Even though LSU blinked for now on the issue of adding former NFL players to the roster for its first game of the 2026 season, the SEC wants to be able to blow the Tigers out of the conference.
Via ESPN, the SEC has filed an amendment to its federal lawsuit seeking authority to expel LSU.
And while the SEC isn’t expected to do it, the move (if approved) gives the conference the ultimate nuclear option, in the event LSU decides to add former NFL players to the team.
The new filing explains that SEC presidents and chancellors will meet on Thursday to decide whether to give LSU the boot.
The SEC’s revised complaint also points to Kiffin’s “imagine if we had pro players” halftime remarks from Saturday night and postgame comments as evidence that LSU does not intend to abide by the conference’s rule against using players who have signed professional contracts.
The whole thing continues to be an exercise in performative nonsense aimed at getting Congress to give the NCAA and its members an antitrust exemption. College players are pro players, and the players who eschewed the chance to play on an NFL practice squad will make more money at LSU. Anyone who supports the Protect College Sports Act necessarily supports picking the pockets of the young men who play the game.
They want the general public to think the sky is falling, even as the money keeps rolling in. They hope to restrict player pay and mobility, at a time when coaches can go wherever they want, whenever they want — including during the season, as LSU coach Lane Kiffin did last year.
It’s bullshit, and more people need to start saying so. Otherwise, those who are bought and paid for by the college football machine will keep pushing a false narrative, until the mission is accomplished and the antitrust exemption is secured.
