If SEC kicks out LSU over Lane Kiffin, nobody wins | Opinion

A little advice to Louisiana’s loud-mouthed politicians and the SEC’s power-tripping chancellors and presidents: Don’t swallow the grenade pins.

Because, when you play a game of “Chicken” and start with both sides swallowing the safety pins, it doesn’t end well — for anybody.

Nobody involved in this LSU-SEC standoff wanted to come off looking weak or be the one to cry “Uncle.” Louisiana’s politicians and the SEC’s presidents and chancellors waded waist deep into this bog, and now they must be asking themselves how they can emerge from the swamp looking like the winner.

If they let this grenade go off, though, they’ll ensure nobody wins and everybody loses.

The SEC’s presidents and chancellors scheduled a meeting for Sept. 10 to consider whether to expel LSU from the SEC.

Never mind grenades, expulsion would be what you call a nuclear option.

To go through with expulsion would be like dropping a bomb on your neighbor’s house because he flouts homeowners’ association rules and parks his boat on the front lawn. Yes, your neighbor should stop being a twerp and respect the rules of a community he agreed to live in, but how about a little conflict resolution that doesn’t result…

Original source: https://www.usatoday.com/sports/