ATHENS – Greg Sankey said the SEC is still considering playing a full soccer schedule during his appearance on SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Sports radio show on Wednesday.
“It is for us,” SEC Commissioner said to host Adam Schein, asking about a full season schedule that is still on the table after Big Ten and Pac-12 announced last week that they would be playing conference games alone. fall.
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Sankey noted that previously the SEC had two teams scheduled to play against teams Pac-12, Alabama against USC and Texas A&M against Colorado.
UGA director of athletics Greg McGarity had told DawgNation last week that SEC schools would be inclined to do everything possible to keep rivalry games out of the conference.
Georgia is slated to close the season with Georgia Tech on November 28 in an annual in-state battle.
The same goes for other SEC schools that end their ACC rivals in the state, such as South Carolina-Clemson, Florida-Florida State, and Kentucky-Louisville.
The ACC, like the SEC and Big 12, has indicated that it will wait until the end of July before announcing any decision.
Sankey explained why “End of July” has been the timeline he previously used to determine the SEC’s course of action this season.
On the one hand, the SEC will closely monitor the continuation of soccer training activities that began on June 8 and now include the supervision of soccer personnel for the next two weeks.
Sankey also said that much can be learned from the NASCAR event in Bristol, Tennessee on Wednesday, where a crowd of about 30,000 is anticipated.
Sankey noted that the race is “in a place that held a football game three years ago, “referring to the so-called” Battle of Bristol “between Tennessee and Virginia Tech.
“The beginning with Major League Baseball, where they will move from one community to another, will also move around the referees, that is important information,” said Sankey.
“The start of an NFL preseason camp (next Tuesday) that will be approximately 10 days before our (full) practices begin. So we look towards the end of the month as a registration point. That is not an absolute date, but certainly one that is really important. “
Sankey said decisions about the upcoming soccer season will also be influenced by the change of students to the campuses. the second.
“I look towards the end of the month as a registration point at least,” said Sankey, “and soon after we will have to make a decision.”
Sankey said the SEC will learn from professional sports, but won’t necessarily follow or take cues from them.
“Our signs, honestly, are what our health circumstances indicate, what state and local health officials indicate, what our medical advisory group indicates, the ability of youth to stay healthy during the activities on campus that we have been supporting since 8 June, what has happened, “Sankey said.
“We always knew there would be positive tests. But can you identify, isolate, keep people healthy, and then slow the spread of the virus, which is what’s happening?
“That is the need, and that is what we also need in society.”
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ICYMI: SEC commissioner @GregSankey tells @AdamSchein that a full schedule is still on the table for SEC Football and breaks down a timeline for when a decision could be made pic.twitter.com/Yvy3CZjAfR
– Mad Dog Sports Radio (@MadDogRadio) July 15, 2020
