SEC looking to see ‘contrition’ from LSU ahead of Thursday meeting, per ESPN insider
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The SEC wants LSU to show “contrition” in the leadup to a Thursday meeting regarding the conference’s legal dispute against the school, according to a report on Tuesday afternoon by ESPN college football insider Pete Thamel.
During Thamel’s appearance on College Football Live, he provided the latest update on the SEC seeking the authority to expel LSU from the conference for its recent behavior in potentially playing ex-NFL players who returned to college.
Despite LSU not playing either of those players in its Week 1 victory against Clemson last Saturday night, the SEC is still going after LSU, and on Tuesday the conference filed an amendment to its lawsuit against the school that seeks to establish the authority to expel LSU from the SEC.
The SEC set up a meeting on Thursday to discuss LSU’s membership, and Thamel reported later Tuesday that it wants LSU to show that “contrition” for the wrongdoings involving the potential playing of those ex-NFL players.
“We have a new showdown. We have the SEC presidents and chancellors scheduled to meet on Thursday, and in that meeting they will decide, if gets to that point, if they don’t see contrition from LSU, if they don’t see a more, how do I want to say this, if their fidelity to not playing pros, which has been the core of this issue, is not made more clear, there will be a vote among SEC presidents and chancellors about the possible expelling of LSU from the Southeastern Conference,” Thamel said.
LSU’s status within the SEC is in severe doubt right now, but no matter what happens there the Tigers will be trying to make the College Football Playoff this season. Here is what the Kalshi market is currently saying about the Tigers’ chances to be among the elite 12-team field:
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
