I can't believe he is not commissioner of the sec yet!****
Greg Sankey - SEC Commissioner - alma mater SUNY Cortland - previous experience commissioner of Southland Conference.
John Swofford - ACC Commissioner - alma mater UNC Chapel Hill - previous experience AD of UNC-Chapel Hill
Jim Delaney - Big 10 Commissioner - alma mater UNC Chapel Hill - previous experience commissioner of Ohio Valley Conference
Larry Scott - PAC 12 Commissioner - alma mater Harvard - previous experience CEO of Women's Tennis Association
Bob Bowlsby - Big 12 Commissioner - alma mater Moorhead State - previous experience AD of Stanford.
Also, our previous commissioners in the SEC were Slive who was commish at C-USA and Roy Kramer who was previously AD at the all powerful Vandy. If Stricklin thought he had to move out of Starkville to have a better opportunity to become commissioner, then the list above does not support that way of thinking.