The thought was so ridiculous even Lane Kiffin had to chime in.

On Wednesday, Peggy from Tennessee called “The Paul Finebaum Show” to unveil the latest conspiracy theory in the SEC:

“I have a theory, Pawwwl,” she proclaimed.

Peggy said she knows who is behind the NCAA’s investigation into Tennessee and The Vol Club, an NIL collective run by Spyre Sports Group. Tennessee’s recruitment of five-star quarterback Nico Iamaleava from California and his NIL contract with Spyre is among the deals receiving scrutiny from the NCAA.

“Who is the portal King, Pawwl?” Peggy asked.

The portal king is, obviously, Kiffin, who took to “X,” the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, to express his reaction to the ineptitude of such a conspiracy.

“It’s always remarkable to see Lane live-tweeting a sports show,” Finebaum told AL.com. “He’s essentially the ‘Taylor Swift of college coaches’ because he’s always being talked about regardless of the circumstances.

“The woman from Knoxville didn’t directly implicate him in the NCAA investigation but that was only because she was tongue-tied. That’s exactly what she meant to say because some UT fans see Lane Kiffin behind every dark rock still trying to haunt the program 15 years after he fled at midnight for Southern Cal.”

As a result of the investigation, the attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia filed an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA on Wednesday that challenged its ban on the use of name, image and likeness compensation in the recruitment of college athletes, and in response to the association’s investigation of University of Tennessee.

The lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Tennessee seeks to undercut NCAA rules against recruiting inducements and claims the association is “enforcing rules that unfairly restrict how athletes can commercially use their name, image and likeness at a critical juncture in the recruiting calendar.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.