MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. –- Another SEC spring meetings is in the books. Don’t let the Paul Finebaum Show’s picturesque background belie that all the real work happens in conference rooms deep in the bowels of the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort.
As for how much work actually got done, well, put it like this: A week that began with hope for progress on the conference’s touchstone issues of preferred playoff format and future schedule ends with no resolution and perhaps an even murkier timeline than we had thought headed into the heat of summer. As quickly as a good idea was suggested (LSU’s Brian Kelly proposed an annual scheduling alliance with the Big Ten), it was shot down. Bad ideas like international SEC games were shot down, too (at least for now). Nagging frustrations like the lack of transfer portal reform continue to eat at coaches.
We unpack the conference’s annual week on the beach with our reporters Brandon Marcello and John Talty playing a little game of “buy or sell?” to the following five topics.
1. Sankey’s relationship with commissioners of the Big 12, ACC is beyond repair.
Marcello — SELL: Just a year ago, the Big 12’s Brett Yormark and ACC’s Jim Phillips told me that the relationships among the Autonomous 4 conference had never been better. The communication was open and honest after several years of cloak-and-dagger dealings around conference realignment. Those relationships are now strained, but not beyond repair. Sankey mentioned this week how terrible relationships were once during the BCS era among previous commissioners. Former SEC commish Roy Kramer told Sankey: “We hated each other as you walked out, and we always figured a way out.”
In the end, relationships may be strained, but they’ll figure something…
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Author : Brandon Marcello
Publish date : 2025-05-29 19:54:00
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