SEC Starts Spring Meetings to Pursue New Schedule Model, Denies Seeking Funding

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — Greg Sankey kicked off the SEC meeting with a preemptive strike on Monday, saying “money comes after, not leads,” regarding the proposed schedule model.

The SEC meeting officially begins today at the Hilton Sandestin Beach Hotel, where the league’s coaches, athletic directors and chairman will weigh their options.

Conventional wisdom suggests that the league would better move to a 9-game schedule with 3 fixed opponents and 6 rotating opponents in 2024 to build the value of its bigger TV deal with ESPN and create more attractive matchups. It was good to provide

However, without ESPN providing the league with further financial incentives, this model could ultimately be put on hold, opening up the possibility for the league to maintain its eight-game schedule next season. Become.

Sankey said the league is “ready” to make a decision and remains progressive with Texas and Oklahoma joining the league and a 12-game playoff set for 2024. He suggested that responsibility lay with the SEC.

“The league at the forefront of college athletics isn’t standing still,” Sankey said, according to The Tennessee Anne.

but Sankey also told SI.com. “If you’re just chasing money, you’re really making the wrong decisions… We don’t do that here.”

Georgia Superintendent Kirby Smart said he was uninterested in whatever model the SEC pursued.

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“I think we can go either way and[and]either format will get us through the cycle and get us through the SEC faster,” Smart said earlier this month in Birmingham. “So what are we really talking about in the big picture?

“I think people are looking for something to argue about, but if you’re going to play everyone in the SEC home and away for four years, there’s not that much of a difference between the two methodologies we’re going to do.”

Other items scheduled to be discussed at the SEC’s Spring Meetings include:

• Discuss provision to eliminate field storming with possible game forfeiture or home game loss.

• Discussion of current and proposed legislation to address recent gambling problems and transparency of rosters

• Formal Proposal for In-Conference Transfer Notification Contacts and Special Provisions for Transfers after Coaching Changes