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Greg Sankey Has Cautious Optimism As SEC Football Season Starts

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey "has his guard up," as the conference prepares to begin its football season this weekend, according to Matt Baker of the TAMPA BAY TIMES. Sankey yesterday said, "I still am in the hold-my-breath moment a bit. ... We're close to the starting line. Saturday is nowhere near the finish line." Baker: "With the uncertainty that is causing multiple games to get called off weekly, what would constitute a successful season for Sankey and the SEC in the COVID-19 era?" Sankey: "Being in Atlanta on Dec. 19 naming a conference champion, I would define that as a success" (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 9/24). In St. Louis, Dave Matter notes SEC protocols "require teams to test their football players three times per week during the season." Alabama is the "only SEC football program known to be testing its players every day" (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 9/24).

FINGERS CROSSED: USA TODAY's Dan Wolken writes though it was "almost certainly an oversight," it was notable that Sankey's definition of success for the SEC did "not include any reference at all to keeping players and staffers safe, minimizing COVID-19 outbreaks or ensuring that players who contract the virus are not going to suffer long-term complications." Wolken: "Make no mistake, the SEC is going to have its championship game Dec. 19 regardless of what happens in the next several weeks. They are past the point of no return." It might be a "colossal mess with positive tests, contact tracing issues, game postponements and demolished depth charts, but it's going to happen one way or the other." Wolken: "Is that success? Perhaps, in a way. But what's the cost of that success?" (USA TODAY, 9/24).

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