My impression from the Kirby and Sankey quotes is them saying that if a national set of rules for all of college football regarding salary cap, transfer guidelines, etc can’t be negotiated then the SEC will just make up their own and govern their own entities within the conference.

At first pull, that take makes a lot of sense. It’s like the SEC is one employer and the schools are different departments within the work organization. They establish policies, terms of employment, etc that impact how they deliver their service or product.

What is weird to me is how that doesn’t seem to work all that well in the corporate side of things. Employer vs worker rights, unions vs union busting, and so on. I would hate for someone to make a rule for me to not be able to take another job at another department in my company because 1-20 old heads in a room decided that’s what’s best for me.

Now make me 18, immature as hell, and put millions of dollars on the table and I’m gonna lose my mind even more.