(Note: While this column was being prepared, the SEC announced that it would also not only penalize any member school that signed a player who once signed an NFL contract, but an NBA or G-League contract as well.)

1. It’s do or die time for the SEC. Other conferences — the Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC — have already either banned pros from returning to their conferences or plan to within a couple of days. The SEC is the only conference who actually has former NFL players signed, and has a member school openly flaunting their contempt for the rules. If the SEC is going to be the premier sports conference in the college ranks, it needs to stand up and fight for college sports and its own integrity.
2. This is also the defining moment for SEC commissioner Greg Sankey. The commissioner of the Big 10 Tony Petitti has already guided his conference to unanimously ban professionals from returning to their conference; Sankey needs to do the same. There’s no bigger issue facing the sport right now and if college sports are going to keep any credibility, the SEC needs to take a stand as well. If Sankey gets the SEC to also ban pro to college movement, he will be remembered as a decisive leader. If not, he’ll be regarded as a wimp.
3. The SEC is in the unique position where it will have to confront one of its own on this issue. No other university has lowered its levels of decency to import pros besides LSU. And they’ve done it three times already. LSU has pushed this issue in basketball and in football, and the other 15 teams need to shove back. Hard. I read someone today who said LSU is the uncle who brings a prostitute to family Christmas dinner.
4. Also, it’s time for conferences to take over their own rule enforcement. The NCAA is defanged and gutless, so there’s nobody really challenging punk moves like the ones LSU is making. Sankey mentioned this possibility at SEC Media Days, and hopefully they will make that move in the next day or two as university representatives meet with the conference. 
5. Of course, sleaze-in-chief Lane Kiffin has said that, while he didn’t want to see pros eligible in college again, he had no choice but to recruit them before someone else did. That sounded like a lie and it absolutely was. CBS Sports reported this afternoon that Kiffin and LSU were actively encouraging players who would otherwise have eligibility left to ask for their release and sue the NCAA in a Louisiana court. It was so transparent it was obvious, but it’s just more evidence Kiffin has less credibility than a career politician.
6. As if there wasn’t enough on LSU, Kim Mulkey enters the chat with another disgusting move. She recruited, and signed, a Russian player while a Ukrainian, Katie Kovar, was supposed to be her starting center. Kovar’s dad is in the Ukranian military, her people have been killed by the score and Mulkey couldn’t care less. She actually said this: “I cannot make a decision to not recruit somebody that can help our program because of a conflict between two countries.” She also suggested the two could become “ambassadors” of friendship between the two nations. Kovar, unsurprisingly, walked. And Mulkey released a statement saying Kovar left for “personal reasons.” Classless. Gutless. So Kim Mulkey and LSU.
7. Now, for A&M stuff: One thing I want to see more of is Marcel Reed throwing the ball over the top. When he throws deep, he tends to drop his elbow and almost sling it. But looking at his recent deep balls, he seems to be keeping that elbow up higher, which could improve both his accuracy and velocity. Blame my dad for all this mechanical stuff.
8. I still don’t know who’s going to start at corner between Julio Humphrey and Rickey Gibson, but DC Lyle Hemphill said today he’d rather have three (he later added four) corners he can put out there than just two. I figured the corner rotation would be a Dezz Ricks/Gibson/Humphrey trio before the spring even started, but I didn’t think it would be because two of them not named Ricks shouldn’t come off the field.
9. I liked what Hemphill had to say about his defensive tackles today. He said there are five guys, at least, who are capable of playing this year. Judging from his list, DJ Hicks, CJ Mims, Landon Rink, Angelo McCullom and Brandon Davis-Swain are positioned well to play as we get into the home stretch of camp.
10. RIP Dolly. Jolene, you’re in deep crap now.

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