The 2023 SEC spring meetings will hold major weight behind them according to AL.com’s Michael Casagrande — who sees the issue of whether or not the conference will go with eight or nine-game conference schedules as the make-or-break issue at the annual gathering of the Southeastern Conference’s power players in Destin, Florida.
“No doubt issues like NIL and transfer portals will consume a share of the Destin oxygen but with rivalries in the balance, the matter of eight or nine should be the talk of the SEC assembly next week by the gulf,” Casagrande wrote.
With Oklahoma and Texas inbound to the SEC, what gets decided on during the 2023 meetings can have a drastic impact on the strength of schedules some schools in the conference’s lesser division (SEC East) see each season should the divisions dissolve entirely.