🏈 Mike Slive was the right man to make the sell on the big change in college football

[TerryP]

Unlike some conference commissioners we could name, Mike Slive isn’t the gloating sort.

The SEC’s boss of the past decade is a natural diplomat and consensus maker who would rather let you congratulate him — a good thing always, but especially this week.

He was in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday with other conference commissioners, pitching the future of college football’s postseason to the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee. The presidents bought it, so the future will look a lot like what he and Atlantic Coast Conference commish John Swofford suggested four years ago.

The new, seeded four-team playoff will position the BCS for more TV revenue, and there’s the matter of splitting the revenue among conferences. With talk of splitting based on top 25 BCS finishes since 1998, let’s just say the SEC appears well positioned to be the biggest financial winner.

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[planomateo]

I read this article sitting on the tarmac at DFW via SECPRGuy really good article.

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