Yeah. I've got some mad insomnia tonight and I was reading some other boards and noticed a few posts on the TR bemoaning the fact that the whole of the SEC office is staffed with Bama grads.

So, I decided to put my Googling skills to work.

(The old timers around these parts know I'm scary good with the Google.)

So I took the staff list from the SEC office website and went to work. I have bolded any association with SEC schools (graduate or former employee or hometown in SEC state if I could find it)

-Greg Sankey - Commissoner
Undergrad - SUNY Cortland
Masters - Syracuse
Wife - no info
Daughters - Mississippi State and Wheaton College (Illinois)

-Mark Womack - Executive Assoc. Commissioner/CFO
Undergrad - Alabama

-Charlie Hussey - Assoc. Commissioner/COO
Undergrad - Mississippi

-Tiffany Daniels - Assoc. Commissioner/COO
Undergrad - Georgia

-Dr. Torie Johnson - Assoc. Commissioner/Academic Relations
Undergrad - Baylor
Masters - UAB

-William King - Assoc. Commissioner/Legal Affairs
Undergrad - Washington & Lee
JD - Vanderbilt

-Dan Liebovitz - Assoc. Commissioner/Men's Basketball
Undergrad - Penn
Masters - Temple

-Herb Vincent - Assoc. Commissioner/ Communications
Undergrad - LSU
Work - 20 years in various roles at LSU

-Chris Waldsmith - Assoc. Commissioner/Finance
Undergrad - Alabama

-David Batson - Assoc. Commissioner/Compliance
Undergrad - Texas A&M
Work - 25 years in various roles at Texas A&M
Wife - softball player and graduate of Texas A&M

-Matt Boyer - Assoc. Commissioner/Compliance
Undergrad - no info - native of Chicago
JD - Valparaiso (Indiana)

-Leslie Claybrook - Assoc. Commissioner/Championships
Undergrad - Alabama

-Byron Hatch - Assoc. Commissioner/Championships
Undergrad - U of Central Arkansas
JD - Arkansas Little Rock
Work - Arkansas Athletic Department various roles

-Kathryn Poe Switzer - Executive Assistant to Commissioner Sankey
No college
Lived in Olive Branch, MS; currently lives in Alabama

-Sylvia Hagan Barnes - Director of Officiating Administration
Undergrad - UAB

-Misty Brown - Director of Student Athlete Engagement
Undergrad - Florida

-Cole Cunningham - Director of Video Operations, Football
Undergrad - Auburn

-Brett Thompson, Assoc. Director Marketing and Communications
Undergrad - Auburn

-John Gibson - Director of Championships
Undergrad - Tuskegee

-Craig Pinkerton - Director of Communications
Undergrad - Kansas State
Work - Asst. SID, 8 years - Tennessee

-Randall Malone - Director of Video Operations, Basketball
Undergrad - Tennessee Tech
Work - Auburn

-Mike Mims - Assoc. Director, Championship Tickets
Undergrad - South Carolina
Work - 4 years, South Carolina

-B.C. Romano, Director, Video and Creative Services
Education and Work - no info found

-Jim Sullivan - Director, Championship Ticket Operations
Undergrad - Lafayette College

-Lauren Taylor - Director of Marketing and Competition
Undergrad - LSU
Masters - LSU
Work - LSU and Maryland

-Tammy Wilson - Director of Communications
Undergrad - UCF
Masters - Alabama
Work - Alabama and ECU

-Ben Beaty - Asst. Director of Communications
Undergrad - Auburn
Work - Georgia

-Jill Skotarkczok - Asst. Director of Communications
Undergrad - Iona College

-Ally Battle, Asst. Director Financial Operations
Undergrad - UNC

-Kory Dahlen - Asst. Director Competition
Undergrad - LSU
Masters - LSU
Work = LSU

-Ann Drinkard - Asst. Director for Communications for Social Media
Undergrad - Georgia

-Rob Milligan - Asst. Director for Video Operations and Building Services
Undergrad - Auburn

-Susan Bishop - Admin. Asst., Academic Relations
No info

-Meredith Branch - Admin. Asst., Compliance
No info

-Donna Moore - Admin. Asst., Compliance
No info

-Bailey Powell - Admin. Asst. Commissioner's Office
Undergrad - Georgia

-Grace Sanders - Admin. Asst, Football; Coordinates Football Officials
Undergrad - Auburn
Auburn equestrian team

-Melinda Calderini - Coordinator, First Impressions
Undergrad - Jacksonville State (AL)

-Steve Shaw - Coordinator, Football Officials
Undergrad - Alabama

-Lisa Mattingly - Coordinator, WBB Officials
Undergrad - Sue Bennett College

-Christie Cornwell - Coordinator, Softball Umpires
Undergrad - James Madison
Masters - UNC

-Paul Guillie - Coordinator, Baseball Umpires
Undergrad - Southeastern Louisiana University
New Orleans, LA native

-Mark Whitehead - Coordinator, MBB Officials
Undergrad - Southeastern Louisiana University
Masters - Southeastern Louisiana University
Denham Springs, LA native

-Melinda Voorhies - Coordinator, Volleyball Officials
No info

-Rachel Woo - Coordinator, Soccer Officials
Undergrad - Colgate

So, 45 SEC HQ employees listed;

21 of the 45 listed employees have no educational or work association with an SEC school or no information could be found(47%).

Of the remaining 45, 24 employees have an educational, previous work, or familial association with an SEC school (53%) -

-Sankey - daughter, Mississippi State
-Womack - Alabama undergrad
-Hussey - Mississippi undergrad
-Daniels - Georgia undergrad
-King - Vanderbilt JD
-Vincent - LSU undergrad and worked at LSU
-Batson - Texas A&M undergrad and worked at Texas A&M
-Claybrook - Alabama undergrad
-Hatch - Arkansas JD and worked for Arkansas
-Brown - Florida undergrad
-Cunningham - Auburn undergrad
-Thompson - Auburn undergrad
-Pinkerton - worked for Tennessee
-Malone - worked for Auburn
-Mims - South Carolina undergrad and worked for South Carolina
-Taylor - LSU undergrad, LSU masters, and worked at LSU
-Wilson - Alabama undergrad and worked at Alabama
-Beaty - Auburn undergrad and worked at Georgia
-Dahlen - LSU undergrad, LSU masters, and worked at LSU
-Drinkard - Georgia undergrad
-Milligan - Auburn undergrad
-Powell - Georgia undergrad
-Sanders - Auburn undergrad
-Shaw - Alabama undergrad

(I did not double count if one employee had two associations with one university. For example, if they got two degrees at the same school or one degree and also worked at the same school, that only counted as one association. If an employee had an association with two separate schools (undergrad at school X, worked at school Y), I did count both of those associations for the respective schools.)

SEC associations totaled -

1 - Auburn - 6
2 - Alabama - 4
3T - Georgia - 3
3T - LSU - 3
5T - Arkansas - 1
5T - Florida - 1
5T - Mississippi - 1
5T - Mississippi State - 1
5T - South Carolina - 1
5T - Tennessee - 1
5T - Texas A&M - 1
5T - Vanderbilt - 1

Only schools not represented - Kentucky and Missouri.

Big surprise! Auburn leads the way, with Alabama, Georgia, and LSU not far behind.

So, when you hear the oft repeated whine that "EVERYONE AT THE SEC OFFICE IS A BAMA GRAD!!!" feel free to link this post.

Now, I think I've cured my insomnia. Goodnight and RTR!