re: ESPN: Some schools may take full tv share but won’t spend full 20 mil player salary max

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I heard we need Vanderbilt’s private emails to evade FOIA. How true was that?

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This rumor has been around forever, but I have yet to see a legitimate source report it. The new way conferences evade foia is by having university administrators log on to private internal conference chat rooms to communicate critical conference issues. The SEC is still a private organization, even if all its members are public with Vandy out.

If Alabama’s president sends an email to Vandy’s president, the Birmingham News can FOIA that all day even though Vandy is private. Vandy being private isn’t protecting anyone else.