Conveniently, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey isn't a fan of players who transfer multiple times being able to play immediately.
This comes after the last two champions, the Ohio State Buckeyes and Indiana Hoosiers, landed multi-time transfers over the last two cycles like cornerback Earl Little Jr., who spent time with the Alabama Crimson Tide and Florida State Seminoles transfers before committing to OSU, and receiver Elijah Sarratt, who was with the Saint Francis Red Flash and James Madison Dukes before winning a title with IU.
Of course, the Texas Tech Red Raiders loom as one of the biggest threats in the Big 12 or the Big Ten to win the CFP title in 2027 after the addition of 5-star quarterback transfer Brendan Sorsby, who was with the Hoosiers and Cincinnati Bearcats.
Sankey even laughably explained that academics is part of his thinking when it comes to reverting back to the old one-time transfer without penalty rule.
"My advocacy would be, hey, we should be back to some type of one-time transfer exception. But we have to support educational continuity if we truly believe that academics is the heart of what we do. And I’m a true believer in that," Sankey said while at the Texas Longhorns-Georgia Bulldogs Women's Basketball game on Thursday night.
"Yeah, we should be competitive. We should allow people to make decisions…This notion that we have 26, 27, 28-year-olds now playing against 19 and 20 year olds. That means there’s fewer opportunities to move from high school into college athletics. That’s not who we’ve been. That’s not who we should be. That’s where we get back to national standards, to the extent conferences need to manage that themselves. I think we’re ready to do that at the presidential level, that the NCAA can do that with kind of some new thinking and new rationale."
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Greg Sankey would change his tone if Sam Leavitt won a title for LSU
Sankey would shut his mouth fast about this issue if Sam Leavitt, who's suited up for the Michigan State Spartans and Arizona State Sun Devils, helped the LSU Tigers win a national championship next year.
Sankey would have no problem with Lane Kiffin and Co. coming up with a top portal class and winning the whole kit and caboodle. College Football would be whole again if that happened in his world.
This is fake outrage because of recent results. Once an SEC team buys the right mix, with multi-time transfers, and wins, this conversation will be gone.