The Bulldogs coach razzed the league commissioner to his face.
Of all the changes that have afflicted college football in the 21st century—for good or for ill—the rise of the celebrity conference commissioner has to rank near the bottom.
There have been well-known conference commissioners in the past—SEC boss Roy Kramer won a degree of notoriety for masterminding the BCS, for instance—but the modern league leader has sought to achieve a kind of sports-tech-bro fame. On Saturday, then,coach Kirby Smart struck a blow for sanity by cutting SEC commissioner Greg Sankey down to size over the Bulldogs' arduous 2024 schedule.
"It means rest for a team that Greg Sankey and his staff sent on the road all year long!" Smart exclaimed.However, given the quasi-anticompetitive posturing of Sankey and his peers, hearing Smart give him the business over a complaint coaches have had since 1869 almost scanned as a breath of fresh air.Patrick Andres is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated.
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