Rostering professionalized athletes under eligibility loopholes triggers the nuclear threat of conference expulsion.
To protect the amateur boundaries of collegiate sports, athletic conferences bypass standard fines to threaten member universities with outright expulsion.
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The SEC successfully protected its roster rules by forcing LSU's compliance through the threat of expulsion.
The loophole's exploitation by professionalized athletes triggered unanimous conference bans and cartel-style coordination to defend the amateur boundary.
Rostering professionalized players drew the conference's nuclear expulsion threat, forcing LSU's midnight capitulation.
Rosterfing professionalized athletes draws the nuclear expulsion threat, now escalated by state attorneys general.