PROVIDENCE, R.I. – American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco has issued the following statement on the passing of former SEC Commissioner Mike Slive.
Mike Slive was a great leader and an even better human being. He was a warm family man as well as a highly skilled and committed administrator whose accomplishments over a long, varied and distinguished career are too numerous to list. The college community has lost a wonderful friend and champion in Mike Slive. Student-athletes, coaches, administrators and fans in the SEC and across the country will be in his debt for the wisdom, compassion, dedication and intellectual depth and breadth he always brought to everything he did and which will have a lasting impact.