At a moment when the boundary between amateur and professional sport has never been more porous, the Southeastern Conference has taken the unusual step of suing one of its own member institutions, alleging that Louisiana State University deliberately recruited former NFL players to gain a competitive edge. The case arrives not as an isolated dispute but as a symptom of a deeper reckoning in college athletics — one in which the old architecture of eligibility, amateurism, and competitive fairness is straining under the weight of a transformed landscape. How courts and governing bodies respond m