Paul Finebaum has had plenty of praise for SEC commissioner Greg Sankey in recent years, from his handling of the 2020 pandemic-plagued season to the SEC getting 2 teams into the College Football Playoff this year.

On Wednesday, Finebaum appeared on ESPN’s “Outside The Lines” and continued to praise the SEC commissioner.

As you can see in the clip below, Finebaum explains how Sankey has become the “North Star of college athletics”:

“In many ways, he has become the North Star of college athletics,” Finebaum said. “Why? You heard in Ryan’s piece, because he is collaborative, he is congenial and he is trying to be something that many commissioners are not. Their job is to represent their league, but Greg Sankey is on many committees. He’s been the chairman of the NCAA infractions committee. So he understands the machinations of the NCAA. But he also understands the role of the SEC. It’s easy when you’re the SEC commissioner to beat your chest, scream out S-E-C, S-E-C and not really care about anyone else, but that’s not who he is, and I think that’s why he’s so respected. I think it’s also why he’s also so envied, especially last summer after Oklahoma and Texas called him wanting to get into the SEC. Many criticized him, as if they would not have taken those 2 blue-blood programs into their own league.”

The SEC seems to be in good hands with Sankey at the helm.