Even as the Florida Gators captured the 2015 SEC Baseball Tournament Championship with a 7-3 victory over the Vanderbilt Commodores at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium on Sunday, officials from the city of Hoover and the Southeastern Conference had yet to begin negotiations about the future of the event.
But they will start soon.
The league's current contract to hold the tournament at Hoover Met expires in 2016.
The scoreboard tells the story after a Southeastern Conference tournament college baseball game at the Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Ala., Friday, May 22, 2015. Vanderbilt won 16-1 in seven innings. (Mark Almond/ malmond@al.