Can't Wait For Saturday Here's hoping SEC commish willing to play nice with others

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Mar. 11—***

I don't know exactly what the power brokers running the SEC want in the future.

Though the wish list likely starts with more than the zero national titles it has won the past three seasons in football. Score one for the Big Ten.

Way-too-serious SEC commissioner Greg Sankey went on his league's television network and talked about the conference being prepared to go it alone if rules and standards can't be agreed to by all the major players.

On the surface, it comes across as a negotiating tactic. Sankey knows as well as anyone that college sports — football in particular — can't thrive without the SEC. The league has too much prestige to not have a major say in what happens next.

It is all going to come down to a word that the Big Two conferences, SEC ad Big Ten, don't like to hear: Compromise.

They seem to believe their status gives them extra pull and it actually does. But as I have written often, college sports need the Big Two to think about someone other than themselves. They shouldn't bully the other conferences. They should work together for the greater good.

Deep down, they know it. What good is to have all the power in a system that falls apart?

Sankey seems to indicate college sports could be helped by Congress. Really? The better idea would be to leave the politics out of the discussions and let the conferences and schools that know what's going on decide what is in their best interest.

At this point, it is only words. Nothing needs to be decided today or next week or next month. But the clock will eventually start ticking and the tough talk will need to be pushed to the back in exchange for solutions.

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