Greg Sankey resists call for SEC to break away from NCAA… for now
"But Paul, I'll tell you there is great frustration in my league that we've not been able to work collaboratively through some of the challenges or opportunities that we face."
"But Paul, I'll tell you there is great frustration in my league that we've not been able to work collaboratively through some of the challenges or opportunities that we face."
"He should have been an interim coach for a year, and he wouldn’t have gotten the job for next year."
"Can anything get done or will it be a circus? Will it be just another show?"
"The reality is that the ninth SEC game is going to be very costly for a lot of programs."
"I’m like, well, there’s nothing I can do right this second. That’s why I didn’t hang up the phone and panic."
"There can be debate about whether Indiana had the best season in college football history, but there can be no debate: It is the greatest story in the history of the game."
"Indiana winning just made it worse."
Curt Cignetti improbably led the Indiana Hoosiers to a national championship, proving a lot of people wrong along the way.
"It will get some attention on Tuesday morning, Matt, but it really won’t get that much."
Paul Finebaum compared Indiana's Cinderella story to Vanderbilt saying their turnarounds are "equally dramatic."
If Paul Finebaum follows through on his promise to leave America, several great sports cultures would welcome him.
In an appearance on First Take, Paul Finebaum grimly admitted that there was no way that even he could defend the SEC's performances.
"Quite frankly, would you rather have Lane Kiffin or Kalen DeBoer?"
"I don’t want to be the Grinch who stole Christmas, but get these schools and these conferences out of my way."
"There's simply no leadership there, there's no alignment..."
"Some of the stupidest tweets I've ever seen."
"It’s that simple. It was all about money."
"I could not burn down the place I had worked for the last 13 years that had given me an opportunity as a Birmingham talk show host..."
"Just simply a disgrace."
"Notre Dame makes all that money off that NBC contract, but does anybody watch these games?"
"I did say I was gonna strip down butt naked...that is just a Southern phrase"
"You're afraid to play in a conference because you want to take the money and run. That's your fault."