{"id":13131,"date":"2023-08-09T15:34:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=13131"},"modified":"2023-08-09T15:34:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:34:26","slug":"greg-sankey-on-relationship-with-kevin-warren-we-saw-the-world-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/greg-sankey-on-relationship-with-kevin-warren-we-saw-the-world-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Sankey on relationship with Kevin Warren: \u2018We saw the world differently\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey<\/strong> has been fairly frank in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic that he is pleased with the way the conference handled everything. Sankey has issue with how other conference commissioners, like the Big Ten\u2019s Kevin Warren<\/strong>, approached it.<\/p>\n

The SEC was one of the few leagues that didn\u2019t want to instantly shut down seasons without exploring solutions. But that was definitely a minority position at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s an example where if you take this czar mentality, and let me deal with that, we would be ceding authority to one entity or one person,\u201d Greg Sankey said. \u201cIt would not have worked well in the summer of 2020. I\u2019ve yet to have a student-athlete come up to me who played during that time period and say, \u2018Wow, I wish you hadn\u2019t have tried as hard as you did.\u2019 In fact, it\u2019s just the opposite. It is, \u2018Thank you for giving us the chance.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, there were many months where college athletics was operating in different directions. While the SEC was adamant about playing, the Big Ten was not.<\/p>\n

Friction and tension built up, even among college administrators who most of the time are fighting on the same side.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo fast forward to relationships, I had a warm relationship with Kevin,\u201d Greg Sankey said of the Big Ten commissioner. \u201cWe saw the world differently. I had three colleagues in a room repeatedly just saying, \u2018No, we\u2019re not going to extend.\u2019 And trying to ask them to explain, in fact, engaging in, \u2018How do we address your concern, just tell me what it is and how do we work through those?\u2019 Ultimately it took the presidents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sankey bemoaned the fact that solutions stopped becoming the priority for some during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though we disagree we can move forward,\u201d Greg Sankey said. \u201cWhat\u2019s key is to identify the points of disagreement and then work on those. If there\u2019s anything that frustrated me through that CFP experience is we never made the effort to work through some of the stopping points.\u201d<\/p>\n

In any case, Kevin Warren is no longer around as the Big Ten<\/a> commissioner and Sankey has been hailed as remarkably successful as the Southeastern Conference continues to do well. In fact, even during the pandemic moves were playing out brilliantly.<\/p>\n

The SEC was still very much competitive during that timeframe.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of my favorite stories is the women\u2019s volleyball national championship won by Kentucky<\/strong><\/a> after months and months of an elongated season in the fall and the spring,\u201d Greg Sankey said. \u201cOur first, as a conference our first women\u2019s volleyball national championship. That\u2019s one of those things that wouldn\u2019t have been there had we not tried.\u201d<\/p>\n

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