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Commish: SEC conversations 'real' about split from NCAASEC commissioner Greg Sankey kicked off conference media days in Tampa on Monday with a clarification for anyone doubting the seriousness of internal conversations about splitting from the NCAA. ,"So they're real. People have talked about that," Sankey said. "They've opined about the frustrations th...

SEC Commissioner: No imminent decision on expanded CFP in works SEC commissioner Greg Sankey attempted to quiet any notions on Monday that the league would vote on expansion of the College Football Playoffs during its spring meetings this week in Destin, Fla.,Sankey favors expanding the current field of 12 to 16, but the Big Ten, ACC and Big 12 prefer a 24-team ...

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey 'focused on our 16' Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey pushed for national standards for athletes for Name, Image and Likeness guidance and expects college football to lead the path forward to overcome challenges facing amateur sports.,Sankey said college athletics will not "cede authority" to others to s...

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey is more powerful than the NCAA

In any drug kingpin story worth watching, there’s inevitably the scene where a policeman gets threatened or flat-out killed as a warning or retribution. Usually, it precedes and prompts the anti-hero’s downfall. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey more or less sent the NCAA a hand-written note with the nam...

Big Ten, SEC partnership won't circumvent NCAA, Sankey says [Updated]

Updated Feb. 8: SEC commissioner Greg Sankey took some time Wednesday to shed light on the new strategic partnership, insisting that there is no plan to circumvent the NCAA. Sankey appeared for an interview on The Paul Finebaum Show and stated that the purpose of the partnership was to create a more...

The ACC is the least powerful Power 4 Conference — even with Cal, Stanford, SMU

It’s better to be proactive than reactive, right? Unless you consider what the Atlantic Coast Conference is already doing to be reactive, scraping up the leftovers from the Pac-12 Conference instead of having enough power in the college athletics landscape to attract more lucrative schools of their ...

Stanford is the most vulnerable school in college athletics because of conference realignment

The domino effect of Oklahoma and Texas leaving the Big 12 for the SEC (leading to the dismantling of the Pac-12 two years later) is a turn of events that would’ve been nearly impossible to predict. The catalyst for the Power Five’s west coast entry point being almost no more wasn’t UCLA and USC tra...

Only one thing is going to fix college athletics, and it’s not Congress

There’s a problem facing college athletics that cannot be solved by the NCAA, the courts, the states, or the conferences. This immoral predicament of the greatest consequence — unregulated name, image, and likeness money — can only be solved by Congressional oversight, according to SEC commissioner ...