Lane Kiffin couldn’t help himself.
At halftime, as his LSU team took a 31-3 lead over Clemson into the locker room, the Tigers’ head coach was about to dash off after chatting with ESPN sideline reporter Holly Rowe. And then he leaned back in.
“Imagine if we had pro players,” he quipped.
That’s line-item number 90 in the Southeastern Conference’s amended complaint, filed on Tuesday in a federal courtroom. The league, clearly fed up and disgusted with Lane being Lane, has asked the Northern District Court of Alabama for a temporary restraining order to ensure that no one from LSU can block or interfere with, among other things, a meeting scheduled for Thursday to discuss whether the conference ought to boot the school from its membership.
“The SEC and its member universities have the right to establish, through agreed-upon governance procedures, the rules under which they voluntarily compete and to expect those rules to be followed,” the league said in a statement.
