SI Insider: SEC to Meet on Monday to Discuss Fall Sports

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00:02 - On Monday, the Southeastern Conference

00:09 is having its first in-person meeting

00:11 of representatives of all 14 teams since March 12th

00:15 when everything shut down in college sports.

00:17 The topic is, the topic,

00:19 what will happen with fall sports, specifically football?

00:24 There may not be any resolutions

00:25 or announcements reached today from the SEC,

00:28 but it's another sign that we are heading

00:30 towards resolutions here across the country.

00:34 We had the Big Ten rather unexpectedly announced last week

00:37 that they are going to a conference-only format,

00:40 and then the Pac-12 followed a day later.

00:43 So two of the Power Five have now gone that far.

00:47 It's expected that the rest of the Power Five will follow,

00:49 and of course, the group of five will have little choice,

00:51 but to do the same.

00:53 I think most of the Power Five would like to hold off

00:56 on this until the end of July to see what happens

00:59 when they start bringing full teams back together on campus,

01:02 just in case things turn around

01:05 during the ebbs and flows of this whole thing.

01:08 I think they'd like to ride this out as far as they can

01:10 before they start taking away games.

01:12 Ultimately, we may end up at a point

01:14 where spring football is the reality,

01:16 but that's not an ideal reality by any stretch.

01:19 So I think people will put that off as far as they can,

01:22 but keep an eye on what comes out of the SEC.

01:25 It may not happen this week,

01:26 but the meetings today will be substantive going forward.

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