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Greg Sankey wasn't asking anyone to give the SEC special treatment. He was arguing that, by almost every measurable standard, the conference continues to be the most influential entity in college athletics.
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Teddy Bridgewater has acknowledged paying for Uber rides, meals, and “recovery services” — training and physical therapy — for his players at Miami Northwestern High School, his alma mater.
He didn't loosen his tie or hike up his socks. But Greg Sankey still delivered the closest thing college football has to a Fed meeting.
The grumbling from the Southeastern Conference spring meetings in Destin, Florida, this week was loud, relentless and easy to translate.
Attorneys perform. Witnesses clam up. Judges tread more carefully. And jurors — private citizens asked to do a public duty — can find themselves turned into unwilling celebrities, dissected online for a glance or a frown that was never meant to be broadcast.
And while the model hasn’t been finalized, Sankey and Petitti already have the power to make those changes — as long as they engage in “meaningful consultation” with the others.
If you know anybody who does not drool over the current 68-team event, send me their phone number.
The message that Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner Jim Phillips delivered at the league's media Kickoff day was aspirational. It was idealistic. It was noble.
More than a football alliance, what the Big Ten, Atlantic Coast and Pac-12 conferences need is football relevance.
Nothing, it seems, can motivate SEC country to embrace the COVID vaccine.