{"id":1931090,"date":"2026-09-03T11:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931090"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:24:08","slug":"sec-sues-lsu-alleging-a-coordinated-push-to-recruit-ex-pro-athletes-in-defiance-of-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931090","title":{"rendered":"SEC sues LSU, alleging a coordinated push to recruit ex-pro athletes in defiance of rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeastern Conference has filed a federal lawsuit against LSU, accusing the school of recruiting professional athletes against league rules. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey testified in court, defending the league&#8217;s enforcement abilities. The lawsuit seeks to prevent LSU from violating the SEC&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/ff592-secs-sankey-arrives-in-court-in-college-football-fight-over-ncaa-eligibility-for-former-pros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeastern Conference has filed a federal lawsuit against LSU, accusing the school of recruiting professional athletes against league rules. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey testified in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1931091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[114,115,116],"class_list":["post-1931090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-pakistan","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931092,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931090\/revisions\/1931092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}