#Greg Sankey

Few things in life are close enough to perfect that trying to improve upon them has been well established as folly. The first sip of good whiskey after five minutes in crushed ice. The precise chord progression in the first two signature bars of a great song. The inimitable sound of ocean waves breaking on shore. Trying to revise or expand on them…

College sports leaders have spent more than a year reviewing the calendar, and where everything fits in it, to best accommodate the oft-conflicting pursuits of athletic excellence, academic credibility, athlete well-being and piles of cash. It's a well-meaning endeavor, but it's missing one obvious fix: Get rid of the December football signing…

Mike Leach brought innovation, personality and humor to college football, traits that are not always in great abundance. He will be missed. Name, image and likeness and the transfer portal dominated conversations last week at the Intercollegiate Athletics Forum, presented by Learfield, but I'm not sure there was a more important session than the…

One year ago today, college athletics changed forever. July 1, 2021, marked the beginning of the name, image and likeness era, and it set the stage for what has become perhaps the most transformative 12 months in college sports history. This week, CBS Sports recognized that anniversary as the jumping off point for a three-part series taking a more…

If you believe the SEC is pompous, entitled and doesn't think its sweat socks stink, your worst fear seemed to vanish last week: Three SEC teams in the College Football Playoff. "To me, that's blasphemous," Robert Griffin III said during the Florida-Texas A&M game last week. The ESPN analyst and former Heisman Trophy winner spoke for many people…

While I got ya, here are nine things and one crazy prediction: Some bark from Sark. Texas' Steve Sarkisian is getting feistier by the minute, which is fine. He was a little Nick Sabanish on Monday when he was asked which quarterback was taking first-team snaps and he answered, "That's for me." It's the first time he hasn't been more candid about…

If you're bad at your job, you get demoted, right? Unless you're Vanderbilt, in which case you get a media rights check for about $80 million. As the old American Express ad said, "Membership has its privileges." And being a member of the SEC has provided the Commodores with more privileges than they've earned. I don't mean to pick on Vandy, which…