If Greg Sankey ever pens a book on his professional successes, this story – the one he shared as the guest speaker at Mississippi State University’s commencement Friday night – is likely to be his first chapter. It may even be the title of the book: ‘The Restroom Near Gate A-26.’ Should make for a snazzy cover.
Now the Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, Sankey was the Commissioner of the Southland Conference back in 1997, and it was then, at the restroom near gate A-26 in the Atlanta-Hartsfield airport, that his life was turned around.