The Big Ten and SEC just slammed the door on players who tasted the NFL and tried to walk back onto campus. After a Louisiana court opened a fifth-year window for cut and undrafted pros, both conferences voted unanimously: sign a contract, hit a roster, or declare without withdrawing, and conference eligibility is gone. The SEC went further into basketball. Host Jim Rand explains why the loophole had to close before Saturday kickoff, why the lawsuits are already loading, and why a roster built in July cannot be rewritten in August. Patrick Mahomes says Week 1 against Denver was always the plan. Andy Reid will not say ready. Nine months after tearing his ACL and LCL, the Chiefs quarterback has taken every camp snap and zero preseason snaps. The knee is the only vote that counts. Then the last week of the dress rehearsal. Calvin Austin’s non-contact ...