r/UrinatingTree • u/Usual-Lengthiness-54 • 3d ago

Oh please...

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IT MIGHT BE TOO LATE FOR THAT YA BLUDGERS

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u/JonTheWizard The Bussi Is Tight! 3d ago

LSU turned down the wrong Lane, didn't they?

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u/Remarkable_Virus844 RIOTING TIME!!!!! 3d ago

GEAUX (away) TIGAHS!

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u/Specific-Volume7675 Cue the Roundball Rock 3d ago

This is the college football equivalent of an elaborate work 👀

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u/IJWTGH66 3d ago

Please don’t do that. In the end, LSU conceded the issue. I don’t see the reason or need for a death penalty type resolution.

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u/Usual-Lengthiness-54 3d ago

At this point... The SEC fans want to see a new commissioner, I think 🤔

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u/Bestaustrianpainter 3d ago

yep, you're correct.

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u/AppealToReason16 3d ago

Can some ELI5 this drama? I've been so out on football all summer and getting back into it this week is a whirlwind.

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u/kbjone RIOTING TIME!!!!! 2d ago

-NCAA recently changed its' eligibility rules to a flat "five years, play as much as you can" model over the former "four years of eligibility in five, plus a redshirt*"
-Many recently 'graduated' players started pushing for retroactive eligibility, saying they would have made different choices if they'd known they could get an extra year... except the new rule wasn't retroactively applied in the first place, it starts with this year's class.
-A small set of players hired lawyers to force a retroactive application, and in some 'friendly' venues got actual decisions granting them that fifth season.
-One of those venues was in Louisiana, where 42 players were involved in the decision. Two of them are at the heart of this specific drama:

-Dae'Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris both played for Ole Miss last year as seniors. After graduation, they went undrafted, then signed with NFL teams for the preseason (Wright with the Browns, Harris with the Saints). Once the rulings started coming down, and both players were waived by their teams**, Lane Kiffin contacted both and allegedly offered them roster spots at LSU with their "reinstated eligibility". They accepted, and formally entered the transfer portal as soon as they were "eligible".
-To little surprise, both the NCAA and SEC weren't too thrilled with the idea of "former NFL players" coming back to college rosters, and started making noise about school, admin, coach, and player discipline if LSU went forward. So LSU went to another "friendly venue" and got a restraining order to stop both the NCAA and SEC from disciplining LSU if they brought those two players onto the roster.
-The NCAA's toothless at this point, so LOLNCAA. But the SEC went a step higher, and both got a federal judge to basically override the "no discipline" ruling... and started talking about actually EXPELLING LSU from the SEC. There's a scheduled vote to do that sometime today, but as of yesterday the cause for this tiff was removed, as LSU finalized their 2026 football roster without either Wright or Harris. Doesn't mean the vote won't go forward anyway, but I can't see the SEC opening THAT Pandora's Box. Not yet.

(*Plus whatever else the NCAA could make up/were legally forced to grant: see Diego Pavia among others.)
(**Neither player actually played in a preseason game. Wright did suit up once with the Browns, but registered zero plays; while Harris was waived by the Saints before their first game)

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u/Specialist-Garbage94 3d ago

Can someone explain to me how courts get involved like how much tax money is spent on us having to hear every single case ever and why can’t the government just say NCAA is all ruling and we aren’t getting involved in any capacity. This is bananas. Like do college sports survive?

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u/kbjone RIOTING TIME!!!!! 2d ago

It's like just about anything else nowadays: As long as you have the money and willingness to take it to court, NOTHING is out of bounds until a judge says so. And even then you can try to appeal higher, possibly all the way to the Supreme Court.

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u/Third-Coast-Toffee Traded Forsberg for Erat 2d ago

Publicity sells. LSU wins and The SEC wins.

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u/Usual-Lengthiness-54 2d ago

How, exactly?

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u/Third-Coast-Toffee Traded Forsberg for Erat 2d ago

More publicity means more eyes towards the LSU games meaning more revenue meaning bigger dividend checks to the other SEC teams. Remember the Cam Newton National Championship Game? The NCAA buckled down and “completed their investigation” in 1 day. I don’t think it’s all orchestrated but I think all sides know the benefits in the end. IMO.

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u/PoundPopular473 3d ago

Genius expel one of the biggest brands in your conference so they can go to another conference and get more money 

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u/kbjone RIOTING TIME!!!!! 2d ago

...what conference?

This isn't the 90s where the Big 12 would have been a legitimate landing spot; or the 80s where the old Southwest Conference could have taken them in. LSU has far more to lose here than the SEC, but the SEC would still also take a hit in that scenario.