00:00Well, we knew this was going to end this way, so we waited all day yesterday to hear a judge
00:07say what we knew what was going to happen, that LSU was going to be able to play professional football
00:14players.
00:15Now this judge has ruled, and the SEC, along with the Big Ten, have teamed up and filed lawsuits against
00:23LSU and Lane Kiffin in particular in trying to stop those guys from playing this weekend in that Clemson game.
00:31The big question now for LSU is, how much do you really want to stand on this hill?
00:36Are you going to put in jeopardy your 2026 season if you go ahead and play these players?
00:45Are these players that you really want to go forward with, going out there and putting them on your roster?
00:52Let's not forget something.
00:53Today, all teams in the Southeastern Conference have to present their rosters for the upcoming year.
01:00And that means those players that are on that roster, those players will be the ones that will be able
01:06to participate in this year's SEC championship race.
01:10So, without a doubt here, what does LSU do?
01:13Do they really want to go down this lane?
01:16Louisa Attorney General, Liz Murrell, called the merits of the SEC lawsuit garbage.
01:23She called the timing legal gamesmanship and criticized the SEC commissioner, Greg Sankey, for wanting to go home on his
01:33private jet.
01:34I completely agree with her.
01:36She's definitely right.
01:37These guys have eligibility left.
01:40Listen, when college football decided to open up the can of worms here and also let the genie out of
01:47the bottle with nil and transfer portal, these are the things that we've been talking about for the last six
01:54months.
01:55What did you think?
01:56There wasn't going to be a tidal wave of issues that you were going to be presented with when it
02:01came to eligibility.
02:02I got to hand it to these kids today, by the way.
02:05Kudos to you guys.
02:07Because players like me back in the day were in fear of the National Communist Association of America.
02:13We feared that thing.
02:15And we were not really always with steady footing against the NCAA.
02:20Their bylaws have been outdated since the 50s.
02:24Remember something here.
02:25It was never in the interest of the NCAA to ever look out for the kids.
02:30It was more in the NCAA's opinion that they were looking out for the institutions.
02:35And for the record, particular institutions, Ohio State, Notre Dame, places like that, that really generate a boatload of money
02:44for the NCAA.
02:45You got to remember, these kids today are now asking the most important question.
02:50Why aren't I eligible?
02:52Why can't I be paid?
02:54Why can't I bet on games?
02:56And guess what?
02:57The NCAA and commissioners like Greg Sankey of the SEC, they don't have answers.
03:03You know, there was a big statement that was made in this court case yesterday.
03:07They're standing for principle.
03:10I'm trying to figure out what's that principle.
03:13What are we standing for here?
03:15We got to stand for integrity.
03:17What's the integrity?
03:18A kid wanting to come back to college and have an opportunity to play?
03:22Like I said, the old hats don't like this.
03:25You still believe that there is amateur athletics and that kids are going to school for education.
03:34Who in their right mind ever believed that?
03:37Kids going to school for education?
03:40Kids going to school for the college environment?
03:43You're going to a place like LSU to give you an opportunity to springboard into the National Football League.
03:51It gives you that shot and that bite at the apple.
03:56That's what kids go to programs like that for.
03:59You're not going to sit in a classroom and reading some syllabus and getting ready for the next class.
04:05You go to programs like that because you want a shot to play in the National Football League.
04:11You want a chance to be able to make millions of dollars like any other college kid who goes there
04:16and wants to start up a business like a Bill Gates or a Mark Zuckerberg.
04:20This is exactly what these kids are doing.
04:23They're building brands.
04:25Kudos to them.
04:26And kudos to them for challenging the system.
04:30Every single case from the Brandon Soresby case.
04:34Brandon Soresby, the kid from Texas Tech, actually had won his case.
04:38But because of the political pressure from the Big 12 and from the other conferences teaming up on Texas Tech,
04:45Texas Tech relented.
04:47The kid ended up keeping his nil money that he got from the Red Raiders and then decided that he'll
04:52wait it out for next year's NFL draft.
04:55These kids are winning these cases for a reason.
04:58Because for decades, the NCAA held these giant hammer over these players on transfer rules.
05:06You know, no one ever really challenged the number one rule of all time.
05:10And that was, why do I have to sit out if I want to transfer to another school?
05:14In which I did.
05:16I transferred from Maryland to the University of Miami.
05:19And I had to sit out.
05:21I had to lose a year of eligibility.
05:24And I kept asking the question, why?
05:26Coaches get to leave.
05:28They get to leave any place like a Brian Kelly could go to Notre Dame and coach and leave that
05:33place and to go to LSU?
05:35Well, you see Lane Kiffin.
05:37Look at what Lane Kiffin did just last year.
05:39Lane Kiffin had a team that was in the 12-team college football playoff.
05:43And in the middle of the playoff, he's like, well, you know, I got a better job at LSU.
05:48So I'm going to leave those kids in a lurch.
05:50And I'm going to go take the LSU job.
05:52And I'm going to keep that all situation there for those guys to deal with.
05:57And Ole Miss can go ahead and deal with that scenario themselves.
06:01They were leaderless going into that game, actually, against the University of Miami.
06:06And Lane Kiffin didn't care about it.
06:09You got to love the fact.
06:11No question about it.
06:13Kids today are challenging.
06:15It's going to be very interesting to see.
06:17It's going to be very interesting to see.
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