Greg Sankey reveals how the Jimbo Fisher-Nick Saban feud ruined his day
By Keith Farner
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Greg Sankey has had a full offseason in terms of issues to sort out, and discuss with leaders around college sports. But the self-inflicted wound in the SEC may have been the one that ruined his day.
At least that’s what he shared with Paul Finebaum on Thursday.
“I had a friend a long time ago — it was actually around a Honey Badger story in Sports Illustrated about something around recruitment that wasn’t entirely informed or accurate — and so one of my friends, we were working out, said, ‘Does that just like ruin your day?'” Sankey said, per Tide Sports. “I said, ‘There’s a time that it would.’ And there are certain things that do ruin my day.”
“I don’t want to ask what those are,” Finebaum said in response.
“Well, I’ll tell you in mid-May I was in New York City, it was 11 o’clock at night and I’d been at an awards event,” Sankey said. “I didn’t win the award and neither did our league win the award. And then the phone rang about something that got said in Birmingham. So there’s an example of a ruined day.”
“That was a tough night’s sleep for a lot of people,” Finebaum said.
“Yeah, it happens, and we’ve managed forward,” Sankey said.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
