HOOVER, Ala. • Greg Sankey kicked off SEC media days on Monday with the annual state-of-the-conference speech, his first as SEC commissioner. Sankey’s 32-page speech and brief Q&A session with print reporters lasted nearly 45 minutes. A few highlights …
• Sankey quoted Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’” to note the milestone transitions that have swept through the league the last five years, including the addition of Texas A&M and Missouri (2012), the new ESPN contract (2013), the SEC Network launch (2014) and the commissioner transition of 2015.