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A 15-0 formal vote Wednesday ratified SEC guidelines barring former professional athletes from returning to college competition, with LSU president Wade Rousse the lone abstention after the Tigers had signaled agreement the night before.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry followed quickly, publicly calling the SEC's position a retroactive punishment of athletes who had no way to anticipate rules that did not yet exist.
Lane Kiffin now has a state government behind him. The SEC vote and LSU's pivot SEC member schools gathered Tuesday evening at conference headquarters for a meeting already on the calendar for over a month.
At that session, LSU's representatives voted alongside the rest of the league to prohibit pro returnees from reentry.
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