Good idea? SEC would consider moving SEC media days to other cities
SEC Media Days have long taken place in Alabama, previously Birmingham and more recently suburb Hoover, but commissioner Greg Sankey is open to having the multi-day event elsewhere.
“We’ve built something special in Hoover,” Sankey said at the College Football Playoff’s annual meetings in Irving, Texas. “But we’re a big conference with a whole lot of interest from a lot of different places.”
USA Today’s George Schroeder notes that Sankey acknowledged that the Lone Star State, which officially became part of the SEC footprint in 2012, could be a possibility. The other piece of the 2012 expansion was Missouri. For possible changes to football media days, the commissioner pointed to an event hosted in that area of the country:
Sankey noted the SEC’s men’s basketball tournament, which has rotated to various locations — and which next year is scheduled to be played in St. Louis — as a potential example.
The 11-state geographic footprint of the conference certainly gives Sankey a wide range of options of sites to potentially host SEC media days.