re: Listening to Sankey on SEC Now

Demosthenes would be insulted by your naivete.

Ignoring your puerile tone, I did a quick search on the off-chance that your assertion about his resume was correct. It's not in my opinion. Sankey has plenty of high level experience and should be a seasoned negotiator and decision-maker at this point, especially with the value of the SEC members behind him.

1987-89 Utica College, Director of Intramural Sports
1989-91 Northwestern State University
Director of Compliance & Academic Services, 1990-92
Head Golf Coach, 1990-92
1992-2001 Southland Conference
Assistant Commissioner, 1992-94
Associate Commissioner, 1994-96
Commissioner, 1996-2002
2002-present Southeastern Conference
Associate Commissioner, 2002-2012
Executive Associate Commissioner/Chief Operating Officer, 2012-2015
Commissioner, 2015-present

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Those titles are great. He was in compliance oversight roles at the Southland and SEC conferences.

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I see you're just scanning and not reading carefully. Sankey was the commissioner of the Southland conference from 1996 until he joined the SEC in 2002. So he was the top executive in the Southland for roughly 6 years.

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This is actually interesting talking to you. I, as a wizened Grecian orator, sharing knowledge though marinated contemplation and long experience. You, as a neocon Roman dictator, bestowing benevolence through unilateral destruction.

Fits the UGA - Texas difference quite well.

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LOL

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But seriously, use your brain: being a commissioner in a junior conference from ‘96-‘02 would have one responsibility: administrative. That conference didn’t have televised events. They didn’t have strategic considerations. They had administrative needs, which under the NCAA bureaucracy, wa almost exclusively compliance-oriented. That’s why he got the commish promotion in the first place! And that’s why when the SEC hired him, he was hired into a compliance role.

Come on, man!

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Understanding and negotiating compliance with your industry regulations is a major part of any industry including major ones like banking/financial services or automobile manufacturing. So I don't look down on Sankey for having compliance as a heavy part of his portfolio. That's actually an asset considering the new territory we are in with revenue-sharing, etc. with college football.

As that seems to be your primary objection towards his leadership, his choice of wardrobe notwithstanding, I don't see a lot of real negatives here. I have no reason to not trust Greg Sankey to shepherd the SEC through the chaotic times CFB is in. I also recognize he's far from the only person having a say in the room. The league staff with Sankey at the head has to deftly move all the conference schools to a position of consensus on any major decisions under an umbrella of laws, regulations, and precedents grown organically over decades of mutual operations.

It's a tough job indeed. So complain away about real oversights and mistakes. Don't worry that Sankey wants to make a buck (good!) or that he likes to wear his suits (professionalism is good in my book).

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He is everything that’s wrong with CFB.

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And yet, he was recently extended unanimously by SEC schools. It's almost like the folks running things no longer give a frick what the students/alum/fans think as long as our checks clear.

He got us underpaid in the tv deal

Yep. “The schools” are literally that part of the institutions. He reports to the Chancellors and Presidents, not thr AD’s.

It’s been well-documented those individuals also don’t know what the hell they’re doing with the sports media properties these institutions now possess, and similarly lack the long-term vision to properly shepherd the conferences and schools forward in a sustainable way.

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He is everything that’s wrong with CFB.

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Sankey just added Oklahoma and Texas to the SEC, while minimizing aggy … a smart, media savvy, power move paying immediate dividends…

He’ll have full Longhorn support when he soon moves SEC headquarters to Dallas, or Austin…

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Yet he has presided over the SEC and allowed it to have arguably the best years of all time.

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How in the hell are these the best years of all time? Because you're suddenly in it?

Given that the SEC fell behind the Big 10 in TV money under Sankey even though the SEC is far superior than the Big 12 in football and game interest, i would say Sankey is not good enough.

Reminds me of my retrospective of the Oklahoma offense. Looking at Lincoln Rileys offense at Oklahoma and his offense now at UScw it is clear he is not an offensive genius, just a very lucky OC to have a sttring of NFL caliber QBs make him look good. He had Baker, Kyler, Jalen, Rattler, Caleb, all made him look good. Now without an NFL caliber QB he looks like crap on offense…..