He was a welder’s son and passionate enough about sports that his prize for winning a clean desk contest in sixth grade was a book by John Wooden, the U.C.L.A.
Sankey’s path to a Southern juggernaut started in upstate New York. barred for generations, and politicians and the courts are looking askance at a system routinely condemned as exploitative. College sports’ wealth gap is widening, players are enjoying the freedom to earn money, which the N.C.A.A. They’re both problem solvers in a practical way.”īut the lingering question, and sometimes the worry, for many college sports executives is how the SEC-centric Sankey will use his swelling influence at a time when their shared industry is under siege. They probably know more than anybody else in any room that they occupy at any level because of their longevity and intelligence. They can both be formidable to the point of ruthless. “Greg Sankey is Jim Delany 2.0,” said Patty Viverito, the longtime commissioner of the Missouri Valley Football Conference and, along with Sankey, a member of an influential N.C.A.A. Sankey, 57, has prompted comparisons to Mike Slive, who built the SEC into college football’s premier league, and Jim Delany, who dominated the Big Ten Conference for decades.
On Friday, his league will have teams in both playoff semifinal games: top-ranked Alabama in the Cotton Bowl, and No. He is an architect of a potential College Football Playoff expansion that could make it the most valuable event in intercollegiate athletics. He is helping lead a committee that will spend the coming months weighing new rules for Division I, the N.C.A.A.’s wealthiest and most prominent tier. He ushered Oklahoma and Texas through SEC membership talks.
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