Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey took the stage Monday in Hoover, Alabama to discuss the state of the league.
It was fitting that his intro music was “It’s a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong.
His state of the SEC was followed by a shortened Q&A. The most news-worthy item Sankey shared was the future landing spots of the cash cow known as the SEC football media event.
Long-birthed and cultivated here in Hoover – a ritzy suburb of Birmingham – the event will head back to Atlanta and the College Football Hall of Fame next summer and go to Nashville for the 2021 summer. Not unlike how Chattanooga hatched the SEC women’s tournament, no good deed like growing and loving and embracing an event goes unpunished when the metroplexes become interested.
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