Greg Sankey, the SEC commissioner, recently joined The Pat McAfee Show to discuss the SEC. In the discussion, Sankey spoke about the SEC’s recent success in college football and college basketball, and simply put, he’s not satisfied.
This comes as a bit of a surprise as the SEC has been one of the more dominant conferences in both college football and college basketball. Most recently, 14 basketball teams from the SEC were announced for the upcoming March Madness tournament, breaking a record.
Greg Sankey Not Satisfied with SEC’s Success
“We want to be an everything league,” Sankey said on The Pat McAfee Show. “I think we’ve got one, two, and three in gymnastics nationally. Baseball, one in Softball. You know, I haven’t checked the golf and tennis rankings, but we got to be close.”
Sankey says, “There was a point a couple of weeks ago where we had 14 teams or 14 sports in competition, and we had the number one ranked team in 12 of those sports. That’s what we want to be. We go through this change, we talk a lot about opportunities across the board, we want to be great in everything, and I think we can do that.”
“Now, we’re going to go through a change as we deal with name, image, and likeness payments and this revenue sharing the stuff out of a legal settlement if it’s approved, but that doesn’t change. our aspirations.”
Baseball and Softball, additionally, run through the SEC. The SEC is dominant in gymnastics and golf. There are several reasons why the SEC is as dominant as it is, especially in basketball.
Whether the SEC decides to expand the conference from 14 to 16 teams, a new era of college sports, and a record-setting year from one of the best college conferences in sports, the SEC is on track to make some college basketball history.
Additionally, the two expansion teams that joined the SEC, the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns, each made the March Madness field, quickly earning their stripes against some of the SEC’s best who have been here for much longer.
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Along with the Big Ten, the SEC is one of the most successful conferences in college sports. The future of the SEC is very bright, and fans of SEC teams should expect to see their teams a part of championships for years and years to come.
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