The College Sports Commission has “opened its first publicly known investigation into a big-name program: LSU.” The CSC has started an inquiry over a “potential violation of rules related to unreported Tigers player compensation.” Details of the investigation were not included in a Jan. 15 email from the CSC to LSU and are not publicly known, but a source said that it was “not related to football.” Although the specifics of the inquiry are unknown, the email is the “first concrete example of the CSC investigating a school” (THE ATHLETIC, 1/30).
Univ. of Georgia President Jere Morehead said the SEC “should create and enforce its own rules on tampering and other regulations,” and there is “support among at least ‘several’ other presidents in the conference.” Morehead expressed “general frustration about what he sees as a lack of enforcement.” Morehead said, “Have we seen the CSC move against any institution yet? I don’t think so. Have we seen the NCAA take any action on tampering? I don’t think so. So I think we’re getting to the point that the Southeastern Conference is going to have to create its own set of rules, enforce them against our members, and hope that we can set an example that the other Power 4 conferences would then follow. But we desperately need rules, and rules that are going to be enforced. We have rules, but they’re not being enforced.” Morehead said if the SEC goes it alone, they will “have a great, orderly conference where we’re all working together,” while “everyone else is in chaos” (THE ATHLETIC, 1/30).
