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Greg Sankey credits 'adult supervision' for stopping him from snapping back on social media

Matt Connollyby: Matt Connolly12/06/24MattConnollyOn3
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SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey is active on Twitter, regularly posting thoughts and updates on the league. While Sankey tweets plenty, he admitted Friday on The Pat McAfee Show that he would like to post even more.

Sankey was asked in particular if he would like to respond to coaches and athletics directors in other conferences who might take a shot at the SEC, as Miami AD Dan Radakovich recently did.

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Greg Sankey credited his wife Cathy and SEC Associate Commissioner/Communications Herb Vincent for keeping him out of trouble.

“I have a Twitter account, @GregSankey, very simple to find. I do not have a burner account,” Sankey said. “I have adult supervision, so before I tweet things, somebody else has to read it and approve it. … Are there times I’d like to do more? Absolutely. But those who care about me and my life stop me from doing so.”

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Greg Sankey typically avoids controversy on Twitter, but a few weeks ago he posted a less than subtle sign of support for a quartet of two-loss SEC teams ranked behind several undefeated or one-loss teams from the Big Ten, ACC or independent ranks. Sankey chimed in on Twitter with a graph explicitly showing the strength of schedule discrepancy among the CFP’s Top 15 teams.

Needless to say, the tweet received plenty of attention. Sankey opened up about the tweet on The Pat McAfee Show.

“Two weeks ago I tweeted innocently, just innocently, a comparison about strength of schedules in college football, a couple of weeks ago, just innocently,” he said. “The amount of feedback and views and commentary was magnificent. … I just want to inform America about the distinctions of our strength of schedule versus others. And that provoked a reaction.”

As the graph showed, the 10th-ranked Georgia Bulldogs had the nation’s consensus No. 1 strength of schedule based on the ESPN, Massey and Sagarin ratings at the time. In fact, the SEC’s six programs that were ranked in the CFP Top 15 — Georgia, Alabama (No. 7), Tennessee (No. 11), Texas A&M (No. 15, Ole Miss (No. 9) and Texas (No. 3) — led the field in average strength of schedule ranking.

“Interesting to read analysis from others as they examine ‘strength of schedule’ in college football,” Sankey tweeted. “It does seem there is a trend to be identified.”