The news continues to come out of Destin this afternoon as Mike Slive wraps up the SEC annual meetings. So far, we've heard that the league will distribute a record $309.6 million in revenue to the schools this year, an average of $20.9 per school, an absurd number that will only get higher as the years go by.
Some other important news:
Mike Slive says that the league supports the autonomy model proposed by the NCAA for the Power 5 conferences, and that "it would be a disappointment and a mistake" for the NCAA not to adopt that model during the final vote later this year. He went one step further, telling reporters that after autonomy, the SEC wants the voting threshold within the Power 5 to be 60% of schools and 3 of 5 power conferences to enact legislation. The league also passed a rule for football that will allow music and/or artificial noisemakers right up until the center is over the ball. Cue the Undertaker's dong!
More important for us:
the SEC has agreed to experiment with a 30-second shot clock during exhibition games, following in the ACC's footsteps. Somewhere in Wisconsin, Bo Ryan just shifted nervously.
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