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Alabama Football: Sankey Takes Path Of Least Resistance

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The sign hangs there, hypothetically, at a make-believe restaurant frequented by real-life SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey.

“This is a non-smoking establishment. But if you’d like to smoke, it’s totally fine.”

Maybe that’s where he got the idea. Because that, in effect, is what Sankey said Friday when he granted former Alabama football player Maurice Smith a conditional waiver to transfer to SEC rival Georgia, and should he so choose, play immediately.

Sankey had two clear choices regarding the SEC’s graduate transfer rule:

1) Enforce it as written.