RIP: Mike Slive (SEC Commissioner)
The man behind the SEC's rise has passed away. Dan Wetzel produced a nice write up that includes a lot of information that I'm sure the board will find interesting. RIP, Mr. Slive
On Mike Slive, the unlikely leader who believed in, and then unleashed, the power of the SEC in particular and the South in general. https://t.co/B3WHBa1xWl
— Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) May 17, 2018
On Mike Slive, the unlikely leader who believed in, and then unleashed, the power of the SEC in particular and the South in general. https://t.co/B3WHBa1xWl
— Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) May 17, 2018
Here he was, a slight man of Jewish faith and Ivy League education, raised in Central New York, who worked as a lawyer in Chicago and a judge in New Hampshire, somehow finding himself in charge of the cultural heartbeat of the Good ol’ Boy South – SEC football.
You know, I actually never knew this about Slive, and it is about as unlikely a description of the eventual SEC Commissioner as I could imagine.
Add me to this list.
I hate when I am impressed and disgusted at the same time.
Kind of like when I watched Mike DeBoard call Michigan's offense. I'm impressed he had the balls to keep calling that same dive play and yet disgusted he just ran another freaking dive play for no yards.
Think of him as Lee Marvin's character in The Dirty Dozen. He was the guy who took all the dirty bastard criminals in the SEC and got them to all work together for the better good of the conference.
Title should read former SEC commisioner.
while watching the Braves game. Just a 15 second spot before the commercial break with his picture and birth - death dates.
My first thought was that this may have been the only region in the country that it was announced during a pro sporting evernt.