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At Media Days, new SEC commissioner calls for renewed commitment to compliance

HOOVER, Ala. — Befitting someone with a background in compliance and enforcement, the SEC’s new commissioner used the league’s annual preseason media conference as a platform to stress the need for winning the right way.

“While we may not win them all, we will aspire to achieve that goal, and we will do so with our heads held high,” Greg Sankey said Monday in an address which kicked off SEC Media Days 2015. His aim is to “never return a championship, never pull down a championship banner, never vacate any wins, and never have a team banned from postseason competition due to NCAA infractions or the lack of academic success under the NCAA’s academic performance program.