The Southeastern Conference (SEC) has filed an amendment to its federal lawsuit against Louisiana State University (LSU) and its head football coach, Lane Kiffin, seeking the authority to expel the school from the conference.
\n\n“In the filing, the SEC said its presidents and chancellors will meet Thursday to decide whether to terminate LSU as an SEC member institution pursuant to Section 3.1.5 of the SEC Constitution and Bylaws, which gives the presidents the ‘plenary power and authority with respect to all affairs of the Conference of any type or nature whatsoever,’ including the power to ‘[t]ake all actions specified and contemplated in Article 3 [of the Constitution] in their sole discretion,'” ESPN’s Pete Thamel writes.
\n\nIf the league proceeds to a vote to expel LSU, an eventuality still considered unlikely, it would require a two-thirds vote of university presidents. According to the complaint, the conference plans to vote on LSU’s membership status on September 10th.
\n\n“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 SEC said in a statement. “A commitment to those rules, and to the core…
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