NASHVILLE — Greg Sankey’s upturned lips said it all.
“This smile may not leave my face for weeks or months,” the commissioner-select of the Southeastern Conference said during a Friday morning news conference inside Bridgestone Arena, where the league’s men’s basketball tournament is being held.
“It’s one of those moments that doesn’t come along very often in life.”
Sankey’s new job hasn’t come open for 13 years, or since retiring commissioner Mike Slive officially succeeded Roy Kramer in July of 2002.
A month after that, Slive made a call to Sankey, who was then the commissioner of the Southland Conference.