BATON ROUGE, La. — Brian Kelly entered last week’s joint meeting with SEC athletic directors admittedly skeptical of major college football’s new enforcement entity.
He left convinced that it would work.
“There will be real enforcement,” the LSU head coach told Yahoo Sports in an interview last week. “It will be an across-the-board, consistent [power conference] enforcement with severe sanctions. They will be quick. They will be swift. I think everybody is on board with that.”
The new power conference-led enforcement entity — an LLC with a yet-to-be-named CEO — is poised to implement significant penalties for those violating a variety of revenue share-related rules, including a restriction in the number of transfers a program can add, millions in financial fines, a reduction in a team’s future rev-share pool and multi-game suspensions for coaches.