Greg Sankey today on the self-governing, breakaway discussion within his league: “They’re real. The frustrations bring (some) to the point of saying we should look at something significantly different.”

It is a critical juncture in the history of the college sports industry. Without passage of a revised Senate bill, SEC leaders are preparing “Plan B” - a self-governing model in which the league enforces its own rules and perhaps even competes against its only own members.