: they have to abide by the rules of a Louisiana courtroom.
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  Speaker 1: He's predicting a favorable ruling that would supersede any conference rule.
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  Speaker 1: So Monday is the hinge. A broader injunction would put
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  Speaker 1: Wright and Harris on the field. It would leave the
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  Speaker 1: SEC's 50% suspension unenforceable in Louisiana. No injunction. And Kiffin
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  Speaker 1: is choosing between two rosters and his own sideline. Either way,
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  Speaker 1: the next ruling decides whether a conference can outrank a
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  Speaker 1: court order. And everything you have just heard today is
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  Speaker 1: dependent on that answer. I think there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: ways that you can look at this. You can feel
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  Speaker 1: bad that the players didn't know about the five for five.
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  Speaker 1: You can also say, hey man, sometimes life isn't fair.
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  Speaker 1: And that might be the case too. It would surprise
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  Speaker 1: me if all of this went down and the SEC
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  Speaker 1: was told, you cannot punish your own members. I understand
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  Speaker 1: they will not be able to punish the players. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the college football playoff committee
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  Speaker 1: that would one day step up and say, look, then
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  Speaker 1: you can't tell us what to do. We just won't
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  Speaker 1: put them in the playoff. And then in that moment,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Lane Kiffin would have a decision to make. But
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  Speaker 1: I think you guys need to grab your popcorn and
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  Speaker 1: buckle up because this thing's just getting started. This is
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  Speaker 1: very similar to the Brendan Sorsby case in that certainly
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  Speaker 1: none of these players bet on their own team. Certainly
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  Speaker 1: not trying to imply that. I don't think there's an
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  Speaker 1: immoral stance that's being taken here. But it is one
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  Speaker 1: that elicits a lot of emotion because Lane Kiffin is
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  Speaker 1: usually in the middle of things like this. And so
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  Speaker 1: people have an opinion. I asked you at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: for what you thought. I'd love to hear what you
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  Speaker 1: think now too. Appreciate you guys tuning into College Football Addiction.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God we have football tomorrow and we don't have
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  Speaker 1: to talk about this anymore. We will see you guys
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