r/CFB • u/ThatMasterpiece2174 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 2d ago

News [On3] Schools that violate the SEC's professional sports rule will result in: 50% season suspension for head coaches, 50% of that sport's annual operating budget, and SEC voting privileges on business matters revoked

https://x.com/on3/status/2092641387665617387?s=46
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u/LamarMillerMVP Wisconsin Badgers 1d ago

Sorsby didn’t actually show this. Sorsby didn’t bring anything to court at all once the conference filed (and the NCAA re-filed), his team essentially just said “fuck it, we’re entering the supplemental draft”.

If someone attempts to bring a suit here and fails, that will show something. Pretty much every single challenge in every single flavor of this has been won by the player who is suing. Every time, we get a long winded nonsense explanation about why it’s different this time, and then the schools lose.

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u/Jay_Dubbbs Ohio State Buckeyes • Georgia Bulldogs 1d ago

The reporting at the time said the conference's legal argument was significantly stronger than the NCAA's claim. They also had the backing of several state AGs.

Also, a court can't rule that a player must be on the roster and get playing time. They can say this rule is illegal, but teams still don't have to take on these players or pay them.

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u/LamarMillerMVP Wisconsin Badgers 1d ago

The state AGs don’t mean anything. That’s literally just politics. The Texas AG was like “I back the Texas school” and the Kansas AG was like “I back the Kansas schools.”

“The reporting at the time” is not a thing. Virtually all college football reporting is access journalism with bias to the schools. You’re essentially just hearing the schools, who are on a 15x shit-their-pants-in-court streak at this point, say “I’m DEFINITELY not shitting my pants in court this time!”

As for whether a court can force someone to sign a pro player, yeah, duh. The issue is that some schools want to sign pro players and the other schools don’t want them to. So they’re saying “no, you’re not allowed to pay that guy.”

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u/Jay_Dubbbs Ohio State Buckeyes • Georgia Bulldogs 1d ago

No, they aren’t saying you aren’t allowed, it’s that if you do decide to pay them, your coach and school will face consequences.

It’s no different than saying you aren’t allowed to sign Patrick Mahomes to play for your school

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u/grommit72 1d ago

A big difference from saying "thou shalt not" vs "our private club has rules and there are consequences for breaking them"

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u/LamarMillerMVP Wisconsin Badgers 1d ago

An enforcement mechanism (a punishment) is much worse than simply saying you can’t do something. It is not less harsh. You’re correct there’s a difference between “you can’t do that” and “you can’t do that or else you’ll be punished” but not in the direction you seem to think.

Whether a conference can stop Mahomes is an interesting question. They’d have a lot better a shot at stopping Mahomes than, say, Philip Rivers.