College conferences now police a hard border against professional players.
Court-ordered eligibility loopholes have triggered unanimous Power Four bans, expulsion votes, federal lawsuits, and cartel accusations as conferences defend their monopoly over athlete labor.
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Court-ordered eligibility loopholes triggered synchronized Power Four bans and NFL counter-rules policing the pro-college border.
The court-ordered eligibility loophole triggers a coordinated cross-level lockdown that now extends the professional hard border to the NFL itself.
The conference escalated to the nuclear option of expulsion to enforce its professional-player border, and LSU capitulated by locking its roster.
State political power now joins the conference's defense of the college-only border, escalating the legal war over professionalized players.