At SEC Media Days in 2022, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey found himself in a signature random conversation with Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach at SEC Media Days a year ago.
Leach, as he often did during the annual event, was expressing his displeasure with neckties.
“It was a conversation that went much longer than anticipated, and it ended in the rhetorical question of why neckties survived when powder wigs went away,” Sankey recalled Monday.
To open 2023 SEC Media Days in Nashville, Sankey took the podium with no tie — a tribute to the legendary coach who died in December after three seasons with the Bulldogs.