Looks like the SEC office slipped one by the members...

[Dawgpile]

SEC Quietly Adds Exit Fee to Conference Bylaws

Not that I foresee anyone wanting to leave, I just thought it interesting that some of the schools were unaware.

 

[The Fatboy]

All the members voted for it.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

And Vandy says,

Hold my beer!

 

[Dawgpile]

Yeah, they voted for the supplemental income last year for Covid, but this detail slipped by them.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

It’s almost like they don’t trust

Texas and Oklahoma

 

[Maroon Eagle]

July 15. Any particular reason why that date was chosen?

Just seems odd when a lot of the fiscal years for colleges and universities seem to begin on July 1.

 

[patdog]

Looks to me like the rest of the SEC doesn't really trust Texas and/or Oklahoma so they added the fee. As others have pointed out, the presidents voted for it unanimously, so it didn't get slipped by the members, just the public. As a practical matter, it's hard to see any school wanting to leave, but if one did, this won't stop them.

 

[Dawgg]

I just thought it interesting that some of the schools were unaware.

Well, I'm not sure who Kristi Dosh is, but her example of people unaware of the change was "folks I know across the SEC".

Well, is that Presidents? ADs? Assistant ADs? Associate ADs? Associate Assistant ADs? Assistant to the Associate ADs? AD Emerituses? Head Coaches? Position Coaches? Random SIDs? Waterboys? Towel boys? Ball girls? Grad Transfers? Walk-On Transfers? Presidents of the Baptist Student Unions? Fans? Podcasters? Costumed Mascots? Live Mascots? Transients that sleep under the bleachers? The Vandy Whistler? Whistler's Mother?

I doubt that "schools were unaware". I highly doubt Sankey just plugged that in there and hoped the Presidents all rubber-stamped it.

 

[Go Budaw]

Looks to me like the rest of the SEC doesn't really trust Texas and/or Oklahoma so they added the fee. As others have pointed out, the presidents voted for it unanimously, so it didn't get slipped by the members, just the public. As a practical matter, it's hard to see any school wanting to leave, but if one did, this won't stop them.

The bylaws went into effect on January 14th of last year. That was like 6 months before any of the smoke with Texas and Oklahoma even started.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

There goes Ole Miss to the Ivy League...

 

[Cooterpoot]

Texas and Oklahoma

Or, they're afraid of a break away by top school to form a new level of college football.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Can we all chip in and pay Missouri’s for them?

 

[patdog]

You're probably right, but that deal had been in the works for a year before it ever got leaked to the public, and all 14 presidents knew about it.

 

[Bill Shankly]

Texas could pay that out of petty cash if they wanted to. So could A&M. Vandy could too.

 

[WilCoDawg]

I’m in!

 

[Dawgzilla]

Don't panic until the Coference starts paying schools to leave.

 

[msudawg12]

None of this “slipped by” anyone that had a vote