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HOUSTON — SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said Sunday that a change in the calendar for college football is something that his conference and the sport in general might want to look at in the future.
Sankey, who was in Houston to speak at the annual Texas High School Coaches Association Convention and Coaching School, said he is hearing from coaches that “December is a mess” and in other months there is more pressure on coaches than in previous years.
And December will become even busier when the College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams in 2025. The December signing period for 2022 was Dec. 21-23. National signing day was Feb. 1.
“Early signing, coaching transition, transfer portal, conference championship games, end of regular season and college playoff being added to bowl games,” Sankey said while speaking to a group of high school coaches and athletic administrators at the convention. “We have to figure that one out. All of us have day jobs in conference offices, and we have to make ourselves make time to figure out what December looks like.”
Sankey later told assembled media later that he was hearing concerns from coaches while talking to them during bowl games last season, and added there is also growing pressure on coaches during April, May and June, along with the changing nature of recruiting, mainly because of Name, Image and Likeness.
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What that calendar may look like is still to be discussed, but Sankey said changes need to be made.
“Going into an expanded playoff, I don’t think for a moment we should have an early signing period while our best football teams are engaging in a playoff game that week,” Sankey said. “I don’t think that can continue. Yes, we do…
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Author : Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Publish date : 2023-07-16 20:40:01
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