​We’ve seen an overflow of stupid in college football circles over the past five years, the likes of which will be studied for decades.But ladies and gentlemen, a new leader has emerged. A moment that will have its own special place in the annals of dumb and dumber. Beyond opening the barn doors of NIL and free player movement at the same time. Beyond the Alliance and a 24-team playoff and judge shopping.From Congress to ESPN to the SEC: College football’s 25 most powerful peopleMore: SEC bans NFL players, NBA and WNBA players from returning to college athleticsBecause right now, in these United States, there’s an attorney who thinks a judge can force a university to sign a player. Or else. Ryan Downton, the man who got Diego Pavia another year of eligibility at Vanderbilt (and we thank you profusely for that, Ry), told Yahoo! Sports the NCAA should be held “in contempt of court for for permitting conferences under its purview to blatantly violate court orders.” And — I know this is going to completely shock you — he plans to file a motion on it.My god, where do we start? First, the NCAA doesn’t permit any conference to do anything.Secondly, and more important, the days of the NCAA telling the Big Ten and SEC what to do ended in 2014 when they were officially named “Autonomous” conferences and given legislative autonomy. The whole “Power” thing is a cover for their official name. The Autonomous Four.In other words, they’re autonomous from the rest of the NCAA for nearly every rules decision made. The only thing they use the NCAA for is the organization of championship events outside of the College Football Playoff.The SEC and Big Ten — and to a lesser extent the ACC and Big 12 — simply make it look as though the NCAA is passing specific rules and regulations. But don’t kid yourself, they’re first discussed by the A4 conferences, which then tell the NCAA what they’re going to do. The NCAA then sends out a release to trumpet any new “NCAA” rules. There, get it?UGLY TRUTH: FBI story was a stretch. The feelings between Ole Miss and Lane Kiffin are notPORTAL HOPE: The QB Indiana left behind is ready for his own Mendoza Moment at Georgia TechNow, back to the lunacy of forcing a university to sign a player. In what world would any judge, anywhere — even in the state of Mississippi (we joke because we love, Magnolia, and because Trinidad Chambliss) — declare the NCAA is in contempt of court, and that the NCAA must force its member institutions to sign a player because that player was given a fifth year of eligibility?Unless we’ve suddenly become a Third World country, those legal gymnastics don’t fly in the greatest country in the history of this big round ball circling a star. Any player who has been deemed eligible for a fifth season can have a fifth season. That’s not even an argument after a handful of recent judge shopping cases.On the flip side… a look at every player STILL protected by a state